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I prefer my 4E medium-well, but you're probably right.

Agreed. It should still be possible for two similar targets, both caught in the area of effect, to suffer different consequences. It may look different, but it's still a saving throw. Only now the variability rests on the caster rather than the target. It puts wizards in the same boat as martial...

3.5 you mean?

It's funny how often in 3.5 that everyone ignores the elephant in the room (the impossible amount of gear your guy is carrying), not because they don't wish to play in a system that limits them--when things get silly, players in my group tend to self-limit--but because the system as it exists is...

True. You know one of the things we had to do in order to make death=permanent viable was to tone down save-or-die spells. We made them do appropriate damage for their level and caster level, but no kill effect. My understanding is that WotC pretty much eliminated that mechanic from 4E, so I...

Ah critical hits. We've been using the various iterations of Arms Law since way back in OD&D. We started with the Arduin stuff, but it was so deadly that we backed off of it. Our current method is that, if a critical hit is confirmed, we then roll a six-sided die. A six indicates that the crit...

That's a good point. Rogues, like Paladins, aren't appropriate for every party or campaign. You can live without a paladin, easily enough, but in 3.5, the rogue is sometimes difficult to replace. In our current campaign (just turned one-year-old and close to finished), our rogue died at about...

I think what we've seen in 4E on the "rules of death" has been good for our particular approach. Using the "three-strikes-you're out" and neg hitpoints/2 to establish death makes it harder to die so quickly that nobody can do anything about it, but still not impossible. When death is final...

4E has been (probably) the most extensively pre-viewed new edition of Dungeons and Dragons in its 30-year history. We've all seen a thing or two that we object to. With the qualifier that we've yet to see the entire rule-set, and understanding that everyone retains the right to change their mind...

One of my DND group owns a chain of comic and game stores. They received an advance copy of H1 on Tuesday or Wednesday. I'm excited to get my copy at next week's game, but its just a module with some game rule excerpts, and is obviously in the hands of hundreds of people already, so don't get...

WotC says: Item Code 217187400 Release Date May 2008 Format Trade Paperback Page Count 64 ISBN 978-0-7869-4850-5 Price $24.95 ; C$32.95 So hard to say.

They won't know, at least at low level. At higher levels, gear will become a tell. Still, what is the advantage to fighting two-on-one on a melee character when there are squishies who are unmolested and raining death on your allies? Most semi-intelligent melee monsters are going to engage the...

Which is a good reason for brutes, who know the mechanics of combat, to never engage a defender 2-to-1 if they can avoid it. It's hard to imagine a defender with his one attack putting out as much damage as a controller with his AoE. This is one of those exercises, however, that defies...

Gark and Nark, orc brutes, are part of a raiding party that is assaulting a merchant's caravan that the PC's are defending. Hodo Bigguns, a halfling fighter, is standing between them and the wizard and ranger, who are creating all kind of havok among the other orcs. Gark: let's cut that...

Since the back-story of tieflings make their infernal characteristics a perversion of their baseline humanity that is inflicted upon them as a reminder of the pact, I think that treating the expression of those traits as if they were some narrow variation of evolutionary development is...

Not being argumentative, but where is it written that a halfling is a small class creature? I don't know that it isn't written, but I haven't seen it. What I have seen is Races and Classes saying that halflings are now four feet tall, which is as tall as a dwarf, and somewhat argues against...

Heh... well I live in Enterprise FL, but my mother lives in Enterprise AL. I'm glad you found a group Andor. We sometimes take on new guys, but not often. IIRC we picked up two five years ago. We're all forty-something and we're pretty content with keeping our group in that age range. Also...

Steve, I've been an avid player and fan of D&D since 1978, and you won't find a more loyal fan of the brand. You've explained to us why it can't be done, and as a member of the corporate association of wage slaves (CaWS) for twenty-seven years, I am intimately familiar with the refrain you're...

I think it's inevitable that WoTC disappoints us (the old-school, hardcore gamers from way back) in their quest to greatly broaden the appeal of D&D. They are fighting for their survival in a world dominated by no-commitment-required games like WoW, and owned by a company that may or may not...

I think we can all agree that self-healing as an ability of opponents in a game is a dish best served in moderation. If that ability is limited to those creatures who have it as a racial feature (because it makes sense or makes them more fun to fight) or to leveled opponents that use PC-style...