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I post therefore it is. ~

When I go to edit the Silent7Seven Games products, I click 'edit', and the text in the text box is totally different from what was written. I click 'cancel' and it goes back to normal. I could copy and paste, I guess, but I don't want to lose the formatting because I don't know the wiki code...

We just released episode 001 of the 7cast — a podcast from Silent7Seven Games. You can listen to it at our site through the Elemental Crux page in the Huxtropy section. The episode goes into some design and development back story about Huxtropy, for those who are interested in such things. ~...

[S7S] Elemental Crux — Huxtropy: D&D 4E playing cards as weapons RELEASED Long ago, a trickster gypsy named Felavusix fooled four powerful entities from the Elemental Chaos into an endless game of cards. Having trapped them, he enacted a ritual to draw their elemental power into his own...

[S7S] Elemental Crux — Huxtropy: D&D 4E playing cards as weapons FREE PREVIEW Elemental Crux is a new series of products from Silent7Seven Games. All with an elemental theme, they are intended to eventually get compiled into a sinlge full-sized sourcebook. As a small publisher, we don't have...

Hehe yeah I know. I figured I'd find a solution, but started to panic when I only had one day to go :) Well I had already made the clues (through another post a month or so ago here :)). In fact, the PCs had already received one when I posted this thread! ~ fissionessence

You could use the hybrid rules [scheduled to appear in PH3] [previewed in D&D Insider] to create a dragon sorcerer|fighter or something like that. You would have some ranged spells and some melee attacks. ~

I ended up creating a group of law enforcement who arrested the PCs after they defeated a cult member. The 'law' claimed the 'crime scene', including the clue the PCs would have found. The PCs were accused of being cult members, and when they talked their way out of that, they were charged with...

The PCs have learned that they need to collect seven clues in order to figure out where they need to go next. They know that [most of] these clues are in the possession of various cult leaders across the city, whose identities they don't know. They already have one clue, so presumably I've got...

As always, I enjoyed this month's Confessions of a Full-Time Wizard article. However, I expect this is a column many people might skip. I also expect many of those same people are interested in the DDI Monster Builder. If that's you, give this month's column a shot; Shelly gets Peter Schaefer...

In my opinion, skill challenges should only be for things interesting and story-related. Crossing an ocean or something should be a couple skill checks, not a 'skill challenge'. Unless you have failures trigger random encounters or something, there's no point to make it a challenge. If there...

Even before I read your last couple lines, I was going to say it sounded like a mechanic for a fiery elemental class. Seems like a good idea that could work. Now just write up hundreds of powers and you should be all set :) ~

Well how long is the 'time unit' in game time? That is, if it's a week, why not just call it a week? Does the amount of time change for different situations? If so, why are you making a 'time unit' to represent an unpredictable value? Anyway . . . you could call them Measures, as in 'measure...

Where has all the old art gone? I downloaded one of the replacements, and one of the pieces of art that I really liked from the previous version had just disappeared. Are there mechanical/balance updates taking place, or just slight editing and art replacements? ~

Making one skill check is a standard action (in the situations you provided; refer to individual skills for their action types). Thus, during a single round, a character can make one skill check toward the challenge. The character could spend an action point to try again, I suppose. ~