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Now I think you're the one underestimating the options of the 3.x pit fiend. In addition to the spells that you mentioned, it also had a number of other options: blasphemy, unholy aura, greater dispel magic, summon devils (2/day), wish (if the DM decides to use it in combat). Blasphemy and...

I think that you and others are making the mistaken assumption that tax collectors require a strong empire. Yes, Rome had tax collector during the empire. However, there were massive corporations who farmed the taxes for the late Republic as well. In fact, resentment against the tax collectors...

You're right that the Pit fiend's choice of four or five actions can still create tactically interesting situations, and that the combination of other monsters in the encounter will create different tactical situations. However, you are still left with a very limited set of options and in any...

More fully understanding how the mechanics work, the pit fiend looks a lot more effective... however, I still don't like it. The essential problem that I have is that it exemplifies the so-called streamlined monster design that the designers have bragged about: The pit fiend has very few...

You might think so, but you should have been at our Red Hand of Doom table and counted the number of times, the following questions were asked: "Did you remember to include the +2/+2 bonus for bardsong?" "Did you remember to include your +3 for recitation?" Etc etc. And those were bonuses that...

The previous post is right, I think. Points of Light is not a setting. Rather, it is a anti-setting. It's a description of a game run without a map with all the blanks filled in, without a history except in the most general sense, without politics or sourcebooks. And, a setting can easily...

I've been told that the warlord can focus on giving his allies bonuses or on giving them actions (as the sample powers we've seen do--an extra attack, an immediate charge, etc etc), but I've no idea where my friend got that info.

No. That would be the druid. Followed by the cleric. And the wizard never made the fighter useless in 3.x. Anyone who thinks that has never seen a competently designed fighter or compared him to a wizard who tries to deal damage. In Age of Worms our archer (with no prestige classes--BTW, just...

Here is my perspective. When 3rd edition came out I hadn't played D&D for years. Every time I had for the last five years or so, I had had an extensive list of house rules in order to make the mechanics work. I experimented with playing D&D again a little bit after 3rd edition came out and my...

1-2-1-2-1-2. As to why 1-1-1-1-1 is winning (though it's worth noting it's still less than 50% of poll responses)? Selection bias is one. This is a 4th edition board that has proven rather hostile to critics. Second, other than D&D minis players who are practicing with the new rules already...

Speculating based on what we've seen or heard, I would think that heavy armor is actually going to have to offer more in 4th edition than it did in 3rd edition to be used. In 3rd edition, heavy armor offers 1 point of AC potential versus other standard armors, but it is a lot easier to reach...

Things that I like: 1. Unified defense progression. I'm thinking of seeing if I can find some support for writing a 3.75, or 4th edition that is still D&D under the OGL and under another name of course. Thinking about how to solve the issues that come up with saving throws in 3rd edition games...

Yet again with the nerd rage comment. I would have enjoyed the forum a lot more if 4e boosters could manage to let a thread go one page without making such condescending and insulting comments. Objecting to 1-1-1 movement is not "nerd rage." There are a host of issues that changing movement...

I can think of a few two man katas I've seen where it happens even more frequently than that.

For my part, I think the three issues that are shaping up to be the biggest ones are not on your list: 1. From my perspective, a large part of the D&D experience has always been having a long list of spells that have flexible and uses and considering the possibilities and interactions that...

The more the designers post about 3rd edition, the more I suspect that they are either deliberately obtuse or they didn't understand the game as it is actually played outside Renton at all. "Two EL 12s is only an EL 14." Well no kidding. And if your party is 12th level, it goes from being a...

I read that preview but like others, I read it to be DM improvisation that is only supported by the rules by similarity to other mechanics. If I tried that in a random con game, I would fully expect some DMs to say, "OK, but it will use your per encounter trip power--oh, you don't have that...

I don't have an issue with grappling being easier that tripping either. But that's not what happens in 4th edition if the previews we've seen are correct. From what we were told in the D&D XP threads, there is no "grapple" option in 4th edition. There is only grab. And it doesn't let you...

Or you could end up with one page of rituals with the very short list of D&D stuff they didn't quite want to get rid of which can only be cast by a character with the ritual casting power and enough levels in the heroic class that grants it. Talk to me about how cool 4th edition rituals are...

What annoys me is yet another assumption that the people currently playing 3e are absolute morons. I can't speak for the players at WotC headquarters or their playtesters, but I know I needed to pull out the book exactly once to figure out how the 3.x trip mechanic worked. (For that matter, the...