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Ooops -- I accidentally put in for "classic" Realms instead of 4e.

:) Seems like much fun was had. Turns out I had the Saturday free. Coulda, shoulda, woulda, etc... :erm:

Good ruling. I'd throw in a Perception (DC +10 "through a wall", at least) check to guess which square the creatures might be in.

I see themes as "what defines you" and backgrounds as "what made you". Either option can independently influence a character's mechanics and narrative. There may be some descriptive overlap, but I don't think their fundamental reasons-to-be change much.

Yup yup. We've got a demand, they've got a supply.

"Wow" is right! It never seemed to me there were this many. Handy reference. They should put the description lines in the Compendium.

Discussing whether or not something has "jumped the shark" is silly. Some people currently dig D&D and some people don't, for various reasons. You don't discuss if something has "jumped"; you discuss when it did, after it did. I'd leave it to the nerd-historians (snarkyologists?) of tomorrow. :)

Hmm... This thread makes me wonder if one could just tweak some druid controller powers and give them to the seeker (and vice-versa, I suppose). Change their ranges to "weapon", etc... I'm going to poke around, see what can be done.

Ooh, classic... I'll have to "flip" through this soon. (Maybe I should print it out, for nostalgia's sake?)

I'm opinioning, and stand by my "bleck". :)

"Verbing" was "gifted" to us by the internet's influence on culture. Bleck.

Here's another option for threefivey adaptation: Why not just make your own skill and set its DCs? All "trained" means these days is a +5 bonus, so make Craft (soap) or Perform (comedy) into 4e skills with an Intelligence and Charisma base, then write up what these new skills can do. (Hell, use...

The power, per activation, works only against a particular target once per turn. There's really no way around that. You activate the power on your turn with a move action which effectively "brands" the target. Then, when they move, you have the opportunity (via immediate reaction) to move and...

This is a disappointment to learn, since I just renewed. Hmm. Oh well -- at least the next issue of Dragon looks promising.

Dragon had taken a mammoth uppercut and now lay prone on its belly, gasping for air. Through the bloody, blurry haze of its one good eye it made out the shape of the referee, ethereal and counting. It felt weak, so weak... 5... 6... 7... No! This fight wasn't over yet! The last round's beating...

That's a cool idea. I bought a bunch of paper minis once and we don't regularly use them -- now they could actually have purpose as steam-rolled representatives of their own slaughter. Danke. :)

My groups have been doing this for many an edition. We usually draw individual stick figures or an "X" on the battlemat to mark the fallen, and it has never been a hassle (to the players, anyway). If anything, the representations make the battlefield more dynamic and remind players of the...

Very nice; thank you. :)

Ha -- I came up CONAN...which was my first RPG. :erm:

If you have any old Dungeon magazines lying around, look for issue #36(!). There's an adventure in there which is centered on a place called Granite Mountain Prison (ha -- you'll see why), and is one of the best I've ever run from the mag. I imagine it could be easily converted to 4e. Oh, and...