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Bodybuilders wouldn't have particularly high strength in D&D. Bodybuilders aren't necessarily climbers or even particularly athletic, they are just specifically conditioned for muscle mass. Maybe a powerlifter or hockey player would be a better comparison? Again, I'll take The Mountain with a...

Yes. In a duel. But historically they saw little action in mass combat. No, not at all. Finesse weapons were probably just a bad idea in the first place, but feat-gating them at least kept things less silly. Your real steel rapier is going to be a lot more deadly in the hands of a Marine than...

Don't bring an exacto knife to a lucerne hammer fight.

I've spent a lot of time in the kitchen and I just picture the tip snapping off. Also, can you get it deep enough to do damage? Even something intended for boar hunting would be almost underpowered.

You evade, and strike at the incoming claw.

I would definitely put the lucerne hammer near the top of my list. Let's break some scales! Maybe bust a claw.

That is also correct.

Well, no, fighting a dragon is obviously nuts. But if I were going to do it, I wouldn't pick something that is as close to useless as I can imagine.

Sometimes I wonder at one point it was decided that a rapier was a suitable weapon for fighting dragons.

Vegan... cloak of teleportation... :D

My mom took away my D&D books when I was 12. Then she overheard us playing TMNT with a kidnapping scenario, and took those away, too. She told me she burned them. In reality, she just hid them. When I was 13, I did some work in stepdad's shop for which I was paid. I was told I could spend the...

AD& wizards were about "What spell is useful in this situation?" and "is it worth it to cast it?" Whereas in 3e they started moving toward a game where conceptually, wizards should be using magic all the time. In AD&D, you didn't have a lot of spell choice. You found what you found, you got a...

I've always liked it. It's a fairly classic swords-and-sorcery setting with some signature themes, such as a ecology, the remoteness of the gods, and metal poverty. It has that mid-20th century fantasy-with-a-sci-fi-accent thing going on. I see no reason it couldn't be done under various...

Spray and pray is sort of viable for a Chinese-type reloading crossbow. At some point, you are going to want to either become a Heroic Archer or get some kind of technological upgrade. In the world of Dungeon Fantasy, I see no reason why gatling crossbows couldn't be a thing.

I don't even like kobolds having strong ties to dragons. To me, they'll always be freaky little goblinoids.

I really struggled with understanding Dungeon Fantasy at first, it just seemed so snarky and parodic. I did eventually gain the understanding it wasn't explicitly inspired by old school dungeoneering, but primarily on Diablo-like games and fantasy board games, with D&D and CRPGs being a...

That just makes crossbows realistic. You load one or two of them. You fire them. If you're in close quarters, that's it. If you want to play a Gauntlet like game where you pew-pew-pew with a crossbow every round, GURPS out of the box is not friendly to that. You don't spend 80% of the combat...

Not even all humans get that bonus feat, if they take certain variant traits.

Basically, a unified skill + attribute system. Also, the ability modifiers from Ars Magica map pretty closely to the 3e-ified ability score modifiers, and that's about it. Tweet also worked on Talislanta 3rd edition, and I'd say there is more Talislanta in 3e than there is Ars Magica. Most of...

AEG's Mercenaries was basically a PHB II for 3.0. Green Ronin's Psychic's Handbook, if you wanted that in your campaigns.