Recent content by DragoonLance

Something else IMO. Your best bet from my own research into the same issue is to change the encounter/daily concept to fit a more long term setup. You could require an 8 hour rest to regain an "encounter power" for example, but to refresh healing surges and dailies you could require...

Surprised that nobody has mentioned GURPS yet. 3 six-sided dice for resolving everything.

I don't understand this viewpoint. By this definition, only one other RPG I've played out of the over two dozen I've played/ run in the last 20+ years counts as a "real" role-playing game. And the current 4e campaign I've been playing (level 29 currently) has never once used a battlemat of any...

If the party is unoptimized, has no leader and don't use tactics, it's really hard to say. I've thrown encounters at my group I thought would be easy and they struggled just because they could not work together at all. If they enjoy RP I would be sure to setup the encounter so there is a way...

Got a new 1-30 campaign in the works as soon as we finish our current campaign (lvl 27 currently) so yes. I might make some changes to makes the math easier for our non-optimizers but really I don't see it as a big deal. I can create monsters easily enough, and I've already worked up...

Nothing dealing with game mechanics. Lots of advice on use of traps, creatures etc but nothing new to use. I suspect everything of that sort went into the Undermountain book, which I don't have. Dungeon 201 has an article on traps (again related to Undermountain,) which brings back some of...

I would say its decent. It is mostly fluff about adventuring in the underdark from both the GM and players perspective. How to create plot hooks, adventures, dungeons, traps and villains. For DMs there is a great random dungeon builder in the back, plus advice for running "old school"...

Except I've know several NCO's during my army years that did just that, and you don't tell the Sergeant Major that he's acting like a baby. ;) Of course grown men do just this but they call it "collecting," and leave the toys in the box, and nobody seems to have a problem with it, especially on...

My go-to subsystem for mass combat in 4e is Hard Boiled Armies. Simple but with lots of options, the basic idea is each unit becomes a 4e creature and combat plays out like a 4e combat at a larger scale, with PCs either leading units or acting like Warhammer heroes soloing through enemy units...

Yeah I'm going to have to use this sometime, it's pretty great. Very old-school feel like some of the OD&D castles. Either as-is, or perhaps for a sci-fi twist use a blue police box instead of a chicken hut. ;)

*double post*

Honestly to me the first third of the article seems more like a ode to sandbox games, take on the opponents you know you can handle and you get meh items, go to the "here be monsters" area and survive and get awesome items. The second part seems like he is pushing "wondrous items" over "+2...

Most of the players in my current game are the same way, they last played 2nd ed, skipped 3rd and are now playing 4th. I also notice that they seem to prefer essentials characters for the most part. In almost every case they graduated from high school and stopped playing D&D, 3rd simply wasn't...

Honestly I would go back and pull another system's campaign if you want something with some RP meat on it. One of the nice things about 4e is that it's real easy to convert adventures for other games into a 4e game. I'm currently running Red Hand of Doom in 4e and the players are loving it so...

It really depends on how complex you want to get. When I ran a "realistic" hexcrawl game for 4e I made the relatively simple change of short rests to "one nights rest in a safe place" (like an inn, camping outside was dangerous) and changed extended rests to "several weeks resting in a secure...