While I personally think that the 1st and 2nd edition covers are the best (and I admit, I may be biased to those editions), I think that the 4th edition cover is one that if you covered up the D&D name I would have thought Dungeons & Dragons the minute that I saw the artwork.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for going back to single issue pdf's. I hated the single article format. It took 10 times longer to open them all up and view them if I wanted to read them all. I understand some like only one or two articles but they can easily download the entire issue and extract whatever they want and discard the rest.
Roleplaying and adventuring is teamplay so other characters should have problem with ones that want to rest after 5mins of adventuring. Easiest irl examples for 5min workday are: You are doing a project... You are working... You are playing a team based sport... ...and have one person to join you who is really good at what you are doing, but she's such a primadonna or slacker that she'll only write really good A4/works for 5mins/gets score or two for your team and then...
View full commentRoleplaying and adventuring is teamplay so other characters should have problem with ones that want to rest after 5mins of adventuring.
Easiest irl examples for 5min workday are:
You are doing a project...
You are working...
You are playing a team based sport...
...and have one person to join you who is really good at what you are doing, but she's such a primadonna or slacker that she'll only write really good A4/works for 5mins/gets score or two for your team and then goes home.
Personally I would't want to continue playing sports/working/do projects/roleplay with that kind of person and would think that she's a jerk ^^'
I'm sure that my PCs would fire that kind of PCs from the party and offgame suggest that maybe the player souldn't play caster. Our long time wizard responded to me, when I told that other groups are having problems with 5min workdays, that this is a roleplaying not a computer game.
I'm not sure the goal here is actually to eliminate the five-minute work day. Character power levels have to be balanced around something. To me, Mearls' initiative seems to be an essential response to the challenge of the FMWD, in that it can come about irregardless of the number or strength of encounters the players undertake. By considering opponents' power levels over a universal measure which affects all characters, the day, he is attempting to minimize the effect of play style on...
View full commentI'm not sure the goal here is actually to eliminate the five-minute work day. Character power levels have to be balanced around something. To me, Mearls' initiative seems to be an essential response to the challenge of the FMWD, in that it can come about irregardless of the number or strength of encounters the players undertake. By considering opponents' power levels over a universal measure which affects all characters, the day, he is attempting to minimize the effect of play style on playability.
Just wanted to say thanks for keeping the wiki up to date. For some reason they still haven't taken my insider status away, so I went to add Beneath the Dust and saw you already had.