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For the record, I addressed this frequently-cited issue in my recent article:

Thanks for the info, Bluenose. Does the game assume that the PCs are the unmentioned 'background heroes' in canon, or is it a "Here's how Middle Earth (and possibly the War of the Ring) might have looked like with different protagonists..." situation? I don't have a particular preference either...

Totally nonplussed about 5e and still lovin' 4e, so I likely won't have any dramatic gametime shifts anytime soon. I would like to give 13A a shot sometime though. A lot of people are mentioning Savage Worlds and The One Ring. A couple fans have already been kind enough to talk a bit about...

Ah, gotcha. To be honest, I haven't missed alignment (actually mattering) as much as I thought I would in 2008. ;) *nod* Traditional paladins are certainly a rare breed in actual play, IME as well. Even in a 4e group, I had a player tell me that he doesn't even consider playing paladins...

Thanks! Did I deny that some of us enjoy the 'paladins with an ambiguous power source' concept somewhere, or just omit it? Either way, it was not intentional. :o

I started this thread to see whether, as I suspected, there are still D&D gamers who associate the paladin with a very narrow archetype. My curiosity is satiated, but now the thread is turning into that unique kind of ENworld back-and-forth, so I'm just going to leave this here: Why Flexibility...

*very confused* Are clerics not also dedicated to their gods' laws?

Oh 2e, and your bizarre alignments! I love Planescape, but the Rilmani and the Outlands petitioners with their little alignment tally-books are one of those details I don't miss. :)

Lancelot may have healed someone at some point, though I don't remember him doing so. More importantly, when an Arthurian knight healed by laying on hands, it was always the result of a specific circumstance and divine prophecy rather than an ability which the knight could freely call upon. The...

Hardly. Galahad was the knight in shining armor; his father was an antihero in shining armor, at best. Aside from the whole adultery thing, Lance stole from peasants, and murdered those who questioned his right to do so. What makes Lance stand out is being a badass and a bad boy. Oh, and in one...

Just curious.

PF fans have begun calling it the Pugwampi Rule. (See Special Abilities.)

Holy cow, that's so...why would they do that?! I've been thinking the same thing since 3e. Not that casters need the boost, but patterns that just suddenly truncate for no reason are a pet peeve of mine. Like class abilities that kinda follow a pattern but with odd wrinkles; the warlock's...

Huh, you're right...no pattern! The 3e sorcerer (and sundry other classes) irked me for this reason too.

Thanks for the info! Quality control is an admirable goal, but this info does beg the question "Why not release everything in November to allow for that much more quality control?" I guess they rightly figure that many gamers want their bits and pieces of the game right now. This thread has...

Holy cow, that's...I don't even...I feel so sorry for everyone who's excited about 5e! I know that the PHB is all that one supposedly needs to 'run a full campaign,' but this release schedule is just asinine. Has WotC claimed some sort of pretense for releasing the core books months apart, or...

Ditto. I play the Complete 4th Edition, where everyone simply gets +2 to two, and humans lack the usual NAD bonuses. I don't see any more human PCs than in RAW 4e games, and nobody's ever commented on humans being OP.

Same here. Even disregarding D&D's alchemy theme and obviously 'artificial' chimeric creatures, I don't see how to explain things like hit points without the assumption that D&D physics/biology just work differently than they do IRL. Whatever one's favorite explanation for hit points happens to...

You mean the "+X until the start/end of your next turn" stuff? Yeah, that can get annoying. Fair enough.

lol, I stopped reading after this point. Yeah, there are players who just like to tell the DM what they want to do and then chuck a d20, or hash out the details OD&D style. But those gamers don't define the hobby, or even PF. I took a poll just last year, which included the question "Do you...