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That is the coolest spell effect I've seen, and by a large margin.

While I'm happy to provide a laugh, I have to disappoint you because I'm not joking. Rolling two d20s and taking the higher (or lower) isn't something that feels D&D to me. What feels the most D&D to me is rolling a single d20 to resolve an action.

I don't like the multiple dice in D&D. First, it doesn't feel like D&D. Second, you end up with the worst of both worlds when you you have a mixture of rerolls and flat bonus/penalties which can totally happen in the current rules. Third, it doesn't work well with DMs using hoards of creatures...

I agree that's the trend, and that it is quite interesting. But I find the 2e specialty priests my last choice for clerics or any class for that matter. I didn't know there was such love for them.

Cleric: 3e, domains! Fighter: 1e with UA Magic User: 1e Rogue: 3e over 2e by a smidgeon

Sign me up, sounds like fun!

An interesting take on what I wrote.

I don't know, but he is at $89k now after maybe 36 hours and nearing his top tier of $96k. That tier he added after filling in his bottom tier in 12 hours.

When you root for a football team, nothing changes if they win or lose. Sure you might be happy or sad, and you might be able to go to a championship parade or buy a nice championship hat or shirt, but that's it. When the game style you prefer prevails, it means that the new version of D&D will...

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Kickstarter thing yet. Perhaps it was in another OotS thread. Rich talked about it yesterday the main Giant in the Playground page. I figured this triple-sized comic was a thank you for almost funding the minimum needed. By now the minimum needed has...

You missed the group of 3rd edition and earlier players who don't think PF is superior to those previous versions, but allow D&D to cover the entire spread of D&D games. Yes, when we play Mazes&Minotaurs or Arcana Unearthed or someone's homebrew mash up of fantasy rules, we call it D&D. But...

In our world osmium is $400/oz. I wouldn't call a huge elemental made out of it cheap.

Mine would be: 1) Try to play an RPG at least once this year. I'm newly a dad to twins, so gaming is taking a back seat in my life right now. 2) If I can pull of #1, try not to play with all the same people I played with last year. Some of those people would be okay, but I'd like to break out...

As the power ballad by Journey plays on, someone enters through the door. Don't stop ..you become the DM and get to devise the next deathtrap. When the next hapless reader falls to your trap, it will then be that unfortunate soul's chance to take out the next reader.

I'm missing why aesthetics can't be shared beyond one player in the group.

In my view, it is not "simpler" by any economic definition to produce two entirely different lines of D&D RPGs to change a rather minor point. Going back to my magic item analogy, I don't think there needs to be "D&D Monster Manual II with magic items" and "D&D Monster Manual II without magic...

I can throw the interpersonal and search skills out of 4e and be happy. So I would say that it supports both styles, if not obviously and not officially. Something more official would be better. It's kind of like removing magic items. There are official rules for that (inherent bonuses), I...

I think it is very subjective, but I know when I'm having fun and when I'm not. Rolling to answer a riddle is not fun to me. Rolling to hit a demon in combat is fun. Your reversed game would not hold my attention for very long. For example, imagine playing Trivial Pursuit. I do this...

We appreciate your concern about the players at our table. Have you considered that there might be a player that prefers our style at yours?

Fun. We find it more fun to have randomness and a chance of failure in combat or something dangerous like a jump over a ravine. Also, these things are harder to describe. "I search the statue" is an easy substitute for "I roll a 18 search" "You found a secret panel in the statue". I don't...