Recent content by jfilesi

To get ritual cards in the CB, choose the option to view basic (i.e. non-magical) equipment. This option makes cards for every item your character carries as well as rituals and reagents. You can choose to hide the other mundane item cards by right-clicking on them so that you don't have to...

Next time you could have the other players help the new guys build their characters while you work on scaling the encounters appropriately (using the DMG guidelines). When they're done, just double check their sheets if you're worried they might have made any mistakes and have them give a brief...

The MWF schedule they're using covers both magazines total and they've followed it pretty well so far. They even put up an editorial for one of the magazines up on the 3rd to cover the 4th of July holiday being on a Friday. If you don't want to check out their site everyday though, a post...

As a player, I would agree with the argument that it's situation dependent. In my 4ed game where we're running through KotS, getting CDG during the early couple of kobold encounters would have made us generate characters and work them into the storyline through the various hooks pointless (Our...

I think is a byproduct of who is likely to be reading and posting in this thread - gamers with kids and gamers whose group includes parents. If you have any advice for the parenting group I'm sure they'd be willing to discuss your point of view as well. Here are a couple of "rules" I would...