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I've just been told that the April update (ie the update that carries the Arcane Power content) of the DDI Character Builder has appeared on torrent sites as of today. Which is what... 10 days after it became available for subscribers (or at least 10 days after my CB was able to update itself)...

Oh dear: This certainly stings me as a PDF-exclusive buyer and user of D&D. So what could this mean in the long run...? Here are my thoughts from the WotC forums: PS: I looked to see if there was already a thread on this and I couldn't find one, if there is, my apologies.

So I'm designing this adventure/quest for my group (we play 4e), where they will be going 'Locke Lamora' style* into a magical-item museum heist, trying to handle some extremely tough traps under a time limit and keeping whatever they can pry out and get away with. Now, immediately I'm set upon...

So after talking a bit with my players, i'ts come to my attention that there is a whole class of feats they are irritated with. Mainly the titular "only activates on a critical hit" type of feat. Easy to see why: By and large, you have to roll a 20 for them to activate. But not only do you have...

(This is a post I just made in the WotC boards in answer to question, I thought it merited a thread over here too, since people here usually have good ideas that have improved my game by leaps and bounds these past few weeks... so consider this a "feedback and ideas welcome" kind of thing :) )...

So, as a newbie DM I've been running and experimenting with what I've been calling "skill challenges" for a while now. Over time I've watched people's confusion and frustration with this part of 4e wax and wane, and the definition of what really is a skill challenge define itself more and more...

Hi, I apologize in advance since this will obviously be a 'duh' answer that's been staring me in the face all along, but for the life of me, I've looked in the WotC site, on this site, on Amazon, I've googled, and I've yet to find something like this, a COMPLETE list of WotC 4e books published...

So, we started playing KotS before I had read the full DMG. As I'm reading along I find that a normal Quest XP should give 400 XP for a party of 4 characters. Having foolishly trusted that KotS was somehow balanced in its rewards and would advise me if something wasn't I've already handed my...

I just came across the rule where you roll initiative only for for each type of monter in an encounter, and not every individual combatant. I've always rolled individually in my games, but I have to admint that it's becoming a real PitA with minions and such. But I'm leery of switching to group...

So up til now I've been treating Opportunity actions and Immediate actions as the same thing, ie you can take one of either on each other combatant's turn. But on re-read it seems to me that they're actually different things and they both get their own 'counter', so to speak; you can take one...

I found this kinda funny but I'd still ike the clarification, if anyone knows. The ritual Magic circle, the decription reads: "The circle requires 1 minute to inscribe per square inside the circle (and it must be a circle)." Right... it must be a circle. Of course we know in this game circles...

Ok, I understand the logic behind the recent forum changes. People should post their non-rules stuff in the general "All RPG" forum and keep stuff about the rules for the two Rules forums. Thing is... it's not happening. Now, I believe the single best way of internalizing a new ruleset is to...

Since we have some playtesters here I thought I'd ask a question we haven't been able to answer on the WotC Q&A boards. So, rogues can make a stealth check to hide when they have cover. standing behind an ally gives cover. Stealth skill in the PHB supposedly says to roll 'as part of the...

I have in Shadowfell the rule "Drawing a weapon requires the use of a minor action". I would assume sheathing a weapon is also using a minor action... so in order to switch weapons during combat, would you rule it as two minor actions? Or wrap up both actions in just one minor action? Or is...

I'm almost sure this has been asked before, but I've searched for 20 minutes through google and nothing, so here goes: The Fighter's Power Attack feat in the KotS pregen. Usable with any attack power, or just with basic attacks? Usable with opportunity attacks? Also, at third level the fighter...

So here's a question that's been bugging me ever since the "1-1-1" threads. I always figured it would become clear with time but since I'm now getting ready to run KotS and no answer is in sight for me, I'll go ahead and ask: So we have 1-1-1 diagonals at work here, which I'm fine with. Now...

Sorry to ask such a basic question but I think I may have been getting it wrong all this time even in 3.5. I read in the Scalegloom Hall rules and the PHB Lite that an Opportunity Attack "interrupts the action that triggered it". Does that mean that the opportunity attack interrupts in the...

So far I've found the 'Raiders of Oakhurst' (http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=220317) and 'Second Son' (http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=220473) adventures on these boards. They were both awesome and we enjoyed the heck out of them :) Many, many thanks to the writers of both. I'm...

Not trying to incite any flames or anything, but this genuinely baffles and shocks me. http://www.chimera.info/2008/03/06/a-guy-who-made-a-game-the-end/ It just got me to thinking. I really did feel very sad when I heard Gygax passed. I even shed a few tears. When I read that post by Rouse...