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Also, if I remember correctly, Paizo themselves said restarting Dragon/Dungeon would be infeasible, since they cancelled/lost the old distribution channels. One of the reasons why all Pathfinder subscriptions are carried out by Paizo themselves in a manner akin to books/games. Getting stores to...

Though, traditionally, demons are a catch-all category for all sorts of hellish creatures. Whereas D&D hell is for devils only. I like the article's compromise, though. Everything that makes evil outsiders more of a spectrum instead of "Camp Chaotic" and "Camp Lawful" is interesting. The nether...

That logic holds, too, if you use the maximum damage to estimate your resilience: "There's never a concern that the next hit might drop you unless your health is less than its maximum damage."

Unless players can control attack rolls and number of monsters, that's not really true. Really good hits are still represented by critical hits (there, rolling would be appropriate, though, I find). What it does, however, is making damage a bit less interesting, but it means other effects are...

The neat thing about the zones is also that they encompass moving - if somebody's nearby, you reach it in one move, far away is two moves. This almost perfectly maps to average-sized rooms in dungeons! Nearby are creatures in the same room, far away the next room, engaged is regular old melee.

Ah, I find falling would be an appropriate consequence for a genuinely bad roll, but that was aimed at addressing this dissonance from the example: But it's also a forth-and-back - you propose a fiction (swing the sword), you roll (mechanics happen), the fiction changes according to the...

I think it's because it's not a "big idea": conceptually, it's not a paradigm change or new mindset like "Fail Forward", "One Unique Thing" and so on. It's a small, little refinement that happens to work *really* well.

Hey, happy to do so! :) It's an example of a partial failure - which I used for two reasons: 1) It addresses the dissonance between the skill challenge DC and the climbing DC - i.e. the idea here is: the check was good enough to climb successfully (=> no falling), but not good enough to work...

Ayup. Blogs are interesting - but they're terrible to generate buzz, I find. They're a good repository, good for lengthy articles, but community (and fans) need the exchange and discussion. Forums are much better for it. If you want more 4E, keep the buzz alive, create more topics. I'm more...

Amazing! Wish I had the time to do something like that (and a group that has a regular schedule...)

Hosting tournaments. CCG tournaments are usually subsidised by the publisher (even if it's just tournament kit stuff like t-shirts and so on). Events like that draw in larger-than-usual crowds who might impulse buy (in addition to the entry fees).

"You notice the wall is more brittle and loose than anticipated. You still just manage to traverse the climb, but you loosen the brickwork, everybody following you will have a harder time." Bam. Narrative reason for the skill DC increase over the standard PHB DC and a reason why the "fail" is...

That is true - and that is the crux of the problem with them. Not their concept, but the lack of guidelines to use them smoothly with the fiction and how to judge situations where abilities and ideas bypass checks, Also, mismatching DCs (e.g. for climbing up) are a DM problem. If climbing is...

Hmmm, but what other "pressure" could you use in a skill-related system. Timers work to a certain extent. With opposition, you could have opposing checks keeping up the pressure... but what other elements can you use, for example for a multi-hour skill challenge? Needs to be something that a)...

Definitely like the material. It's very evocative and I like how the Green Dragon has some association/opinions on fey creatures and elves and its focus on misdirection and illusions, gives it a more "primal nature" feel than just being a jungle beast. Kind of a savage fey dragon - I really dig...

I always thought the bard is a "magical rogue", a mix of general knowledge, some tricks and misdirection and some actual magic to augment the whole package.

Even as a big fan of 4E, I wholeheartedly agree with this - and similar is my opinion on skill challenges and whether they should be in D&D Next: The concept is very good - giving non-combat challenges some framework and rules to measure how much XP they're worth is very, very helpful. Making...

What would be intriguing is balancing the game around that assumption: get rid of the concept of "adventuring day" entirely and allow full heal-ups after every encounter (similar to gamma world). Then, at-wills are what they are now - simple attacks with moderate impact, encounter powers are...

Roughly this here:Anti-Hammerspace Item Tracker. Encumbrance has the problem that it's about weight when bulk and volume are much more limiting. Giving out one bonus slot (not row!) per strength bonus is reasonable as well.

Got mine a few days ago (last Friday or so - UK here, though). It's a lot prettier in person than in PDF (the sketch-like drawings work a lot better on paper).