Recent content by Nate Jones

Long time lurker, infrequent poster, and perhaps soon-to-be former member of this community. But I had to come out of the woodwork for this. I am ashamed of those in this community who give Mentzer the benefit of the doubt, or worse yet, defend his comments (both his initial sexually-aggressive...

As far as inclusion of material from the Silmarillion and other stories, I do not foresee that happening, since Warner Brothers has the rights only to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. And if I recall, the Tolkien Estate (Christopher Tolkien) holds the rights to non-Hobbit, non-LotR...

It would be nice if there were some way to manually adjust all of the final stats and values, particularly attack modifiers. Sometimes you have a house rule to add a plus here or there (or in one case, the Builder did not seem to take into account a plus given from a character trait), and it...

Stumbling upon this thread reminded me of one of the early 4e design and development articles--an article that seemed to particularly excite me toward the prospect of 4th edition. The idea of different wizard implements differentiating different wizardly strengths seemed pretty evocative, and I...

I know it would be a slight departure from the pen-and-paper game, but what if a 4e CRPG were to borrow a bit from some existing MMOs? I think we could easily avoid the problem of daily power recharges and milestones if we moved powers from a per day/per encounter system to a time-based...

Our first foray into 4th Edition (Keep on the Shadowfell through King of the Trollhaunt Warrens). -Osric the Lion (Male Human Ranger) -Ghaelian Diamondew (Male Eladrin Wizard) - Ben Drum (Male Human Warlord) - Guinevere (Female Half-elf Paladin)

After ten pages, I think this thread is seriously at 1/2 hp.

The module is written such that it is possible to bypass the statues without ever knowing they were a threat. I'm not sure how your group missed the riddle short of DM fiat, but the module listed a method to advance the plot if the player's get stumped by the riddle, so maybe your DM just...

I just finished a google search to see if there was any other gms concerned about this brief adventure's riddle. I'm set to gm a game on the 7th and just recieved my adventure book. When I first read through the booklet, I noted that the riddle didn't look particularly inspiring, but didn't...

Appear, O' Mighty Logo!

Yeah! And I certainly voted for the poo option, and my name is not listed in glory up there! What gives?

Edit: Late night double post. Sorry.

Perhaps I am but a lazy, bad DM, but I much preferred the Eberron style Campaign Setting Book to the Forgotten Realms. I felt Eberron held so much more energy, so much more potential than the dry annal style FRCS held. For me, reading the Forgotten Realms campaign gudie was a chore, which was...

I chose poop. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Edit: Oh, no!! The no's outnumber the poops, we need more voters in here, stat!

Actually, to be a bit serious, I myself wouldn't mind a handy stack of "combat action" cards. My girlfriend is a very visual learner, and sometimes struggles to remember all her available actions in combat. (Heck, I sometimes get flustered DMing in the middle of an NPC-rich combat. Having...