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You know traps can always be tied to other things. Such as alarms. A trap goes off and triggers an alarm and just as the players are disengaging themselves from the trap the monster who set it shows up, or the NPCs who set it show up. Traps can be tied to other traps in complex or even...

To me I was never really impressed with Clerical Magic, precisely because it was nothing more than clerical magic. It was not to me what Clerical powers should be about, which were, Miracles and Wonder Workings, or as the Greeks would say, not sorcery or magic, but Thaumaturgy. I thought...

I think I agree with all of you who are speaking of the rarity of magical items. I didn't start this thread to speak about magical items per se, but I knew it would be addressed. Personally I think I would substitute very unusual and valuable, but not necessarily magical in any way,"treasure"...

I took a nap this afternoon and woke up wearing my cat on the top of my head like a Maine coonskin cap. Cats are funny creatures.

To me it should be preeminent and fundamental.

This is an idea, along with Monsters and Magic and Miracles that interests me greatly in fantasy games and in D&D. How should treasure be handled in 5th Edition? What should it consist of, what exactly is treasure, is it the same as money (sometimes, always), how should it be...

Some very good ideas so far. Back during the Iraq war some buddies of mine started noticing new graffiti all over the city walls. So they contacted me about it and I told em that terrorist cells and dissident groups and Saddam's old RG survivors were likely using it as means to...

Dang, I wish I could give out more XP.

I'll give you guys a good example from my point of view. The Palantir. an excellent example of fantasy psychaecs, for the exact reason that the use of it was misleading, it gave misinformation and disinformation, and the useage of it was really a test of wills. A specially modified television...

No green-haired, sabre-toothed silver daggered moon-beamed goblin Pony Express Courier Circuit Rider who only eats at Applebee's on the second Wednesday of every third month. I'm with you. I'll settle for Goblins that eat people. It's not what I want. It's what you wanna say or...

I think that at least in part, this is true. Game designers set general parameters, end users enliven that because RPGs are not passive enterprises, but active ones. Does even the DM need to know beforehand exactly how each spell will work every time? Not to me.

I'll let you guys define it as you wish and then work outwards from there. I'm trying to avoid telling you what to think, so then you can modify what I say, agree, or disagree with it. This is, in my opinion, then single greatest weakness of the Geek mindset. (I am not a Geek, and I'm not...

That's not what I thought you meant. But those are good points in their own rights. I thought that you had meant that with monsters death might not mean what it appears to mean, or that the death of a monster might inflict serious or bizarre dangers upon the killers (the adventurers or the...

Well, I remember Tolkien being extremely different in nature, style, and content from Asimov, or Niven. In a general cultural and literary sense. But I think you may have an interesting point in game terms. That may have been very true in game design.

That's what I mean. I don't think it could be done like it has already been done. Maybe, but I'm skeptical. When I use the term "again" I don't mean as in "once again emulating" (a past condition.) I'm skeptical that would work. It might. An awful lot would depend upon how the entire system of...

I like your ideas but could you expand on this one a little? I think I know where you're going, but let's see.

To me psionics in D&D has always, basically even from AD&D, operated more like a Science-Fiction system overlaying a fantasy milieu, than a natural part of the fantasy worlds of D&D. As if psionics were a mind and psychological science, rather than a mind and psychaec art, or even a spiritual...

I think in part, from what I've read in your thread. I'm talking though about redesigning the entire monster paradigm, how they operate and how they are presented. Personally I don't think you can make monsters scary and unpredictable and dangerous again if 5th Edition approaches monsters as...

Suppose you could make monsters new and fresh again in 5th Edition? Suppose you could make them truly dangerous and awful and awe-some (inspiring awe)? Suppose you could make monsters scary, creepy, vicious, a real threat... How would you go about it? What would you do, and why?

How would you make Magic "magical again" in 5th Edition? How would you make items magical again? Do you even think it can be done? If so, how? What are your ideas?