Recent content by Ciaran

I suspect it was a pre-emptive measure against attempts to game the system with the 'meta-drafting' strategy proposed by Papewaio a few posts up. If the players agree that half of them will split the best stats in the first draft and the other half will split the best stats in the second draft...

Yeah, we'll always remember this as the session when we beat Furious George.

Zurai, you didn't respond to this one. Is Destil incorrect about this being a viable counter to the Cloak?

Tim would kill to be part of a group with an awesome name like "the Fearless Manticore Killers".

Win.

I've been playing a 3.5e fighter from 2nd to 4th level, and in about 20 long fights (coming to maybe 200 combat rounds, if not more), I've successfully cleaved through and damaged a second target exactly once. And that was against a handful of muckdwellers that we were annihilating anyway. So...

Yes. This is unquestionably the best approach.

No, Thog roars so scarily that a dozen goblins are shaken, then barrels into their formation so as to knock down half a dozen of them at once. Battlefield control != tangible magical manifestations; just because walls and entanglements allow you to control the battlefield doesn't mean they're...

Sure, you can knock those one-legged fat men down as quick as you like. That's because it's not an encounter. Your example is of the same order as demanding a Climb check for every step when ascending a flight of stairs. If there's no challenge involved, don't bother rolling. And as others...

You really can't take Martin and Richard as a good example. Richard made a poor first impression, what with the mind control and the drow witches and the demon wolverines and the getting Jeremy killed and all. Later impressions only served to reinforce the original impression of a...

Again, I'd suggest running the initial playtest without them. Do it concurrently with your current 3E game so they don't feel left out. If the other players like 4E, their enthusiasm will do far more to persuade the Paladin and the Bard than anything you could say.

My advice is to bypass the antagonistic players entirely. Start your playtest game before the current campaign ends, and only invite those players who are most interested and willing to try the new edition. (Presumably that would be your husband, your son and the Druid's player.) If they...

A prospector can pan for gold in a stream without knowing where the rest of the gold goes when the stream sweeps it out to sea.

As I recall, the deadlock wasn't broken until after Kermit stated that he'd be safer traveling on his own rather than with the group. At that point, Timotheus (who really wanted the warning about hobgoblin activity to get through) switched his vote to staying on in the Disputed Territories...

I would love to have spells named bursting of the fifth sun and rise of deathly stars! :D