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Our long running (almost 2 years) group has lost one player to a relocation, and another is absent indefinitely due to health issues, leaving us with 3 reliable, mature players looking to add one or two more. The campaign is already in the 13th level range. We also have a side game run by one...

I'm getting a little frustated with all the 4e defenders talking about how easy it is to mod and change and adapt so that it will fit whatever kind of play style you want it to be. If you have looked at the books you will know this is absolultely not the case. The reason is simple. The game...

I don't understand anything in your post. We are not talking about tigers. We are talking about the ultimate, iconic villian of fantasy gaming. And I have no idea what you mean by 'compliling the abilities of two monsters'.

So there's only two extremes? No, I don't want to spend 4 hours creating a monster. But I'd have no problem spending 30 minutes, even an hour, on the ultimate villian of my entire campaign, so that the players perhaps don't see every attack and ability he has in 3 rounds of combat.

Alright let me back up a step and try and explain where I'm coming from a little clearer. It's not about two dragons fighting each other. I'm totally on board with the 4e concept of simplifying NPCs and monsters. I love the idea that a group of enemies can be described and be combat capable...

It's fire attack does 30 points of damage, so that doesn't change anything.

I think the 'titanic struggle' idea might hold a little more water with me if the dragons actually had some options. But they are so limited in what they can do, that the ONLY thing that makes sense for them is clawing at each other. I realize that part of 4e is to simplify monsters and make...

It's not epic. It's long and boring. It's I claw you, you claw me, I claw you, you claw me, nothing else.

I knew someone was going to say that. I realize that 4e throws internal consistency out the window. But wouldn't this play out the same way against a high level human fighter?

Friend of mine after seeing the 4e Monster Manual: From what I have heard this is in line with other comments about 4e combat. Is this indeed reality, and how is it a good thing? If it is not, where is the misconception?

I think what is so frustrating about what I've seen for 4e (and I'm trying to withhold final judgement until it's released), is that so many of the changes it is making were necessary but they are coming with a whole bunch which I think suck the flavor out of D&D and make this another game...

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I played WoW, two PCs up into the mid-30s, and I inevitably found it as tedious as all other MMORPGs. I know the endgame is different, but it's even more demanding of time and commitment, and what's worse, the reward system breaks down because it's my understanding players play 4-5 hour chunks...

Amon Amarth I would like to nominate Amon Amarth as the D&D metal kings: 1. Songs almost exclusively about Vikings. 2. Their name comes from the Elvish name for Mount Doom. 3. They use Tolkein (and Ultima) runes frequently, including in their videos. 4. Most of their videos include a battle of...

Looks like no one posted this. Perhaps I'm the only one who fits into the category described in the article: Decibel - D&D

Tablets I use a Motion Computing Tablet PC (pure tablet, not keyboard even). It has completely changed my DM'ing experience. I routinely make it through entire sessions without opening a book. All my notes are in Microsoft OneNote, and I keep my NPCs in Access.

I'm going to be a little redundant here, but my observations on gaming groups, having run/played in extremely consistent groups, and very inconsistent groups over the last 5 years. A major factor in picking your players has to be reliability and commitment. Make it clear that people are...

Well if you remember before the concept of small and large weapons, a short sword was a short sword, it didn't matter if it was wielded by a small or medium creature. Giving halfling rogues a sword that did 1d6 points of damage didn't excatly destroy game balance. As for the large mace and...

I have to think it's gone. To me it was one of the strangest design decisions ever made for the D&D game. While so many things have moved toward abstraction and simplication, they suddenly introduce an over complicating rule that while it has some basis in reality, it was significantly less...

I don't know exactly how I feel about this subject. I have been bothered by the idea that the concept of roles turns the game into WoW. I have heard a lot of evidence that the core design team has been heavily influenced by WoW's success, but what that says to me is that in combat you do one...