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I think the part that makes it worth a 7th level spell slot is what happens to the base damage if you keep concentrating on it. The way I read that paragraph, the spell increases in damage by 1d6 for each round you maintain concentration, so if you concentrate for the full minute, you're looking...

The article originally had a link to a pdf with the stat block, but it seems to have been edited at some point and the link is gone now. However, if you go here: http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/media-resources/excerpts and click on the Golem excerpt, you'll be able to download it. *edit* Or...

The Encounter Difficulty chart is a per character value. Four 1st level characters makes 200 XP for a medium difficulty encounter.

Looking at the modifiers on the saves it is proficient with, I think it's safe to say that the proficiency bonus continues to scale beyond 20. Looks like it's rocking a +9 proficiency bonus!

In your post at wizards.com, you mentioned that you were expecting a damage increase at 16 and not 17. Why were you expecting it at 16? Looking at page 10 of the basic rules, the increases you found at 5, 11, and 17 correspond directly to the 4 tiers of play they describe, at the beginning level...

The playtest bestiary files just presented those creatures as a monster statblock, same as the rest of the monsters. The werewolf statblock mentions that someone bitten can be cursed with lycanthropy, and the vampire statblock mentions that the vampire's bite turns slain characters into...

I just took a look at all of the versions of the Character Creation pdf over the course of the playtest. The standard array started out as: 15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8 and when the optional point buy sidebar showed up, you were given 27 points to spend. However, in the two most recent versions...

Wizards announced 4th edition at Gencon 2007 (August), and it was released June 2008. So, not quite a year, but pretty close.

Another option I didn't see mentioned yet would be the newly released Thousand Suns by James Maliszewski of Grognardia. Thousand Suns: Rulebook - Grognardia Games | DriveThruRPG.com I picked it up when it came out a few weeks back, and I've slowly been reading through it. So far it seems like...

Actually, the "new" campaign setting book for next year is the Neverwinter Campaign Guide. They are going back to the Realms. I guess they really wanted a tie-in to the newly announced Neverwinter computer game.

I'm really liking this article. The mad scientist creating new horrible forms of life is such a great idea for a devil! Combine this with the article on Friday with all of his horrible creations, and you get a great amount of stuff to play with. One more thing I'd like to mention, though it's...

I'd really like to see the details of the Create Teleportation Circle ritual.

Design & Development: Death and Dying There you go. It's an old Design & Development article.

So its from Against the Giants then? http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/mi/20080619a Does it look just like that, or is it an alternate paint? You said it was blue, so I'm guessing it's an alt. What does the tile look like? Sigh, I really wish the nearest store wasn't 50+ miles away...

Check for it under the Abomination heading please!