Recent content by Callahan09

I use a custom array of 16, 14, 13, 12, 10, 9. According to AnyDice, this is the closest array to what the actual expected average result would be from rolling for stats the way the PHB outlines (4d6k3). So my players can roll for ability scores, or if they don't like the results they can take...

I just don't know that I agree with the premise that people aren't putting as much "alone-time" into their RPGing experience because they have "more options" now than they did in the 80's. There were movies, videogames, computers, arcades, books, toys, and all kinds of other things that were...

Well there is a big difference between not having time and preferring to do something else with the time that you have. It seemed to me that he was talking about the latter more than the former... But in regards to the former, there isn't time because that's just a symptom of adulthood. As a...

Wow, somehow tapatalk decided to place this in exactly the wrong thread, sorry about that.

I am extremely pleasantly surprised by the presentation and writing. I was expecing something a lot more like the playtest packets and not so... I guess I'd call it "pretty" and I like the writing style and the sidebars with examples of how the game is played and how to distinguish your...

The Starter Set is to introduce a new would-be DM to the game. The introduction for a new would-be player to the game is: go to wizards.com/dnd/players (this is a made-up URL as an example, by the way) and create a character. The Starter Set owner must find players to DM. The character...

This is awesome! And for those folks who are unhappy that the chargen rules will be available online and not in the box, think of it like this... if you *really* need to have them on paper so you can make a character when you don't have internet access: Just print them out! Staples & Office...

Hmm... I haven't received one yet, but maybe that's because the price change just happened this morning. Perhaps I'll see an e-mail later, then? I'm not usually much of a pre-orderer so I don't think I've experienced this before. If they send out e-mails periodically telling me what the price...

I've pre-ordered all the products on Amazon, but unfortunately I don't have an easy way to know how much I'll actually be charged upon release! That's kind of silly that Amazon has this "pre-order price guarantee", but if I look at my Open Orders page, it only tells me what the price was when I...

Personally, I think pregens are *more* important to a starter set than character generation rules. That's not to say that character generation rules shouldn't be in a starter set, but it would be worse not to have pregens than it is not to have chargen. The thing is, a starter set's purpose is...

This twitter post seemed interesting... https://twitter.com/mikemearls/statuses/469183298124517379 Mike Mearls ‏@mikemearls 8m @boymonster @rdonoghue People get really upset if you suggest that as a quick way to get into a game. Hmmm... Is that a reference to all the pestering folks have...

Thanks for the response. I agree about Twitter, it can be a little cumbersome trying to find your way around over there sometimes. I'm not surprised in the least that there *is* a digital initiative, and that there is a lot he won't say about that initiative right now. I guess what I'm...

So we asked Mike, essentially, if the Starter Set includes character generation. Then he responded that it does not, but that we will be able to create characters anyway. Has anybody asked, at the very least, "Does this mean we can make characters with a free website, app, or pdf? Or does it...

Crippleware... Crippleware... Hmm... For me, the Starter Set will be crippleware if and only if I have to "forget" and "relearn" rules in order to start using the Core Three. This was my major issue with the 4e Starter Set: I was presented with a character and rules that could not be...

I really like the 4e game, but looking at that cover, it occurs to me just how much is wrong with it! You make an excellent point about the portrayal of the lady in the artwork. Compared to this, the lady on the 5e Player's Handbook is a significant step forward in portraying a female fantasy...