Search results

Is this really in dispute? Make no mistake, I pretty much 110% agree with what you have to say here, but I literally have difficulty imagining people not holding this to be pretty much true. (Of course, people never fail to surprise, and I haven't had my coffee yet, so the imagination might...

Hm. That might have been where I saw that (and re-reading it, I still kind of get the vibe that he's saying there's going to be the both of them) but it suits me just fine if that's not the case, as I'm not a fan of the subrace nonsense. Ideally, if any race has to be doubled up, it should be...

Interesting, though it's been established (I can't recall quite where) that the pregens include two elves for some reason (Wood and High). My suspicion is that the wood elf will be the secondary cleric, as an example has been trotted about in the L&L column at least once about a bow using cleric.

Interesting compromise between 4e style healing surges and those who don't like those. I'll have to see how this scales in actual play of course, but - thanks largely to a specific, non-jargon definition of what each 'stage' represents - I like it. At this point however, the spectacle that is...

Only once. 1st edition AD&D, party of 3 or 4 high level (12 -14) PCs and maybe ten experienced retainers between them - biting off more than they could chew. In the Hells. Yeah, their choice to wait until the natives reinforced to twice or maybe three times their original number of middling...

Okay, full disclosure, I tend to run (regardless of edition) narrative combat. I don't break out a grid unless there's a BIG fight. Having said that, I don't think I realized just how much rules obstruction there really was. Overall, I think it comes down to two things really. 1. Tactics...

I'm curious, is this a fourth edition problem? Because I'm not aware of such an issue in other rule sets (and speak from having run all of them save 4 and 3.5, though I've played enough 3.5 to not recognize this). Not trying to derail, I am just baffled at the existence of such a thing...

The 'fracturing of the fanbase' may be bad for Wizards but I'm not sure it was bad for the fans, nor for D&D. A lot of people seem to conflate the state of the hobby with the state of the industry. They're two totally separate things. For my part, I don't need another edition of D&D. I've...

I can't speak to the first example, as I've no idea who that is, but I'll agree on Paks. Though it has always seemed to me that Paks was designed to be a D&D Paladin, at least in terms of inspiration. In any case, no, I don't think we need two classes made of "holy warriors" - but if we do...

Unfortunately, it is my experience that the vast majority of players simply refuse to run, and become intractable when such is even suggested. Not just in D&D but in near any RPG. This baffles me. Generally speaking, as long as the game is being run fairly, I don't see a particular need to...

Yes but a case could be made (and has been over the years) that in worlds which follow most default assumptions of D&D over the years, the paladin "knows" that a lawful good person will go to a lawful good plane after death - or at least, that the deceased will be rewarded with an afterlife in...

Hopefully rituals will be included in the playtest further down the line. Do we know yet if they will be core or optional? If the latter they may well not be in the playtest. Personally, I'm hoping for rituals to be extended casting magic available to anyone (subject to GM or campaign...

As long as they get freelancers to write the adventures, I should be happy. The laundry list of baaaaaaaad in house WotC era adventures is - and has been - enough to prevent me from even looking at them, regardless of edition. (Yes, there have been exceptions, but they have been for the most...

Subraces. Blech. For a while there it really looked as though they weren't going to go back to hard coding culture into race but I suppose that was merely wishful thinking. So many of the early espoused good ideas that got me interested in 5e seem to have gone to the wayside. Ah well, in...

It's been a while, but my last few gaming purchases (all from last year) were a mixed bag - Mutant Future, Dark Dungeons, Hyperborean Mice, Timemaster, the Anomalous Subsurface Environment, Tomb of the Iron God, and Sword & Wizardry complete (which has gotten the most mileage by far). Oh, and I...

It looks more to be targeting the 2e/early 3.0 crowd.

From a consumer standpoint, D&D only 'fails' if it fails to get me (or any other person) to buy it. If it followed the model you suggest, it would not be receiving my dollar. So that would be, microcosmicly, a failure.

You mean a paladin? Paladins are apparently going to retain being spellcasters who can turn undead in full armor. The only difference between the two is that the paladin emphasizes the martial over the spellcasting and undead turning while the cleric flips that around. Sure, they are...

Still don't see why we need both traditional paladins and trad clerics.

Probably because Tolkien didn't invent the concept of elves, while halflings were invented by him, whole cloth, for Middle Earth. (Rather like orcs, though I've never encountered anyone mentioning "Tolkien Orcs.")