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In about a month's time, my group will begin the Tomb of Horrors 4e super-adventure and I was wondering if anyone has any advice, suggestions, dos or don'ts. The party consists of just three characters and I have already adjusted all the encounters accordingly. Thanks.

There is a comment in the latest Legends and Lore article that people are "happy at how much of an adventure they could play through in a short time" and I will attest to that also. This throws up an interesting problem: if players are able to play more over a given period of time, does that not...

Something came up in our game the other night that I would like some opinions on. Here's the situation: most of the party is standing in a doorway, looking into a large room that is dimly lit. A gnoll enemy is at the far side of the room. The party's rogue wants to shoot her crossbow at the...

It seems to me that the last several releases from WotC have all met with considerable praise, each one picking up sound bites along the lines of "best 4e book yet!" I am talking about Madness at Gardmore Abbey, Mordenkainen's Magnificent Emporium, the Neverwinter Campaign Guide and Heroes of...

Madness at Gardmore Abbey has been available for, what, six weeks now? Plenty of time to put the usual map and art galleries together and publish them on the website along with all the rest (eg Dungeon issues). Does anyone know if and when we will get these? Or does anyone recall how long it has...

Does anyone know if or when we will see the art and/or maps from the excellent 'Madness at Gardmore Abbey' adventure available online? Like they do for Dungeon adventures and they did for Tomb of Horrors and probably everything else. If they have already released these and I just can't find...

Okay so here's the thing, we have a halfling rogue who wants to use stealth to go hidden and attack with combat advantage/sneak attack. The battlefield is an outdoors location in full daylight, with a few trees and bushes about. The halfling (Pansy) runs up behind a tree and tries to hide...

Something came up in our game last night and I can’t seem to find a clear answer anywhere. I am hoping you people can clear this up for me. The party’s cleric cast Spirit of Healing (Level 6 Utility) at the beginning of a big fight and started moving it around as per the rules. No problem...

The players in my game are rather too scared of making mistakes and generally over-strategise combat encounters. I have taken steps to counter that but there is one thing that still riles me and I am not sure if I can or should clamp down on it. In fact, to be honest, I’m sure I do it myself...

I must have read this adventure (Dungeon 156, I think; one of the earliest issues anyway) three times through at least but it was only while reviewing parts of it the other day, in preparation for our next session, that I realised that the story is essentially Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of...

Having been back playing 4e for a while now, following about 15 months off, our group (and me in particular, as DM) was getting fed up with the extended combat encounters. We found that we were seemingly unable to finish a single combat encounter in less then three hours, which was clearly too...

I do have this right, don't I? In 4e, you can use weapons that you are not proficient in but you will not gain that weapon's proficiency bonus. Only, I don't appear to be able to equip a rogue with a crossbow in the DDi CB. Any thoughts?

Okay, someone help me out here. Some time ago (probably about a year), I saw a video of (iirc) the cast of The Guild at some convention (probably Comic-Con) playing an impromptu game at a Q&A session. The actual people and location are not important though (which helps if I have completely...

The title says it all really. I play a 4e game set in the Mystara world (1010 AC) and I was wondering how many other people here use Mystara for their 4e games. Mystara is an old setting, see, but with an extraordinarily rich background and masses (and I mean *masses*) of community-created...

The thread title says it all: as far as I am concerned, the online CB is fine as far as it goes but the fact that custom content is simply not possible, and yet it WAS in the offline version, is the CB's biggest failing by far. I mean, I can accept that it might be difficult to implement...

If all goes well tomorrow night, we shall be wrapping up our epic stint of Pathfinder's 'Rise of the Runelords' campaign and I shall then be taking up the DM mantle for our 4e game. I have a number of things planned for the future but perhaps the most immediate is an adventure called 'Heathen'...

Does anyone know why WotC are systematically renaming all the character classes from earlier books? I mean, Fighter becomes Weaponmaster, Cleric = Templar, Wizard = Mage, and Rogue = Scoundrel. Um, why? Sure, it's only fluff when all is said and done and I can happily ignore it if I want (and I...

With some discussion over the last day or two concerning obsolete feats and deprecated content, I was wondering if anyone has taken the time to go through the game's various elements and note what superceds what. For example, Resilient Focus trumps Human Perseverance and makes the latter...

Given the new maths for monster design (ie post-MM3/Essentials), am I right in thinking that things have become a little ... flat? What I mean to say is this: take an 8th-level monster, a hulking thug of an oroc that attacks with a greatsword. As per the tables, he does ... 2d8+7 damage on a...

Has anyone done a comparison of the old 4e DM's screen and the newer Deluxe Dungeon Master's Screen, or can point out the differences/errata on the old one? Thanks.