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You're overstating this. The maneuver is kind of a cliche, so writers in more recent years (decades) have tended to subvert it. But it also works fairly frequently. Additionally, it is frequently a tactic of protagonists, who naturally suffer a much lower sniper death rate.

Right, it's a butt-standard action movie stunt. 95% of the time I am on the DM fiat side of these discussions, but using unique powers this way, when there's not some obvious anatomical or magical mechanism involved ("wrist muscles." come on), is just a recipe for strife at the table. Of...

The rule on Disguise is, of course, an epic skill use, as the thick coating of fail plastered over it should clearly denote. Epic rogues walk among us.

The problem with the human shield business is that you have to go to these kinds of lengths to justify it as bugbear-strangler-only, whereas, for example, if the human shield was something that a slimy abberation-type monster employed by gluing its opponent to its body with an attack, then it's...

The main thing I'd want to do in a "3.75" is chop up the monster generation rules so it's easier to build quick-and-dirty monsters 4e style without building them level by level, hit die by hit die, feat by feat; but I'd actually want to see the final 4e implementation of this before trying to...

Yeah that would be my beef. :) That and they don't roll.

I'm not really that thrilled with the new races in 4e: I'm not gonna use dragonborn, I'm not sure I'll be able to make tieflings alien and scary like the heirs of a fallen tainted evil empire ought to be, and I'm kind of suspicious of eladrin, which haven't really been discussed much besides the...

Nononono, use the d12 to replace the accursed, horrible, wretched abomination that is the – I can barely speak its name – the * ugh * d4.

Personally I think the playing-rules-blind and the co-DMing approaches have very different virtues and it's a good idea for people to try both if they can. That said, I tend to, by default, believe that the players have read the DMG and Monster Manuals, but it's usually gauche if they whip 'em...

If you ask me, ooze concepts haven't been really creatively exploited much since 1st edition... the game could use some new ones, especially at the starting levels. I am so jealous of the gelatinous cube familiar.

I tend to imagine they're making fights longer, in terms of rounds played, and not so much the 2-or-3-round all-out lethality-fests that 3E's known for. So, less damage, a little more like mid-high level fights in earlier editions that way. That's fine with me.

That is really encouraging actually. I'd certainly be happy with a few good sidebars for changing the flavor of the game if I wanted.

Brap. I was also hoping for a flat limit on the number of equippable magic items. Five would have been fine. Then just use common sense to deal with the "slot" business, and maybe split it up into 2 major/ 3 minor. I bear +1 swords and magic-rings-that-only-the-powerful-can-unlock no particular...

Why does this always come up in these discussions? It's the easiest thing to work around: "Oh dear. My PCs have no magic weapons, and they've come up against something that requires a +1 or better weapon to hit. Whatever shall I do? I know! Perhaps I will simply ignore that requirement. Yay...

Upon further consideration the viewing of udder-endowed dragons can wait for many, many age categories. And keep your 2 Dragonborn 1 Cup video entertainments to your own hard drives pls thx v. much. :\

Can't wait to see an adult red with a rack of udders on the next book cover they show us!

That thing is pretty ridiculous. They don't even have tails?

Eh, but there's endless varieties of big creatures in D&D worlds and presumably much much less accessible documentation... it all depends on rarity, really, and that's why I agree that DC 10+HD is a stupid, stupid, stupid abstraction. I would lean towards providing some sort of contextual...

But unless you actually have a world-spanning campaign setting that point is neither here nor there – it's fairly difficult in a campaign to span an area much larger than Europe anyway, except for Jaunts To Exotic Foreign Lands some of which may have Mystical Technology which can just underscore...