Search results

There you go PC, I fixed your typos!

Exactly. Using attack dogs is not a rules exploit. Using attack dogs over and over (replacing the dead ones) is a stupid-DM exploit. I see it like this. Who sells dogs trained that well? Not many people. Okay, so you managed to get a few attack dogs... then you found the jackpot, a guy willing...

This is why I preach and practice making the numbers of your character up first, then working out the background. "So why does my character have have 18 str? Well, he was a slave hauling wagons..." and so on. If my concept drifts from the stats I'll alter the stats accordingly. Particularly...

Just a reminder - this is a thread about what you like, not what you dislike. I've noticed a trend over the last page and a half that is leading towards posts full of dislikes. Making comparisons is fine... just please keep to the topic. Now for some that I forgot in my earlier post: * I like...

* I'll chime in for another 'defenses instead of saves' * Combat is generally more interesting * Better clarification of Standard/Move/Minor/Free than 3E * Replacement of full attack - I'd like to see a house rule for this in 3E, remove full attack for everyone so that you only need to make one...

Well at the risk of contradicting things I've said in the past... I actually find I'm beginning to like 4E. It is a good game, perseverance was one of the key factors - I had to play it for months before I started to actually enjoy it. That said, there are some things that must be kept in mind...

I think it rather depends on how much reading-between-the-lines you are doing at the time. The obvious example being the lack of fluff in the monster manual. While neither directly states that you should create a monster in a given way, by providing 3-400 canon examples it does encourage one...

Yikes I'm glad I copied the text of this one to notepad. It failed to post the first time. Understood. I come from the school of thought that DnD doesn't require that balance to be fun, and is in fact more fun if everyone contributes at different times, rather than always being equal. Yes it's...

Yep. No argument from me on that. Both methods work. They come from a different mindset, and encourage a different mindset. In my opinion 4E encourages DMs to make up the stats of the monsters to be balanced first, and then put a description on top. On the other hand 3E and earlier editions...

Does the player who has the first move not have an advantage over the player who is forced to react? To you. All of which the 3E players can do also, they're just not laid in the form of powers. Agreed. 3e wizards have many options other than magic missile. Something you seem to have ignored for...

Eventually. My preference is to have even less encounter powers (at low level) than Sadrik was suggesting... Yes, we're trying to restore the previous order, using a new core mechanic. Agreed, I never even bought PHB2, so warlocks are out of that equation for me. I cannot argue with that...

No. They exist. That's the basis of this whole thread. For me this all comes back to a preference on the quantity of wuxia. Basic attacks must exist to satiate a desire for believability (which for some, is required for fun). Key point: One of the things I really detest about 4E is the premise...

Thanks to you both. Now I have two books to put on my wish list.

That is exactly what I want. I want all classes to share enough of their abilities in combat that I can believe they're non-magical humanoids at heart. I don't want 'flashy' super-beings who can cast magic all day, or shoot two arrows every 6 seconds, or hit enemies over the head to make them...

Alternatively, if you have a home network you could set it up like I have - I have one main PC, and a laptop, both of which connect to the same network while I'm at home. If you're creating a new notebook, there's an option for shared notebooks. If you already have a notebook, you need to make...

I'm confused. Does the Ultimate Toolbox overlap the Toolbox at all? Is there a point to having both?

It's a bit like alcoholic's anonymous. The more we talk about our issues, the easier they are to overcome. It's therapy. On the other hand I cannot see any benefit to posts like this one of yours, which seem to turn up in every otherwise calm and mature discussion. You don't like these threads...

Obviously I disagree. There is another way to mollify my interested in regards to at-will powers. Namely to make them equal to basic attacks instead of better than. If you have a selection of 3 options (A, B and C), but 2 are clearly better than the first, you essentially have 2 options. If all...

Allow me to present an analogy, just in case anyone hasn't got it already. Chocolate is special. If you have chocolate with every meal, it will cease to be special. Like Sadrik, I have toyed with the idea of removing at-will powers in some manner. I find all their finicky effects to be a...

When 3.5 came out I wasn't ready for it, and therefore didn't buy it. Eventually I got the PHB so that I could join a game run by someone else, but that's it as far as 3.5 went. When 4E was announced I was ready to accept a new edition, I looked forward to it, but didn't actively seek all the...