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I think the difference of opinions regarding the Online CB is a result of the fact that many people simply don't experience any of the problems many other people are complaining about. To those of us (myself included) who aren't experiencing difficulties with the Online CB, it's a perfectly...

It is time-consuming. And while I agree that he's not explicitly going for a re-roll as he still has to roll that lucky die and it still come up with a 1, it's slowing the game down, and the other players at the table don't particularly enjoy it. In my own gaming, I often have multiple sets of...

Yeah, I haven't see the problem you've described even once, Dannyalcatraz. In fact, I've been *really* happy with the CB, and I'm what I'd call a heavy user - I'm constantly building PCs, exporting them, importing PCs from other people in my group who are even less of an optimizer than I am...

8. I didn't have any freaking clue. I was guessing randomly from the first question for the most part.

I don't doubt that the Beowulf build is more optimal...but I'm not trying to CharOp this guy into the ground. I've gone for a theme (nasty street brawler). And you're right on the defenses...I just did the math and I'm coming up 1 short. I think we've found a bug with the Online CB. >_>

Frankly, I'm sure they do just that. I'm 100% positive they sit back and go, "Cripes. It's a game. Get over yourselves, people." Personally, I never got the edition rancor. I DM'd 2e until well into the life cycle of 3.5. I upgraded to 4e. I still run a 3.5 game, I run a 4e game, and I...

I looked that handbook over, and from what I can tell, I've got higher defenses on my guy at level 12 and higher damage output, at the expense of a bit of stickiness. Which I'm cool with, since I'm one of two defenders. Even so, with my Fort at 34, and the Inescapable Hold feat, my grabs are...

I've been tasked with coming up with the second defender for our groups upcoming attempt to resume the Scales of War AP. We wiped on the fight with Sarshan in our last run through the AP, and we're picking up with a second party sent out to figure out what happened to our old PCs and pick up...

It's killing me that I cannot remember where I read this, but it was a blog by a former D&D dev who discussed breaking up the "encounter" into multiple rooms on a dungeon floor - similar to what the OP is proposing. Basically, the standard encounter's worth of XP monsters would be distributed...

Amen. As someone who's been there himself, and the brother of someone who struggles to not be there nearly constantly, just get some damned help. It's not a sign of weakness or something to be embarrassed about that you feel the way you do, and it's sure not a sign of weakness or embarrassing...

I said that I "try to be the character" but honestly, it depends on the character and the group I'm playing with. The group I actually get to play with doesn't roleplay D&D much. It's much more of a cooperative exercise in getting through the next encounter while paying lip service to actually...

There are some cool ideas in that there wall o' text, but color me just a biiiiiiiiit skeptical.

Dave's Mapper Just found this today, linked to on another site (completely not-RPG-related, strangely enough) I regularly check. It's a tile-based random mapper for dungeons and cities, with villages coming soon. It's a pretty slick tool, letting you choose elements from a number of different...

I run/play in 3 groups. 2 of them play monthly. One on one Friday a month from 7 pm to midnight. This group contains a number of married guys, 3 of them with kids. That Friday is their "night out" and they relish it, but that one Friday is all their schedules will allow. The other monthly...

I adapted The Tragedy of Macbeth wholesale into an adventure back in 2e. I had just read the play for my AP English course, and knew my friends had never read it or seen it performed. So, I created a super high level bard name William who trapped the PCs in an elaborate illusion, allowing them...

The current thread asking about what the greatest published modules you've ever run was got me wondering - do most DMs/GMs here use pre-published adventures? Maybe it was just me, but being a kid without a lot of expendable income when I was younger, I couldn't afford to buy modules. Heck, I...

"Well, if you must know; for your information, no, it is not an 'outie.' It's a third nipple, thank-you-very-much."

Until you save. I'd see it working where the Spellthief steals a power, and gains +xdy damage dice until the target of the the stolen power saves. They'd also have powers allowing them to negate creatures recharging powers, if I were designing the class.

I totally get this ruling. I'm sure it's even the RAW interpretation, but personally, I like the idea of the creature going berserk, and ripping into the PC twice before anyone even knows what happened. I always roll all the attacks at once for multiple attack powers on monsters. And then...

Well, it can only be a good thing if the guy in charge of communicating with the online D&D community-at-large is able to spend a greater amount of time doing exactly that. Maybe that'll translate to WotC actually saying what they mean, instead of what they'd like us to hear. Plus...