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Realistically, KarinsDad is right. But movies often have the main characters pull out a useful tidbit not only about R.O.U.S.'s but even about fencing styles. So having the knowledge is certainly cinematic. And the main issue for me, as a player, is not the encyclopedic knowledge or realistic...

As Obryn said, in play, the amount of healing you get from the surges is pretty good. After all, each surge is a quarter of your hit points, and if you have a leader in the party, you can add some to that. Surges, action points, and daily powers are designed to be the resources that a player...

I really like what you wrote (can't xp), but am still quite unclear about what you are suggesting. Would you care to elaborate, perhaps adding an example or two?

I would also recommend one of the D&D boardgames for your purposes (can't xp Quickleaf). That's not to say that what you propose won't work, it just seems like more work for a similar amount of fun.

Mirroring the penalties, there is a reward issue. I've always found that one of the more exhilarating moments of play is when a player manages to have an impact on the adventure in an unforeseen manner. While the DM and adventure author's jobs are to put obstacles in front of the PCs, the PCs...

One of the main things that is coming into focus is the need to determine some kind of scaling penalty appropriate for for failure. Skimming through the thread, several have been proposed. Death - extreme, but appropriate as a determination of ultimate failure. Delay - only a penalty if time is...

Do you have any screenshots of more complicated characters? Like an epic-level one, for example?

When figuring price, this is only part of the equation. Finding a buyer willing to pay full price for a magic item is the other part. And getting there is a lot of work, the work of merchants, who deserve part of the sale price as their profit. After all, in most settings it matters little...

I agree that monster knowledge checks are poorly implemented. Better known monsters (such as orcs and dragons) should be simply better known, and even common peasants should know that dragons have breath weapons. Perhaps monsters should be divided up into three categories (well-known, known...

I have to agree with what others have posted, for the most part. 1e - DMG 2e - MM 3e - not sure. The book of nine swords (or whatever it was called) was a historically important book, but I'm not sure it's fun to read. I'd probably take the FR suggestion to heart: I know a few people who love...

As pemerton notes, I think this is a case of table expectations, and I think my group was in a similar mental place. Just about. Several party members had failed three death saves: we (the players) wanted to keep things going because one of us managed to roll above 19 on their death save, get...

I often find myself faced with the "must spread xp around" dialogue box for your posts as well, pemerton. It's somewhat flattering to read this from you. :blush:

Thanks for the extra examples! Precisely what happened in one of my games. I was a player, and we managed to sniff out where one of the bad bosses lived, and walked in for a "fair fight." I don't want to go into details because (a) I don't want to put the DM on trial here and (b) we, the...

I keep wishing I did. One of my paragon games is getting up there.

I agree that their defenses are very high, and the powers you name are indeed excellent, but no match for the multimarking stickyness of Come and Get It or even Grasping Winds. Defendering is mostly about keeping enemies in a position to only attack the defender. Swordmages aren't that great at...

I find the distinction between in-character knowledge and out-of-character knowledge often misleading. My 10th level fighter knows things about fighting that I never will, and saying that an enemy has AC 23 is an excellent way for the player to approximate the knowledge of the character. I agree...

It may well be, even though I often question how carefully these kinds of purposes are studied. On one hand, swordmages have a renewable marking power baked in to the class, so it's not, strictly speaking, necessary to allow it extra marks. On the other hand, they compete with battleminds for...

The issue arises because the Warden's mark and the Fighter's mark are both optional. But that fact is rooted in the language of their marking powers, while the language in Swordmage's Decree seems to say that all targets are marked with the Aegis, end of story. I think you have it right, and I...

In that case, same question with respect to encounter level: how do players distinquish between encounter level +3 and encounter level +5, for example?

This leads me to the following question: how do I, as a player, tell the (semi-frequent) level+3 enemy from the (very rare) level+5 enemy?