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I agree. In the example given, the player was not complaining about the realism of fighting in a room full of lava (although I think he thought he was). He was actually complaining about a bad DM who arbitrarily said "no" to his suggestions, in order to railroad the player through some...

Yes, I knew about that. I also know that a 3-point system works better than an 8-point system for off-the-cuff adjudication. It keeps choices simple so you can make decisions quickly. I use the same strategy in my science writing tutorials to teach the kids to evaluate each others'...

I don't see that as being in conflict with the system. Things like climbing walls, picking locks, remembering facts about monsters...they have static DCs you can look up. When performing tasks that aren't static DCs, I think there's an assumption that the characters are operating in an...

This is exactly why I love, love, love the by-level skill DCs in 4E. I think that Mike Mearls points out in one of his Design & Development articles that in a lot of cases skill rolls go like this: Player: I want to do this thing. DM: Roll for it Player: I get a 25. DM: (thinking) Hmm... is a...

I like to let the players win. All the time. They like it too. For example, when a player takes a tiefling character, and gets fire resistance as a racial feature, the DM might be tempted to avoid targeting that character with fire attacks. The wizard uses Ray of Frost on the tiefling...

Too true. The themes and devices that are used in D&D adventure design are never humorous, but are in fact a wry parallel to the choices and struggles we face in our lives every day. If you don't pull the lever, it disarms the trap. If you do pull the lever, it sets it off. This Catch-22 is...

I was thinking that a warforged barbarian would be cool, in a tongue-in-cheek way. I imagine that when he enters a rage, his eyes glow red, and he does that train whistle noise that you sometimes see a cartoon character do when angry. Ƹ===:rant:===Ʒ

Went home and looked it up... It was the invoker summoning powers I was thinking of.

I don't have my book in front of me, but I seem to recall looking at the druid summon powers and seeing that they're mechanically very similar to these. The low-level summons require standard actions in order to make the creature attack, but higher-level summons require minor actions. I...

You can find any kind of fetish on the internet. Doesn't mean that many people are into it, only that enough people are into it.

Well, you can't win 'em all. :lol: Actually, my location has always been a palindrome too. When the system started to confuse me with dr. awkward when they changed to ENWorld 2, I had to really think hard to decide how I wanted to change my name. There are few palindromes that make good user...

Are there rules for designing minions? I don't seem to be able to find any. I love the minion rules, and think they're an excellent device for fleshing out encounter areas. However, my monsters of choice do not always have appropriate minions attached, and I'd like to design my own without...

Now, those aren't bad. Bael Turath sounds like it was derived from another language, but to an English speaker, the phonemes suggest something sinister. Accordingly, it's the place where people made a big crazy deal with devils and turned into monster-people. Arkhosia, meanwhile, sounds like...

Well, I was going to mention the shadowcaster class specifically (and did later) but it occurred to me that I don't think you've ever written anything I didn't enjoy. And while I'm at it, I'll agree that Monte Cook and Bruce Cordell should be on my list of "good fluff" authors. Cordell can get...

For the record, I'm not one of those people. Especially with regards to Iggwilv. The hell is up with that one? There is some good stuff in the WotC books. For example, I liked the 3e tome of magic for fluff. It was consistent, evocative, and--most importantly--not stupid. The binder fluff...

I used to read it, years ago. It's kind of neat to see that it's still running after all this time. Apparently Sluggy Freelance is still running too...

Well, a good start for a working definition might be that crap fluff is anything that a pair of satirists come up with in order to construct the worst possible name for a location in a fantasy setting. That WotC hit that nail squarely on the head is quite a vindication for those of us who have...

How about this then?: It is WotC's policy to sell the PHB, DMG, and MM at a reduced margin in order to make the game accessible and attract players, postponing major profits until the supplements are released. This is done in a manner similar to the way that game console manufacturers often...

Golden Wyvern Adept was crap fluff. Shadowdark is crap fluff. It's not being criticized for being too generic. It's being criticized for containing crap fluff. edit: ...and one might notice that it contains crap fluff despite our outcry, with the specific offences removed. They took out the...

There were no wands with special powers in the PHB. There were only generic wands that contained arcane powers. The "Master's" wands and the like appeared in the AV. So there's really no reason to expect that there will be any special wands in PHB2. Until AV2 comes out, you can use the rules...