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I like the idea of ability bonus giving a time discount on proficiency training, but I'm thinking that 250 days for skill proficiency might be too short. I can see 250 as the base for tool/language proficiency, but I'm thinking that for actual skill proficiency, I'mma bump it up to a full year...

Whup, failed my Comprehend Languages check on that one, didn't I? :o

The conjured item only exists for an hour, or until you use minor conjuration again, or until it takes ANY damage. So I'd say that being used as a material component counts as "damage", at which point it ceases existing, and your spell goes poof. And then whoever you just raised falls over...

Yissssssss!!!! [Many thanks to the illustrious Rae and Dawn up at Myriad Games in Salem.]

As I recall, Mearls already said that there's gonna be Belts of Frost/Fire/Stone/Storm Giant Strength in the DMG. Like, last year. BUT (and this is a Big Ol' But), they're ARTIFACTS. Like, "there's one of each type in the world" kind of artifacts. So, yeah, there's probably a few Ogre Gauntlets...

In my campaign world, there's a little-known secret that bothers the hell out of the wise: elves and orcs CAN interbreed, but the result is always a perfectly ordinary human being.

That actually seems like the smoothest solution to the problem. Think it's the one I'll use until something official comes up (or maybe even after, if the official solution sucks). My daughter's been thinking about running a critter-focused ranger for our upcoming family game, and I've been...

Healer's Kit with the Healer feat gives 1d6+4, plus additional hp equal to target's max hit dice. I dunno about having the Surgeon's Kit be feat-dependent (not everybody's gonna be using feats, after all), but I'm also not sure how to balance it.

Yeah, the prose can get a bit purple, but since Murmuring Fountain's apparently designed to be a semi-Lovecraftean horror adventure I can let that slide. Both of the adventures are written as creepy horror adventures instead of goblin-stabbing dungeoncrawls, and I think they do a good job at...

Just picked them up, and skimmed through them. Glitterdoom. Kinda linear and short. Basically, dwarf hires you to help him clear out ancestral/cursed mine from the weird cursed undead dwarves and maggot-things that're infesting it. Undead dwarves are basically lightweight wights that can walk...

Got mine at Myriad Games in Salem a couple of hours ago. Would have paid full cover price, but turned out they're taking 10 bucks off the core book and 5 off Hoard, so that's pretty snazzy. Been jonesing for this for a while, so there was no real way I was gonna be able to hold out. Also, I like...

I dunno, the line between a skill and a tool proficiency is pretty blurry from where I'm sitting. Not that it's likely to come up between now and when the PHB comes out, but I'd be inclined to let it roll with just the time investment for now.

Yeah, so here's the saga of Joe Crow and his Quest for the Starter Set. Placed a pre-order with the folks up at Myriad Games, checked in with them last week to confirm that they'd be getting the boxes in this week, and waited. Yesterday, took the bike up in the steamy pre-storm hotness for the...

It's in the downtime section. Takes 250 days at 1 gp/day to learn a new skill/language. Doesn't say whether those days have to be consecutive or if you can just say "In between adventuring, I go back to Blacksmithing school for a couple of weeks!" and let it gradually accumulate. I'd probably...

Caves of Chaos encounter.

Yeah, there's three different stores that're technically "local" for me that're on Wizards' list of "official distributors" or whatever. Myriad Games in Salem, Updog Comics in Plaistow, and Toy Soldier in Amesbury. I checked in with each of them, and none of them had heard about the early...

Checked in with the excellent folks at Myriad Games just up the road a piece in Salem, and they say they'll have the set in on Thursday, so I'll be there bright and early for mine. If they fail me, then I will wreak a terrible vengeance on this city! No one will be spared! NO ONE! (also...

Me too. My semi-local game store didn't even know they could get the stuff two weeks early, despite being part of the Wizards network, so I dunno if they're gonna get it on the 3rd but if they do, I'll take the seven dollar hit, buy it there, and cancel my online preorder. Seems like the...