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I'm asking for a little help in the form of ideas. A hundred brains are better than one, right? I have a little homebrew points-of-light style gameworld. Without giving you the boring details about it, one element is that a great civilization rose and was then destroyed. It is almost 1,000...

Forgive me, this is a tad long, and not completely well organized. I tend to ramble. So I had a conversation with one of my players related to our recent sessions of D&D4. I'll try to be concise. It had to do with the DM altering the behavior of the bad guys in an encounter based on the...

I do not have the book in front of me, and hence cannot directly refer to the text, but we had some debate over the power selection for multiclass characters. When you multiclass, and choose one of that classes at-will powers, can you choose their "class powers", like Mage Hand?

A friend sent me an editable PDF character sheet that looks identical to the official character sheet. The math on a couple of the boxes is wrong though, and I'm trying to find where it came from to see if there is a fixed/updated one. Anyone know where the editable PDFs are?

Two things: I have kicked off my 4e game, and have a good party mix of 7 players. The next encounter on my wicked DM chart is going to pit them against a huge number of level 1 minions. 20 of them, to be exact. Plus a level 3 soldier. My concern is this: Despite that this is a balanced in...

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I wonder if anyone has considered reimagining the class roles. I could easily see a campaign featuring a Defender style fighter along with a Striker fighter, and a controller rogue! Certainly not all of the classes make easy transitions to other roles, and I'm not proposing doing it "willy...

Two questions: Some magic items add bonuses to a melee or ranged "basic attack". Does this count only on the actual literal basic attack, as in, when one does opportunity attacks? So it does not work for at-will powers that use a melee or ranged attack? You can take an opportunity attack...

The way I understand it, you achieve a "milestone" for every two combat encounters you go through between extended rests. If this is correct, I wonder at the economics of it. While I can see a party raiding a Drow prison as meeting this economy, I can also think of tons of situations in which...

It is my impression that traps and hazards require no operator and are free-standing and independent. As opposed to, say, a ballista. I'll be interested to see if there is a ballista or something similar in the game, but I'm curious how it would relate to encounters. Another example is having...

Over the weekend I got some friends together for GaryCon. I had Tomb of Horrors, but I was reluctant to run it, because of its sheer brutality and level of complexity- my players are not as gleeful about death and frustrating traps and puzzles as some. Anyway, instead of Tomb of Horrors, I ran...

Anybody got any ideas, or tried to put any traps together? I've seen the boulder trap, but its the only one I've seen floating around. It occurred to me that some cool trap ideas included a ballista- I guess it could fall under "trap", some armor plating on the front that gives the operator...