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Ah yes, I too played Tomb of Horrors. Cheers, -- N

Why would anyone ever want to let things be? Tinkering with stuff is fully half the fun of gaming. Hell, I don't have a whole lot of interest in playing either 1e or 4e these days, yet this subject is of interest to me. So I'd rather appreciate it if this subject was allowed to continue...

Nobody needs my permission to quote me -- but if you want it, you got it. Cheers, -- N

Yep yep. Those may be tongue-in-cheek, but there are companies who pick non-consecutive versions numbers for (allegedly) serious reasons like marketing. For example, Microsoft PowerPoint skipped some version numbers so it could be released at the same version number as the rest of Microsoft...

The guys who own the property get to decide what numbers go on it. They could start selling 11.7e next week if they wanted. That would make no sense, but they could do it. And they would be right. Cheers, -- N

Cover 1 is brighter, but lacks cohesion, and the 6 doesn't stand out against the darkness of the logo. You've got four different tone sets (and their contrasts don't match), so it's actually harder to read the logo even though overall the whole is brighter: the interior of the logo -- the actual...

Huh. As a side note, in Exalted there's a great earth dragon named "The Kukla" which is currently locked up, because it can eat Creation. Cheers, -- N

Always, always, always make the players do the hard work. Here's what I'd do: "How do the two of you know each other? And why have you booked passage on to a disreputable vessel -- possibly even a pirate ship -- headed from Crete to Alexandria? Who or what do you hope to find in Egypt that's...

I lack for grandparents to ask. "Sniffle", -- N

Where I live, they are indeed free to complain, just as you are free to complain about them complaining. You are also free to kick them out of your club for being whiners, which is what I'd do if they annoyed me. Other jurisdictions may vary. Cheers, -- N

Did you mean "admiral"? Cheers, -- N

Similar to Insightful Riposte, then -- an Insight skill power (level 16), which you can pick up for the cost of a feat (and training in Insight of course). The bonus is only +3 and it's only to a single attack, but you can use it every encounter, and all races can have it. It's on my short list...

You don't have to take just my word for it. Elf has been a top-tier CharOp pick for Wizard for a loooooong time. Sure, they're nice. Action Surge is dandy. Now if only you could use it after you got to see all your attack rolls for a power! With one feat, you can do exactly that for Elven...

I have to disagree here. Elves were already a top-tier pick for Wizard, and for any other Controller, since for a Controller hitting is everything and even with a net -1 to attack, the re-roll on a brutally debilitating Daily or Encounter is more than worth the -5% accuracy. Now that Elves get...

My ideal setting would probably be "humans and their mistakes". You'd be able to play: Humans - surprise! Warforged - created by humans, fueled by a mixture of inbuilt purpose and existential angst. Or perhaps fueled by rum. Tieflings - humans who made a pact with Dark Forces (tm), or...

Not bad. I feel like Roy's threat is out of character, and the punchline* isn't worth his breaking character to make. I do like Belkar as an advocate of Erathis (but really Asmodeus). Cheers, -- N *) Intentional.

The slaves are separated into two pens to break apart groups who know each other. A pair of Doppelgangers, one per pen, each take the form of someone in the other pen to find and foil escape attempts. The slavers keep bloodhounds to track any escapees, and just for their general intimidation...

A4? Metric is for losers. Check. Okay. Every sentence so far. So basically, you're precluding obsolete systems which require 10+ hours to prep even the most basic encounters (like 3.x and Pathfinder)? That's fine, except for the fact that 4e is a video game. The BBEG is a half-troll drow...

"He thinks for a living?" "Well, he thinks we're paying him!" "Do-ho-ho-ho-ho!"

"Nifft" is the protagonist of a Sword & Sorcery book that I liked. http://www.amazon.com/Incompleat-Nifft-Michael-Shea Cheers, -- N