Recent content by martincwday

Sadly the only other bit of 4E half-orc artwork I can think of is in Gardmore Abbey (Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (Madness at Gardmore Abbey Art)), and he's even more orc-ish than those seen in PH2...

IIRC, when I DM'd this, I think I 'nudged' the players into leaving this room until last. In addition, my party came up with a complex plan (involving a goblin they'd already befriended - who's still with them now, over a year later!) to pretend to have been captured. Some of them then managed...

X2 - Castle Amber (I'm *that* old...) or I6 - Ravenloft. Either of these would make me Very Happy Indeed.

FWIW I've gone The Twisting Halls (from the red box) - Slaying Stone - Reavers of Harkenwold parts one and two - Orcs of Stonefang Pass (and may not be able to squeeze in Cairn of the Winter King before cracking on with Gardmore). I've made a variety of changes as I've gone, linking Slaying...

Mundane shield (or any other shield for that matter!) but, as noted previously, it just seems to be a bug. If I 'unequip' the shield, the AC drops by 2, so it seems to be working, it just appears in red! (And if I change the race to human, and the character class to fighter, it still appears in...

Ah, smashing. Thanks ever so.

I said I'd try to sort out the character of one of my players before tonight's session, but, despite trying all sorts of things within the DDI Character Builder, the same issue remains. Namely that his third level Revenant (human) Paladin (honestly, there's quite a good RP reason for this!)...

I think most people skip or merge encounters within the keep. There's an excellent commentary (sadly the blog is no longer updated) at Eleven Foot Pole: Keep On The Shadowfell, which highlights the redundancy and repetition (amongst other things). Well worth a look. Also worth checking out is...

Just in case it's of interest, I started a thread in the House Rules section on Slaying Stone, specifically my mad plan for a town/city map, and my attempts to scale it up from level one to two...

Thanks to both fba827 and S'mon for their replies. I'll probably try a number of different things in the various encounters (and swap the wolves in the first encounter for stray iron defenders, as suggested, er, somewhere) and see what works, and also what the players seem to be enjoying most...

Oh, absolutely. Thankfully I've been DM'ing a bit more in recent years - currently working through Ashen Crown with my daughter, as well as a campaign of sorts that stretches back about five years with my brother-in-law and his family (though we only play about once every two or three months...

Hello everyone. Longtime reader, occasional poster here, so go easy on me! After almost thirty years of playing and DM'ing D&D, off and on (more off, sadly), I've finally got a regular group of players who are very keen to play every week with me as a DM! Exciting stuff. We've run through The...

Yeah, remarkable product, the 4E Ravenloft. Beautiful plumage, innit?

Quick summary: I'm sad to see WotC continuing to turn away from books, printed adventures (and miniatures) in favour of toys, cards and tokens, but each to their own. Upshot is unless Dungeon gets a kick up the backside I can't see me spending any money this year, apart from possibly picking up...