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Looks like I'm coming up with something like Element of Magic for 5e wizards in my game. I plugged that into my 3.5 game with some tweaks and the little bit I saw it in use before the game ended I liked. Vancian magic and they way WotC implentents spell point usually doesn't do it for me...

She'd better hope someone intervene's or her dominate works or something happens to stop Eadric from attacking her. I suspect if he decided to and nothing stopped him that he'd carve her up like a Christmas Turkey.

Been following this story hour for years. After this last installment my hunch is that Shomei is probably going to be on the recieving end of a whuppin. The question is of course by whom?

I just want to reinforce the idea that MM1 monsters are way underpowered. The only reason I can challenge my main gaming group with them is because I try to find optimized tactics for the monsters and the players don't for their characters.

I just did a little looking in the compendium and it seems that temp hp disappear after a rest. so if you use this before an encounter the power isn't available during and encounter (so you couldn't use it again) as you haven't rested to recharge it. If you reset to recharge that power you...

I wonder if this is still true in light of the increased damage from MM3 and the latest damage errata? If the new damage stacks up well enough against this it may not be an issue. I haven't run the numbers to see though.

Holy Cow that thing looks evil. Certainly from the perspective of a party of lower level anyway. I just finished running the Black Dragon combat in Talon Pass and it took the entire party to bloodied in the opening salvo (breath weapon and the frightening presence thing). After that it was...

I have one group of players that is a pretty mixed bag, and another (at a local gaming club) that I never know what I'm going to get from one month to the next. I try to adjust what I'm doing. If I'm in a group that don't have the best grasp on tactics I dumb down the monsters a bit. It's...

This sounds like an awesomely epic game. I rank this thread right up there with Sepulchrave's story hours. Different posting and prose stile of course. Also it's an incredibly useful source about 4e in actual use.

I'm not where I can look at or crunch the numbers. But I agree with sentiment. I'm running an adventure for my group that uses the older monster building numbers. It's looking like I may have to rebuild most of those monsters with the new numbers and I'm not looking forward to it. It's...

I wanted to comment on this rather than the larger discussion being had. There is something of a downside to a charge. You can only use a basic attack during a charge. considering most attacks that aren't basic attacks are usually doing "something extra" the lack of that something extra...

One of the things I like about 4E is the idea that everyone has something interesting to do every round. Hopefully this "simplification" won't kill that idea.

For me the biggest issue is portability. I like the Physical books and buy them. But usually the are kept at the house and consist of reading material. I usually never game at my house but because of the way my group works usually need a lot of the books at gaming. I have way to many to...

Has WotC put out any rules for artifact creation for 4E. I seem to remember having seem them somewhere but that may just be my mind pulling tricks on me.

I have an rpg project blog I started inspired by elevenfootpole.blogspot.com. I'm currently in the middle of rewriting Keep on Shadowfell but I'm slow on posting at the moment since I'm rereading and researching material before diving into it completely. The link should be in my signature but...

I read the story thread and this one as well. One of the most inspiring games I've ever read about.

Ah here we come to an issue which really doesn't have much to do with the adventure and far more to do with Gary Gygax, or more specifically his writing style. Gary in a lot of his work did just give the dungeon portion and was of the opinion that the elements that provided the roleplaying and...

Excellent article shows that grind can be minimized easily with good encounter design.

I do something not far away from this. In my case I still use soldiers just not too many of them during an encounter. For me though minions are an absolute godsend. They can be used to make things so much more interesting. How many soldiers to use kind of depends on party makeup and players...

That's the problem here anecdotal evidence and personal experience. Mine for instance is the exact opposite of yours that people experiencing grind are not the majority. Until someone comes up with some concrete, verifiable, evidence (which is darn near impossible I'd bet because even a poll...