Recent content by Manhattanguy

Another reason for the daily item limit is to discourage the "five minute workday." The designers were trying to keep people from walking into their first combat of the day, using all their dailies, winning the fight, then setting up camp and waiting until the next morning for fight number 2...

I'm about to start a 4E campaign in a homebrew setting. It's a points of light setting taking place in a continent emerging from, essentially, the Dark Ages. The PCs will be a group of explorers hired by the guilds of their home city to explore the continent, facilitate trade opportunities...

Thanks, Rechan. Sorry I didn't respond to you in my earlier message; that's what I get for spending 2 hours writing a half page message. Interesting ideas. I have to admit, when I read the part about the city dying, it actually upset me a little. I hadn't realized how attached I'd gotten to...

Thanks for your thoughts, everyone. Nerdronomicon, my thought was that the city wouldn't be cut off at its walls, but would be able to trade with the nearby countryside (say, up to a day's ride away). That would allow them to import crops and so forth. The city's economy wouldn't be thriving...

Hi, everyone. Long-time reader, first-time poster. I'm going to be launching a 4E campaign shortly. My friends and I have been playing together for about 15 years now, always in the Realms. But I'm not happy with the changes taking place in the 4E Realms and have decided to create my own...

Requesting feedback on homebrew campaign setting [Sorry, this didn't seem to post where I had planned for it to go. I'm deleting it and will try to repost in a more appropriate location. Please do not respond to this post here.] [This is additional text to try to get around the fact that the...