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Eh, as long as we're dreaming, I'll wish for some heretofore-anonymous dude to code Pathfinder DDI type stuff in a slick little web app like, you know, it's not freaking 1998 anymore.

Maybe the would-be sneak-attacker should require a round or so of hiding & observation before pulling off the alley-shanking. It makes sense for a rogue to lurk in a dark alley and jump someone. It doesn't make a lot of sense for two rogues to bump into each other in a dark alley, roll...

3e introduced the chain shirt and the breastplate which are at least somewhat helpful for addressing this; conquistadors explored all sorts of wildernesses in breastplates (some of the time at least), so having adventurers wear that when tooling around is a little more plausible, while chain...

I think it's fine to have screw-you monsters, but they should be clearly marked – like, have their CR in red or something – and the circumstances in which they can bring the pain spelled out, as well as their vulnerabilities. 3e-style monster writeups are kind of opaque in this regard. It's one...

The cat should have a human for a familiar, obvs.

The case of the truly egregious PrC'd character can be solved by looking at the sheet and seeing whether or not it looks ridiculous. Some prestige classes – not very many, but definitely some – are broken and/or not party-friendly. Reading EN World has helped me to identify those. Prestige...

It's probably just easier to make jokes riffing on rules he's quite familiar with.

Well ok. As I see it: - the whole thing is an edge case - it's easy to houserule Tiamat as a size larger. If you're using minis, just increase the size of the base, right? - where the problem is: it's also easy to overlook & forget why Tiamat may be smaller than some of the other dragons that...

To be fair, I think the larger point about dice-rolling being a get-out-of-thinking free card stands, more or less*, though I don't run Sense Motive like that either. (Actually, how common are Sense Motive ranks among PCs anyway? IME it tends to get neglected somehow. Maybe because it's based on...

I completely agree with that – there shouldn't be anything really keeping you from porting cosmologies across editions. (Is there even any real reason you can't just bring over the Lawful-Chaotic-Good-Evil axis right over to 4e if you wanted? I've always thought alignments were one of the more...

My preferences are pretty complicated, but I much prefer the class system in 3e, and I generally prefer non-spellcasters. Mainly because, it is in this area that 3e multiclassing works quite well – to the point where, while there are some conceptual holes (the first-level multi-classed character...

1e: various weird, arbitrary restrictions, some of which were easier to chop out and ignore than others 2e: dunno, didn't play it, but I think the 1e problem still applies 3e: prep time. DM especially, but also extending to PC choices. Ow. :p 4e: theoretical dogmatism – the sense that it has...

I've been for splitting up the druid powers and the wizard powers into multiple classes since I heard 4th edition was coming out; it'd be pretty cool if they actually did it.

Since I complained about the Dracolich Mongomajig in the previous monster thread, I thought I'd pop into this one to say... These guys look pretty good. Thanks!

I actually narrate stuff like that in 3e fights and I did before I heard of 4e... now, usually, only in person v. person fights where they were just chopping down the first half of the other guy's hit points – a telling blow or a finishing blow would be with the business end of the weapon. Also...

Heh. And thus, a thousand plotlines for royal bloodline scandals were formed. :D

You know, when do ~18th level characters try to pick other ~18th level characters' pockets, anyway? It seems wrong. Like, once you get that high level, stuff like getting your wallet lifted, your chariot keyed, or your horse or horse analogue stolen, this kind of stuff shouldn't be happening to...

It's not the strongest one by a long shot, but I always had a soft spot for the Robe of Useful Items, and its magical ninja brother in Unearthed Arcana, the Robe of Stars.

Hide, Move Silently, Spot, Search, Disable Device, Open Lock, Tumble, Use Magic Device, whoops, there's eight, now are you a face, an acrobat, or a sneak-thief?

I was talking about multiclassing. No, you're not going to convince me otherwise on that count.