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Then give the characters a +2 to AC if they move at least half their move score. It's just a pittance, but "every little bit helps". Of course, I'm not saying that will exist in 4e, but the disincentive (AoO) is a lot more difficult to address. Those would be "striker" an "defender" roles, I...

Let me see: Fighter Paladin Tinker Bard Druid Mage Shepherd Ranger Ultimate eight classes! Sorry, couldn't resist :p

Technically, he didn't. "Gnomes" was his original name for the Ñoldor -- and Sindarin, then called Gnomish, was their language. Later the Gnomes had their name changed to Ñoldor, still later their language got changed to Quenya and their old language was given to the Sindar (Grey-elves) and...

The problem with the "talk it out" camp is that, turning the reasoning on its ear, there should be a camp of people who believe that the chances of your success in hitting your foe with a sword is how well you can describe the scene, rather than any objective measure of your character's fighting...

What you're just saying is that the Fighter's and the Wizard's to-hit shouldn't wander too far from one another, even at the highest levels of play, but still grow without bound. So what you're saying is that the BABs shouldn't be a multiplier based on level, but rather tend towards several...

Technically, they have tinker/techie role in FR, which is the first setting that's coming out...

To me, the problem lies in the way D&D handles combat altogether. Consider a fighter acting as bodyguard for a wizard against, say, an orc. How can the fighter make sure the orc doesn't come close to the wizard? Realistically, when the orc steps close to the wizard, the fighter steps in...

Personally, yes. But I understand most people here don't, so I guess I'm already resigned to it...

The direct analogue of German man is one, such as "one should take care not to point the crossbow at people unless one means to kill them", but it isn't terribly "pronominal" as in that repeated usage causes the head to hurt, which doesn't happen with actual personal pronouns. That said, if we...

You're certainly entitled not to stand them, but I got into the hobby in 2nd Edition (92, if memory serves), and even now, after seven years of 3e, I still can't tell which are the Demons and which are the Devils... so I still use the terms from 2nd Edition.

Huh, Eladrin is the new word for Aasimar? :eek: To me, they were the Celestial race natural to Olympus/Arvandor... Living and learning, living and learning. Hey, maybe they can change "Tiefling" to "Yugoloth"! It would certainly be cooler, and I heard very very little of those fellows in...

Hear, hear. I was less than enthusiastic about dropping Gnomes, as I'm a fan of those, but I won't argue this here. The non-LG paladins I'm very much less than enthusiastic about -- very nearly depressed, really. The Tieflings as a core race with nary a mention of Aasimar is like the icing on...

That would actually be a great idea; I hardly think it will come to that in practice, though. Personally, I've always had a soft spot for gnomes, and have played several technologists in that race. I guess the engineer in me is what attracts me to them; of course, it would probably make more...

Not wanting to sound rude, but sounding, anyway, there's a general trend in D&D that math must be continually dumbed down. I've never heard that a Cleric's BAB was hard to calculate: that's exactly .75 * level. "Balanced" systems should be thought of at least from a 1st level and a 20th level...

Hmm, I've been analysing it, but don't have much to say... It seems pretty straightforward. The only class powers are Summon -- and spells from the Orixá-specific list. Is there a list of Orixás elsewhere I may have missed? The Level 0 one on the example does not seem to confer any spells...

That's a tall order, but you might do well taking a look at Mutants and Masterminds, which has a point buy for BAB, saves and stuff. Of course, they don't use HD, so you are sort of on your own for that. Probably half the size of die would be balanced. In a nutshell, for every (Power) Level...

I think the idea here is that you'd burn HP for the save DC to go down -- for a 52-points-of-dawizard Cone of Cold, you can spend 40 HP to bring the save DC down to 12, which is a bit over 50% chance for an average 10th-level fighter (9 or better on 1d20). Of course, the problem is that it...

If there were an Acid line, Bio'd be it. But it's already Shadow, so we'd be better off leaving it as is. There could be an optional (house) rule making Dark Shadow and Bio Acid. About the Regen series, we have to remember that x hitpoints this round is better than x + 1 next round, so it...

I agree, it's a bit too powerful for a cantrip. 1d4+1 is the best I'd allow, on undead only (hey, it is a cantrip). But then, I'd also keep it away from Duskblades. My opinion is they've got plenty spells already. I think it could be a good orison, though.

Well, what if the +2 weapon of blah is held by the next target of the BBEG? Or he may have sworn vengeance against one of the characters' teacher, and wants to kill him on sight rather than trade? There's nothing that says the side-quest for the next magic item in the chain has to be...