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I was attempting to use the find a game tool, and got an error when using the zip code field - with or without a city name. It told me it could find no latitude and longitude for that location. It *did* work fine when I used just the name of the city. While I am commenting, it would be useful to...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/trhickman/tracy-and-laura-hickmans-sojourner-tales-board-gam?ref=users Authors Tracy and Laura Hickman (Tracy co-wrote Dr gonlance) have a Kickstarter running for their story telling board game, Sojourner Tales, featuring new, downloadable ebook adventure...

We have been playing a WOBS campaign for several years now, and are currently in Tears of the Burning Sky (module 6). My group has six players, plus myself as GM. Two of my players are moving across the country in a few weeks, presumably removing their characters from the game. My younger son...

I am running a War of the Burning Sky campaign, and my group enjoys the story aspects of the game. The problem I am having is that there are rarely more than one or two encounters in a day. The group is free to go nova in most fights, so naturally they do just that. My options seem to be to...

Going Nova (to the tune of Going Mobile by the Who) By Zinovia What's that I see? Some vampires and banshees I'm going nova! Be it ghost or zombie Or annoying NPC Going nova! Keep me slaying I can pull the foes to me When I use my daily Going nova! When I face an enemy I'm giving him the third...

The Sterling Company of Adventurers (also known as the Shiny Company, the Stalwart Company or the Stubborn Company) always did what they thought was right, in their own unique way. Perhaps some of their choices might seem a bit shady to those who did not grasp their true motives, but even if...

Players of the campaign steer clear unless you're the type who read the end of a book first. ;) So in my reading of Mad King, I was unable to find the answer to one very important question. Who actually killed the king's family? Was it Madness, or the Ragesians, or yet someone else? I went...

He was a 9th level halfling rogue. He had it all: clever hands, mad skillz, chutzpah, and charm. Able to wrangle combat advantage in practically any situation, his enemies feared his deadly blade. Or would have, if the Dice Gods had not chosen to wreak their terrible vengeance upon our...

I was considering adding dice to monster attacks when they score a critical, in the same way that PC's get them due to their magic weapons and implements. It seems as you level up, that these extra crit dice become more and more significant, so that PC crits really hurt. Monsters have no...

I've read all kinds of great ideas here on how to speed up combats, and reduce the grind. The minion mechanic is a great place to start for that, but as we all know, minions often don't last long enough to do much. A single Scorching Burst, and *poof* they fall down. Waves of them can be...

They have: • Telepathy so they can communicate with anything that has a language • Three starting languages • Encounter teleport that also gives them combat advantage against foes they were adjacent to • +2 to three different skills • No need to eat, breathe, sleep, drink, and resulting...

4E and 1st edition are very different games. So which you go with depends on your playstyle. I happen to like 4E. From 1E there's a ton of changes all around. Big AC numbers are good, low ones are bad! No THAC0, no save vs. death magic, they have added rules for skills, characters all have...

Landscape 4E Character sheet in color. PDF form with calculated fields We introduced a new player to the group recently, and I noticed how much trouble she had finding things on the official character sheet printed out by the Character Builder. All the boxes look the same and kind of blend...

In my D&D game... "...all the interesting people are missing." Friedrich Nietzsche Granted the above quote has been cut so I changed its meaning a bit, but it sums up the issue that is causing me to consider a rules change. The characters in any game are the "interesting people". They are...

I made a handout to represent a kiosk/signboard in Thunderspire. There are ads and informational signs that cover some of what is going on there. I wanted to give the characters a feel for the place, and I like handouts. They help with immersion and also serve as reminders to the players of...

There was an event called the Ultimate Delve at GenCon, which was a deliberately challenging timed event for a group of 6th level characters. Of all the groups that attempted it (in excess of 60 is what I heard), only two of them successfully completed all the encounters in the 4 hour time...

Naturally there is an endless possibility when it comes to feats that could be added to 4E. What feats do you feel need to be added for the sake of rounding out the game and providing balance with existing options? Not crazy broken feats, but stuff that really ought to have been there all...

Like many of you who are playing War of the Burning Sky, what appealed to me about the series was that it was an adventure path that was something more than a series of linked dungeon crawls. It has big bad guys, an evil menace to spellcasters, a developing war, lots of diplomacy and intrigue...

I created some spell templates for use with 4E and our hex grid. Mine are printed out on transparency film and I think they turned out pretty well. I threw all of them together into a PDF document along with some illustrations explaining some of my decisions in making them. Let me know if...

The Dragon Once upon a noontide sunny, while I watched a show most funny, And pondered whether the hero with the heroine would score, While I chuckled at their singing, suddenly there came a ringing, It set the windchimes gently swinging, swinging at my 'partment door. `'Tis just some kid,' I...