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This really isn't how large companies with enormous customer bases do marketing surveys. Any mass-emailing will be fiendishly difficult to process the responses from, and a web survey will have inherent sampling biases that render the results suspect. Good example--thanks, Celebrim! This is a...

1. Use the Force is a Charisma-based skill. You can either get a lot of force powers or the high bonus, but not both, assuming typical point-buy for stats. MAD, baby! 16 in both Wis and Cha is about the most you can hope for, and that assumes you're sacrificing all of your other stats for those...

You do that in RPGA Living X games? That's what's under discussion here ... It must really chafe the shorts of players that show up with their long-standing characters to get booted like that.

Also note that these 'core releases' include sequels to the PHB, the DMG and the MM. By that reckoning, there are nine 'core' books for D&D 3.5: PHB 1 and 2, DMG 1 and 2, and MM 1-5 ... I imagine that there will still be more MMs released than PHBs or DMGs. Possibly not by as wide a margin as...

Yes--that was a rule in the blue-box set as well. But it doesn't sound like this is what was intended in the older ruleset ...

Best holiday-themed Dragon Magazine cartoon ever. A troll is stirring a pot of sauce, evidently preparing to pour it over the trussed-up gnome on the table, and singing softly to himself ... "Oh, there's no race like gnome for the hollandaise ..." Well, I liked it! :o

Just adding fuel to the fire: if the character teleports after the attack roll but before the damage roll, is the monster's attack gone? Or can it now use it against another opponent within reach? And if the latter, does it have to use the same roll?

Page 21 of the most recent FAQ. "The invisibility granted by the ninja's ghost step class skill lasts until the start of the ninja's next turn, regardless of whether she attacks or not. Thus, it's more like greater invisibility than like the normal invisibility spell."

Hell is repetition. -Stephen King

:\ Maybe WotC should publish a PHB with 128 blank pages, except for one in the middle that says, "Gotcha, suckers!" It would be a lot easier than writing a lot of interesting, entertaining, and useful content, right? Seriously, these 'fluffy' racial descriptions need to be somewhere if they're...

It's lost. If the specified triggering event doesn't occur before his next scheduled initiative turn rolls around, the ready expires unused and he takes his regular turn. Only a single standard action can be readied, and entering a threatened area doesn't provoke AoO's, so he gets just one...

Technically speaking, that doesn't matter. The cost for NPC spellcasting includes multiplying by the NPC caster's level. There is no exception listed for the case where the caster's level provides no benefit. Which actually does make sense. If you hire a top-notch programmer to code your 'Hello...

Sounds like #2 to me ... I'm pretty sure it's not #1, and I can't think of any alternatives for #3.

Peter Schaefer kindly answers (or rather, strongly hints at the answer) to a question that's been asked around here a few times ... "This is a good rule of thumb: Use what is most natural to the player. Rather than using the d-pad or analog stick to select menu options (which most games still...

Yes, if you want to understand what James means by 'an accident of math'. I personally recommend that you don't try, but instead just try out 4th Edition and see if it's fun. And if it is, don't worry too much about how it got that way. Because that way lies madness ... ... and, evidently...

I think to really understand what's meant by this, you need to know enough statistics to apply negative binomial distributions to the ranges of modifiers and targets ...

I don't know--that 'lead developer' title doesn't make me think he's being allowed to give much input. :p

I swear, I just read that as 'marital power source'. :lol: That would actually be kind of cool! But it probably couldn't stand as a power source on its own--probably, it would have to be some sort of supplement to a primary power source. We could call it something like a 'marital aid'. If we...

Milo Bloom: "Ma'am, do you love that baby in your stomach?" Pregnant lady: "What? Well, yes, of course. I love him very much!" Milo: "Then why did you eat him?" (Bloom County rocked so hard, once upon a time.)

Not necessarily. Since (a) defenses will likely go up about as quickly as attack bonuses, and (b) skill bonuses will probably go up about as quickly, if not slower. (Both of these are predicated that SWSE is a reasonable preview of some of the D&D 4 rules.) A high-level wizard's abilities would...