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Yes, I have the Roth and Lothian papers on my digital nightstand*, thanks for the reference. I certainly know that that was the ideal set forth for the Roman soldier. I'm wondering how often that was actually put into practice. Supply lines and wagon trains and camp followers and all the, well...

Ever since I heard the whole Roman independent soldier ethos thing, I've wondered exactly when they conformed to this norm and when they didn't. The term 'comfortably' was added and might be throwing you. That's their max-load encumbrance. It really isn't in the modern context. When you were...

Not natively. I haven't played 3e in many years. Google helped me find two: The Alternative Class Feature Penetrating Strike (Rogue ACF, Dungeonscape, replaces Trap Sense) allows you to deal half of your SA damage to immune targets so long as they re flanked. The spell Grave Strike(Cleric1...

Just like the last thread framed as superfans vs. casuals, I reject the initial framing. That said, there are interesting things to discuss here. It would make sense to have seen where this was going pre-Disney, as the prequels laid this out fairly thoroughly (even if we can disagree on...

There was some feat, spell, or one-level dip that let you sneak attack creatures of a type otherwise immune*. But up until that came out and if you decided to get it (so, yeah, the whole campaign was built around undead or the like) you would be rocking UMD and some wand that was beneficial to...

At their basic level, hit points act as a waypoint between perfect health and down (giving you an opportunity to decide to retreat, go defensive, move resources, etc.). There isn't a specific need for any other battle conditions (like wound levels) having to be directly tied to that scale. Hit...

The goalposts have been dragged around this thread since the beginning. Of course, the initial premise isn't well defined, so it is pretty much no man's land. Rapiers are concurrent with or precede other products listed in the equipment lists, were used on battlefields (and the only D&D game...

So what's the General Sherman, a bulldozer?

What if it was a true Scotsman? And what if he has a pointy (metal) stick?

Now this was actually a thing in D&D. Back in 2nd edition where I mentioned they introduced rapiers and cutlasses (and stone/bone weapons and belaying pins and...) they had this issue. Players got ahold of The Complete Fighters guide and made up pirate and swashbuckler and savage kit characters...

I'm not sure what you mean or how it relates to what I said. Can you elaborate and explain your position?

That's literally what I said.

It is. If you want a true reality simulator, I would think a world with dragons would invent their own new weapons appropriate to the task Right, but including something that allows emulating the quintessential fantasy story in a fantasy game is hardly out of bounds for the game. This is a...

For reference. I always thought of it as 1) to cut off the 'no, he's a Maiar!' response, "fine. but then he's a Maiar cosplaying as a Xth-level wizard," and 2) he's playing a spell-point variant of the game*, where he could be 7th or 8th level but still cast more than a dozen 3rd level spells...

I suspect the point is that the Monk, overall (throughout editions) is a dog's breakfast of tropes about martial artists. Also that it is still wedded to a version of that concept dreamed up by Brian Blume in 1975 with a lot of celestial cattle-ness about it that it can't shake. To the former...

It is possible that they waited to decide who the Mule would be until later on (either to be topical, to avoid leeks, to make it impossible to accurately guess, or just because they wanted not to be able to telegraph it). In that case, contradicting information would be natural and is just...

I think this is a non sequitur, in that that's not what AIViking stated. There some significant ground between "our ancestors have been killing everything in their path with stone-age weapon" and "Stone age hunters did not go toe to toe with massive predators." Few if any groups ever hunted*...

Historically they were at least worn in mass combat as the sidearm a lot more often than commonly depicted. They were serious weapons, and are deadly. They are not smallswords or modern fencing equipment. Note also that the common spear (decidedly a weapon of war) and falchions (not generally...

Oh definitely. Nothing says 'just read the Silmarillion and thinks you're the first kid to do so' like going on the internet and thinking you are going to tell the other nerds what it really says.

Sure, why not? Why, what sword do you normally use to fight dragons in your day-to-day life? Seriously though, a rapier was added so that people could live out their 3 Musketeers/Inigo Montoya/Zorro (maybe Puss in Boots? now also Lara Raith?) fantasies. ... Just like every other fantasy trope...