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What I have found is that the power mechanics kind of vary all over the place. Some powers specifically require the player to designate the type of damage at selection. In that case I would say the power takes on the keyword selected. Some feats and items allow you to change damage types when...

I would disagree that tactical combat was the best element of 4e or that its fiddliness added to the appeal. Arguably the best element of 4e was that it delivered a game where the characters were actually the main protagonists and they were capable adventurers from the get-go rather than bench...

Thoughts of Q's Workshop I have not read Zeitgeist but the mention of getting a stipend reminded me of Spycraft (d20). I don't know if this is workable, but it might be an extremely simple solution to the magic item distribution issue, if it is indeed an issue. You don't get a stipend to...

Magic Items are a character build resource In all versions of D&D magic items have been a given default, and the default world is always high magic. The Christmas Tree Effect has been in place from the beginning, and I first encountered it in a home game circa 1983. As the editions moved...

If you have a chance take a look at the Neverwinter Campaign Setting/Adventure. The book was designed to give a cogent feel for adventures across most tiers, but is limited in scope to the Heroic Tier. They really did a good job of showing how to scale the game challenges and feel of upper...

The character builder allows you to remove all unused sources using the Campaign Settings Tab. You can then save that as a campaign setting default and load it as necessary. I use that with my players to filter out a lot of cruft from the system.

I'm currently playing 4e in a converted Kingmaker (Pathfinder) Adventure path. We are having a blast. Interestingly enough I was recently invited to join in a Pathfinder game and declined because my experiences playing and running 3.x and Pathfinder, after playing 4e, have been extremely...

I never NEEDED the electronic tools to play or prepare. For that matter I was able to run the game simply with the tables in the DM Screen. However, once I started using the electronic tools, such as the compendium and the offline character builder they became essential. They make...

Wow, what a time warp! I guess I get to say AGAIN how much I enjoy reading these campaign gameplay reports.

For me it depends on the pacing of the game, and the theme of the game. There will be times when leveling should be really fast (once per session), and times when it should be really slow (once every 8-10 sessions. Most leveling happens somewhere in the middle (3-6) sessions. I like real...

It's not just a rumor, it actually does exist. However, it seems like all traces of the original files on the internet have disappeared. It uses XAMPP to run an apache web server locally and mysql to host the database. It required a DDI account to do the initial scrape of the compendium db...

But even with that variability of choices the gameplay usually remained fun.

Some time ago I ran the Slavers modules (A1-A4) with very little modification to the adventure except for monster and trap stats for 4e. Interestingly enough this adventure worked better in 4e than any time I ran it in 1e. Exploration worked just as it always did when I ran 1e. If the players...

Very cool

That is a beautiful map did you do that entirely or take an existing map and modified it. Because if you made the map, kudos!

Some of the "errata" for the game was necessary. This one, like so many others, looks like a solution looking for a problem.

That was very informative. Thanks for taking the time to describe the process.

I've never been much into the calculating to see if the build is good, so that part I usually skip over. However, I've always been interested in how people arrive at the calculations. Care to describe how you came up with the numbers?

The Miniatures game was a separate product from 4e but it came with 5 minis and a large dragon so it used to be a good value. However, some of the original physical items are very expensive to buy nowadays. And keep in mind that some evolved as the game mechanics evolved to be much better than...