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What have I been defending, then? :p In whatever pit of hell is responsible for exaggeration. A popular tactic: Someone's consumed by irrational hate towards something and want others to hate it, too, but since their hatred is irrational, they have no tangible thing to hold against it. So...

Who was that guy, anyway? ;)

Prior editions did not separate race and class. Prior editions restricted many classes by race or ability scores....

Not to D&D. Neutral means that they're neither good nor evil, but indifferent towards alignements (or incapable of being good or evil and so on), or dedicated to the balance. No typical alignment means that you can't tell whether the guy is CG, CE, LG, LE, NG, NE, LN, CN, or N. He might be a...

Come again? The choices are "get your head cut off" and "get your feet cut from under you" and the argument that getting your head cut off will leave you dead is not valid? :lol:

Of course! You withstood the vile transformation spell the sorceress threw at you, but that took some of your will power and concentration, which gave her assassin friend an opening.

It might. But then again, it can restrict it. We're not talking about one hp. We're talking about a lot more than that. The difference between a fighter 3 that rolled two 1s and one that rolled average is 9 points. That's 3 points per level - and this includes 1st level, which isn't rolled...

I'll get a Three Dragon Reading about my character then.

The following musings are about sub-races in general, not just elf sub-races: There should still be "sub-races". Shield Dwarves should not be the same as Gold Dwarves. But I guess it's alright if they all share the same basic ability tree. After that, there should be sub-racial/cultural...

If he gets your head off your shoulders, you'll get on the ground, too. And you won't get up again... If the enemy succeeds in tripping you, you still have a chance - you can roll out of harm's way and get up again, you can trip him, too, you can catch the weapon's shaft.... If the enemy...

Among the worst moments in RPG game sessions are those where my character was fleeing in terror (or otherwise totally incapacitated). In those moments, the game stops to be a game for me, I become a spectator to other people having fun, doing something, while I sit there (often in another...

Sure, complete balance isn't possible, but that doesn't mean that we should completely ignore it. And I don't think that valuing balance highly means that we have two updates per month with changed abilities. This is D&D, not WoW or some other computer game. I think the game system should be...

Bad Example!

You really should try to read threads before you post snarky replies.

New players are always good. Those who will quit the game because they don't like those rules (instead of just ignoring them, which is always easier than leave holes in the rules you have to patch if you want those rules) are no great loss. You can't really praise a game for things it doesn't...

I don't know how the older editions handled them, but in 3e, they don't have any typical alignment, not Neutral, not good, not evil. You can't guess what alignment a human is going to be - elves are supposed to lean towards CG, dwarves towards LG, and so on, but humans don't lean towards...

I don't want to let the game dictate how I'm going to create my character. I don't want to be forced to decrease my offensive capability so I can get the defensive capability I should have in the first place because of my class and stat choices (and maybe more than that). Plus, I don't want to...

That's like sending humans to go watch birds fly so they themself can become flying creatures. ;)

Did you ever have bad luck with your HP rolls, not just with one roll, but most of the rolls for that character? Was that character a front-line fighter. Was being a fighter with high con, big HD type and a glass jaw any fun? I was that trooper. It wasn't fun. A few bad rolls can turn your tank...

I think the game should make it fair to as many people as possible: Whenever possible, make the character's abilities count, with the player making contributions. If the player has strengths in one area, nothing keeps him from letting his character have strengths in that area. Great talker? Get...