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Food of the Gods - Part 2 The adventure continues as the heroes struggle to protect an innocent cow from vicious snake-insect things and eerie, gross mud men... (Player list and vital statistics can be found in the first post of Part 1.)

Food of the Gods On the southwestern edge of Daunton's Inner Harbor, almost directly across the water from the Commons, squats an aged brownstone building. It shares a square with several taller, younger, and more gaudy arrivals, the likes of which have sprung up in recent years across the...

I just tried to get a copy of a Scales of War PDF printed at a FedexOffice (formerly known as Kinkos), through their web printing method. I have never done this before, but I was under the impression that it was pretty common for people to get PDFs they have purchased printed in this way. They...

Does a skill challenge count as one of the two encounters to reach a milestone? By the book, it would seem so. Per PHB - Milestones You gain certain benefits when you reach a milestone— when you complete two encounters without stopping for an extended rest (see page 263). Also, "Two kinds of...

Ok, just wanted to get this out there for discussion before they are automatically adopted under the new proposal system. I don't think it would be a horrible disaster if these feats did come in. However, I personally wouldn't mind seeing them excluded from L4W, for a couple of reasons...

Hey all, as I'm planning to try my hand at DMing here for the first time, I thought I'd start a thread to discuss different techniques in running PbP games, and also maybe a bit about adventure design. If you have any particular tricks, things that you find work well or maybe things that...

(sorry if this is the wrong forum, no others struck me as better) This past weekend I decided to trade in my old MtG cards, which I had not touched in many (10?) years. The binder was literally covered in dust. I took them down to a new game store in Seattle called Gamma Ray Games. I told...

The deva power says you can choose to add the +1d6 when after you make a roll and "dislike the result". Does that mean you get to hear whether the check succeeded or failed, or just that you don't like the number showing on the die, before the DM tells you the outcome? It seems ambiguous...

I've added two new regions to the wiki: Valhyr (as described by Don Incognito in the Manual of the Planes proposal thread) Surtyr (the northlands of Ea) I don't think I need a proposal for these - you can add stuff to the setting more or less freely, no? But I assume I need a proposal for...

I'm making a character from Ea with ties to the Letheon Liberation Front. There's a lot of material about the war going on there and the giths, but not so much about the humans and prior civilization. These are some of the things I am wondering: 1. Is there a real-world cultural analogue to...

I recently got the two new counter collections from Fiery Dragon (battlebox and heroic). They look great. I'm almost dreading punching them out, though, because it will mean the eternal battle to keep them sorted. I've just used plastic baggies in the past, which works okay. But does anybody...

So yesterday, which just happened to be 8 days shy of my 40th birthday, I was dropping off some chairs at a friend's house on the way to brunch someplace else. I saw the friend in the window waving, so I put down the chairs on his porch and waited for him to open the door. When a few seconds...

In my 4e campaign that's getting going, I'm considering the idea of having an ally NPC to bolster the party. The party has only 4 PC's, and though we've played a few one-shots, it'll be our first extended campaign. Making matters worse is that we'll be taking our rules inexperience and...

I'm sure this must have been a hot topic of discussion already, but... Ok, not really. Has anyone ever actually used the thirst rules on DMG page 159? I'm preparing to and something seems off. Ok, so say I have three days worth of water and a nine day journey. By the letter of the rules it...

I'm trying to bring a 3.5 campaign into 4e. In that campaign, all the PC's had the planar touchstone feat from 3e Manual of the Planes. Travel to touchstones was a central theme of the campaign. First, is there any 4e version of the planar touchstone feat published anywhere? I don't believe...

Hey, has anybody created or come across any good homebrew rules for feats, powers, and/or classes that build off the 4e Grab mechanic? Here is why I'm looking. I have a 3.5 monk character I'd like to convert over to 4e. He is a strong guy who took the various improved grapple options from 3.5...

I know monsters do have healing surges - isn't it 1 for regular, 2 for elites, 3 for solos? I don't recall where this is stated but I'm pretty sure... I think it also said a monster's healing surges generally aren't relevant. I assumed this was due to a couple of things. Monsters are...

I know that there are some who really dislike the way you can spend unlimited surges after a short rest, to heal up to maximum before every encounter. For the most part, this distaste may stem from the feeling that is unrealistic, too "gamey" or "cartoony". I'm not going to address that...

Hello... I'm in the early stages of converting a 3.5 campaign over to 4e. This is the "ETeam" campaign, involving a team of four half-elemental humans, with one coming from each element. I'll present a couple different versions of the half-elemental race. The first version is intended to be...

So I still haven't read the new books cover to cover, so if this is touched on somewhere else, let me know. But in the generally excellent "DM's Toolkit" chapter of the DMG, there is a glaring absence: no advice about altering powers or creating new ones from scratch. We do have that "damage...