Recent content by Celisasu

I've played Descent, Arkham Horror, and Castle Ravenloft at this point. I find Descent the most enjoyable. I've only played the Overlord so far, but I have a lot of fun doing so. Castle Ravenloft I'm undecided on. It's fun, but so far it seems a bit easy once you know how to game the...

I played it for the first time tonight. It goes pretty fast. One thing we noticed was that it's better to wake monsters than get encounters. We took far more damage from the encounters than we did the monsters in our game. For one thing monsters seemed to be amazingly easy to kill.

Despite the silence from my end for the last two months I've been prodding away slowly at this. Our previous game ended unexpectedly and the players asked me to run a Scales of War campaign so I've been doing stuff with that first. Anyways I have done some other stuff with this. For this post...

Well now that we have the creature catalog we can look instead at the Dark Sun beasties that didn't make the cut and play around with them. One thing I remember from 2E Dark Sun that might be fun is the Silt Vortex. Note that this is an extremely rough draft of the beast for 4E and needs...

I can see where the board game comparison comes from. If you play with a group that is very board game focused, D&D4E can indeed feel more like a board game than RPG. Our group plays lots of board games. We have two players who are primarily board gamers, one player who's primarily a P&P...

Races Part 2: Deva: Some humans have visions of the past. They see things that once were. They've learned not to admit to this though as any who hear their words are quick to send them to an asylum....for their own good of course. These visions tend to of moments of extreme emotional...

*Shudder* I saw that the other week. It's a nasty nasty thing. Made even worse by the fact that due to lack of attack cards in the game we played I had no way of knocking it out.

You posted while I was typing out my race post. As you can see that's actually what I did with a few races. A few others I left changed. Some though just don't work. Dragonborn I can't just fit in a comfortable way. Firebreating humans just doesn't fit. On religion I'm still working it out. I...

The races, how common they are, and mechanical changes to them(if any). This only covers PC races in PHB1, 2, and 3 as well as the Forgotten Realms and Eberron Players Guides. This is a default assumption for the setting as I'm going to be running it for my players. This post will not go into...

Very powerful means Paragon Paths and Epic Destinies. Coming back from the dead is pretty f'ng powerful if you ask me. Maybe D&D laughs at it, but when you look at it, what high level D&D4E heroes do, it's pretty damn amazing objectively. Rare is easy. It means that the PCs get less magic...

Right now I'm in a 4E campaign with some friends as a player(Dwarven Battlemind). But after we finish this campaign(which definately has a few months to go assuming no TPK) I'm going to be GMing. The players know some of the basics but I figured I'd create this thread to refine my ideas...

What if instead of ongoing 15 it did ongoing 20 or 25 damage?

Yeah, I can see the argument either way. I lean towards the "I want a counter" mostly because I'm curious as opposed to a dedicated fan meaning I don't want to commit too early and then a year down the line have a group that's no longer interested in trying it.

There's also an assumption that the GM will let you have Armor of Dark Deeds. So if that magic item is denied this all goes out the door. The Artful Dodger isn't inherently dependent upon one item for what he does.

I know we sure as hell didn't use it in our games. Honestly 3E improved in 2E a great deal. 4E has some very noticable changes although you can see some of the original elements(we're still rolling that Thac0 although we call it something different now and the numbers are put together more...