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Fantastic resource, thanks!

For some reason I´m unable to edit the post to add your suggestion, but I´ve added it to my conversion notes. Thank you!

I recently bought the Immortals Handbook Ascension. It is full of interesting ideas, and I´m enjoying it greatly. Yesterday I arrived at the section of epic feats, and I found many that seemed very entertaining, so I started converting them to 4E. I only converted a very small fraction of the...

I just bought the book yesterday; the apparent lack of progress had made me loss hope for the release of this book, and I had stopped checking the blog regularly. I would be extremely happy if the next volumes were finished this year. Some comments: I didn’t pay much attention to the...

What I do to avoid fast leveling is promote downtime between adventures, principally by telling the players off-game that I was thinking of letting certain time pass (e.g., "around 3 weeks" or "around a year"). In many cases I suggest why that would be a good idea: to accept various invitations...

In Manual of the Planes, page 107, powers of pandemonium, it says that "Vecna mantains a hidden tower in the heart of Pandemonium". Vecna is known, among other titles, as the "Lord of the Rotted Tower" (Open grave, 212), maybe this title hints to this secret tower in Pandemonium.

I have been doing it very often for my currently epic campaign, usually to make minions (using keterys' system). It is a very good way of showcasing the PCs' growth in power, and it greatly increases the level range in which you can use the "same" monster.

Disclaimer: the following may contain spoilers for the Living Forgotten Realms adventure EPIC 3-2 "Cracks in the Crimson Cage". Just finished reading the second Living Forgotten Realms epic adventure, found here Living Forgotten Realms I'm very impressed with its quality, and I'm looking...

The problems lies in what each difficulty class represents. With the currently existing table, each difficulty class represents a certain fixed success chance under different assumptions: "Easy" only assumes a starting associated stat of 10, and absolutely no attempt to become better at the...

Love the flavor: the tragic backstory is ripe for stories and adventures for the DM, and may invite some players into redemption attempts. I do find strange, however, that a swarm of heads is of lower level than a single head.

Didn't want to derail the thread Rule-of-Three for May 23, so I opened this new one to share some experiences from my campaign. Hopefully they will be of use to someone, or others could share their experiences/advices for Epic play. Something I have been using in my campaign since Heroic...

An option I may use in my campaign with some stars is that they are actual (real-world) stars, but the power that supposedly derives from them actually comes from some "elder god" that resides in the star system or uses it as its seat of power. So for example I have associated Delban with the...

I find it useful for adventure building and showcasing the PC's power advancement to consider that most minions are only such in relation with the PC's level. So a 5th level standard orc may be modelled in the paragon tier as a 13th level minion: perhaps, unable to damage the PC's with his...

I enjoyed "Faith and Heresy"; it was full of excellent ideas for both players and DMs. I found noteworthy the advice of setting aside the clichés of light versus darkness in the explanation of radiant damage, and, as a DM, was delighted with the ethically representative religious quests.

With obstacles restricted to 1 square the problem may not seem so important (altough it is still notorious). But let's think of a wide chasm or other wide obstacle/hazardous terrain. Normally, when imaging the situation, one may think of two possibilities: going around the chasm (slow but safe)...

The problem for me is that the 4e movement system misses many interesting tactical and cinematic possibilities: rather than trying jumping over a chasm, going trough a field of flames, or risking an OA, you can just move in zig-zags without any lose in speed and without any risk (nor meaningful...

The problem with giving items to monsters is the one that inspired the Monster Magic Treshold (DMG): something that it is there only for providing a mechanical justification becomes entangled with the treasure assignation. The usefulness of appropiate skill bonuses for monsters is, for me, not...

I recently bought the Demonomicon supplement for 4E, and it has quickly become one of my favorites for both its mechanical implementations and its wealth of ideas and descriptions. Now, I have noticed that some of the demon lords presented have notably impressive ability scores. For example...

I liked the article. It provided good information for creating duergar-based adventures or adventures sites, a deeper look into their society, and some guidelines for imaging an appropiate feeling for encounters with them at different levels. I hope to see more "creature incarnations" like this...

While I found strange that the DCs of certain things (such as the climb DC of outer walls) were based on the level of the creature trying to overcome them, overall I found this article very good.