Recent content by GRStrayton

Very cool! We've been using a similar system for the past six months or so and it's been working great both during home plays and at conventions. You can check it out at Legends & Labyrinths. Just click on Exploration Procedures under "Core L&L" in the upper righthand corner and you'll find it...

I'd love to hear people's thoughts on my new fighting-man subclass that takes a cue from Essentials and runs with it. Thanks in advance! Fighting-Man Subclass Legends & Labyrinths Just added the sneak-thief subclass! Sneak-Thief Subclass Legends & Labyrinths And now the magic-user...

I love your optimism! All I can say is that I have a *feeling* it will work in play. When I DM, I use combat cards on which I wrote the monster defenses (so I'm not constantly flipping through books), so I would just subtract 10 from each defense as I was copying the data over. (In fact, I...

Good points from both of you. I can't defend my idea 100% -- I'm not sure if it will work. I'll have to try it during play. Subtraction (according to the reference I used in my article) does take longer to carry out for the human brain. But working with smaller numbers is quicker to carry...

I came up with a crazy idea about quickening the determination of scoring a hit on a foe by speeding up the times it takes to add up the total attack roll, i.e., adding the attack roll modifier to the d20 roll, by using smaller numbers for both attacks and defenses. It takes a tiny bit of work...

Yes, you get everything (including basic attacks) EXCEPT encounter and daily powers. So, you have all your at-wills (stances, tricks, powers, etc.). The idea is to make a simple system so very young/inexperienced players don't have too many choices to make ("Should I use up my Daily now?") as...

Great questions. Yes, the resource point mechanic only determines the stability for that month. And yes, there will be additional benefits for having a stable (or better) dominion -- contacts at the local Thieves' Guild who can provide you with secret information, the arrival of sages who can...

Damn it! I just posted my first in a series of articles regarding player character dominions in December and now I see WotC is doing an article on them this month! So for those of you who don't subscribe or who are just interested in different take, here's a link to the first short article...

Someone has probably already done something like this, but you can check out my take on zero-level PCs at the link below. They're meant for introducing very inexperienced players to the game or for challenging very experienced players to survive level zero and make it to 1st. :) Zero-Level PCs...

For anyone interested, I've recently post three articles on magic items: 1. Magic Item Charges: An article about replacing encounter and daily uses with charges. Magic Item Charges Legends & Labyrinths 2. Magic Item Qualities & Adornments: An article about spicing up your descriptions of...

These were done by my friend Matt Vancil who lived down the street from me in LA. He played in the D&D group I DMed. They are awesome!

[Just FYI, the information in this article unfortunately isn't entirely correct, so I would take it with a grain of salt. That is all. :D]

I've been working on this -- he has a character from one of his original campaigns in the late 70s/early 80s called Melkor that he wants to use as the main character for a D&D-style film. And he's a huge fan of the game, of course. I've met with his production company, but haven't been able to...

No worries. Margaret and Tracy were happy with the draft I turned in (you can search around the net for their quotes about the script) and that was the most important thing to me (since I loved those books since I was a kid), and after that I had nothing to do with the final (unfortunate)...

I do make checks for each monster -- but then again, I typically don't have many monsters involved in my combats. I opt for fewer, but higher level monsters (I don't use the official encounter system at all). By the time I start rolling morale checks, we're usually at the halfway point of the...