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That would be cool. I'm wondering, though, if we will see a new Oriental Adventures, with the ki power source presented in that book - monk, ki striker; wu jen, ki controller; samurai, ki defender, etc. Two power sources and 8 classes in OA would be cool.

Love Paranoia, but haven't played it years. My gang was spoiled by having the guy in our high school group who was the worst DM turn out to be the most amazing Paranoia GM, and despite a few attempts, it never worked trying to play without him. Among the most fun in the game was the secret GM...

My campaign is a homebrew sandbox game. Basically, I gave my old homebrew world the new edition treatment. I moved the timeline ahead a 1000 years and threw in a near world ending cataclysm that reshaped the world a bit and the cosmos entirely, overthrowing the established kingdoms and powers...

No one said anything about mundane. Conan, Legolas, Aragorn, and their ilk can hardly be called mundane. Their exploits and abilities and legendary and heroic. And "far too many", care to list the many 4e powers that aren't even vaguely martial, as that's what we're talking about, not...

We're certainly not using the same definition of metagame then. If that is the definition, then most anything a player does is metagame. When a fighter decides its a good time to use his power attack feat, that would be metagame according to that. How I define metagaming is a player using...

F=female. You chose those examples to illustrate your point that these acts were carried out without the need for "superpowers" which is how you choose to derogatorily describe the 4e power framework. I coutnered by showing how the examples YOU CHOSE could play out in 4e. Yes, there are a...

Of course they did. Merry used Dazing Strike (rogue enc. 1) on the Witch King to set him up and Eowyn used a Brute Strike (fighter daily 1) to kill him, with the added superpower of 'F'. Bard killed Smaug by firing a magical arrow at the one vulnerable spot on the dragons body, while it was in...

Umm, using the word 'tank' to describe a heavily armored damage soaking melee machine has been in use as long as I've been gaming, which was the late 70s. Also: No. Not at all. It feels like a game of D&D. And that's the TRUTH. :cool:

A hatred of the necessity of conflict, but a recognition of the nobility and sacrifice of battle for the cause of "good". Some do, some don't. Boromir relishes battle, as do Legolas and Gimli. One characters act of compassion, or two in this case, does not the entirety of the writing...

4e PCs don't have triple hit points. They are on the same scale as monsters and NPCs, generally. The system was changed to allow for significant play at 1st level. It's not a change in focus, just a change in mechanics. An orc is still a threat at 1st level, but the room for significant play...

Yeah, blending the classical period of art and music with animation is terrible, just ask Fantasia or Loony Tunes ;) The Fellowship slaughters orcs in Moria, worgs on the journey, join in the battles at Helm's Deep and Isengard and eventually the battle of the Pellenor Fields. Throughout...

Umm, OD&D combat was Chainmail, which used minis and rulers. Sure, it had an optional combat system in the rules, but the assumption was that you were using Chainmail to conduct your combats and an entirely seperate game for exploration. Revising history is unkind to historians. Let's also...

None of those were a part of D&D originally, and only the monk ended up part of OD&D (in Blackmoor). Every edition of D&D has been about change and every edition has taken away and added classes and races. The game was originally three classes and four races. 1e was a complete redesign of...

I don't find those four kittens are doing it for me at all. Four kittens is a terrible decision. I really feel like the existence of these four kittens has ruined my ability to even like kittens, at all, for ever and ever. I guess I have no choice but to stick with three kittens -

I7 Baltron's Beacon - a 1e adventure set in a swamp and a ruined keep at its center. On Ebay

No. It wouldn't. The description does not match what is happening in the game. "Your spaceship is crashing because the pixelated fairy unicorns refuse to supply the hyperdrive with 20th century gasoline" is a poor description for a serious sci-fi setting in which a spaceship is actually...

I'd write a gushing review too. There was a lot of skepticism that WotC could pull off anything actually interesting with D&DI, including from much of the 4e crowd, as we've seen the past offerings. That the CB delivers so brilliantly, and that its concept is unfettered access to the entire...

That's interesting. It does seem this particular shift is what's giving some such consternation. I've always played D&D with a heavy dose of flavoring the mechanics, just the way I roll, I guess. About any caster I've ever made, I've devoted time to figuring out the look and 'themes' of his...

Not much a fan of paths, myself. I don't like, as a DM, feeling like I'm part of someone else's story, instead of mine and my players. You can always tweak of course and make the setting your own, but you have to worry about going off script sometimes, with unknown ramifications down the road...

I don't think most people see random as not DM prepared or tied to rolling dice or anything, but more as throwaway encounters not really part of the main story to highlight dangerous travel, represent randomness in a dangerous location, to break monotony on an encounter light evening, etc. Even...