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The thing is, Eberron has a lot of mechanical stuff that's unique to the setting that is going to require porting over. So even if the setting material is basically the same, I think that most fans are going to buy the book because they need the new crunch to run the setting. Races: Shifters...

I don't think the issue is movement. I'm thinking the problem is that your player sounds like a sore loser. Something doesn't go his way and he bitches and moans about realism or how things would be different in AD&D or whatever. He lost initiative - tell him to get over it, already. The issue...

Sorry, I'm not really seeing the difference on a functional level. Your initiative count determines when you go, and if you lose initiative, it's entirely possibly that some foe can run up and stab you before you get a chance to act. Toss out the rules. I'd love to be more helpful, but what you...

Hurm, we always played that initiative was the order that people got to go each round in 1e and 2e. But without a 1e DMG I dunno if we were playing by the rules as far as that goes. I've never heard of this idea where who gets to move first is a "gentleman's agreement." 2e certainly didn't work...

What seperates D&D from a lot of other FRPGs is that D&D is pretty much it's own sub-genre. Wizards that can do everything but heal or bring back the dead, priests that are very martial in their heavy armor and swinging their mace, two-weapon fighting rangers, musicians running around the...

Yes, yes, and yes.

It's very easy to say that the situation should have been handled peacefully and that the Civil War shouldn't have happened. That dodges the question of why the slave states would have wanted to participate in any scheme to abolish slavery, peaceful or otherwise. Slavery was their entire...

How warforged-y is the warforged? I mean, does it have to be a living metal-and-wood golem? Because you could use warforged stats to represent an undead creature just as easily.

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"How was the civil war not about slavery?" Basically, it wasn't about slavery for some folks because we, as humans, have a need or a desire to see our ancestors as good people. The attempts over the years to revise or ignore the historical record aren't anything new or special. You can see the...

If the game didn't suffer... what's the issue? How is it going to be an issue later on? I feel like I am missing something.

You guys fail at linking! Here is the RPG.net thread. Here are the story links.

Note that Essentials got rid of masterwork armor and replaced it with armor bonuses that scale with item level, which is slightly less confusing. Also, AV1 adds a bunch of extra masterwork armor types beyond those in PHB1, to fill in some gaps. Now, all that being said, masterwork armor...

If you want to just use the lute, there are plenty of bard implement attacks. You don't have to take the melee weapon attacks (or the ranged weapon attacks, for that matter). If you don't want to keep switching between two weapons, the aforementioned songbow is the way to go.

The order is undefined by the rules, assuming they are the same action type. Although I am unsure of the order even with some differing action type combos... If the bladesinger trigger is a free or no action, and the minotaur's is an interrupt, I might let the minotaur's go first. But I'm not...

The idea that "everyone is good at everything" is a bit of a strawman, because no one is really proposing that. Although I suppose that depends on how one defines "good at" and "everything". While it's not an ideal setting for a druid, I would find that being able to befriend and communicate...

Not very well, to be honest. Assuming the players know that they get to rest afterwards, they can pop off dailies nearly every round and blow their opponents out of the water. Waves are a good idea, as that will mitigate encounter-long status effects. I would also keep the monsters within 3-4...

It's fun - if you liked KOTOR you will probably enjoy SWTOR - but the MMO part of the game is clearly an afterthought. What gets me every time is that you can't /friend someone unless they are online. I'm playing with gaming buddies that are scattered around the country, and I can't add them to...

Seems like a bit of a strawman to me. The three categories of play are sufficiently broad that everyone could be able to contribute without contributing in the same way. Much like combat roles in 4e (the rogue and wizard are both useful in combat, but in different ways), each class could have...

I like the idea of a morale system. As a DM, however, I have never actually managed to play the morale rues as written in AD&D, despite my best intentions to do so. Nor have I ever witnessed another AD&D DM use the morale rules as written. There's just too much going on in a fight to calculate...