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Plate armor is also 5000 gold and way outside of the budget of a low level character. The equivalent light armor is a mithral shirt, so that brings the Rogue up to AC 18. It's unfair to give one party thousands of more gp when doing a comparison. And the difference between the Rogue and Fighter...

You can do the exact same thing in 4e as well. Take a normal orc, apply a class template, and increase its level to whatever level is suitable. All of this is in the DMG. You can face a level 20 orc Fighter in 3e... and you can face a level 20 orc Fighter in 4e. Besides some minor differences in...

The complainer makes a classic error when evaluating 3e: ignoring context. Yes, it is true that in 3e spells like Fireball and Lightning Bolt do 1d6/level just as they did in 2e. However, monster hp in 2e were far lower than they were in 3e due to the changes in how hit dice and Constitution...

Experience is not some sort of monolithic block of knowledge. You could run a dungeon-crawling game for years and still not know a damn thing about crafting your own cosmology. A book with advice, tips, examples, and rules can be a helpful product to get people started. Just being "experienced"...

While universities are older than most people think, the concept of a part-time working student simply didn't exist back then. Non-clergy students were the sons of rich men, who could read and wished to learn about medicine, philosophy, or the Roman laws because they were the one unifying factor...

Let me just check, aaaaaand.... yep, you're right. I stand corrected.

Edit: Disregard, the following is wrong. No, you only get maximum hit points at first level. Not that it really matters, because Dausuul is mistaken: massive damage can't kill the Fighter/Paladin either. In order for massive damage to kick in, you must first be reduced to 0 hp. Only after...

Besides the examples I already gave you mean? No way. If you're already saying there is some burden of proof on "good intentions" then this is not a conversation worth having, as there is no way for me to ever prove to you what my friends were thinking 10 years ago. Come on now, be reasonable.

It depends on who we're talking about. One guy ended up with a surprisingly weak character compared to the others (a "newbie trap") and was soured on D&D as a consequence. He didn't want to remake an entire new character just because the rest of us were more powerful, but he didn't want to suck...

The idea that games only break as a result of malicious intent is at best a myth and at worst a willful lie. I've had several games break apart because people honestly and with good intentions picked whatever sounded fun or interesting, but accidentally wound up breaking things.

This describes me as well. Even 4e already let go of the AEDU structure with its Essentials classes. In one of my games there's a Thief and as such is built quite differently than a PHB1 Rogue, but he still feels competent, fun, and appropriate to the class concept. Next so far... hasn't...

Kind of an ill omen, if you ask me. D&D is not that flexible an RPG. People invented class-less, level-less systems precisely because D&D was not flexible enough. Which is not a slam against the game. I like the iconic, archetypical feel of D&D. But "flexibility" is not really a D&D hallmark...

In the sense that bits of pipe cleaner usually aren't small figurines with distinct appearances, true. But most people here use "miniature" as a shorthand for any graphical representation of position. I suppose this is similar to a "d4". You can accomplish the same randomized 1-4 result by...

In pre-3e editions a Fireball would fill up to its full "interior volume", which IIRC is ~33,000 cubic feet. So if you cast it in a confined space, it would indeed blossom out further than you'd expect. This was not true in 3e, 4e, and now 5e/Next. Fireball is a 20' radius cloud. A "cloud" is a...

Oh absolutely, there's ways to fix it. I just wonder why they say "it'll be quick guys!" and tell us about some methods to make it quicker... but leave out mentioning methods like the one you talked about. Could be just shoddy communication, or it could be that they're not doing something like...

The idea that 1st level characters are uncomplicated and can be quickly made by new players kind of falls apart when you look at spellcasters. A Mage gets three cantrips and four 1st level spells. If you want to make an informed selection rather than just picking randomly, you'll need to read...

Pretty impressive! Don't forget about taking two levels of Mage for the aura of melee-disadvantage and, if you're willing to abuse stacking unclarity, taking some levels in Fighter and Paladin so each of them takes a +1 AC due to defensive fighting style. (Which are almost certainly not intended...

One off-hand example of a broken character is the Fighter9/Paladin6 who can literally not die due to hit point damage. (This relies on making the Defy Death saving throw impossible to fail.) Since I already anticipate the responses, let me just add to this: * Yes, this character can still be...

Not quite. https://www.wizards.com/DnD/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4hook/20080916a Nentir Vale was, however, smaller than a typical setting would be and received far less attention than is typical of a setting. The observation that 4e didn't really have a big setting all its own does have a core of truth.

I started with AD&D myself and somewhat recently got into an AD&D game with a few people who started with 3e. What I'm about to describe is not speaking for myself but on their behalf. Their responses were something like this: "What the f*** is this s***?! You guys really played this? How does...