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I would entirly disagree with you, and would easily be able to within the rules in the book come up with the a character that is not crippled for taking melee weapons Well Taleran, if you actually explained this character and the choices you can make to have a melee character be competent against g...

As violence said, it's not a matter of damage vs. control vs. utility spells, it's "He has buffs X and Y up, I want him to get off 3 battlefield control spells and maybe a blasting spell, and that's all that's important." You don't need any fancy tables because everyone's going to be diff...

Well allowing any creature from any book caused some of the problems with Polymorph, and makes balancing into a herculean task, so I'd say keeping some kind of table would be the only sane suggestion. ChaosLacky, I'd say check the existing list for potential problems as all the creatures on it were ...

MGuy, what creatures do you think will cause a problem at the level they can be summoned at if they are available all day?

Having read the court document in question (at http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/254013-pdfs-wizards-coast-court-case.html) it does talk earlier in the paragraph about "the three core 4th edition rulebooks". It then later uses the phrase "The core 4th edition ruleboo...

Honestly, forget about making NPCs real wizards, we want to make them close to what a wizard does, so they feel wizardly, but we don't want to actually ever use the wizard class. That's just a big massive can of worms which we should avoid at all costs. That seems like a bad idea to me. If your par...

Something that just occurred to me is that by basing monster HD = CR we are effectively saying that average character damage increases by about 4 points per level, as a CR1 monster has around 4hp and a CR10 monster has around 40hp and they should each take an appropriate level character the same amo...

4) On a per-book basis they cannot claim millions of sales. If they conflate all their sales, they can, but most of the individual lines only claim sales in the hundreds of thousands, not millions. Therefore, if you claim you've sold millions of rulebooks, but have to amend that to hundreds of thou...

1e, 2e and 4e all have a quick and easy method to make the same NPCs and monsters. This method is "make crap up randomly" and this method gives no benchmarks at all. I would just like to point out that the 2nd Ed. DM's guide did have a section detailing a system for generating the XP valu...

Greg Arneston... classic. Claiming to be an authority on the minutiae of early DnD rules whilst being incapable of remembering the authors name. However, is the idea that skill challenges could be more complex necessarily unworkable? Apart from the foot-in-mouth moment, he does have a point that com...

There's just no real point to skill challenges beyond mindlessly tossing dice. You pick the applicable skill with the best bonus and you roll it. Seriously that's the only strategy to it. It's not about roleplaying or tactics. A skill challenge is just a very simple algorithm where you run from bes...

There's just no real point to skill challenges beyond mindlessly tossing dice. You pick the applicable skill with the best bonus and you roll it. Seriously that's the only strategy to it. It's not about roleplaying or tactics. A skill challenge is just a very simple algorithm where you run from bes...

Mandrake, you make the following post: The most fun strategy is by definition the optimal one, because it is a game. In my group, we enjoy DnD from the Roleplay side, we create interesting and varied characters and we play them to the hilt. Roleplaying is by no means a secondary consideration. BUT, ...

I made a series of posts saying that the most mechanically advantageous way of doing things and the most fun way is not always (or often) the same thing. The point often made is that they should be whenever possible. Its like in Monopoly, people want to buy hotels and collect money. So thats what m...

Mandrake, I think the hostility you are experiencing here is a result of you failing to understand the way in which the board in general views certain things. Let me take a few of the things you have said earlier in the thread: I don't think the rules are perfect but even if you need to change them ...

Wow, sorry for the gratuitous thread necro, but i was discussing an idea like this just the other week as a way to ensure that characters have something to contribute in all parts of an adventure. The way i see it, when you get three or four people together to play a roleplaying game, they are all t...