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Only fifty? Alright, here's my list: Ankheg Balor Basilisk Beholder Bulette Chimera Cornugon Death knight Doppelganger Drider Drow Ettin Fire giant Frost giant Gargoyle Giant spider Hill giant Hydra Gelatinous cube Ghoul Githyanki Goblin Imp Iron golem Lich Lizardfolk Kobold Kyton Manticore...

"You must spread some experience..." etc. My view exactly.

I did not make assumptions. What I wrote is how things work in my campaigns, as well as many other campaigns I've participated in. For your own campaign, you will certainly have to create your own assumptions. There is no one true answer to this question in D&D. Or, rather, there is, but the...

Gah! Pitons, I say, pitons! XD

Just like IRL: if time is of the essence, and you don't have the skills needed to make it in time, you either buy more time or you lose. That creates more dramatic tension than making all party members good at something. Mind you, from a dramatic standpoint, losing is not all that bad. It can...

Some sort of automated skill improvement ("learn by doing") should be built into the system. Say... everyone becomes a Novice in every skill (he is not already trained in) at 10th level and a Journeyman at 20th level. Spend one or more action points to improve your ranking for one task. The...

IMO, the "ranking" skill system should work without any DCs whatsoever. If your players want to ride dragons without any training, and you want them to succeed, you can reduce the difficulty on the fly: perhaps the dragons are really well trained? Or the players can find special dragon...

FWIW, I think the talk about separating actions from skills was in part talking about how a rulebook should be organized. If I want to check the rules for Climbing, I shouldn't have to know that Climbing is under the Climb skill, or under Athletics skill, or under Cliffhopper feat. There should...

I'd actually allow the player to improve several skills (number of skills improved depends on the total number of skills in the system) every odd level. That creates nice granularity and ensures we don't have grandmasters before 9th level or so.

Last week, I commented on the Climb skill example and noted that it was "horrible design" (perhaps a tad harsher than I should have, but I stand by that opinion). This week, I have to say that I believe this new approach by Monte and Mike has the potential to become one of the most elegant...

That's my understanding as well. Mind you, I sort of began glazing over after the first half of the "interview."

I don't have a problem with WotC designers feeling that the Great Wheel was inadequate for whatever reasons and deciding to tear the whole thing down for 4E. It doesn't affect my campaigns in any way, and the settings I use are either long out of print or they already went through a cosmology...

Please do not attempt to pass your personal opinion as a universal truth. And yes, I am well aware of what they were doing. Incidentally, from internal sources @WotC, Planescape is considered to be the second greatest asset for D&D after Forgotten Realms when it comes to campaign settings.

There is absolutely no way that Noonan and Wyatt didn't know what Bytopia was. Wyatt is credited as a designer in the 3E Manual of the Planes, and Noonan was its designer and editor. There are several terms in the English language for that type of behavior, but I don't want to offend Eric's...

My grappling rules: Grab: Standard action, Brawl + Str or Dex (Reflex negates); sustaining a grapple is a Simple action Crush: Standard action, Brawl + Str (Might 1/2 damage); crush deals unarmed damage plus Str x 1.5; opponent remains grappled Pin a grappled opponent: Standard action, Brawl...

Because if Red Knight didn't have the ability to create miracles, she wouldn't be much of a deity. It's the scope of those miracles that differs.

IMC, only greater deities have enough divine power for feats of that magnitude, and doing something like that expends so much power that it leaves the deity vulnerable. By 3.0 RAW, all it takes is a relatively low-level Epic spell:

Granting all priests an equal number of spells is not the same thing as having the same power level. It doesn't break verisimilitude in the least, because lesser deities have smaller churches, fewer worshipers, more narrow portfolios, and smaller divine domains. Let's do the math. Greater...

Sure it does. Even the lowliest of deities is considerably more powerful than the overwhelming majority of mortals. If you say that a lesser god cannot grant "miracles" to his clerics (and bear in mind that any given god will have only a handful of clerics capable of such feats), then you are...

As I said, if your campaign takes into account inter-deific politics, power levels are meaningful - they show you which gods are in charge, which gods are up and coming, and which gods are likely to try and amass more power in order to raise on the divine ranking ladder. If not, sure, it's all...