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So you are saying that after I've thrown acid in the face of a trained hand to hand combatant, and stuck a knife in his leg to cripple him, I shouldn't be able to beat him to death with a lead pipe? Of course I can, its only logical that crippled, disoriented, and blinded opponents are easy...

The problem is not that I can't do anything with fantasy Egypt, it is the fact that fantasy egypt doesn't mesh well with the rest of the setting. If it had slight egyptian elements (like Thay for example) that would be one thing, but just copy-pasting Egypt (complete with bronze age...

I'll play any edition of D&D with any DM who cares about me having a good time, and knows how to be flexible enough to accomidate my sense of fun. 4e does indeed hard code fairness into its rules system, for better or for worse. A lot of the rules people object to as being "too easy" or "too...

That sounds kind of restrictive to me. In 2e when my rogue gets his gang of thieves, I can put them to work as a thieves guild or a merchant company as I choose. When I'm a fighter, I can have my followers administer my holdings and stay in their garrison, or I can marshal them as an invading...

Well, just having the ceiling collapse with no warning or no save was common enough that the 2e DMG felt a need to specifically point it out as an example of bad DMing.

Though to be fair, returned Abeir is far less of a square peg than Maztica, Zakhara, Kara-Tur, or Mulhorand. I'm not sure if that's a problem myself. If it is, I'll happily offer up my own favoured campaign setting (Dragonlance) as something directed at younger readers of 12-14 years of age...

With the amount of time per month I play D&D, I'd have to have to play 14 years to get 1,700 hours. I can't imagine playing a single campaign for that long. I can't imagine having the same circle of friends for that long. I'd still like get to level 20 once and awhile though.

Elves are in 5e? That's it, I'm out. Elves suck.

This. Some people want to have a character arc, invest in a character and complete a story. Other people find the narrative in the world/dungeon that they create, and characters are just the people passing through. If 5e creates modular rules for "campaign" and "dungeoneering" modes I think...

There is a penalty for failure. You just don't get any intel, which was the point of the scouting in the first place. Remember, I'm not a big fan of save or die. A thief who gets caught while trying to scout is usually a dead thief. A thief can't outfight a fighter head to head. A thief...

I want my sneaking man to be able to leave and return to the party with information on a single successful stealth roll. I want a stealth failure to mean that the thief returns to the party without proper intel instead of being discovered and caught at least some (or most) of the time. I want...

The DM prep took the most amount of time of all the editions. I've got kids and a job, I can't take the time to create a something that has the same complexity as a PC everytime I create an NPC. I also don't have time to change every monster into the complexity of a PC whenever I want to...

Crafting magical items should involve spell components just like spells do. These spell components should come from various creatures you meet, defeat and use. For example, a frost themed blade could be required to be forged on the winter solstice, enchanted with an absorption spell, then used...

I think if we are going to have the keep rule, it should follow these commandments: 1) Thou shall give each class its own type of followers. Fighters should have men at arms, a castellan, and an elite force. Rogues should have an ecletic cast of loveable rogues with a detailed personality...

Everything to do with gaining followers, strongholds and titles out of the Rules Cyclopedia.

I'm generally someone who thinks that 3e and 4e were better than the editions that came before them. But feats? Stack that huge waste of time and character creation complexity in a huge pile and set them on fire. You know what feats are? An exception to a rule that should have never been...

Good show. Reasonable chance of failure and you still put it on the line. I'd give you XP but I like your other posts too much.

There is a new game that just came out that is obsessed about what you hold in your hands, and swapping out items leaves you vulnerable to attack. You can use healing potions as a free action though, which bothers me enough that I hope there is a mod for it eventually. That game is Skyrim.

There is also the rogue dropping a rope. No the two problems with shared skills is whether you have someone in the party that can do it, and stealth. I don't know where Byron gets that 4e PC's have equitable skills. Thanks to characters being based around 1 high ability score, the problem...

That's the best idea I've heard in my life. Anyone who is defending save or die has spent probably as much time defending save or die as I spend on a character in an ongoing campaign. So the personal investment is the same. Since the medusa is the most frequent example for save or die on...