Recent content by Darketower

The gaming group I'm in has seven players and an oft-overwhelmed DM. Four of those folks working in the videogame industry, and when products are getting ready to go beta/gold they have to vanish for a month or two, and that leaves us on an odd schedule. Fortunately, beta-time came as KotS came...

Specific beats General. The Rogue's ability has nothing to do with a Surprise Round. It has to do with Initiative Order. The Rogue gains combat advantage against any enemy that has not acted yet at the start of the encounter. As long as the Rogue moves first, even without "surprise", he gets...

To further refine that, make it "Enchant Martial Tattoo", and you get something that lies in-between the flavor of the 3.5 Tattooed Monk and Kensai prestige classes. And I would probably add a caveat that you can only have one martial tattoo per martial style feat, and you have to designate what...

Not to nitpick here, but the encounter you're referring to in KotS isn't a "social encounter" in the traditional sense. It's a test. He's evaluating the party's abilities, so he's asking relevant questions—which means he's testing your other skills. No matter how charismatic and diplomatic you...

I'm also interested in finding this out. My DM has agreed to do a "test run" of 4E using KotS this weekend (and in subsequent weekends where our 8-person 3.5 game can't meet because of scheduling conflicts) to see whether or not we're going to make a transition into 4E. He'd also like everyone...

I don't know about the kind of RPG groups you've played with, but one common theme in every group I've played in and DMed in, was that all of the combined resources and gaming materials were, for the most part, public access. We all lent books and issues of Dragon and the like just to help...