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Let's see - materials being used. Everyone's using FR backgrounds, one is playing a Drow (FR Player's Guide), one was playing a Genasi before he died in the kelp sea (FRPG race as well), and the replacement for the wizard is playing a longtooth shifter fighter from PHB 2. I'm looking forward...

I'm running a FR game right now. Started at 11th, players went up to 13 last week. The Returned Abeir section caught my fancy, so I set up a campaign where the players were explorers hired by Amn to go discover and explore the new continent. They wanted to be pirates, so I rolled with that...

All depends on the group/character. Right now I'm playing a very LG guy, so I'm killing the snake tongue cultists before they unleash hell. It's kind of against type for me though - one of my previous characters tortured a man for days and then murdered him in his sleep because he looked funny...

This afternoon, for whatever reason, as the party was wading into the first room of Yuan-ti from the 12th-level section of dungeon delve, I had one of the Yuan-ti say "It is a strange and fortunate day brothers! We have no need to go and find sacrifices for the Emerald Dawn today! The sacrifices...

Avenger seems made of win and probably the class I was born to play. Sorceror also seems quite fun, though I'll have to look through it more. Barbarian I'm tentatively hopeful for, though the preview one played out kind of boring when I played one at level 4 (back up, charge, repeat). Warden...

Precisely, a defender not a striker. On your larger point though, you're right, all of the "problem" builds I listed have their uses, and having 1-2 in a group can work out just fine. It's just that if you start to get half the group or more tending towards those types, don't tell me I didn't...

True. It's our responsibility to know what rituals our players have and reward them for having them by giving them opportunities to use them. I'm very happy that one of my players seems to be finding a new use for Phantom Steed every week (casting it three times and then harnessing them all up...

You know what I hate about 4e players? When they whine about being caught in my Warlord multi-class Wizard's area attacks. Look, I'm a Warlord - I can't spare the feats for War Wizard. And besides, there was a monster right next to you!

Forgive me if this has been clarified elsewhere - what is the status of the 4e conversion for War of the Burning Sky, and did the new GSL affect it at all?

Oriental Adventure! Oriental Adventure! Oriental Adventure! (By which I mean an original and good Asian themed setting. If they do Rokugan again I may have to disembowel myself with a spoon.) Samurai! Monk! Ninja! Owlbear! (huh?)

Woot! Yay Logan + everyone else! (Any hints??)

And, once again, Penny Arcade says it all so much better and more concisely: Penny Arcade! - The Old Ways

I will say that the to-hit issue doesn't seem to be the major problem to me. I know the +5 difference really jumps out at you, but that's not what I'm seeing in play - epic characters have a lot of options that do automatic damage, and the various item/situational feats roll into it. Epic...

In my experience, the players enjoy being challenged. And they'll surprise you often enough by steam-rolling something you thought was tough. This doesn't mean you shouldn't throw in the occasional change of pace easy encounter, but by and large the tough ones are more fun for everyone in my...

Fixed your quote. Thanks for all the suggestions guys - when I DM Epic next (not this Friday due to Watchmen replacing the game), I think I'll be using monsters of PC level -1 or less, reducing all hp by 25-50%, and using the high-end damage output from the DMG for all monster attacks. That...

I don't have the links handy, but both here and on his blog Keith has talked about how in many ways he was trying to push 3e in a certain direction w/ Eberron (more cinematic, etc) and 4e has realized all of those ideas. He's a pretty big fan from everything he's said. If you think he's lying to...

I'm not going to argue with you that previous fans of FR, in general, hate it. I think most of the people who are going to post Amazon reviews are probably FR fans, which explains that for you. However, there's one other segment - those of us like me who would never touch FR with a ten foot pole...

Definitely true. They just don't do enough damage, hit for hit. Rodney, I see you posting up there. Any comments on why the math stopped working at epic tier (and why soloes are so horrible at every tier)?

Quoted for truth. I've bought everything WotC has put out in the last 9 months, some multiple times (minis, dungeon tiles, 2 4e Monster Manuals) and just out of curiosity I picked up the core rules for Exalted 2e as well (haven't found anyone up for a game yet though).

The published adventures are limited, true. But I can understand if you feel nervous tweaking your own stuff up - when you're first starting out, you can definitely be worried about "doing it wrong" and "ruining it for everyone". However, you're on the right track already by listening to your...