Recent content by Tenniel

If you think making many rituals free will enhance fun at your table (and not just for those with the Ritual Caster feat) then give it a whirl. Rather than changing the costs for rituals, I let players harvest body parts, blood, fur, feathers, scales etc from creatures that can substitute for...

To find out more about probabilities for skill challenges look up the negative binomial distribution. This describes the distribution of the number of trials (number of rolls) needed to get a certain number of successes (number of rolls beating the DC) of an event of a given probability (DC)...

Some high craft character on **u-Tube has made an awesome custom 3D tabletop Talisman board. It looks pretty amazing. I grew up on 2e, but think balance and playability was lost in the waves of expansions. While I am not a fan of 3e's more cartoonish artwork and use of photographs for...

Fantasy: Wiz War, lots of multi-player treasure-stealing spell-slinging fun, although it is a knock-out game. Sci-Fi (well historical/modern.. but with Sci-Fi elements): Nuclear War, also a knock out game. I usually do like multi-player games that knock out players... but these games are so...

As well as a great squad level battle game, the battlegrounds make great terrain for DnD exterior battles. Though watch the heights so falls are level appropriate ;-).

Heroscape terrain makes for wonderful battles. I've used it for two scenes so far: an ice cave and a castle with a bridge leading up to it Next will be a volcano!

Skill challenge is a good way to go, as you can use an existing mechanic. Doing it for bulk lots is also good. Otherwise you have to keep track of every gem, with lots of communicating back and forth over "that carmine spinel as big as your fist". Also a skill challenge lets more than one...

Unconscious Ranger - What does the Beast do? If the Beast is anything like a PC then it loots the Ranger's equipment.

I am glad that's sorted. But that really should have been done as an errata or faq... it's very much an issue regarding a core mechanic.

It's also strange that there is no way to dispel a ritual. So once a ritual is made permanent, unless it offers a way to counter it, there is no way to dispel it, ever. That's where the DM (the lord and master of game and never a slave to the mechanics) comes in. The evil cultists have set up...

The DM could also interpret the the rules this way: If you succeed with your Intimidate vs Will, it is up to the DM what happens next: Success: You force a bloodied target to surrender, get a target to reveal secrets against its will, or cow a target into taking some other action. It does...

Last game I played my leader (Warlord) was dishing at the same damage as the Strikers (a pair of rogues) when using at Wills: Warlord at will: 1[big_W]+str+int Rogue at will: 1[little_w]+dex+cha Of course, the strikers got sneak attack damage sometimes, but as a consequence of positioning...

Sounds like a challenging campaign start, congratulations on gaining your PCs' freedom. Weapons aren't Dex based or Str based. They are melee or ranged. The ability score used depends on the power you use. Ignoring class powers, you can make a melee basic attack or ranged basic attack. A...

In general, yes. But more specifically the ability score you add to your "to hit roll" and damage roll is dependant on the power you use to attack. In 4e an attack is an application of a power. This is a new concept in 4e. Your class grants you various attack powers, but any PC can also use...

Concur. Eladrin swordmages get +2 int and eladrin soldier, but they gain no access to exotic swords (only exotic spears). Also, while Dwarves gain a bag load of proficiencies you can only (well, mostly) use one weapon at a time.