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Gestalting is a good way to make an otherwise underpowered NPC more of a challenge, IMHO. Personally I disagree that it should automatically be worth a CR increase, and I don't think it's unfair to treat NPCs differently than PCs, but I think this is a case where player expectations are very...

I think that the general concern is that non-prime (50% of your abilities if you're human, 66% otherwise...) or out-of-class checks are too hard to make. (And a 45% chance of failure can still be pretty bad if the CK is calling for a whole lot of checks.) 3.5 is set up to allow the players to...

I had a somewhat similar experience, but it simply encouraged me not to call for SIEGE checks. As SavageRobby said: "only have the characters make SIEGE rolls if the outcome is in doubt". Personally, I'd go one step further: only have the players roll if randomizing the outcome would make the...

If you are rolling on a Prime attribute then the opponent gets a +12; if you are rolling non-Prime it jumps up to +18. That's the Challenge Base. Everything else being equal (and it never really is, is it?) you would have a 45% or 15% chance of success. But the 12/18 base assumes that an average...

I don't feel as though I have "quite a bit of info on 4e". It's nice to have the compiled info appearing here on ENWorld, but even with that I really can't get a clear impression of what the game's going to be like. I can't tell if this is just WotC being closed-lipped, of if even the designers...

The SIEGE engine is designed around "opposed checks" too, although usually only the PC actually rolls the dice, vs. 12 or 18 + NPC level / dungeon level. If PCs and NPCs (and inanimate obstacles) where both getting +1/3 that might work, but it would slow down the progression quite a bit. While...

"Useful", check. "Not a work of great scholarship", you might wanna work on that one... :p Seriously, I'm just reading part 1 now, but thanx for both of them!

Tomb of Horrors is always fun. Might want to have a computer program on hand to mass-generate PCs, though... :p B2 is a personal fave.

I'll buy 4e and play it, but it's not an upgrade. 4e and 3.5 are just different games.

Nope, never played it.

It's not that it's any more "pointless", it's just that it's no longer (significantly) less pointless... Or at least that was the momentary thought that led me to think "Hey, if I'm not playing f2f I'm not as constrained as to which players I have access to. I could probably find some players...

I <3 1e Initiative. But then again we probably used a pretty watered-down version. IIRC: A) Check for surprise. 1) DM secretly rolls first-round initiative (d6s), lower is better. 2) Surprise round if initiative roll indicates same (generally a "1" or a "1 or 2" on either side; mutual...

Five minutes. ;) I have C&C. I'm not overly fond of it, actually. I'm not really keen on the Siege Engine, and I kind of figure if I'm going to try to play 1e AD&D, why not just play 1e AD&D? But you do have a good point, C&C + the stuff I like from 3.5 might be a way to go...

:cool: So, this is mostly tongue-in-cheek. Not entirely, but enough so that I thought putting it under "Humor" was appropriate... :p So I've been meaning to (and brainstorming on) getting an online (OpenRPG or MapTools) game going. Only now it almost seems kind of pointless to start up a 3.5...

Me, personally: 3.5 is "New D&D". It's what the people I want to game with play, it's what all the new books I might buy run on. 3.0 Used to be "New D&D", but now it's not anymore. When 4e hits (and that pretty much means when The Keep on the Shadowfell is in my greasy paws) it will be "New...

How many do I need to buy?

So, wait, does that mean that the stuff I will like in 4E will equal WoW??? :p

Picked it up today... Awesomeness... Can't post more, gotta go cuddle... er, read the damn thing!

This kind of seems to be overshadowed by some other stuff going around here at the moment, but I just wanted to say "Thanx!" I've only skimmed it so far but it looks really, really cool (and it kind of kills two birds with one stone for me at the moment).

One word: Guilds. Seriously, if I run a pick-up game and the players are good I'm going to at least jot down their names and give them first shot at any other games I run. If possible I'll invite them into a regular campaign. And I hope that the players will be doing the same thing from their...