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Read the section "Passive Checks" on page 175 of the Player's Handbook. The bonus applies to passive checks using those two skills.

I don't see how that's any easier (or harder) than my suggestion. What it does do is make Slow much more powerful against such creatures than my suggestion. Most creatures get three legendary actions (of those that get any at all), and while my suggestion would reduce that to two, yours, in...

The first three words of what you quoted ("On its turn...") are the important bit here, not the part you bolded. (Though the theme is reiterated at the end of the bold part - "during its turn.") Legendary actions are not taken on the creature's turn, and thus the whole quoted section is...

I'd say the most important things to get in book form are any lore-heavy ones you want to use. Most of the key mechanical resources are electronic. You want the Character Builder with the latest CBLoader patch; links can be found on the 4E subreddit, though Discord is where the real 4E action...

Whose body is floating in the void beyond room 10 of the ziggurat? Can the characters learn anything from checking it, or for that matter any of the other bodies in that room (before they animate and start attacking)? At least in the 4E version, it feels like a lot of detail is missing. It gives...

(WARNING - ZEITGEIST SPOILER BELOW) Not much love in the comments, yet they're winning the actual poll by a nose, or rather , and the only one over 50%, at this writing... I'm biased, they're my personal favorite, though I don't actually use them much.

For a different perspective, and one view on where I suspect many part ways with the old school mentality: What I always found with this, when those old-school versions were all there was as far as D&D was concerned, was that what you write here seemed true when you were looking at one class or...

Andre Norton's Witch World got a GURPS book so it just qualifies. While some aspects of it haven't aged well, it's a pretty well-detailed fantasy (with some sci-fi trappings) setting with a particularly well worked-out magic system and there's quite a body of work set there. Norton eventually...

I tried running heavily modified Age of Worms in, of all things, the Star Wars universe. I first had the idea when I was reading it and playing Knights of the Old Republic at the same time back when they were coming out. Big chunks needed to be changed out (e.g. Diamond Lake became Kessel, the...

Pre-3E saving throws. Absolutely nonsensical, to the point of being a serious obstacle to me going back and doing an old-school game, they bug me that much.

... and? It has been a good long time since WotC had a D&D setting that was even close to authentically medieval in print. In fact, I'm not sure WotC, as distinct from original-TSR, ever has. And Zeitgeist is certainly nothing of the sort. Most settings are much more urbanized, with remarkably...

I don't think a leather brigantine would be wearable... nor would it float very well, at least not for long. Wood seems all around much more viable for shipbuilding. (You no doubt mean "brigandine".) As for leather armour, it's in a weird place in D&D and other RPGs. It's sometimes said to be...

Sounds like a lot of work! I'm very glad this exists and will probably read it at some point, but I can't promise when. I just finished the second adventure in 4E with a group that quite likes that system. Haven't really had much of a chance to look at the other versions that already exist, let...

Setting aside most of the discussion and just touching on the original question, the biggest thing for me is that in a world like the Realms where the deities can be pretty active in directly interacting with mortals, there should be a lot fewer doctrinal disputes. When you can go on Reddit and...

I mean, there's at least a few initially well-reviewed titles of theirs that haven't stood the test of time, and keeping reviews positive to keep getting perks from the producers (which can go well beyond free books) is a pretty well-known issue, including, maybe especially, in adjacent spaces...

Well I didn't quite go all-in - backed for the three core hardcovers, then added Zeitgeist manually. I think it's easily the most I've spent on a Kickstarter, though. I'd say good luck but you don't seem to need it. It had already blown past its nominal goal a few times over by the time I went...

Plus WotC is in no sense an "investment company"...

There's a specific list of things you can do with the extra action from Haste, and casting a spell of any kind is not one of them. EDIT: Curses, ninjaed!

It's a small nitpick, I know, but you want "throes", not "throws".

Does this mean there's only one of each type of elemental?