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Er... have you actually read it? This specific version does exactly what you're asking why it doesn't do in the first sentence, and the original version does, in effect, exactly what you say it should be doing in the second (hint: it's even in the title).

As demonstrated by such paragons of flexibility as 3E's Bard and Factotum, or by the might of 4E feats like Linguist... Flexibility may be power, but you know what else is power? Power, in as focused a form as possible. And at least in the context of D&D, time and again, the latter has shown...

For those that at least partially agree with BT (more people seem to agree on the fighter than on the wizard), would you mind saying why this is a flaw? So far, I don't see that anyone in this thread has done that. It certainly isn't self-evident, at least to me - I'm fine with both of these on...

Your conclusion is correct, but it doesn't follow from your premise. For all Gygax says, it could just as easily be that some hits affect one and some affect the other. The reasons your conclusion is correct are found in things like how poison works - any hit from a giant centipede involves a...

Had WHAT at 50/50? And more importantly, how does the abstraction Gygax describes differ from the abstraction Mearls et al describe by enough for one to be okay and the other to be objectionable? They look pretty much the same to me.

It took me three tries yesterday but I got it. I imagine things will have calmed down considerably by now, but at least by early evening (in North America), it was already tolerable. Today it's ENWorld that seems to be getting slammed! Not surprising under the circumstances. Nothing here has...

If you're serious enough about D&D to be on here, you owe it to yourself to have a copy of the 1E DMG, no matter when you were born, and even if it's the only pre-3E D&D book you own. (Though it shouldn't be - some of the classic adventures fall into this category too.)

I think the exact words were closer to "a couple of changes", said so offhandedly as to imply they were quite minor. Certainly they didn't include whatever rework of Turning Undead is currently underway, for example! I got the impression they were minor changes along the lines of (this is...

Actually, in response to the Turn Undead question, Mearls explicitly says (around 29:10 of the video) that as far as he knows it WAS the same version. Now, admittedly I didn't know that at the time I wrote the post you're quoting - I was indeed taking Piratecat's word for it - but it's...

Well, that's a whole different debate - how exactly you define the seasons, that is. It's not like there's some central authority that has the power to define that. But if there's one thing everyone could agree on, I would hope it would be that whatever the correct definitions are, or would be...

Perhaps, but at some point not releasing it is going to have exactly the same result. And what really mystifies me, if it was as far from ready as it apparently was why the heck did they announce it in the first place? Then there's the fact that according to Morrus they've been working on this...

Yes, normally. However, they quite specifically said this one wouldn't. Three months later there's no sign of that being true, and the event at which it was more or less expected that would change has instead produced only an annoucement that they still have no idea when if that will change...

The latest example of WotC's tendency to say "We want to do X. And in order to do that, we're going to do not-X". "We're going to do a huge, open, public playtest. And in order to do that, we're going to play our cards even closer to our chest than we did in developing the last two editions." :erm:

Just a little note to say I love the little humorous bits you can find in a lot of the WotBS stat blocks (at least in the original, 3.5 version). I encourage people to post their favorites here! Or such observations as "OMG, I never noticed most of this stuff was even there!", as appropriate. My...

I would add to your list, questions that carry false presuppositions. For example, the one in the latest Legends & Lore that assumes that major changes in tone must be either (a) linked to levelling, or (b) nonexistent, ignoring the possibility many of the comments on that poll mention that the...

All kidding aside, there might actually be something to be said for this sort of division of playtesting labour (toned down a little from what's in the article, of course!).

When I first load the ENWorld site, I am occasionally redirected automatically to the URL http://www.enworld.org/forum/profile.php?do=dst, which gives me a blank white page. This has happened twice in as many days, on different computers with different browsers. I have to load the site again...

The question is meaningless without knowing the context those numbers appear in.

I should add to this, that even if I agreed that his motive wasn't bad, in some cases a non-Evil motive isn't exculpatory. Otherwise we wouldn't look unkindly on those who recklessly endanger others - in most cases of this, the fact that they are endangering someone is the last thing on the...

Not that I want to turn this into an extended rehash of that debate, but his main reason for doing it was to psychologically torture a foe he had already decisively defeated. His own future safety (a neutral motive, compatible with any alignment) was a consideration too, but I got the definite...