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Every single golem in the SRD clarifies that exact same trait to mean the following though: "A [insert type here] golem is immune to any spell or spell-like ability that allows spell resistance."

No, that's not what I'm saying. I was just answering your question with regards to the example you used. Fire immunity is not the same as a golem's spell immunity. It's important to realize that there is no such thing as generic immunity in 3e. You can have fire immunity, which makes you immune...

Golem spell immunity only means they have an unbeatable Spell Resistance. If a spell allows spell resistance, then the golem is immune. The spells Wall of Force and Shield don't allow spell resistance. Therefore, the golem has no special immunity or resistance to such spells whatsoever.

I just want to point out that stands and units are not the same thing. I suspect that you're mixing up the terminology at the moment. A stand consists of a group of individuals. It's to scale up a mob of goblins into "one" goblin. A unit consists of multiple stands and is used for effects like...

No, you misunderstood the question. It's not about whether the wizard is inside a stand, it's whether the target is inside a stand. Let's say there's an evil general (a solo) who stands in between his two hill giant bodyguards (a stand). If the wizard (a solo unconnected to a stand) casts an...

I like the quickness of it but there's too many questions about the abstract nature of it. Copy-pasting from RPGnet: 1. Stands? Wow. The Jojo's Bizarre Adventure jokes practically write themselves. 2. So two hill giants take only a single attack from a group of archers, whereas one roc bird...

It's already up here: http://www.twitch.tv/wotc_dnd/b/522989075 The actual Q&A doesn't start until 8:20 into the video.

Unimportant side note, but is it just me or does Chris Perkins look like he just doesn't want to be there? His expressions, his body language, the way he looks and plays more with that bottle than connecting with his colleagues... Guy looks like he's hugely distracted.

I like the phrasing of the thread title. Like all of WotC sits around a table in a dimly lit room, like some shadowy cabal straight out of the very game they're writing. "They know too much," one says in a hissing whisper. "Eliminate them!" another commands. But yeah it's probably more like a...

That's not so hard. The Push maneuver is not currently in the playtest packet but the knockdown maneuver is, and it (currently) requires an opposed strength check but I imagine they'll change it to a saving throw (probably DC 8 + Str mod + proficiency). So, if we assume that to be true based...

First of all, it sounds like this fight took about 10 rounds if not more - in other words, roughly a minute. If you can't imagine people moving 30' or so in a minute then I invite you to watch any action movie or maybe a boxing match or two. Second, the player explicitly chose to use Tide of...

What about Spelljammer? Musketeer-style... well, muskets, are a bit too late, I'll grant you that. But firearms in Europe predate full plate, and personally held firearms (as opposed to cannons) arose more or less at the same time that full plate armors came into use - probably not a...

I'm another one who is unsure if there's a really useful, clear distinction between the two. Even Conan has met a space alien. Trying to lump works like Star Wars, He-Man, or Thundercats exclusively into one or the other is at best a pointless exercise for the sake of labels. D&D is another...

Pretty sure that's how it actually works. Sharing the same initiative count doesn't mean the monsters only have one single turn - if it did, then they'd have only one standard action, one move action, and one minor action to share between all of them.

Blessed crossbow bolt, yes. And good news: they still do in 4e. Check the sidebar on page 217 of the MM. To save everybody time: it helps to remember that 4e uses the statblock purely for combat-purposes. It doesn't fully define what a creature is in the same way 3e did. In 4e, rakshasas...

If you do that, expertise is even less potent in the long run. Their expertise caps out at +12. Yours at +10.

Although we lack a lot of details I think it's safe enough to assume that "full caster" means "casts like a wizard, cleric, or druid" except of course with its own spell list (which might have some overlap with other classes). I don't think I really like that. Spells like that come with their...

No need to apologize, it's an honest enough miscommunication. :) I would agree with that. Ideally Next would manage to cover a broad range of Fighter-concepts through a combination of sub-classes and backgrounds. I'm not confident it hit that point during the playtest but it might on launch...

I think the real issue that I'm talking in the prescriptive, whereas you seem to be talking in the descriptive. In other words, I'm talking about what Fighters should be like. And you're talking about what they have traditionally been like in the past. So everything what you say might be true...

Obviously the generic-ness of various classes won't exactly map to the same levels. I took the wizard because it's the most generic of the spellcasters, to contrast it to the fighter, which is the most generic of the warriors. They don't have to be exactly as generic as one another to make my...