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I was pawing through all of my miniatures to assemble the monsters for the red box adventure. Once I was done, I thought I'd share the results. I tried to list reasonable alternates for some of the monsters, angling for the most common where possible. (Spoilers ahead, of course...)...

I originally came up with the idea of the four cards to be used on the player's turn. I added the immediate and opportunity action cards for the sake of completeness. I'm looking forward to giving these a try as well.

I'm not sure I get what you mean by "You can take one opportunity action against each foe"; I was going by this definition from page 268 of the PHB: Is that not the same thing? I could make it more clear by saying "flip over at the start of every turn" since the front says that you can't use it...

I'm in a group of people who are mostly new to D&D, and I have been trying to think of ideas on how to help them grasp the mechanics of the game. I wrote up a "cheat sheet" of the actions you can take during combat and when you can take them, but then I had another idea: Action Cards! They are...

When you are surrounded by people who will pounce on every statement you make and tear it apart -- witness the comments about WotC_Trevor's "announcement of an announcement" -- maybe saying nothing at all is the best policy. My opinion is that they will announce the CB update when they are sure...

I don't have my PHB handy, but it's on page 127 of the Rules Compendium, under the rules for passive checks.

Given that the flavor of the illumians in 3.5e made them completely uninteresting to me -- especially as a player race -- I have to say that sometimes change is good. I'd be curious to know how many people actually played an illumian character for the flavor.

Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (Illumian Echoes) Introduces Syllables of Creation, unique consumables. A character must be able to speak Supernal or Abyssal in order to use them. I never liked the illumians as a PC race in 3.5e, but I like the idea of them as...

If it's the one I'm thinking of, it's been gone from the App Store for a while now. I still have a copy but I think it's easier to just go to the website.

I seem to remember an interview with Keith Baker(?) where he stated that Eberron was originally not going to have the various traditional D&D sub-races -- no high elves per se, and certainly no drow -- but Wizards decided to "officially" incorporate drow into Eberron so that people wouldn't end...

I don't know if this stuff is still available on the Wizards site or not, but there were quite a few 3.5 articles that fleshed out different parts of Eberron, with most if not all of them being written by Keith Baker himself. I remember articles on the Daughters of Sora Kell, Zilargo, the...

There's a comment to be made there somewhere, but I can't quite tease it out...

In the errata document that I linked, the Human gets to choose between the racial power from HoFL and taking an extra at-will from their class.

The changes in the Essentials books apply to the "core" 4th Edition as well. This article discusses some of the changes and errata that will be added to the digital tools such as the Compendium and Character Builder -- consider it an interim "errata" document: Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying...

Many of the monsters are actually taken from the Red Box DM's Book; I haven't had a chance to dig into the stats of the other monsters yet.

Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (The Dungeon of the Ghost Tower) This adventure picks up after "The Twisting Halls", the adventure in the Dungeon Master's Book in the Red Box. Here is a semi-spoilery bit from the adventure setup: I wonder if we've seen one of...

On page 49 of the Dungeon Master's Book, the Goblin Cutthroat's Short Sword and Dagger attacks are missing the "weapon" keyword.

If they want to take the choice not offered by default (i.e., a dwarf who wants to do +2 STR instead of +2 WIS), just have them adjust the scores by hand. That's how I made my last character.

I just called my FLPGS (Friendly Local Premier Game Store) and they said they are selling Heroes of the Fallen Lands RIGHT NOW. So those of you with Premier Stores in the area might find it worthwhile to call. (And If you take the last copy before I get there, I'm gonna shiv somebody... :rant:)

Another option would be to write them to the left the actual skill modifiers...