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What I find interesting is that the paladin got hurt bad enough that he was out-of-action for several weeks. A roleplay thing? Maybe. It does suggest that healing is a little tougher to come by.

As DM, I like to make my players squirm. Oddy enough, the more I put the boots to 'em, the more likely they are to come out alive. PCs only die when I put the gloves back on.

Hrm. Rather than something go up from all three categories, I would prefer Talent Trees. Advance a level? Pick a talent. Most talents are class related, some may be avalable due to your race or theme. Advance another level? Pick a bonus feat. And so on. Works for the "hot swaping" Wizards has...

The problem of not having a cap is you get one Kullan Longbeard (3e) - Con 27 or 28 at level 16, barbarian with lucky HP rolls with nothing less than a 10 each level (nope, no cheating involved - we watched). Other players had to munchkin/power build just to keep up. The DM considered even...

One thing that has come to the forefront this past weekend is the return of Rule Zero. In fact, it seems that 5e will handle rule zero completely opposite of how 4e handled it. 3e had rule zero in the DMG. 4e (at least to start with) seemed to push rule zero under a rug as part of their DM...

It can be a problem when you need to make a large-sized PC race under Pathfinder/3e.

This seems like unnecessary complication, contrary to the point of D&D Next. Leveling both race, class, and theme? Silly. I could see a reduction to feat trees, with either race, class, or theme as qualifiers. Each level gets a feat, maybe a class feat, as a "bonus" feat. Normal feats can be...

There seems to be something that was overlooked in this thread: themes appear to be primarally non-combat related in the transcript. Class effects your main role and combat (Proficiencies, BAB, etc), Themes effect non-combat (skills, rituals, etc), and Race effects both (Core Stats, racial...

Of sorts. The Cavalier handles the theme quite well, and many Pathfinder players like it a lot better.

The only issue I have with people who have very selective "my way or the highway" dealbreakers is that it contributes to "Comic Book Guy" syndrome (well, only issue beyond them confusing me). Edition Wars make us look bad to non-players, which then makes it harder to recruit people and for...

5e influences my campaign world by encouraging that I make as much of it as possible system independent. If I have to create new rules for specific systems, then I will - but I want to keep a lot of it to a minimum.

Hey, I love those monster tokens from Essentials. I'm hoping WotC starts pairing monster tokens with dungeon tiles.

Finished products will start showing up in 2014, as part of the whole anniversery thing. With the rules still in flux, there still needs to be time - not only for playtesting, but for typesetting, art, printing, and shipping. Maybe Gencon 2013 will have an early "Christmas gift," but my bet is 2014.

Shout powers! Shout powers are fun and flavorful - if flavored right. Seems that the issue with the warlord is that shouts are flavored as non-magical but mechanically work as magic. Unfortunatly, this has probably turned many folkel off of any type of specialised shout-based spell casting, even...

I like the soft cap on healing per day. I think the issue many folk have is a "second wind" or a non-magical use of a healing surge.

Depends on what archetype you're following, I guess. Cavaliers cover the most common: Knight in Shining Armor on a war-trained mount, with a code of conduct. They are proficient in all martial weapons, which includes range weapons such as the longbow. Code of conduct per order is a pretty big...

I do like how Dragon Age subverted the trope of Tolkien-esq elven culture, but both Dragon Age I and II's art direction was heavily similar to a lot of 4e art (for good or for ill, depending on your POV). One aspect in my own campaign setting with elves is that there are a number of...

Well, except psionics, but I suspect Paizo will have psionics be class archetypes instead of outright new classes (if they ever do psionics). The more I've though about it, I have no problem with 5e having core rules in the first 20-30 pages, and the rest of the book being Unearthed Arcana...

Besides, there's that 1e AD&D Collectors Box being release. Go buy it - if it sells very well, WotC may reissue <insert favorite edition here> as collector's editions.

Glendric "Elfsblood" Tes'theroth, paladin and high inquisitor of the Holy Roman Church, is quite fluent in the language. Then again, his ancestors came to dystopian post-apochalyptic Earth from a version of Faerun over-run with a type of divine-immune zombie plague. Gnomes were to blame.