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Why do I not think that's good enough? Because I just don't like it. If that answer isn't satisfactory in this discussion, why should it be in another?

That is the point. And if you, as a DM, had a character arrested for dropping litter on the ground, you might want to consider later what you could have done differently. I'm not assigning blame to the DM here; I'm saying that all of us (players and DMs) need to be able to look back at sessions...

Sure. As I said, I can't speak to this specific player's temperament; I can only speak in gross generalizations and hypotheticals. If a player wants to be a jerk just to be a jerk, there's not a lot of advice that can fix that. But the guard came as a response to the roof. I'm not saying that's...

All of this is good advice, but I do want to interject a hypothetical into the discussion. It's possible for us, as DMs, to get a little rigid in the way we think about our own worlds (again, I'm not saying this is the case here, just that I think it's common). If a player wants to hack a hole...

WotC should be sure to only publish material that fits the expectations of your game, then. But really, I don't care whether or not you like the race. Neither you nor your players ever need to play one. What bothers me is that Klaus posted here to share two races that HE wrote and your...

First, congratulations to Klaus. You should be proud to say you wrote those races. I'll wait and criticize them after they actually see print. Until then, you da man! If -1 healing surge were really such a big deal, everyone would take Durable. Everyone does not take durable; in fact, very few...

I agree with this to a point, but I still think a newbie DM has a better chance to build a good 4E encounter than in older editions. Old school encounters could easily be totally short-circuited by a timely sleep, web, or even fireball. Even if you do have some 4E combats with front-loaded...

I think I understand the issue a little better now after your explanation. I have seen times in fights where 1-2 stubborn bad guys just refused to die and really had no reasonable expectation to actually hurt the party. In those situations we typically just handwave the end of the fight (it's a...

Here's what I don't get about the thread: the "problem" of alpha striking parties that is "inherent" in the system seems to hint that the parties who do this take only encounters and dailies that do a lot of damage. What about all the powers that push, pull, slide or otherwise affect the...

I would very much be interested in seeing this developed into the newest child pop-psychology website. We could link it to my own planned site for building moral character in adolescents: cryingandmowingthelawn dot com.

Personally, I would suggest the Inspiring Warlord or Valorous Bard. While it's true that a cleric might flat-out out heal a bard or warlord, the cleric pays for that with a lot less versatility (imo). I have played both ranged and melee clerics, and while they can be a lot of fun, eventually I...

I'm no shrink, but I feel comfortable saying that the kind of negativity we've been seeing on these boards lately can't be healthy. Especially since it has lost all sense of perspective. You'd think WotC had been out bombing our ancestral villages or kicking random puppies. They are not worse...

Thanks to Pbartender, AbdulAlhazred, and DracoSuave for giving me a new (and useful) way to think about traps in the game. I have to admit that my thinking to this point has been pretty old-school: either you find the trap and disable it or you don't and it chews you up. Of course, I've also...

Yes. Words like "deep betrayal" and the example you used above clearly indicate a pure, emotionless reaction. I stand corrected.

1) A bag over the wizard's head will take care of many of your worries. He'll be effectively blind and, you could rule he won't have line of sight to anything; he'd still have area spells though. 2) I'm having trouble imagining any 4E spell the wizard could cast that would "kill everybody." He...

Actually, I totally agree with this, but that doesn't change the fact that the game is saturated with items that just aren't very good. You have to give me story reasons to want them, because the mechanical reasons (outside the basic +) are underwhelming. And while your suggestions of adding...

I don't disagree with your sentiments necessarily, but I find your analogy interesting. It seems to me that because D&D is our smack, it's extraordinarily easy to piss us off. If you mess with the object of someone's obsession/addiction, even just a little bit, it tends to send them over the...

Mirtek said it well already. The designers wanted to "tone down" the power of magic items, and they succeeded...only they were a little too good at their job. The flaming weapon (at heroic tier) does an extra 5 damage and ongoing 5 once per day. It's flavorful, but it's not mechanically...

This is so true. Part of me really wishes they could scrap all the magic items and start over based on what they've learned so far (and on the rarity system). For example, it's a crying shame that an awesome, iconic item like a flaming sword is so stinking lame. If you have a specific build to...

The new online CB has taken a lot of heat recently for all the things it can’t do. Those things have been discussed to death, as well as why WotC should be burned to the ground for not including said options in the first place. Instead of more discussions in that vein, I’d like to use this space...