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If you were WotC, would you be less likely to complain about a company "going rogue" if that company then immediately fell into line after 10/1? Or, on a similar bent, would you as WotC be less likely to go after a non-GSL company if said company wasn't aiding your direct competition? Both...

Certainly. Except that on the minion's turn it automatically takes damage, meaning it dies.

This is pointless- we're going 'round and 'round because you are getting hung up on a design description. The point isn't "do clerics do more AE damage than wizards do?" The point is "do wizards excel in parties as much as clerics do?" The answer to the former is "yes, very likely." The...

Probably because the wizards have by far the most combinations available for their at-wills. A human non-wizard basically chooses one power NOT to take. A human wizard still has an ample amount of choices. This will change soon, hopefully. Even the wizard could use one or two more for...

Great thread! My comments on the wizard dailies, which are the ones I'm most familiar with: * Cloud of Daggers (you: 7, Me: 6) Good spell for control wizards- you'll get a fairly reasonable hit, and you create an obstacle. Perfectly viable, just not spectacular. * Magic Missile (you: 6, Me...

You are quoting a technical definition that matters not at all during game play. That's like claiming that fighters were the masters of 3.5e melee because the PHB said so.

Well, I'm afraid that applies to Fire Storm too. Indeed they do. Fortunately, that's why an orb wizard specializes in making sure that save is much harder to make than usual. A 19th level wizard with a +5 wis bonus (very easily reached) and spell focus forces a -7 save penalty on a creature...

Hmm, maybe you oughta read up on the Batman wizard of 3.5e. Your opinion of control is at odds with its impact in the game. The wizard isn't playing footsie- the wizard is arresting two of the four level 25+ creatures, nullifying their damage and weakening them while his compatriots are...

.... they DO have a bonus to disease with a +2 con, they just don't have a specific resistance to it. They're just plain healthier- more hit points, less susceptible to illness, etc. I'm of the opinion that half-elves are (once again) the weakest race in the PHB. If you're opposed to the...

Mechanically, re-rolling every singular die (ie, every d4 that comes up 4 on a falchion) gives an advantage to that weapon. It's substantial, but it's not jaw-dropping. A vorpal falchion's average damage on its normal dice goes up from 5 to 6.75, a 35% improvement. A vorpal longsword's...

I realize what the hub-bub is all about, I simply disagree with it. In other words, Evard's can work against you if (a) the circumstances aren't right, or (b) your fellow adventurers suck. Absolutely agree. Still doesn't make Evard's a worse spell. It's simply situational. In the right...

This is a classical problem facing the control wizard. Two things need to occur: (1) Your group-mates need to recognize that dividing the enemy is very, very effective. (2) You need to make sure you have a back-up plan for when zone effects are not necessary or desirable. ... because the...

Just as a reality check, the average standard 19th level monster is going to have around 200hp, the average elite monster will have 400, and the average solo is going to have 900. If firestorm does 39 damage on average and not have any other negative effects on a creature, how do you classify...

This is a bit of a fallacy. Fighters actually do fine damage- on par with rogues, in fact. What they don't get is the debilitating nastiness that rogues also get with those strikes. But a fighter's job most certainly includes dealing damage. If there is a ranger in the party then the fighter...

Daily Powers are a simple abstraction that make a ton of sense. In combat, certain maneuvers simply don't happen that often because it is difficult to set them up. Let me draw a comparison to one of my other loves- Mixed Martial Arts. At-Wills Powers: Straight Right, Jab, Leg Kick, Takedown...

The concern that powers are too generic and damage-related is valid, if not true, but airing it while talking about this article is odd, since the new spells described are a lot less generic and damage-related than the PHB spells taken as a whole. The article describes nine new spells. Four...

D, R, B, W, I, T, S, S? Well, now we know that the bard isn't making an appearance in a PHB 'til at least 2010, since the barbarian is all but assured. I don't see Psionics working here. No Psion, no Psychic warrior. I suppose Wilder is theoretically there, but I'm dubious.

One step? You're already at 4e once you understand that. 3.5e makes the exact same abstraction of HP that 4e does, it simply doesn't include the more much consistent system for healing damage. Consider a dagger critical hit on a 15th level rogue with 100 hp. It does 12 hit points, dropping...

Responding to this criticism is tricky, because I sympathize with your grievance. I agree that, in theory, the perfect system models both PCs and NPCs in the same fashion. 3e does so, and I agree that it is a good system. But here's the problem- it's a good system that ultimately runs up...

Buy.com had the gift set (the GIFT SET, not the PHB) for a slightly higher price than Amazon.com. The number of people who use buy.com is (putting this charitably) somewhat smaller than the number of people who use amazon. Given buy.com's popularity versus amazon (especially for books, for...