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Is this an infinite garlic issue? "This recipe for eggplant parm just says 'add garlic', I can just add 80 pounds of garlic! NOTHING IN THE RECIPE WILL STOP ME?" In a higher-level adventure, maybe they have magical wards...

The best 4E adventure is "Madness at Gardmore Abbey". Hands down. Among the printed adventures ther stand outs are "The Slaying Stone" and "Seekers of the Ashen Crown" From Dungeon: "Dead by Dawn" and my favorite 4E dungeon adventure: "Lord of the White Fields" are the standouts. The...

This. Am I reading it right? It seems to say that you can use all your martial dice every TURN. So you can add in extra damage on your turn, and then reduce damage every turn (basically every attack). Is this the case? My players are level 3, so does the fighter basically get 2d6 damage...

There is no right or wrong way to play D&D. If you do this, you wont have bad-wrong fun, it'll probably be fun. However, I think you probably don't want to just drop this mechanic into the game without making other adjustments. This "Save/restore" mechanic is very video gamey, so keep that in...

Because if it is on the internet it must be true! google "we didn't land on the moon": About 124,000,000 results. "the sky is green": About 590,000,000 results Google results is a really bad metric. So, going by bad metrics, there are plenty of stores of people picking up D&D from the...

At the "Future of D&D" panel at PAX over the weekend, they mentioned this, and it is specific and intended. They said that the "core four", cleric, fighter, wizard, rogue, will be the most generic and the most customizable. These four will be the "assumed" classes. Everything else will be...

Right... that is why Mike and Jerry had Wil give the keynote address at the first ever PAX, and invited him back to give the keynote at the first PAX East. Thats why he's invited to every PAX, and has a giant panel every year. As for "being paid", PA has an ad policy of not doing site...

Except, there is a lot of 4E in Next, and that's a good thing. 4E did bring in a bunch of good ideas. The execution is where most people had problems with them. However, D&D:Next so far shows off a lot of 4E brought to the table, but in a smaller dosage. Backgrounds and Specialties are a direct...

Do people really ban words from their tables? That is a serious question. When you run a game do you really insist on some sort of master/slave relationship? I always treat all my games as... games. I have friends come over and we talk and chat, and play and have a fun enjoyable time. When we...

it was mentioned Avenger as a specialty of paladin. Right now, who knows? So this stuff is over a month old, but the released character sheets seem to be newer. On the podcast they were making level 10s, but these are only level 5s. On the PAX schedule for the live event on Saturday, it was...

What you are after is what modern video games do with their open "beta" tests, an early demo. Wotc didn't release a demo, they released a playtest package. They provided directions, "play this game, and let us know if it feels like D&D". They prefaced it with, "this is really early, let's get...

I don't mean to call into question the expertise of the article's author, but I think this might not be his area of expertise. Law, and even contract law, is a broad field, and very complex. To echo Morrus, how does this differ from a EULA? By information provided by the article's author...

wait so... he plays 4E without initiative or a grid... *mind blown* so... Ok, you've already made the decision to kill ordered initiative from D&D. Now, you say playing with it is weird... Isn't that like saying: "I've removed community chest and chance cards from Monoploy. I found that...

I think this is another excellent use case for optional rules modules. The simple multiple by 10 rule is a good "core". It's a little wonky around the edges, it's over simplification, but it is a decent rule of thumb, and easy to follow. Additional systems that are more exacting and more...

If the biggest wizard balance issue we have to worry about is the Light spell, we are in good shape.

The DLs after the first 48 hours is basically the problem. I grabbed the playtest at 9:30AM yesterday morning, the servers were swamped, but they were fine around 11PM, so let's just say 15 hours. That traffic is probably on the order of 1,000 times their normal traffic. The resources required...

I think the issue is that Mike answers the questions like the person having a conversation with another person, as opposed to a political press announcement that will be dissected line by line and quote mined for issues. I think your interpretation matches what we know so far. What he seems to...

I actually thought this was a cool idea at first. Kickstarter is really becoming "the" place to fund new game development. Then I saw the kickstarter goal. $50K. That's where I jumped off. If you read the announcement, one thing they mention is they didn't want to fund development "month to...

I guess I'm a little confused, what are we giving feedback on, the Rule of Three article or the 5E game rules? The game rules aren't out yet. Should we also give feedback about the lack of other things not mentioned in the the rule of three? He did not mention how the attack works, or the move...

Exactly. We all need to realize that these game rules are not machine code. This isn't a computer program. It also isn't a death pact. The rules are being set up in a way to allow DMs to make judgement calls. We do need to pay attention to what they put out and give feedback. It's another to...