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Hey OP, I'll back you up on that. I think 4e is great. It's tight, it's self-contained, it's cinematic, it draws a clean line between its rules and its fluff, and it's downright refreshing for those of us who prefer the modern, pulpy approach to fantasy instead of the classic approach. Sure, it...

Okay, so I know I'm necromancing and it's my own thread nonetheless, but my group seriously impressed me in part 3. When they got the Lyre of Building back to town, they weren't interested in handing it over to Laurabec, but instead gave it to the bard cohort and had him renovate all the refugee...

*nods* My group tends toward sausage-fest ^_^; I'm now the only female, and whilst I really enjoy male characters (my ratio is roughly half-and-half) and the guys are generally uncomfortable playing females. I"m the only one who has played a goliath so far, and I absolutely loved her, even...

Gracious me ^^; I don't think my group has ever had a halfling, fat or not. And we have had exactly two dwarves - one about ten years ago in a Warcraft II game, one in our very first 4e game that I ran for a few weeks while somebody else was on holidays. None of us seem to be even tangentially...

Actually 4e is pretty close to that now. Consider hit points being heavily abstracted, and psychic being one of the damage types - if you look at Bard powers in particular, you can see that a lot of those that deal psychic damage have the theme of being demoralising, humiliating, et cetera...

I assumed it was inaccessible - doesn't the module suggest that it's unfinished when the PCs hear about it? Alternatively, you could require a magical key/attunement type thingy that they can't get without Shahalesti spellcasters. Or somebody sabotages the tunnel and it caves in. Or grab a short...

That would be the loss of the surge ^_^; Otherwise the whole thing is just roleplay.

*snip* Can't XP you again yet - so, great advice on how to build/refine items for 4e! I couldn't have said it better myself. I wouldn't touch the original with a barge pole - a daze I can't save against, that gets worse the bigger my charisma is? And I have work out that number on the fly? Nope...

I don't think passive and active are mutually exclusive in this context. For example, if I have an NPC who is lyng, I will use passive checks - that's a baseline chance that the PCs have to notice that something is suspicious. If they succeed marginally, I'll throw in reasonably obvious tell...

Smart move. I think the Red Box was a bad introduction to the game, as it presented an old-fashioned cheesy retro image for the game that might well have turned off potential new players (think like somebody whose idea of fantasy is the LotR movies, Harry Potter, recent video games, and all that...

From Eberron: King Kaius (and his groupies) Warforged Shifters Significant portions of the coastline From my husband's 3.5 setting: Most of the PC races The recently-extinct rave of slave overlords who used to own everybody From elsewhere: I stole demon horns/angel halos and contracts from...

Personally I dig surges, for several main reasons, starting with my feeling that they've really opened up the possibility for a variety of healing powers (as opposed to the traditional "dx hp" sets). Healing is a more abstract, and much less owned by divine classes. I value tremendously the...

As far as I'm concerned, they aren't really tied together any more. Damage types are rules, elements are fluff. If I have a water elemental, I will think about whether each attack should do acid, cold, or just normal old "thumping your face" damage (seems to me that most damage dealt by water...

Maybe it's... a litterboxcar? :p [EDIT] Myself, I've never really played a sandbox game (at least not on a tabletop). Generally we drive with "character based plot", which is to say the GM hangs an existing plot on the character hooks everybody else gives them. Though we also have a very...

[Potential spoilers, as always.] So, something else has confused me about WotBS part three. Really, I feel like I should start a "WotBS Clarifications" thread, I need to ask questions so often ^^; Often just because I haven't read something properly. In any case, here's the current question...

Okay, but that only tells us that people aren't dumping their 3.5 books - not whether or not they want to buy more. Which would be WotC's concern if they were to pick up 3.5 again. It's not enough that people still play 3.5 - they must be willing to spend more on it, despite their existing...

How about this then: isn't Amazon sales data based on what is available as well as what people buy? There are no new books for 3.5, and Pathfinder is also sold directly through Paizo, so people who want either of those things have reasons to avoid Amazon anyway. Plus, it's horribly skewed...

I tend to disagree with that; or, at least, I really appreciate that in 4e, there is almost never any ambiguity between what is "fluff" and what isn't. Nothing aggravated me in 3/3.5e like prestige classes/feats/whatever with pre-requisites which had no connection to mechanics (culture...

I disagree with that - or at least, Id like to see some good evidence for it. The gamers I have had experiences with have played multiple systems and enjoyed several of them thoroughly, including a near-encyclopaedic knowledge of 3.5e, but as a group we still shifted to 4e because while 3.5e...

So, I'm currently working on localisation of Shelter and Banquet for my guys, and I'm reminded again just how much fun I think this entire path is. As always, I'm curious about other peoples' experiences running the saga. Plus I feel the need to stir up a bit of discussion over something I enjoy...