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I take issue with that statement, friend. I don't think Dragon and Dungeon in electronic forms are useless -- in fact, they're much more useful as searchable PDFs than as print media I have to lug around and can be ripped or splashed or suffer all sorts of other damage. I do not believe the...

Well, effectively you've just halved the levels for metamagic. Would an empowered maximised extended fireball be a problem in your campaign if casters started using it more often? It's much easier to cast them like that, leaving aside all considerations of such abstract notions as "elegance"...

And if lots of players feel that way, might it reflect a larger trend in society and Wizards' subsequent catering to that trend -- as OP implied? On the other hand, the "Points of Light" implied setting can logically support an enhanced focus on fiends and their kin. That being said, I'll be...

Friends, this is an artefact of the hitpoint system. To work around this: falling damage is now 1d6 x character level for each 10' fallen. There, you'll find now that pit traps are consistently fatal from level 1 through 20. Your players will hate you, as well.

"Never underestimate the power of the Schwartz!" :p

ANYTHING to do with "sacred cows", especially mentions of "sacred hamburger" or "barbecue sauce"...

True, considering that a critical hit with a Fireball spell doubles the number of damage dice. The designers could take a page of "two doublings is a tripling" and simply add another die of damage. Then critical hits aren't so cool anymore, true, but it helps to keep the STDEV for expected...

Pretty nifty idea. It'd fit pretty well for a given genre of adventure (swashbuckling, mostly).

Ok, here are the relevant parts: For every level of the spell, DC rises 2 points. For every level of adjustment for metamagic, DC rises 1 point, such that the DC for the casting check isn't the same as the casting check for a regular spell of the adjusted level. For instance, an Empowered...

Quoted For Truth :cool: I agree with Point 1, except that I'd say that the first era of D&D is OD&D+AD&D1e+2e, and the second era of D&D is D&D3.0+3.5; whether 4e will inaugurate a third era or continue with the second is still up in the air for me. As for point 2, most people will get over...

I argue that there is so much potential, that Druids should be split into several classes: One for skin-changers (like Beorn from The Hobbit, Defender role); one for weather-witches (Controller, with Entangle, Control Weather, Call Lightning, and the great out-of-doors battlefield control...

I was under the impression that Flurry of Blows was TWF for unarmed fighting? If so, it wouldn't make sense to have it stack with itself. As for the Pixie, well, they're a bad choice for PC race in any campaign, so I don't see why a pathological case argues for the balance in PB or lack...

So Tieflings and Warlocks are confirmed in. I think we can be pretty sure Aasimars are ruled out, as well? Otherwise he'd probably have mentioned them -- heck, there's mention of Warforged but there is no Aasimar :confused: Well, I guess I'll just steer right clear of the implied setting ;)...

Yes, but how does that work when there's more than one combatant? Is there only one on the offensive and all the rest are on the defensive, or do we track initiative for each combination of two characters?

Let me see what I can understand of it: Wizards have a limited mana pool but auto-success magic. Sorcerers have an unlimited mana pool but must succeed at a cast check. Bards have a limited mana pool *and* must succeed at a cast check (although at a lower DC than the Sorcerer and a potentially...

Being brutally honest, D&D 3e is a wonderful ruleset, but if you compare it with 1e or 2e, it's hardly the same system anymore. Specifically, the revamping of the die-rolling methodology (advent of DCs) and the removal of race/attribute/class restrictions really changed the tone of D&D IMHO...

Eyepatch, Parrot and Cutlass? The True Pirate Implements are Eyepatch, Pegleg and Hook! Parrots and Cutlasses, indeed...

Forgive the defunct equine pugilism, but you really should take a look over the "House Rules" forum over the last year. There's plenty of attempted fixes to problems such as bonus stacking, too-quick level progression, gamebreaker spells, and other darlings of D&D high-level play. The mere...

That's great to hear, I guess... My benefits always outweigh my rewards nowadays ;)

I'm pretty sure the deal with Implements are the Wizards' personal schtick. That is to say, Sorcerers won't have them, and likely the Clerics won't, either. That being said, I believe the Sorcerers will wind up with an average MAB about the same as a Wizard.