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I think what he's getting at is that there's no such thing in 4E as another class that "also has that defender mechanic". The mark is only one part of the defender mechanic: it's what they do to creatures that violate the mark that sets each class apart from each other. Even if you stripped...

If it's been in a previous edition's PHB 1 (or equivalent), it should be in PHB 1. Also the drow. I am very firmly in the camp of those who believe that if this version of the game is supposed to be about unity, that any attempt or desire to exclude things that have previously been options at...

Whether there's a difference between "lack of bonus" and penalty depends on whether there's a baseline or not. In 3E and 4E (I don't know about earlier editions, sorry), there is such a baseline, and lacking a bonus or penalty puts you there. This becomes especially apparent when looking at...

All jokes about the thread title aside, I'm in favour of 4E style dragons. And by 4E dragons, I mean the ones from Monster Vault and other recent sources, rather than the Monster Manual ones, which were boring. I mean, I can understand the whole "close burst stun to represent how...

We don't really know yet exactly how much impact a theme has on your character... nor do we know how much impact race has, for that matter. Until we have a clearer picture of where they're headed with both of those, it's hard to say whether or not a theme would actually achieve what people want...

I'm sorry variant, but I think it's a fairly safe bet that tieflings and half-orcs will be in the first player's book. Along with every other race that's ever been in a PHB1 or equivalent. And probably the drow, too, just because.

A difficult situation that the DM presents, which the players (through their characters) then overcome through effort at the game table is wonderful. A player having less fun than they could be having, because they chose an option that doesn't function the way they thought it did, or no longer...

No edition of the game has ever truly modelled, or probably even tried to model, how we acquire (and maintain) skills and abilities in the real world. Given that, why should it follow that retraining should be modelled on the real world? If the purpose of gaming was to teach me and the people...

I'm not sure exactly which ones I want, though there are plenty of good suggestions in this thread. What I do want, though, is lots of them, and/or good guidelines for creating your own. In the campaign I play in, one of the other players recently talked the DM into letting us add themes to...

Yeah, put me down in the "No" camp on racial levels. I want race to matter, continuously, as your character levels up, but I think there are far more elegant options out there for handling it than this. I don't want to take a level in Human. My guy is already a human, he doesn't need to...

The group I DM has faced, in nine levels of adventuring, one medusa. They only fought it once. Two characters have been turned to stone by a medusa.

Pretty much the only house rule I enforce in my 4E campaign is that there is no such thing, despite their appearance in the Adventurer's Kit, of anything called a sunrod. Nor is there an everburning torch. A fireless, smokeless, long-lasting, reliable and bright light-source is something the...

You're assuming that levels still exist... Heh, probably a safe assumption. If I run a campaign, yes, I'll start it at level 1. It avoids information overload by keeping the character-specific stuff everyone has to learn to a minimum, allowing more attention to be devoted to learning the...

I plan to end my campaign the same way I always planned to end it: by completing the series of adventures I've been running. Should only take me another 5 years, give or take a couple. After that, who knows. I have another campaign idea I've been working on, off-and-on, for a few months.

Note that as that daily is listed as a Barbarian Attack 9, unless something as-yet unrevealed prevents it, they could opt to take a Rage instead. Also, this power would be a legal choice for existing Barbarians (if, for some reason, they didn't want to rage, and wanted an effect that is useless...

Wizards of the Coast's Star Wars Saga Edition RPG was my first rpg. First as a player, and a few months later, first as a GM. A group of us had decided to try playing RPGs (we knew each other through other gaming, namely HeroClix). We settled on Star Wars because it was something everyone...

H2 is the only one that I've seen from both sides of the DM screen, and about it I will say this: too many Duergar. Their little fortress went on for so long that everyone got really tired of them. They're nasty and effective little monsters, but encounter after encounter with them got...

If it's relevant, -3 and +12 aren't the extremes obtainable at level 1 without resorting to magic (or even non-magic) items. You can go as low as -5* and as high as +17**. At that level of disparity, it is impossible for the low end character to ever surpass the high end one. Even when Stompy...

While I'm fond enough of the role system that the idea of having a variation of it for non-combat roles is appealing, I find myself in agreement with KarinsDad here that it may be adding unnecessary complication for little gain. I think what I'd rather see is something along these lines: - All...

It's not that the character has zero constitution (or str, etc.), it's that they don't strength that is significantly lower or higher than average. The ability modifier represents how far you deviate from the average, rather than some absolute number. (That actually opens up some interesting...