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At least in regards to my play experience, you're very wrong.

I played a session last night with three players physically present (along with me running the game) and one player on Skype (my brother, who lives across the country). I've done this kind of thing before, too. I just usually have the camera pointed at me, but I'll move it to the other PCs when...

I'm really not impressed with the mechanics of how these feats let you specialize. They're all fairly weak or uninteresting from where I'm standing. Which is too bad, because I think all of them could be tweaked to be a lot more fun or interesting (and more mechanically sound).

I really, really hope the other feats are more exciting than these feats. With how rare they are, I'm really not impressed by these three.

As someone who has written three books, I completely agree with this. When you put you hard work, your creativity, your soul on paper, and someone maliciously destroys it, yeah. I'm more than willing to admit that I'm thin-skinned enough to feel a little upset by it. It's bad enough when...

Just a note on this one: this setup was one of the most memorable arcs for my long-running D&D campaign, and it was awesome. (I'll post the story if anyone is interested in it.)

I prefer to choose what is best for the character. However, if the math doesn't support that, I notice. And usually during CharGen, but almost certainly during play. So, if my goal is to make a fairly effective character in an area, and the character ends up being ineffective, I now have a...

As someone who created my own RPG (that's point-buy and not class-based), I gotta disagree. But the class restriction applies to all versions of D&D. My brother asked me to build a character for his 3.5 game recently, and it took me days and days to feel anything resembling inspired (and I ran...

I thought the same thing at first, but then I double checked the poll wording. Since I was explicitly asked about my views on Basic, and not 5e as a whole, I judged it based on what was missing: feats, lots of basic options (many subclasses, backgrounds, etc.), lack of classes outside the basic...

The things you're saying in this thread? I agree with them. (Can't XP yet.)

Maybe it's cynical, but I have a very "heard it all before" feel from this article. Same old arguments, of which others will have the same old disagreements. Eh. Nothing new here that I saw. Well, this part makes me want this guy to not be hired again. And I'm far from a big fan of 4e.

Yeah, I'm always the one running the game, and I have never had a problem saying "not in my campaign" or "we're going with this, even if it's not in the rulebook." At the same time, when creating my own RPG, I wanted the mechanics very clearly defined, so that when players made decisions, it...

I voted "Worse" because I think it's a step back, overall. While non-combat options like backgrounds are definitely a step forward (even if they're pretty weak), the huge step away from defined mechanics and "rulings, not rules" is a massive step back from what I want in a fantasy game. Of...

Spellbook? That doesn't matter to a lot of people ("don't touch the Wizard's spellbook"), but it would matter for a lot of groups, I imagine.

It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.

I have no horse in this race (I don't play 3.X anymore, but I did for years), but I don't think that Heal counts as a Cure spell, does it? I never let the Cleric of Pelor use it that way in my long-running 3.5 game, and I'm kinda curious if I was screwing up for years.

I am totally and completely okay with the news talking about humans being good to other humans. Because that's much more what my life is about. Yes, I'm interested in reading politics, philosophy, economics, and (to a lesser degree) science. But I'm very interested in how people can be good to...

"Ick."

You were talking about yourself, right? Because nobody is that unaware.

These threads just get amusing once the usual suspects get involved. There's a reason I post infrequently in these kinds of threads these days. Sorry, pemerton, but I knew this would happen. Of course, you probably did, too. And maybe that's the point. But these discussions have gone from...