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This is true in any edition. IME, it's also true that the DM doesn't send a big dragon to attack the 1st level characters' village, unless the party is specifically told, "you can't fight this." (Skyrim!) And that players of 1st level characters know not to go hunting adult dragons until...

SWSE's talents are a mess. As Pssthpok notes, they're basically class-restricted feats that aren't called feats and are allocated separate from feats. But some talents have feat prereqs, some require other talents. Since you get feats and talents at different levels, trying to coordinate this...

Seems like this really deserves its own thread, but I'll bite... +Dex and +Wis or Con or +Wis and +Dex or Con speed 6 normal vision +2 Acrobatics and Endurance 1/2 dmg from falls *or* +5 acrobatics to reduce falling dmg and can use even if untrained Quaking Palm (encounter): Con/Dex/Wis +...

I say Morrowind! In effect, all that 4e did was strip away the pretension that through an unlikely and never-ending series of coincidences, the PCs just happen to keep facing threats appropriate to their level as they gain power. Unfortunately for the game, it turned out that a lot of DMs (and...

1. Presentation. 2. Too many interrupts. When everyone can interrupt the flow of combat, it takes longer. 3. Treating every combat as an important set piece. 4. Too many little one round buffs and penalties. 5. Not sticking to stated design principles, especially regarding feats and items.

I'm going to second most of the other posters: play something that's not 3e or 4e D&D. Otherwise there will be resentments, as it sounds like each side is pretty entrenched in their hatred.

Well, yes. High/grey elves have been in D&D since the early days. They usually weren't a PC race and weren't called eladrin (and eladrin referred to something else entirely), but they have always been there. Favored class in 3e doesn't mean that elves make good wizards, though. It doesn't mean...

To elaborate, "eladrin" elves in 4e are grey/high /magic/galadriel elves, while "elf" elves are wild/wood/legolas elves. It also responds to a player complaint about 3e elves, who had wizard as a favored class but racially were much better rogues or rangers. With class restrictions removed in...

If I had one, definitely. What I love about this sort of thing is that I wasn't thinking that I'd end up with an aquatic beastie at all, but having done so, I love it and can imagine all sorts of uses for it. And it turned out to be a solid monster, IMO, as an ranged attacker that has a nice...

I was messing with it as I spotted mistakes in the stat-blocks, hopefully you just clicked on it when I was replacing it with a new version. Does it work now?

My hordeling is a glaring, menacing large aquatic artillery demon that shoots depth charges (thunder damage). Its conical head is connected to its rubbery, scaly torso and knobby back by a long, thin neck. It has one small pointed ear, a mouth full of small fangs, two slit-like noses, three...

enhancement = magic weapon bonus Assuming an 18 starting prime stat and all stat boosts going to it, at level 30 you get: +4 original stat +4 stat boosts (+1) ED stat boost +3 feat +6 enhancement +6 item for a total of +23 or +24 to damage.

I haven't tried it, but it's been my wish to play 4e like that. I would also add in +level or +1/2 level to damage, which should make combats go much faster. The lack of progress on power riders is the one glaring weakness, I think. You could give +1 at the levels where you would normally get...

B4 - The Lost City I1 - Dwellers of the Forbidden City

I love the idea of an "encounter" book, which would include not just monsters but traps, hazards, social stuff, etc. Perhaps the topic is too broad for a single book, but it definitely makes sense to place all of that stuff in one spot for the DM.

Irrelevant tangent: there are kenku on Athas, at least if you go by the 2e books. They were one of the non-DS monsters specifically included in the setting, and were even in one of the adventures. Black Flames, IIRC.

I believe that there are demon minions with this ability, from which one could infer that it triggers before the damage. Otherwise, the minion would never get to use it. But that's hardly ironclad proof of how the timing should work.

You have three gnomes in the party! No wonder the group is so powerful! :) I've only seen a little bit of the summoner in action, and from what I've seen I'm not surprised the fighter feels a little overshadowed by the eidolon. Not sure what you can do about that, really. As for the rest, I...

I would say keep weapons with plusses, at least. And maybe armor, but honestly AC ceases to really matter much past the mid-levels, unless you're seriously optimizing for it. Those types of items were traditionally where non-spellcasters got their combat power from.