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For this to be a game, there has to be player choice, which means the story may not come off the way it did historically. I think the best you can do is to set up the situation: The PCs are former soldiers for a cause or lord they believe to be good and just; their leader was slain by a...

Encounter powers are a perfect mechanic for artificers. Rewinding the clockwork, puttimg all the spring-loaded jumping caltrops back in the bag, filling the flashbomb ("because only a suicidal fool would walk around with more than one filled. You have to hold it perfectly level, or...") You...

I want everything in, so I can decide what to take out. If a GM dislikes an element but lacks the spine to ban it, that is a problem with the GM, not the rules. Give us as full a toolbox as possible, with the expectation that few campaigns will use every tool.

Actually, using the un-assembled cards, per Gardmore Abbey, works differently than the article quoted by Traveon: If the card is present at the start of an encounter, whether carried by a PC, held by a villain, or just lying around somewhere, a manifestation (in this case, an image of a skull)...

Another key point you may be missing: bonuses with the same name don't stack. A character can benefit from one "power bonus", one "feat bonus", and one "enhancement bonus", plus any number of untyped "bonus"es to AC at a time. If the bard, the cleric and the warden each provide a power bonus...

Something is wrong. Either your defender has mis-figured his AC (are character sheets built using Character Builder, or by hand?), or someone has secretly replaced your d20s with d12s and you haven't noticed yet. Do the characters have magic armor vastly above their level? Did they roll their...

It's clearly not D&D as we know it. I don't see a single Mountain Dew can.

No, we didn't quite have one, but it was very close, thanks to SIX consecutive failed saving throws (no further details, since we're playing a week ahead of schedule so it would be a spoiler for anyone playing on schedule). We had only one conscious and functioning party member, and had the...

Six days left and still not a word. Anyone else still waiting?

Dungeons & Dragons V: Return of the Flumphs

I understand the feeling, but it's kind of necessary. Otherwise, years down the road they will introduce an iconic pixie vampire, and someone will say "Hey, I submitted a pixie vampire to your contest in 2012; you copied my idea. Pay me!" And yes, a judge would probably rule in their favor...

Perhaps a "target makes a basic attack against a creature the caster chooses" can be a Heroic-level effect for Psychic, with a -2 dice modifier? Then a "move and make an attack" at paragon, and full dominate at epic. I was also wondering if some effects might be available as dailies in heroic...

Overall I like it a lot, but my wizard could not use it (enchantment/ illusion, focused on making opponents attack each other), since dominate is not available until epic tier. Then again, my wizard could probably have been a bard.

I don't know how well the rules will support players fighting each other, nor whether they need to. The goal of "more or less balanced" is tough enough to achieve; insisting on "balanced enough for a fair fight" is probably beyond the scope of anything they even plan to attempt. If one player...

what if you live and die by the same choice? Choose "lethal" and you gain access to beheading blows, finger of death and implosion spells, but are subject to the save or die version of monster attacks. Choose "mythic" and your attacks have to slog through buckets of HP or apply only "save...

I liked the 2e customization for flavor, but did not like it for playability. Many of the options (e.g. Agriculture) were simply not adventuring material, and it was always problematic when a party member could not do what you expected them to. "Ow, I'm hit! Cleric, I need a heal!" "Uh, I'm...

Agree. If fly speed isn't speed, then pixies are immune to slow.

Don't give it any suggestions, Cliff! Drawing his blades, Chizz rushes the creature. As he hits it, bright sparks from his enchanted bracers run down his blade and race along the skeleton's bones, stopping at weak spots to show Chizz's allies where best to hit. FREE: draw Katar (fast hands)...

Two recent events, both from Encounters: 1. When only 3 players showed up and the dice went sour on them, 2 of them were down and only one pixie remained conscious, with 3 HP left. She used a combination of Shrink and Pixie Dust, plus an Arcana check, to make both her teammates small or floaty...

I like both games, so I'll take a shot at it: PATHFINDER/ 3.5 TRAITS LOTS of character customization, particularly if you also use 3.5 classes/ prestige classes. Familiarity: We've played this game for 10 years; we know a fireball does (level) d6 of damage like we know our own street address...