Recent content by AndrewDB

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What's the exchange rate where you live? I would love to know how much you spent in USD.

The OP wants to know about the online tools project, and some are advocating that we stop paying for DDI. While I do not think anyone is unreasonable for being upset over the delayed updates, I want to suggest that anger over the online tools project is collateral (dare I say, unwarranted)...

I work in tech support, and play D&D, big surprise. This problem sounds familiar and is easily fixed if it is the problem I am thinking about. Windows checks for updates you need, it downloads those update, then it installs those updates from the downloaded updates folder. An update can download...

Damned if they do, damned if they don't I guess. That will show them! When WOTC told us about things they were working on in the past, and pieces didn't come to fruition, players got pissed and "stopped investing." Rightly so I think. Now WOTC do their best to keep things hush hush until the...

I was always drawn towards and split between the Evermeet Warlock and the Champion of Corellon paragon paths (flavor wise), but a natural racial choice for both of those paths (Eladrin) didn't have optimal racial stats for either path. Now an Eladrin can play a charisma based fey-lock for...

Chessex Battle Mat: Amazon.com: Chessex Role Playing Play Mat: Battlemat Double-Sided… Drawing the battle lines with a wet marker on the mat will take no more time than using a mouse to draw on a computer screen, tokens can actually be placed and moved on the mat, and people don't need to be...

Point One: It sounds like this kid is doing simple-roll thievery in situations that require full-blown skill challenges. You have everyone's permission, here and at your table, to be a full-blown DM who uses the full-blown rules. Let this kid hear you roar in the form of a proper skill...

I believe one of the Dragon books has fluff about creating dragon items. Note that I said fluff, not rules. Since dragons have strong ties to elemental forces, their body parts quickly deteriorate into their elemental components. The body parts deteriorate too much to use in crafting items. So...

I would like to put another vote in the ballot box favoring a sand timer. Actually, I use one of those multicolored oil and water hourglass things. It makes the time limit less precise than a sand timer, so the acting player feels more like she is role-playing a dynamic situation and less like...

I noticed that too when I browsed the online listing today. I just thought it was an editing error. I imagine they all once said "Power Name - Chosen of Blank" for each of the powers from wherever they got the text, but didn't delete that piece of the text for that one power when they plugged it...

Divine Power has the Chosen ED as well. It's the same ED as the Chosen from FR, but with powers for non-FR gods and a few changed or improved powers for setting-neutral gods such as Corellon. That may be why some of the Chosen have two listed powers in the CB. I haven't looked at it in the CB...

I played a cleric in 2nd and 3rd edition. The character was less magic and more battle as well, though never trying for the uber-cleric-munchkin thing that happened in 3rd edition. I played the cleric this way because it fit my preferred character image, not for mechanical superiority, and...

Context does help. DracoSuave's thought experiment may be true in and of itself, but not within the context of Open Grave. The first quote given by Ninja-to comes from a section titled The Nature of the Undead, which is divided into undead with souls and undead without souls. This section...

Protecting freedom sounds ever so majestic and good. However, killing someone in order to avoid negative legal or social consequences isn’t a matter of protecting your freedom; it’s a matter of greed. Freedom was never dependant on fair compensation. Killing someone because you want more wealth...