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I use my own damage table, which is slightly higher (on average) than MM3's math. I find that upping the threat level on the monster's end speeds up things for the simple reason that the PC's have to start looking for other ways to fight the monsters. I almost always grant much higher damage for...

I'm starting to chronicle my game, Situational Blindness, onto my blog. I'll be posting up links as I update the story. Here's the characters involved so far. Here's Season 1, Part 1: Meeting People. Enjoy! When I update the blog I'll post the link here. Comments are appreciated. Be...

I like (and miss) crit threat ranges. I dislike confirming crits. To hell with realism, I want my 20 to mean something!

So they're talking about all the classes from every single Player's Handbook, right? What's that look like?

There are several types of RPGs out there, mostly differentiated by levels of who the story depends on. You can have entirely player dependent, like Fiasco and 3 Crows, where the story is so dependent upon the players that there isn't a DM. You can also have more of a cooperation, like in...

I understand those issues, but some of those (particularly the video-gamey elements and the "feel" of 4th) are covered extremely well in both DMGs, which teach the DM how to use these things to produce a fantasy game. I've run some of this advice already, and I think it works. I appreciate your...

Both. The game is made with the burden of narrative squarely on the DM's shoulders. Which is fine, but I don't think people quite understand just how much of it really is with the DM.

Or just one of them? After DMing 4th edition since the beginning I finally sat down to read DMG and DMG2, and I am amazed. If people actually read this thing, I don't think there would be half the problems with 4th edition that people have. Dunno, still a bit in shock. Thoughts?

If those people are unable to come to a rational and mature decision without use of gunfire and sword there's probably something else that's wrong that has nothing to do with RPGs.

Again, what is up with this? The vast majority of people that I know who are younger who play 4th play it because it's a good game that scratches the fantasy itch. Most of them don't actually see the WoW similarity (including the people who PLAY WoW!), and the rest of them just don't care. Some...

Which is funny, because by all accounts I've heard up til this point it was Robert Heinsoo who was the mastermind behind most of what made 4th edition work. Huh.

I find the whole ordeal insulting. As one of those "younger people", I have never touched an MMO, and the vast majority of people in my age range who have played DnD with me never have either. I started playing 4th edition because 3rd's level of brokeness, and because 4th is a combat beauty. I...

So it can have all the variety it deserves. So that a player can decide to send the disarmed weapon into a wall, or another monster. Or if they want the weapon to just drop. Or if they want to sunder the weapon on the way down. Have them sacrifice an encounter power, or perhaps a daily, and...

Seriously? You have no ability to come up with something like this on your own? The DMG flat out says that not everything is covered in the rules, and honestly I would prefer that something that's so bloody difficult to design be made up on the fly, as per each situation. There are so many cool...

I voted no. I'm enjoying playing and tinkering with 4th's system too much. It's so bloody flexible that I find no need for a further edition. Now if they make a completely different game under the guise of DnD? Or if 5th edition really is that much better? I'd probably buy it then. But I...