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The #1 mistake you can make when introducing someone to HERO is starting with character generation. Hand them a pregenerated sheet with the combat maneuvers already listed on it. I know a local HERO GM that runs at all the cons, and he's mastered the art of making the characters easy and...

It's more complex than D&D, but simply saying it's "too complex" is a bit unfair. If you are playing HERO, and you either get help with character creation (HeroDesigner is an EXCELLENT tool) or have the GM create your character, it isn't any more complex than D&D. The big advantage is that you...

The interesting thing is that Insightful Strike replaces the weapon's normal damage. So either it can still be multiplied (because it is the new base damage of the weapon), or the weapon completely loses its ability to gain a critical hit.

Stoneskin has been used once in our group's entire adventuring career (from a scroll, I believe). However, we're in Eberron - Stone Construct used to be used a fair amount (it's the equivalent of Stoneskin). Now, though, Iron Construct is used all the time on the party's warforged by the...

Something to remember is that social characters are like clerics. You want at least one in the party, but there's no need for everyone to play one. Whenever the party is in a social situation, it generally doesn't help to have multiple people trying to talk at once. Instead, the party has a...

And if your game in in Eberron, you can use the Revenant Blade PrC out of Player's Guide to Eberron and get the 1.5 STR to damage while wielding a double weapon (with all of your off-hand attacks, no less).

I really hope not. Ability damage is in many ways worse than save or die. At least with save or die, your saving throws are based on your level. Your ability scores are basically the same at 20th level as they were at 1st level - 5 stat bumps to distribute among six stats doesn't make a lot...

Though I wouldn't use them all the time, groups of Psionic Warriors or Warblades can ignore a good portion of their AC thanks to touch attacks. A 12th level Psionic Warrior (or PW 6/War Mind 6) with Deep Impact and Psionic Meditation should be able to hit them a good portion of the time, and...

Oh, there's no way I could function on something with that small of a screen. While portability is very important, readibility should not be sacrificed. My current laptop is great for preparation, but way too big for easy use at the gaming table - a HP Pavilion zd8000. It's screen is bigger...

I'm amazed that no one has mention the strangeness of having armor and "natural armor". It gets even wackier when you realize that a brilliant energy weapon ignores armor...but not natural armor (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicItems/magicWeapons.htm#brilliantEnergy).

There are (or were) other RPGA campaigns besides Living Greyhawk. If you're going to do a poll about LG, mention the campaign name in the title...

While I agree with you on the mechanics...Warforged are NOT robots. A better comparison would be Pinnochio - created by humans, but obviously not one of them. Sentient golems, perhaps. It's really annoying to see players that treat Warforged as an excuse to do their robot impressions...bad...

Not really an issue in our campaign - the player really wants to finish out the class. He's willing to sacrifice the extra point of BAB to get ability damage/ability drain immunity, and the free feat (Greater Powerful Charge) is a plus as well. He's playing a Warforged Barbarian 1/Fighter...

The first thing the Warforged Juggernaut in our group asked our Artificer to make was a Gauntlet of Rust. VERY handy for warforged.... http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicItems/wondrousItems.htm#gauntletofRust The problem is that when other party members are working on minimizing their...

Seconded! My alternate choice would be as follows: Hank the Ranger Eric the Cavalier Sheila the Thief Presto the Magician Diana the Acrobat Bobby the Barbarian

It's about time, too. I foresee a 4E where the "fighter" class is looking less like the 3.5 fighter and more like the warblade. Whose bright idea was it to make a class with no skills and only one class feature (bonus feats)? Heck, the fighter didn't even get the best hit points (the...

Well, my favorite book this year is the one several others have bashed - Tome of Battle: The Book of 9 Swords. It really breaks new ground on how to make fighters on par with clerics and wizards, a problem that has existed for a long, long time. It's not perfect, but it's just so innovative...

Check out the Dragonmarked Sorcerer feat from the latest Dragon magazine. Take the mark for a halfling of House Jorasco, and add ALL of the least, lesser, and greater mark abilities to your spells known. Nothing like a sorcerer with the ability to cast heal...

An example of an immediate action power that definately can be used as a response to an attack. Based on the way it's written, it implies that Immediate actions are quick enough to gain the benefits from the power before resolving an enemy's attack.

Sweeping Strike is nice, but it does rely on getting your foes adjacent to each other. Well, my first character for the campaign was a Warforged Warlock, but I eventually switched characters out because one of the players kept insisting it was broken. The guy plays a Warforged Juggernaut that...