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I beg to differ. Every published version of Ravenloft has had special setting rules to enforce the quirks of the setting, whether they be changes to the Turn Undead rules or the restrictions on Plane Shift and Gate to prevent characters from leaving. In the absence of a published 5e Ravenloft...

Wasn't this a Ravenloft game? The same Ravenloft that in prior editions had setting rules that weakened Turn Undead and many divine spells for Clerics and Paladins, and then hit Paladins with the nerf hammer of doom by weakening their Detect Evil, disease immunity, fear immunity, had their...

I'm running a Monster Hunter International campaign for my group and unfortunately the well is starting to run dry for minor plot hooks. I've got a couple larger plots brewing, but I'm trying to go for a series of episodic smaller plots that the group can focus on while the larger plots slowly...

I've never seen the show Terra Nova, and actually hadn't even heard of it until this thread got me confused. Terra Nova is also the name of the world from Dream Pod 9's Heavy Gear RPG. What I'm seeing about the show looks like it could make a good game setting, you'll just want to be careful...

I've looked through the PHB and both of the Basic Rules documents, and the only things I can find about awarding experience are a comment in the DM Basic about how the experience multiplier for the number of creatures in an encounter is only used for determining the difficulty of the encounter...

I've looked all over the WotC D&D site, where is the link to the 3.5 archives?

I generally prefer shorter campaigns because I don't have a tremendous amount of time for gaming, but I like to play a large variety of different genres and rules sets. The rest of my group seems to prefer longer campaigns though. Our face-to-face 4e game has been running since 4e launched...

Not sure if it helps, but I pulled the error message out of IE8. HTML Parsing Error: Unable to modify the parent container element before the child element is closed (KB927917). 331653-cant-load-website-ie-2.html Line:0 Code:0 Char:0 Error is consistent between browser modes IE8, IE8...

My problem with it isn't that they are weak, it is that they are powerful but fragile. Starting 5e characters are glass cannons. 5e primarily uses the "survivability" dial to lower the power level of a starting character; I would have rather seen a more even combination of the "survivability"...

My group has used rolled stats in 3.x and earlier, but after the roll we normally allow either swapping two of the stats, or if we are going for higher power swapping two and rerolling one. That way if you are going for a particular character type, you have a decent chance of being able to swap...

One thing I haven't seen mentioned is that a 25% swing in the chance of success is not the same as a 25% swing in effectiveness. Assume a situation where a PC with a +2 stat hits on 11+, that would be a 50% chance of success. The +4 stat would be a 9+ (60%), the -1 would be a 14+ (35%). The...

If this was a case of John Doe writing JDRPG in their spare time I would agree with you 100%, but because this D&D I have to respectfully disagree. As soon as they announced that they were working on a new edition, the clock started ticking. There is going to be a certain portion of the customer...

Not all software development is code to spec, a lot of what I've been involved in is more of a case of a group of users having a problem they need help solving or an idea they need help implementing, and it is a very iterative approach with lots of proof of concept work and testing out different...

Perhaps with what they were working on while the play testers were testing? I'm sure the WoTC devs weren't sitting idle during the playtest, they could have us test the next batch of features they were working on, and integrate the 1st round playtest feedback into the 3rd round. Ideally...

I think this is going to depend a lot on what other races get, +1 to all stats, plus an additional +1 may be overpowered or not by comparison. If all humans are getting are the stat bumps while dwarves get something like a weapon damage die bump, a hit die bump, lowlight vision, immunity to...

Why is this a problem for a fighter, but not for a wizard? The wizard can do automatic damage at 100' range, and on average more than the slayer's 3 points in melee or piddly 1 point at range. -A wizard, at first level can autokill any commoner he dislike from 100 feet away, and can do it...

Disintegrate is also a daily wizard attack that requires a successful attack against Reflex, and does damage plus ongoing damage even on a miss, with a target getting a save to end the ongoing damage. Some fireballs do require an attack roll against reflex and do damage on a miss. I haven't...

I know I've said it before, and I've see several other people mention it, but none of the pregen speaks any of the languages spoken by any of the monsters. Comprehend Languages might let you understand what they are saying, but the party has no way of actually asking any questions. That will...

I wouldn't say we decided to storm the beaches of Normandy, the situation was much more akin to the DM saying "you are in an otherwise empty fluorescent orange rowboat 500 yards from the beaches of Normandy. There is only the 5 of you, you have no support, there are no other boats. Your boat...

There was no door to close, there was no table available to overturn, as described by the GM it was a bare hallway with no cover and we never got far enough in for anything else except a pit trap.The only place with enough of a chokepoint to create a trap like that was in sight of the kobold...