Recent content by Paxanadu

Totally agree here. If anything, the loot tables for early levels are ridiculously low. Let's put it into perspective: Food & Board for 1 day for 5 PCs = 4 gp. Cue in typical unoriginal low-level mission: Rich lord/noble/city official/merchant of the week comes see PCs to hire them: They...

Having a table showing "true" accumulated wealth and give that to new PCs would create lots of problems: #1 - Some could game the system easily (particularly if GM is not too bright): party is in big city between 2 adventures, and knows the party is going to stay in the city for a while. Player...

You must be confusing the fluff part with the actual rule mechanic part, which is very clear: Regeneration. The troll regains 10 hit points at the start of its turn. If the troll takes acid or fire damage, this trait doesn't function at the start of the troll's next turn. The troll dies only if...

While I agree that limiting at will can open a big can o worms, the Original Poster asked for something and got a lot of debunking instead of the answer he wanted. for zero micromanagement "archer can shoot infinite number of arrows" kind of playstyle, stick with 4e raw. But for "must avoid...

Well, lots of ideas were thrown here. My suggestion is to keep it simple and respect 4th edition game mechanics as much as possible. This keeps micromanagement to a minimum. For example, let's try to avoid having an event at time X actually "happen" at a time Y-later-than-X, such as the idea...

Then simply make it from a single attack. Much less of a hassle to track of, anyway. i.e. Imagine a monster hitting for 10 damage, then, later in the round, hitting again for 1 damage because of a opportunity attack or something, would this trigger the "11 damage wound threshold"? Common...

In a pinch, you could drop them right here: Dungeon Generator for D&D - Myth-Weavers ;-)

Too bad the poll is lacking what I would answer: "Yes, a super GM can make even a crappy RPG fun and interesting!" "Yes, but I wouldn't buy any books, or only the absolute minimum." Keeping an open mind is important! Pax

To answer Quartz: The Unearthed Arcana (not the Arcana Unearthed, mind you -- 2 different books) proposes a variant called the Urban Ranger. Rangers loses some "wild" abilities, spell list is different... but no need for all that. Just the one main idea here is important: Favored Enemy can...