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I like the shirt. Of course I may be biased, since I have one that's very similar, but with golden eagles instead of roses. I think it's nice that he's wearing a stylish button-up shirt on camera. I'd disprove if he wore, say, a dirty sweatshirt or something.

Even as a DM who rolls all dice in the open, I feel the need to "cheat" from time to time. Recently, I allowed a villain to stick around an extra round after his HP ran out, just because I felt the extra longevity added to the climactic nature of the encounter. When I create advanced monsters...

I voted other because I'm not sure there is a "best". It depends on what you want critical hits to do in your game. In any case, I appreciate the logic behind the 4e crit system, but I'll miss the confirmation roll and how it rewarded optimizing your to-hit numbers.

I don't know that that's necessarily true. The whole idea behind the wuxia thing is that by studying martial arts a long time, you might refine your techniques to such a degree that you do things that are impossible for the untrained. There's nothing explicitly magical about them, usually...

It definitely seems to me that there is an issue with what players expect from a natural 20, but I don't think it has anything to do with entitlement. I think the confirmation roll does introduce a psychological problem in that it dangles a reward in front of the player, only to have that...

My main thought is what's so devastating about a farmer making a critical hit with a rake? He's going to do what, 5 or 6 damage? That might mortally wound a goblin minion, but is going to do jack to anything the hero would fight. Depending on how much damage weapons, feats and techniques do...

I play most often as a DM in a home campaign, though I do play a fair amount of Living Greyhawk, mostly as a player. In my home campaign, everybody seems excited about 4th edition, and are excited about getting their hands on the material and playing with it as soon as possible. Talking to...

I kind of like magic items, and I only voted Glut, and even then I did so kind of halfheartedly. I'm pretty much fine with the current level of magic items. Sure it would be nice if magic items were legendary and rare, like the Arthurian legends but those kind of items introduce problems in a...

Woah, are rot scarabs what rot grubs grow up into? I guess I never thought about that.

If a dragon wants to do something like that, it has a literal hoard of treasure that could enable it to do so. Comparing a dragon's spellcasting levels to its treasure, almost any spell it wants to cast, it can find a magic item for. Just have the dragon use a crystal ball, or a wand, staff or...

As Dungeonscape mentions in the section on new monster feats, most of the Monster Manual monsters have feats that give them static bonuses to their stats, as opposed to feats that you have to actively remember to use. I dunno exactly the design goal behind that. Maybe just to make them easier...

One problem is that the snake's swiftness spell explicitly says that it doesn't stack with haste. "This spell does not allow the subject to make more than one additional attack in a round. If the subject has already made an additional attack, due to a prior casting of this spell, from the haste...

Not that the spell is weak or anything, but I'm reading the part of the spell where it says "the next time this weapon strikes a living creature, blade of blood discharges" to mean that you only get the damage on one attack. Oops, on preview, I'm a little late with that point, but I'd like to...

What would be the logical consequences of riding an invisible mount? I can't really find anything specific in the rules addressing it. Would applying the -4 to the check, as if the character was blind making a dex-based check be fair? What if the invisible mount was a long-term type of thing...

I'm in the "today" camp. I have a pretty sizable collection of 3rd and 3.5 edition stuff, but it wasn't an investment or anything. I enjoyed all my D&D books, but that doesn't mean I won't enjoy new ones.

I support the simplification of the Marilith. Part of the point of 3rd edition D&D is that there are systems by which any intelligent monster can acquire the ability to raise a horde of undead. You don't need to build it in to the base monster if that's not the monster's primary schtick. Keep...

Here's a simple question that I can't really recall the answer to at the moment. How long does it take a demon to summon other demons? A standard action, like many spell-like abilities, or one round, like most summon monster spells? The part giving me pause here is the description of the...

I have to agree with werk. Most greases do not burn easily at room temperature. Grease fires happen when the grease is heated, such as when cooking, to a near-boiling point. This generally takes more than 6 seconds.

But the point that I and a few other people in the thread have raised is that kind of "I'll do what I think is right no matter what you guys want" attitude is actually chaotic. Part of being a paladin is being lawful, and being lawful means being loyal, particularly to your friends, and...

There's a lot of ambiguity about what consitutes lawful or good behaviour, but to find common ground, let's look at the PHB definitions of the alignments: So while you can't really argue that the paladin was committing an evil act by those definitions, she definitely wasn't committing a good...