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Thinking of myself as a gamer and my preferences I prefer vancian characters over non vancian characters. There are four elements that my playstyle would love to see in a fantasy RPG: 1.) I like managing resources and having to make the choice whether I want to do some sort of baseline...

Hello! When I typed up my post, I actually composed it in Word and then pasted it on to this message board. (Makes it easier to spellcheck, and leave and come back without losing my post due to getting timed out). For whatever reason on this EN site, when I do that though my font comes out...

I’m disappointed to say the least. I can understand though that any mechanical way they put in core rules to limit vancian characters from going nova in the first room of the dungeon would present a new source of outrage for a segment of their potential customer base. At the very least it would...

The Rule of Six I’m going to call this post “The Rule of Six”. I call it that, because a first level D&D 4e character, whipped up in the online character-builder, has six different options they can do in a round of combat that is stronger than a basic attack. So, to address the original topic...

I've played D&D for a long time and I've thought every edition has improved the game. But I'm genuinely worried about D&D Next. From what I've read so far it seems like the overriding goal is not to make a new version of D&D, but to make a unifying version, something that appeals to fans of...

I'd buy a new version of the MM1, provided they went through and not only updated all the monster stats, but redid the stat blocks to the new MM3 format and polished up some of the problematic original monsters with revised or whole new powers/etc. and included a couple new monsters as a bonus.

I think the MM1 hydra has to take the ultimate prize for worst monster. This is the ultimate boring monster. Every stereotype of solo monsters and 4e "grind" is traced back to this culprit. Fortunately there are a bunch of other hydras that are cooler. Black dragons are pretty boring. Low...

Various TPKs when I was the DM: Star Wars – Party rammed a Star Destroyer’s bridge with their freighter. Everyone thought that was awesome, made new characters, and we continued in the same setting, but new storyline. D&D 3.0 - TPK vs. orcs. This was the second adventure and we were all...

I've played in a lot of spelljammer/nautical campaigns and we would always maroon prisoners or leave them on somewhat disabled vessels, after we helped ourselves to the loot of course. The same was done to us from time to time. In the current 4e D&D game I'm playing I play a somewhat...

We used all kinds of systems. Mostly we rolled a die and highest roll went first but sometimes we got more in depth. The closest we got to pre declared actions was as follows: What we would do is everyone rolled a d20 for initiative and then added their spell casting time (usually it was +1...

Movies and TV shows do this trick all the time: The villian is "killed" but somehow returns next sequel or episode. Players won't mind the villain coming back, they just like to have the satisfaction of kicking his butt. Try to have the fight take place in a memorable, hazardous...

Next time put an npc designed to interact with the party and give them some information. When doofus kills the npc then great he just killed a level 1 minion and the group gets 25xp and 15 gold pieces to split among them. Shake your head and grin ruefully and continue on with the adventure...

I can't really think of any of the named conditions I would want to see removed. I like the complexity and the interaction. I think monsters that do stuff "until the end of your next turn" should be "save ends" instead, in order to make it easier to track, and to give players a chance to give...

I ignore that failed death saves accumulate over the course of the encounter. Img if a pc is healed after being unconcious and failing a death save or two, and then is dropped again sometime later that battle he's reset to needing 3 more failed death saves before actually dying.

4e > 3.5 > 3.0 > 2e > 1e > D&D redbook basic. As much as I love 4e, assuming the trend continues, I'd drop 4e for 5e tomorrow. I've loved D&D through many editions, and I always generally find each new edition to have more pros than cons compared to previous editions. Generally, I prefer...

Sounds good. I kind of realized my comment didn't apply to your specific situation once I started reading your description of what the encounter was like. Sounds like a fun encounter, have you run it yet?

If a character gets permanently petrified and there is no immediate cure available, one option would be to let them still play - they are just severely hampered... Assume that they get petrified for short bursts of time, then they can slowly drudge along, or reverse the effects for a very short...

This is pretty much how I feel. Are there any fighters out there that choose a different level 7 power?

I'd like it if it was crit with daggers on 19-20 in paragon, then 18-20 in epic. Then leave it open to multiclassers.

Thank you Legildur. And thank you to the others that responded politely. As someone who simply was looking for the answer to a rules question it's always frustrating when I'm met with a condescending answer from someone that didn't bother to read my post... doubly frustrating when the same...