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Thank you for the replies from MortalPlague and FireLance. @MortalPlague: Getting the MM3 will be a priority for me, the blog link was great thank you. @FireLance: I was just talking to the Fighter's player this evening. He does think he's character is way over powered with that cloak. He did...

Actually they are achieving at least 1 milestone per day sometimes 2. They are facing encounters appropriate to their level using a distribution similar to the DMG page 104. They are currently 9th level, so to gain that 9th level they faced 7th, 8th * 3, 9th * 3, and 11th * 1 encounters for the...

@OnlineDM: true they're gaining only 25% hit points. However the other things you have stated do not negate the fact that everyone carries the cloak. Healers do their thing, but a healer cannot go and heal everyone at once all of the time. That makes an exciting encounter - who does the healer...

My party is not of sufficient level (or composition) to use Dominate yet, however they have experienced it first hand and did not like it when the Dwarf Fight began carving up party members with a series of criticals. The creature in question was a Vampire Muse from Open Grave (page 190). Her...

Greetings, does anyone have comments on this item. It is beginning to become "the item" for everyone in the party I am currently DM-ing for and I can see it becoming bothersome since monsters will not be able to handle the (essentially) 150% hit points that come from the cloak. True for most...

In my younger days DMing I would always run into this kind of thing. A lot of posters have made very good suggestions on the topic and most of them work well. The problem here is that most MM adversaries that fit your situation (Humans, Elves, etc) are not trained in Insight (mainly...

Assuming that these manifestations of rage are rare, then just run it as a skill challenge during the scene. Let the whole party participate during the challenge to help subdue him and so forth. That way no one feels as if you are predefining what is going to happen. If it is something that...

There used to be an old system called Whimsy cards that pretty much did this. I believe their publisher was Lion Rampant. It was for Ars Magica IIRC. Perhaps that system has some possible ideas. D

The mushroom patch can easily be fixed to be terrain - change "characters" to "anything". This allows both sides to utilise it. As stated previously terrain features are just there and provide something that is impartial - Blood Rock for example. A Trap/Hazzard is solely there for the purpose...

For really simple calculations like Jump, you could think outside the box and look for a Spreadsheet application. Might be a little more expensive than you were after initially but it will open you up to the use of a lot more things that are already available out there like character sheets...

Your biggest problem here is that the mini plastic is porous and so the smoke really did get into them. Literally bonded with them inside. It will take a long time - if at all - for the smell to go away. Your best bet here is to use something that will mask the smell. Minis are similar to hair...

Unfortunately the way things run here "down-under" buying from Amazon is still cheaper than buying from my local B&M (run by a good friend). I get torn between supporting a good friend and budgeting my money. And the problem here is party WOTCs. They opened up in Australia but decided to rip...

Greetings, not sure if this is a rules question or not since it stands across two things from my perspective. The 4.0 rules indicate that monsters should not be allowed to use the magical items in the treasure packets assigned to their encounter for balance reasons. I can understand this and...

How does updating work? If I bought an earlier version of the application do I have to buy the newest version? D

Ignoring all the numbers being thrown about ... As a recent 4th Edition DM (my players are 6th level right now) I have noticed a couple of things. During this time I have tried to use every item in the game: skill challenges, traps, disease (wait have not used that yet), interested terrain...

Your goal is ambitious but not impossible. As a game design teacher I can state immediately that the design needs to be 100% nailed down before you try to produce anything. Because if it isn't ... you will wander around the development. Aside from that you have chosen an excellent engine to...

Be very aware that if you install software onto your hard drive you may be overwriting space of things that were undeleted. Deletion simply writes a 0 in the first byte of the file tables which says "nothing here - free space - you can use it". So if you defrag or install/copy/add files to...

I'm quite sure roguerouge is correct. Almost every monster (I say almost since I've not read EVERY monster) that uses auras or fear effects cannot affect the same target more than once in a 24 hour period. Your DM either decided to try and screw everyone or just didn't know the rules. D

This BRV argument is silly. One DM may make the BRV useless, another makes it overpowered, just by playing differently. And if you want to go and blame people for the "problems" or power-creep ... blame the play testers who should have made all these observations themselves, not the game...

The best person to have them is a non-novice DM and the players don't matter directly because the DM can adjust. But I find Power Attack to be a problem with 3.5 and the Paizo modules have PA all through them. And not just for tanks but spellcasters with a good BAB as well. D