Recent content by justrob

I was prepping to run Reavers of Harkenwold for my main group tomorrow, when I grabbed the token sheets and just kind of blinked at them. Is there supposed to be a legend or listing of what each token is meant to represent somewhere that I just missed? Or, is it a case of just use whichever one...

Gotcha gotcha. I've got all 9 books in the matrix, so I was just needing to know which to ignore and which to keep around. I was told there was no specific item content in the RC so keeping the books around for that at the minimum is needed. The DMGs are useful no matter what for the fact they...

Ok, I just ordered the rules compendium and pre-ordred the monster vault from amazon. So, new question... In terms of session planning and table book needs, will the compendium replace the original phb and dmg books rules and mechanics wise? I assume the original books are still needed for...

I'm going to chalk this up to my not fully understanding the intricacies of 4e combat. I'll admit I run these a little lose but I'll take some time to really study it when I get the compendium.

Ahhhhhhh, I see what I'm doing wrong there. I'm telling you what the average AC for these monsters I'm using is vs what the actual needed to hit is. Still, even taking into account that discrepancy, my people are STILL rolling like hell.

Attached is one of the characters. PDF from character builder. It's not the latest update of the character, but not too far back. As for an encounter, I don't have any of my notes with me, but I usually build them by the book in terms of XP and difficulty. Actually, with the crap rolls these...

Yeah, these characters are built for flavor more than min/max. I actually prefer them that way. The old no such thing as a hopeless character as long as it can RP thing. If I build an encounter for their level, they average needing a 15 or so to hit.

Yeah, short and simple answer here. I think all the players dice are evil. Seriously. Between them, over 2 YEARS of playing, they've gotten 15 natural 20s. 15. Total. Combats take forever because they are consistently rolling too low. I literally had a hobgoblin shaman die of boredom in a...

Well, let me elaborate a bit. She (the player) is the main hack n slasher. Ditzy kind of girl, but when I mentioned she could rip things to shreds and kill them all conan style, she was totally in for it. She chose a tiefling because of the horns and tail, and a cleric because I mentioned that...

That's a good chunk of what I meant. Encounters take sooooo long when done right. an hour or two to resolve a combat and 10 minutes of narrative then, right back to the combat. It seems like the non-combat parts of the game just become a framing story for the tactical board game. Honestly, this...

From what I've been reading about essentials, despite the two camps of is it 4.5 or just a fix...I see it more like the black book revision of 2e. It's a fix and cleaned up presentation. Like it says in the intro to that revision, "This is NOT 3rd edition." I don't see essentials as 4.5 in the...

Wow, wasn't expecting so many responses so quickly. I had an amazingly long reply typed up, hitting on every single one of you with an individual reply...and then the power went out. Yep. Wiped the whole damn thing. Spent over two hours typing it all up. Sucks. However, it did give me a...

As the title says, I'd like some help in "getting" 4e. First, a little background to the question. I first started playing D&D back in '94. Some of the older kids in school were playing it at lunch. They let me join in one day and that was that. This was 2nd edition. Most of my history with...