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These are the rules I am considering implementing for the next time I run a playtest game. I am loving the advantage and disadvantage rules, they're so much easier to keep track of than situational modifiers. Flanking: If you flank, you have advantage. Pretty straightforward, although this...

I just skimmed the playtest packet and had a few questions. I have a feeling some of these questions don't have answers yet, and if so I'll bring these up in the playtest feedback. 1. So opportunity attacks, charging, and flanking are not present? The only vestige of opportunity attacks I see...

I've decided to add my voice to the mob by predicting what D&D Next might actually look like, not what I want it to look like or what's the most outrageous thing for it to look like. Here are my predictions: 1. D&D Next is not going to slaughter any sacred cows. There will be no massive...

So I'm running the 4e version of the original Tomb of Horrors module for some friends. I made the mistake of overhyping it, telling them how scary and deadly it was when I played it a million years ago. As a result, a couple players have made extremely optimized characters, whose passive...

Whenever my girlfriend and I play in the same D&D game, we like to make characters with synergy. For example, last time I played a sentinel and she played a rogue. My wolf companion gave her combat advantage and she sneak attacked everything. I was wondering if you had any other ideas for...

Hey all, I'm looking for an Android app that takes the place of index cards. All I really need it to do is sort characters and monsters by initiative order and record damage to monsters. DM Assist was the only app I could find, but it isn't that good. Any advice?

I am referring to both the RPGA freebie and the super-adventure. I recently got ahold of them both, and neither say whether they're meant for four or five players.

Just putting that out there. It's a space opera that's not Star Wars. And there's a huge overlap between D&D fans and Bioware fans. There are a few other possibilities but Mass Effect seems to be the best fit. What do you think?

I know the stock response is supposed to be, "What is this, Dungeons and Dragons TCG? I have kids to feed!" But I am actually tempted. Since the DM owns and controls the cards, it wouldn't be an arms race like Magic. And when I ran Gamma World, the Alpha Mutations were definitely the player...

I originally posted this in the Fan Creations forum but that place is a ghost town, and I couldn't figure out how to delete that thread, so yeah... I'm looking to run a Gamma World one-shot next weekend, and I don't really have time to write my own. The adventure in the back of the book takes...

I'm looking to run a Gamma World one-shot next weekend, and I don't really have time to write my own. The adventure in the back of the book takes two sessions (and sucks, anyway) and Trouble in Freesboro is impossible to get ahold of. Does anybody know of some good fan-made one-shots?

Can a character hold an implement in each hand and gain the abilities from each, even if he only gets the numerical bonus from one of them? Likewise, can a character hold a one-handed weapon in each hand and gain the abilities from both? The way I understand it, a player can hold an implement...

When a character is first infected, he starts at the Initial effect. Does he keep rolling Endurance until he makes it to either side? Or does he roll once a day or something? The DMG is very unclear on this.

Can anybody who owns this confirm whether the counters have the little white circles in the corner that the pdfs have? As much as I want this product, I find those little holes really obnoxious and it's kind of a deal breaker. Do the Castle of Shadow counters have them?

So I'm running Keep on the Shadowfell to introduce some new people to the game. I feel like really going all out on this, including counters for every monster. Fiery Dragon put out an excellent set of counters some time ago: www.fierydragon.com/downloads/castle_shadow.pdf I just wish they were...

I run a one-shot game every Saturday for the local gaming club. And, of course, I have the writer's block. Anybody got some awesome plot hooks? It's for a level 4 party, and I'm open to anything as long as it's something original that the players have never seen before.

So yeah, Daggerspell Mage. From Complete Adventurer page 31. I'm torn between going Rogue 1/Wizard 5 or Rogue 2/Wizard 5. It's basically a question of Evasion vs. another wizard level. Obviously the wizard level is better at like level 17, but we're starting at level 3 and I don't know how...

So we have four types of gems: 100gp, 500gp, 1000gp, and 5000gp gems. But are we really supposed to believe that a few isolated settlements separated by expanses full of hideous monsters have a standardized system for dealing with the value of gemstones? Although the PHB doesn't explicitly...

I set up an account to try and digitize my campaign. As far as I can tell, OP doesn't do anything a regular wiki doesn't do. It has the adventure log and NPC tracker, but that's pretty easy to implement. Is there some crazy feature I'm not seeing here? It seems to me that OP is only...

This is the text of the power description, from Adventurer's Vault: Power (Daily): Immediate Reaction. Use this power when an enemy makes a melee attack against you. Make a melee basic attack against that enemy, with a power bonus on your attack roll equal to this weapon’s enhancement bonus...