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With all of the... ahem... "discussion" that the announcement of the new web-based character builder has generated, I've given a little thought to what I feel the D&D Insider experience should be. MISSION STATEMENT: Improve the pen-and-paper D&D experience by providing resources to make playing...

Another list of minis; this is for Part One. Again, I tried to list reasonable alternatives. I'll post the list for Part Two when I have a chance to complete it. Spoilers ahead, so don't look if you're going to be playing in this adventure...

I was pawing through all of my miniatures to assemble the monsters for the red box adventure. Once I was done, I thought I'd share the results. I tried to list reasonable alternates for some of the monsters, angling for the most common where possible. (Spoilers ahead, of course...)...

I'm in a group of people who are mostly new to D&D, and I have been trying to think of ideas on how to help them grasp the mechanics of the game. I wrote up a "cheat sheet" of the actions you can take during combat and when you can take them, but then I had another idea: Action Cards! They are...

Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (Illumian Echoes) Introduces Syllables of Creation, unique consumables. A character must be able to speak Supernal or Abyssal in order to use them. I never liked the illumians as a PC race in 3.5e, but I like the idea of them as...

Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (The Dungeon of the Ghost Tower) This adventure picks up after "The Twisting Halls", the adventure in the Dungeon Master's Book in the Red Box. Here is a semi-spoilery bit from the adventure setup: I wonder if we've seen one of...

Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (Winning Races: Dwarves) 12 new feats that are compatible with the Essentials line, such as: Beneath Notice You know how to use your enemy’s size against it. With an ally for distraction, you occupy your foe’s blind spot...

Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (Skill DCs) They print the Difficulty Class By Level chart from the Rules Compendium and the DM's screen, and talk about the changes they've made.

I'm still interested in trying a Knight to see how well they do as a defender. I've been scouring the net for mentions of Shield Finesse, and have found nothing. Can no one tell us what Shield Finesse does? I know the "red box" Fighter is a Slayer, but wasn't there some Dark Sun gaming that...

I could have sworn that I saw that the Barbarian class from Player's Handbook 2 was going to be previewed in this month's Dragon, but it's not there anymore. Am I imagining things, or did they pull references to a Barbarian playtest? ETA: I'm not crazy, at least one other site saw the same...

Dolgaunt Monk Level 6 Skirmisher (XP 250) Medium aberrant humanoid Initative +9 Senses: Perception +5; blindsight 20 HP 68; Bloodied 34 AC 20; Fort 18, Reflex 19, Will 17 Speed 8 :bmelee: Unarmed Strike (standard; at-will) +11 vs. AC; 1d10 + 4 damage :melee: Tentacle Lash (standard...

http://gloomforge.livejournal.com/11215.html?thread=187087#t187087 The example given is off-the-cuff and the numbers may be off, but Keith talks about using the disease rules to simulate the effects of a broken arm, for some NPCs in an adventure. ----- Broken Arm Level 12 disease Special...

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/drdisp/20080728 The new epic destiny is Reborn Champion; you are the reincarnation or return of a legendary hero (think King Arthur's prophecied return, Gandalf the Grey returning as Gandalf the White, or Aang in <i>Avatar: the Last Airbender</i>) whom...

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/updates I'm still looking for differences...

In addition to formatting improvements and typo corrections, I found the following changes: * The last sentence of the Charging Action feature of the Warforged Juggernaut paragon path now reads: * The Ruinous Onslaught power of the Warforged Juggernaut paragon path gains the following: * The...

I could be wrong, but I could have sworn that WotC said the Dungeon and Dragon articles would get posted every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I didn't see anything go up on Monday, other than they apparently reposted the Yeenoghu article. (Maybe they made corrections?) What's going on, WotC...