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Oh, you were referring to chess' recent 500 years of stability. Gotcha. Like I said, favorably comparing D&D to chess' modern stability requires quite a bit of faith and optimism. Oh, and if you find my thoughts meaningless due to semantics, perhaps you should stop reading them. I'm sure you...

Oh semantics, where would the interwebs be without you? :yawn: Pick whichever word you want; longevity highlights my point all the more clearly. Oh, and I'm gonna need a citation for your assumption that chess(?) was stable for 500 years.

I'll see your adolescent Aragorn, and raise you a psycho Eddie. :)

Yes, this. Also, even if one accepts the premise that games like chess are eternal phenomenons, it's not as if they sprang into existence as they are today. According to wikipedia, chess evolved from an Indian game called chaturanga. Rather than knights, rooks, bishops, and pawns, chaturanga...

What is your point, btw, if not to simply threadcrap? Not these little details you're quibbling over with Abdulalhazred; but your impetus for posting in this thread.

Same here; I've never met anyone IRL who wants to play through the early might-as-well-be-apprentice levels. Well, I did have a DM who started his 4e campaign by having us make homebrewed 0-level PCs, but he wasn't playering through it with us. And if I had gamed with him after that, I'm sure...

Bingo. The bark is especially resistant to fire and temperature extremes. And seeing as how trees can't run away from fires like animals can, it shouldn't be much of a surprise that trees are more resistant than we are -- those that weren't went extinct a long time ago! Still, fire shouldn't be...

[/LIST] I'm personally a fan of the C4 pdfs, so on the players' side I say 'nothing.' If a player really wants to hold a solid book in hand, I always suggest the original PHB. On the DM side of things, you can't go wrong with the MV 1 and the DMG. [/LIST] I hardly remember what the errata...

Great stuff, Pemerton! I missed your first play report, and I'm now itching to read it. Sadly though, I'll probably be troll-green with jealousy by the time I'm done! For various reasons, I've never been part of a campaign that's lasted more than five levels. :(

My magic eight-ball says Try Again Later. I say no.

Weird, I found the exact opposite: 4e's class-build structure finally allowed characters of the same class to have different stat priorities without players having to shoot their PCs in the feet for the sake of creative characters.

Yes, this is probably the best bet. A DM can always import the point buy rules from 3e or 4e. 5e is supposed to be all about modularity and 'rulings not rules,' after all. Also, I've wanted to try the potluck method for a while! It's the one roll-PB compromise method that actually manages to...

Earlier you mentioned that you yourself have limited (no?) experience with romance, so as someone who does have a bit of experience under my belt, I'm going to leave you with this suggestion: You're overthinking this. Attraction is not rational; there's a reason that throughout the majority of...

Your DM's insistence that "It's Vikki or nobody" is a rather metagamey railroady sort of red flag. I've never heard of a DM making this particular kind of ultimatum, and I'm curious what his motivation is. If you happen to ask him about it, or better yet ask him to read this thread, I'd be very...

Someone like Jesse might see Vikki as a redeemable deviant. "She steals because she's had a hard life, and has had to do a few wrong things to survive. But I make her life easier and show her a better way to live, she might reform, and wouldn't that be great?!" And it could end up great. Or it...

We should meet in person, so that you can say you've met someone who wants something more than hit points in a 'hard sim,' and I can say I've finally met someone who just wants to roll a d20 and damage. :)

For a while I tried to treat 3.x as a sim, writing dozens of pages of house rules in the effort. And the only explanation I can give is that I didn't really know any better; D&D was the game I cut my rp teeth on, the only ttrpg I had ever really played, and the only one that everyone knew. I...

Yup, the 'need' for high stats has always been in large part a matter of perception. The XP bonuses and stat prereqs for spell levels in pre-WotC D&D probably made high stats more 'mandatory' than any WotC edition, but don't tell that to an old school fan! "The XP bonus is nice, but you don't...

Ah, gotcha. That is an interesting mechanic; a bit like 4e's surge-draining monsters, but more immediately dangerous.

Personally I'd rather just play 4e and knock off a few monster hit points; that way I get the best of both worlds. :) Are level-draining monsters back, or did you mean to type 'PCs'?