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Wow. Just wow. Your post count doesn't give you the authority to dictate how anyone else should play the game. Just because you don't enjoy or can't imagine a Dungeons & Dragons game that involves tunneling to achieve a military objective, doesn't mean that other players are unable to enjoy...

Sir, you go too far. At least show enough respect to capitalize his name. And the problems, just because you cannot or will not acknowledge them, could very well still be problems. Again, too far. People discussing what they perceive to be issues is hardly "whining". You choose to label it...

Wow, best quote I've seen in a very long time. A good analogy that makes sense and drives home a very poignant point. Bravo!

It looks like all the math in this thread points to the RAW chance of success being in the teens, or twenties. So, around 20%, plus or minus for situational mondifiers and mathimatical variations. As for me, I would prefer the chance to fail was around 20% Therefore, I'm pretty sure what I'll...

I think what we need is a skill challenge. Use Streetwise to know the street value of the gem. Use Dungeoneering to know which mine it came from. Use History to know previous owners of the gem and what they paid for it. Use Insigt to know whether the mearchant is eager or deperate. Use Thievery...

I think my problem with this is that, as a DM, I might decide to use this deadliest poison known to man against one of my players, and after the encounter, he will simply use a single Healing Surge and it will be like it never happened. Having been a survivor of poisoning when I was young and...

Sadly, Amazon has failed me, and I still don't have my books. Not even shipped yet. /cry So, without official books to view, this is my take on Take 10 with skill challenges. Assuming the DCs indicated in this thread are accurate, particularly the OP, I see the possibility that anyone with...

I read that to mean that, at moderate difficulty, your bonus is only +9. if you Take 10, you only get a 19. Since you need a 20, then in this case Take 10 is guaranteed failure. Ergo, you can't Take 10. Technically, you can, but your success chance goes from 50% to 0%. Of course, if you have...

Apparently he expected a basic understanding about nouns, particularly the part that nouns don't have tense. grammarlesson Was my house. Is my house. Will be my house. Since errata is a noun: Was clarified by errata. Is clarified by errata. Will be clarified by errata. /grammarlesson All...

You might have that backward. In a very low magic world, say, one where only a dozen magic items have ever existed, people will have heard of most of them. If they should stumble upon them in their travels, they would instantly recognize them. Just like you might recognize the Eiffel Tower if...

I am very much on board with most of this. But, not all magic items are easily identified, even by the exact role/power source they are inteded for. I firmly believe that a fighter could pick up a +1 blade, swish it around for a bit, hit a few trees, note how well-balanced it is, see how...

I just don't get it. I've read a bunch of this stuff about not letting players buy/sell magic items, or restricting it, placing limits, nerfing the whole idea. Why? In our world, you can buy a car. Drive it for a while. Then sell it to someone else. No restrictions, no limits, no nerfs. Or...

Ooooh, I so hope you're wrong. Orc1: Uh oh, that mage over there is surely going to fireball us. Orc2: Or worse... Orc1: What can we do? We know it's coming. We're smart enough to anticipate it. Surely we can do something? Orc2: Yep, we can get ready to roll our saves. Uh, er, wait... Forget...

But then 4e won't be for you. Because sometimes HP are lost to sword cuts, but healed by kind words. And sometimes HP are lost to abstractions like exhaustion or fatigue, but are healed by healing magic. Because one day you might fight a giant, and stab him with your sword 20 times before he...

Yep, that's how it's done in most MMOs, no reason to make this one any different just because we use a battlemat instead of a computer monitor.

Really? I thought high levels, or really any levels worth talking about, were the sole perogative of the player characters. Remember the whole argument about why PCs can be resurrected, but kings cannot? Now we're saying merchants have many of the PC privileges that other commoners don't...

Why is the commoner 5th level? Doesn't the very fact that he is 5th level indicate something? Doesn't it mean he's been around, fought some wars, done his bit chasing goblins and kobolds off the farm, gained some levels that are represented in increased HP, attack modifiers, skills, etc.? So...

So, you're saying that a party fighting a Minotaur and his 4 Minotaur Minions, manages to get 4 lucky blows and kill the 4 minions, but then all their luck runs out and they have to whittle down the real minotaur blow by blow by blow? In other words, if the bad guy is important, it's NEVER...

Ouch. So, if players find a creative way to get some roleplaying, have some fun, and make a profit while they're at it, their reward is to know that their future will be less profitable to balance out the profit they just made? Why bother? If I were a player in that campaign, it would be very...

So, adventurers are heroic because normal people don't have destiny, or special powers, or other adventurer coolness. Except merchants, who for some anamolous reason, far exceed anything the adventurers can do? Does this apply to epic level adventures? When my PCs are 30th level, will they...