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This is a good thread. I'm trying to read all of the points, but I had one comment. Why are all of the broken powers for Cleric?

I googled your thread title to start searching for the Hobbit quote. 'Dwarves are not heroes' was the third thing that came up for me. I posted it here. Even in the wikipedia entry, Tolkien's quotes about his development of Middle-Earth dwarves mentions parallels to real world cultures. Read...

I killed an elf druid named Dain yesterday. Its the first casuality of 2011 for my group. He was unlucky with his death saves and he was locked down for most of the combat. In the last few sessions, Dain has been the only or one of two PC's that were knocked unconcious and dying. In previous...

This is a strange thread. To call it racist would be moronic, but ...... The thread title seems to possibly have been taken from an article about JRR Tolkien being an anti-Semite. Its an interesting article........ Another question, which is somewhat related to this article. In what...

Collaborator! Playing both sides is not correct. Choose one or be wrong. Choose 4e (!?). Pathfinder leads to the devil (?!). Much like Ben Franklin.

Like I said, only a full blown edition war will suffice. Come on people, let's be convincing: Pathfinder sucks!?!? People who play 4e are inherently more civilized and more obedient to authority figures.

Goblins are a pretty effective race. They have a lot of character and have a lot of options for classes. A skirmisher character, who shines with both melee and ranged, is a fun concept to me. I think a goblin ranger -- either standard ranger or the scout and/or hunter from Essentials would be...

With 4e, I'm able to roughly know that the published classes (paragon paths and epic desinties included) and races options that my players choose are mostly balanced against everything else. Couldn't do that at all in published 3.X. I came to hate prestige classes so much, and I became so bitter...

Can't let that happen..... I'm going to win.

I am in this exact situation. I have way too many minis -- but its a boon if and when I host the game at my apartment. Whenever I traveled to another location to DM, I hated having to parse out minis and lug them, plus a few books, drinks, and my laptop. I think WotC releasing minis through...

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On the flip side, I always saw the high-level characters as usually being more canny, cunning, and lucky then low-level fodder. What if the high-level people who do exist, got there *during* the war, because they were smart enough to stay in the background. Doesn't mean they didn't have their...

I don't think WotC can ever just say 'we're done.' They might go on a hiatus for awhile to let the demand build up for new 4e rulebooks. 2011 seems like it might be that kind of year, and frankly that would be a good thing. It would probably make it more likely for me to buy most of what...

Might I suggest comics? Both the DC Universe and the Marvel Universe have a lot of fantasy elements merged with their cosmic and sci-fi settings. I think the Green Lanterns in DC, the Guardians of the Galaxy in MU (they live in a dead god's head on the edge of nowhere), or my favorite -- the...

Everything in this thread I echo. BUT there is one interesting high-level villains who seem to have an inordinate dearth of influence: Mordain the Fleshweaver. Mordain is 18th level in 3.X and 21st level in 4E. I see this another great strength of Eberron. It is a massive toolbox that never...

Brevity for simple questions is not something a good number of responders are known for on these boards. (I'm guilty of this too). Anyway, in this situation, if I were playing the PC with the knife to their throat, I'd probably back down and figure out the situation. If I wanted to regain my...

I think the real question is what is his Intimidate modifier? C.I.D.

Yes, in general I agree with you, but you then assume that most ships only have ship-to-ship capable weapons equipped up to a certain point. That gets pretty boring -- it assumes a lot of the background fun of combat becomes mere support for the SINGLE piece of equipment/person who can deal...

So ... basically I'm just echoing most of the points here, but will add a personal anecodote. This thread reminded me a 4e campaign I ran from dec-08 to aug-09. It was based heavily around rules for the 4e airships. I took the rules quite literally and that made the battle between airships...