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The monk was my vote, not because I think there is anything wrong with having a monk class, but rather because they always seem kind of oddly specific, and because it seems to be inextricably linked to asian culture, and that's not to say that there is anything necessarily wrong with that, but...

Appendix N

It never once occurred to me to put any of the D&D novels on a reading list meant to convey the flavor of the game. It seems weirdly self-referential, but obvious.

Here is your task, should you choose to accept it. You are to create a new appendix N for the next edition of D&D, what do yo do with it? Do you expand it to include other media? Do you use it to reinforce the flavor of the original appendix N with new works that have been created since its...

Wouldn't record my vote on the AW/E/D system. :( Anyway, the one thing that I really like about the Vancian system, and the one thing that isn't really touched on in the poll, and the one thing that would really sway my opinion about any of the other styles is that the ability to expand...

What about paralyzation, sleep, hold person, et c.? In a practical sense these very often shortcut the HP-system.

I think you could skip giving assassins a SoD specifically and instead turn to the death by massive damage rule in 3e for inspiration. Since HP don't actually represent physically damage we can tweak this mechanic to mean something else, or a few different things really. You could give run of...

That depends a great deal on the quality and aesthetic of the art, as well as its affect on space for actual game content. I love art, but I think it's possible to over illustrate a book, you don't want to break up the smooth flow of reading.

I've always been under the impression that that was a dwarf and a very evil looking halfling, consequently I don't think there is anything majorly wrong with the proportions. Komarck at his best is quite good, as the picture you posted shows, but I find that a lot of his work looks very fake...

I was looking through the galleries on his website just yesterday and I would love to see Tony DiTerlizzi again, especially in the style of his work from '98 to the early 2000s. I like a little whimsy in my D&D art (and if we could tap into that old school vibe just a touch and make it...

I've never understood the need of people on the internet who have no interest in something to have to make sure everyone else knows it. Why not just go do what you are interested in? And if you are interested, or want to be, but there is a barrier to entry, constructive criticism is a lot...

There was a time when I thought it would be best to collapse all the classes down into two, Heroes and Magicians. And allowing the characters to be differentiated by their skill and feat selections (feats being much chunkier and interesting than they were in either 3e or 4e). With a good...

I tell you what, if you put Drow in the core book, then you may as well take out all the other races. If fact you can probably get rid most of the classes other than rangers, too. That way we can use the rest of the PHB for describing the two weapon fighting rules. Nothing but Drizzts as far...

If I recall correctly the outrage over Tieflings had a lot more to do with the art than anything else.

If you're running the game just lay down your ground rules, if you don't like whining, don't play with whiny people. If you're not running the game, why should you be able to play the race you want by the guy across the table not be able to? Because you don't like it? Either way your desire...

Simple doesn't have to mean simplistic. In my ideal world the fighter will be very simple for someone starting out, they will be action heroes, the player will be able to to tell the DM I want to try this, and the system will support them trying any maneuver they can think of instead of...

I would suggest that it was an issue in 4e not despite the strict math, but because of it.

It's certainly a workable model, it's been done to varying degrees in other games. It would sort of take things in the direction of Fate, wherein most versions if you deplete someones stress (HP) you essentially can do what you want to them as long as it makes sense regarding how you attacked...

I'm not sure that holding both to the exact same standard is really accommodating both playstyles. It's saying everyone should do it one way and ignoring one the primary selling features of the next edition, its modularity.

I'm going to copy & paste my response to an earlier thread on pretty much this exact topic plus an extra thought or two. I hope that higher level fighter types (and similarly martial classes) gain some extra attacks, but in a more controlled way that keeps both the number of them and the...