Recent content by Eldragon

I don't actually think any of the roles are essential, or even matter that much for party makeup. The DM may have to pull his punches in some cases, but that is no different than having to add a few monsters if you have 7 players, or remove a few monsters if you only have 3 players. Is a...

My group did something very similar a couple years ago where we did a rotating DM, with each DM doing a short story/adventure. I'll share a few notes and a short description of our set up, hope it helps you formulate your plans. The party had a ship, which was used to transport the players...

Honestly, I didn't even notice 4e had "Adventurer's kits". Everyone starts with 100g, and buy what they need from the equipment table. The importance for those items has never changed for me. When the PCs want to dig a hole, I ask "Did you buy a shovel?". Of course, I don't run canned...

At the risk of Topic Hijack (Apologies to the OP): I have yet to read MM3 (let alone play it), or played a SM at epic. So I can't really comment on how the swordmage fares. I understand the errata+MM3 pushed through a lot of changes to the core mechanics. Since in my current game all my players...

This is why I lean more towards the Assault swordmage than shielding. But it is also highly dependent upon your DM and party makeup. An Assault Swordmage can set the Rogue up for their sneak attack. Which equates to a whole lot of damage, and most DMs will get tired of being set up for sneak...

I just got into DMing 4e (heck this is my first enworld post in 2+ years), but I'm actually more excited about running paragon and epic than heroic. 3e always became nearly impossible to DM after about level 13, yet now in 4e it can feel "epic" without nearly as many game breakers. Usually when...

Wow. clearly my cynical skewering of the US legal system was taken too seriously. from now on I will stick to lampooning the legal system of dead civilizations.

Here is a very useful guide to the US legal system: Removed by admin. This is not the place for an off-topic quasi-political screed that has nothing to do with D&D.

There is a story my dad told me long ago, and now that I am an adult I find it to be 100% true. All companies from founding to collapse go through three specific phases. When a company is first created, the Product leads the company. The product generates sales, and the company focuses on...

While I think a program that scrubs out the watermarks given two PDFs to compare against would be quite easy. It would be MUCH easier to buy a PDF under a false name using a gift card or stolen credit card number. All from the convenience of a public WiFi location. Personally I have a...

This sums up my opinion of 4e quite well. So for now I'm sitting on the sidelines waiting for more supplemental books or 4.5e I will also add one HUGE problem with 4e: No SRD. Only 1 or 2 of us actually buy books in our group, the rest borrow books from the first two. With the 3e SRD everyone...

With the Swordmage class now available, I took a second look at 4e. There are dozens of things I like much better about 4e than 3e. But yet, I cannot bring myself to play 4e, since for everything I like about 4e, there is something missing from 3e that I see as requisite to any D&D game. For...

Why share the love when you can spread the hate. Bump.

Being that Steve Jobs is an egomaniac, a prima-donna, and takes the credit for all of the hard work done by thousands of Apple engineers; no I would say he would be a terrible person running WotC. In some cases, having a strong leader can really help a company. Corporations ruled by committee...

Aww... you beat me to it!