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Hmmm... :hmm: Well at the very least it wouldn't be D&D without Pelor around for some reason. I am surprisingly neutral on most of the other deities, and downright negative towards the racial ones, but I have a soft-spot for the Sun God.

So why am I playing and enjoying a 4E campaign, and not a 3.X/Pathfinder campaign? You do realize you are doing exactly what you are lambasting WotC for doing. I for one can't stand the thought of having to play 3.X again. I realize that some people don't agree with me, but going on about how 4E...

I certainly like the idea of a large group of people or medium sized monsters counting as a single monster mechanically similar to a swarm. Mobs in 3E were that, and I have always thought that was a concept that should have been brought back and expanded upon more. It is probably the best way to...

I would be fine with buffing fighters up to caster power levels and versatility. I am a huge fan of anime where fighters can move so fast they practically teleport across battlefields, can jump 60 feet into the air, and can take out 15 enemies with a single secret technique. Unfortunately, there...

I think that is a painfully short-sighted position to take. Who the heck would play the fighter in that situation? What is the point of playing a fighter in that kind of game? Why shouldn't everyone play wizards? Why would playing a fighter be any fun in that style of game? It might be fun for...

I am someone who really liked the idea of Paragon Paths and Epic Destinies, but never liked the implementation. I liked the idea of hitting a new tier and getting a whole new defining set of class features. In practice though, Paragon Paths are limited in both scope and effect, rarely seem to...

I think that is my sentiment as well. Traditionally in D&D, while Fighters and other non-spell casters have generally been able to hold their own on a tactical level, they have always lacked access to the strategic abilities necessary for Combat as War play, something spellcasters have had in...

I never liked the spell-casting of the Paladin or Ranger classes very well. In the Paladin's case, I always thought the class would have been better off expanding Smite Evil and Lay on Hands into generally more versatile and defining mechanics. Similarly, I would drop the Ranger's spellcasting...

I went with the "everyone is balanced option", but I don't think giving everyone dailies is what they should do. Its fine if Wizards can do cool stuff, as long as my Fighters and Paladins can do cool stuff of their own. And yeah, it was definitely the original 3E PHB that was far and away the...

I don't really like the idea of building everything around ability scores. I prefer skill systems that emphasize skill and experience over base talent. Ability scores as a whole can be a problematic mechanic, since more than any other mechanic they tend to pigeonhole characters into limited...

Cool powers for fighters. As long as the game has good mechanics that let non-magic using melee fighters pull off awe-inspiring maneuvers in combat, I will give the edition a shot regardless of other qualms. Simple tricks like trip, disarm, bull rush, and sunder like how they appeared in 3E...

I'm more confused than anything. So far, I am having trouble piecing together the overall design plan for the game. None of the elements they have described seem to be pointing in quite the same direction as the rest. i know that this is typical of trying to get an idea about a game based on...

I really wouldn't mind Orc becoming an available race choice for the first time. Half-Orc always struck me as a poor compromise between having playable Orcs and keeping Orcs as a purely villainous race. However, we now live in the post-WoW era, and playable Orcs have a lot of traction with a...

Even as a general fan of 4E, I never liked having to replace powers. It is particularly annoying when there are no powers that function as a more powerful version of the power you just replaced. For example, it can be very, very frustrating trying to play an elementally themed wizard in base 4E...

I for one am actually nervous about the idea of trading in lower-level spells or powers for higher-level ones. Having to trade in low level powers in 4E was one of my bigger complaints about the system. It means that it is much more difficult to maintain continuity of a character's themes and...

I just hope that if 5E does give players keeps, the rules for them aren't as overly complex and illogical as the 3E stronghold builder's guide rules. Why couldn't 3E have given rules for more general, well-rounded strongholds? Why build things room-by-room using mechanics that are supposedly...

Making a decision on what should be in the core based on what people don't want in the game is pointless; it would only lead to disunity. The contents of the core should be determined by what people want. WotC needs to take a look at the stuff people most want and try their best to squeeze as...

Throughout history and all manners of works of fiction, warriors have been social creatures. The knights of Europe were members of the aristocracy, part of a courtly culture who engaged in complex social rituals such as tournament s that were full of pageantry and complex social custom. The...

What I don't get is why people think rust monsters have to destroy equipment completely in order to be scary. I mean, the rust monsters in NetHack don't even instant-destroy equipment, and NetHack is the reigning king of "your character will lose all of his possessions and die an ignoble death...

Well, it is a magic weapon. The magic has to go somewhere, right? I mean, when a rust monster eats my +5 magic sword of legend, there are only two possible places for the stored up magical energy to go: either the it remains in the oxidized pile of scrap that is left of the sword, or it is...