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Let's say we return to the old method of challenge calculation: party level vs monster level. For an orc to be a threat to a 1st level party of 4 characters, said orc needs to be a level 4 creature. That sounds about right (and fairly scary, particularly if a lone party member comes across a...

Monsters have entirely too many hit points, and this encourages players to find ways to deal more damage instead of trying out cool new options. This in turn encourages the design of monsters with even more hit points, which means that players want to deal even more damage... it's a hit...

From my experience, a properly built TWF rogue can outdamage just about any other class. Sorry, forgot to mention it's a house rule. Anyways, the primary reasons I had in removing iterative attacks are (1) increasing the speed of play and (2) increasing battlefield maneuvrability. I...

The actual damage increase needs to be playtested, of course. I did reduce the casters' power in my games by reducing their effective casting level by 1/2.

IMC, Many fighter maneuvers still have partial effects even on a miss. Not necessarily damage, but stuff like "if you miss the opponent, you gain a +2 non-cumulative bonus against that opponent until the end of the encounter." Haste adds an additional Move action. Some fighter maneuvers can be...

Full attack action needs to die. It eats up time and prohibits movement on the battlefield. Adding additional damage is a very good solution. TWF as a concept is horrifyingly complicated and broken for classes like the rogue. TWF needs to be severely nerfed. Skirmish requires movement, so it...

The latest deluxe Hacklopedia is what it should look like.

Kits offered far less customization than 3.x rules. Usually, they modified your weapon/nonweapon proficiencies slightly and gave you a +1 bonus to this or that along with a similarly scaled penalty. It got a bit wonky as 2nd edition progressed, particularly with the Complete Book of Elves and...

Whatever this is, I just preordered it. Hopefully, this will be an edition-neutral book full of fluffy goodness.

Wish cannot replicate True Resurrection.

Dunno, she was level-drained into oblivion, and then wights munched on her. RC stood there long enough to ensure that there weren't going to be any shenanigans. I think she's gone for good.

Finally. She was getting on my nerves.

I'm not implying that Blizzard as a whole is suffering from mismanagement, just this particular project.

As a long-time coder, software designer, and (now) project manager, I can only say that this is gross mismanagement at hand. Coders are not to blame, and Diablo is not exactly the hardest game in the world to program.

Anecdotally, I had the PCs pull the "20 minute adventuring day" (on a somewhat bigger time scale) while in Waterdeep. They came to the city in order to go into Undermountain, locate the Manshoon clone dwelling within, and stop him from creating an army of monsters and unleashing it upon the...

More puzzling is why we haven't seen Hasbro publish a good Transformers or GI Joe RPG... since those two brands are all about cross-product licensing.

The 20-minute adventuring day only exists if the player characters operate in a vacuum. If the world around them changes and responds to their tactics, then they'll soon learn that it's often much better not to give the enemies another day to prepare. And yes, the enemies also have powerful...

Russ, you were doing so well until you mentioned how great Dragonlance was. After that, I knew this was an elaborate troll.

Let's name some things (regardless of edition) that managed to gain traction. Monsters, spells, magic items, classes, optional rules... you name it. I'll start: Githzerai and githyanki - two sides of the same coin, with an elaborate backstory, common enemies, cool appearance, and enough...