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*shrug* Well, I guess I'd rather help ill-equipped DMs than save gamers who can't be bothered to read the part that says "this book contains guidelines" from themselves. Maybe. Or maybe if 1e were the current D&D edition, the 'net would have produced as many, if not more complaints about its...

Same here! I'll never understand how some gamers can be so derisive about guidelines that can be ignored at worst, and really helpful to those of us lacking a fine sense of what kind of opposition who can handle. *shrug*

Ah, so you agree that vague or absent guidelines for deviating from the game's expected loot levels is problematic, to say the least. See, my post was more helpful than you gave it credit for!

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Well just between us DMs, sometimes putting your foot down is reasonable -- or even booting a truly bullheaded player. Not every campaign is for every player. On the other hand, if you find yourself short on players excited about your campaign, it might be time to loosen up that carefully...

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I always took 4e's deva as a rose by any other name. Is that not the case for you? Granted, the tiefling did offended my sense of symmetry until the deva was introduced in PHB2, but I was thereafter happy with the ease of refluffing both tieflings and devas into their more traditional...

No worries; I didn't take your reply as curt or anything. What you say is perfectly reasonable, and even well within my own comfort zone, so I can't think of anything to add. :)

Fair enough.

Good call. Of all the things to take from 4e and pre-WotC D&D...stat prereqs for MCing? Ugh! Nobody wants to play aasimar because they're the inverse of the old school race-as-classes: The aasimar is the paladin-as-race. Now that's dull in all kinds of ways! :p Actually, I agree that tieflings...

This brings up the separate but related issue of healing magic being tied to divine classes outside of 4e. (The 3.x bard being an odd exception.) I suspect that if any caster could throw out a cure spell or whip out a wand of cure wounds, fewer gamers would mind that nerfhammer floating above...

Same here. I wasn't very critical of game balance until I became a regular forum-goer. I remember looking at the 3.0 sorcerer and thinking "Its spells are staggered a level behind the wizard, but once it reaches 18th level it can cast spontaneous polar rays...best class evar!!!" :lol: Some fans...

To clarify, my point is that whether the game assumes no, some, or many magic items, it should comment on what happens when a DM's campaign ignores those assumptions. Simple enough to provide at least rough guidelines on how to treat parties where say, everyone has a +1 weapon and +1 armor vs. a...

Thank you, this is quite possibly the most hilarious analogy I've heard all year. :lol:

I think this is a good question. For my part, while I like to think that my perception of 5e isn't entirely petty, it's also true that I'm approaching 5e differently than I've approached any prior edition. I bought my first three editions essentially sight unseen -- even after I had been an...

Indeed. So much for a D&D for everyone! :p Whereas I've been playing and DMing without DDI since 2008, so the possibility of losing it...well, it wouldn't be a loss at all from my end. :D Haha, yes, very appropriate! I get a particular kind of kick whenever I see a fan swear to never buy a...

While the OP is somewhat of a joke inspired by a certain vocal poster in a certain ENworld subforum, it is not without truth. There are practical obstacles and more mundane reasons I won't be buying 5e, but it's also true that I'd probably try to overcome those obstacles if 5e looked different...

Oh, that reminds me... 16. The silver ampersand clashes horribly with the red D's. Lose the red, so fans don't have to tell the store clerk they're buying for their 10 year old nephews, and compliment the silver ampersand with something that makes it appear as if WotC has an art budget. And...

Glad I'm not the only one. :D Little do they know, my hamster is the progeny of the Monty Python Grail Rabbit!

I read a WotC article months ago saying that "Magic items will be about the story, not the math." Please, magic items are about the story and the math. Denying the importance of one just makes me think you can't design games. Speaking of magic items, 5e still has +X items. *yawn* And speaking of...