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Whoa, where? I've seen occasional partial pages of sample art. If you get all the art, and more, then I probably won't buy another MM.

Totally. I would move to Africa and experience thus: 1. Move to Kenya or Nigeria. 2. Get murdered in my sleep for the decanter. 3. Profit! Crap, I think I did that wrong.

And the way you want to do this is coup de grace against helpless PCs? ...really? If so, I'm glad the rules are protecting my PCs from DMs like you. In other words, this is not a bug. It's a feature. The PCs are not supposed to be killed in single hits. They are supposed to win. They are...

That's why it's recommended as the guardian druid at-will. That you might be the only one to attack is exactly the point. Why else would you want to use a melee power that slows if you don't want to make sure the target stays within melee range? I mean, that goes for using the at-will as a...

Wait. You like 3E's rule system better because it's easier to ignore the rules system? :uhoh: Uh, yeah. What you want is an excuse to tell campfire stories, then, not a game system. Playing the rules and using the rules is part of the fun. It's also a part of good game design. Because I've...

Because there's no other reason to buy into a setting that looks like bland fantasy without a compelling hook. If you want a fantasy setting that allows you to customize without stomping over established canon, I point you to the PHB, DMG, and MM. There's nothing there that doesn't preclude...

I've used it once. I have a whole empire of bad guys set up to use it a lot more (a mummy empire). On the whole, I'm kind of disappointed with the DMG offerings since they seem to be rather narrow in scope (helllloooo undead themes!) I really love templates though and want to see more. These...

I love convention games. I enjoy running or playing them. I generally use it to play games I haven't played before or haven't played very much. Signing up for systems that I'm already playing regularly is not my idea of fun. I mostly play indie games, and many work well as one shots, some are...

I'm in a similar boat. Except I only get PDFs when they are provided free with the book (and often won't buy the book when there is a PDF also available for a high price, instead of free with the print or cheap!). I prefer protrait, book formatting. On my monitor, I set up the 2 page view, so...

Hmm. I agree with the sentiment that books are easier to browse through, it depends on the book on whether I'd rather have it over just DDI access. Since I started using DDI in the past week, I've canceled any plans to buy any of the Powers books. I just don't see the point since the only...

The problem I think with the poll is that your first example is all about character mechanics, while your latter example is partially about the personality and partially about mechanics. And it gets even wonkier when you take it out of d20. Like what does outside the box and tried and true...

The weight of one failure is heavy. In a complexity 5 challenge, you'll have 12-15 die rolls, so any one die roll is under 10% of the whole. In a party of 5, all players are probably going to roll 2 times with some or all rolling three times. If it comes back to the chronically missing Paladin...

4E, Wild Talents, Spirit of the Century, A Penny For My Thoughts, and possibly Primetime Adventures in the near future.

I use the RAW system and it's great (using it without the updates is not RAW, by the way). Every player in the scene must participate, and I go around the table. Players often get to choose the goals, and have a lot of leeway in shaping the course of the SC. Sometimes it's more structured...

Oddly enough, with a group that large, a leader becomes less necessary. I wouldn't sweat it! But I'm not an optimization monkey, so I'll leave it at that. Same as method 1, except they show you the other point buy arrays to pick from.

If its a long term villain, I don't see the problem with keeping her at 11th. Have her retreat and plan on a finale occuring anywhere between level 6 and 12 (or higher, you can always increase her level if necessary). I threw a level 11 black dragon at my 4th level party. Of course before it...

After reading this, maybe my idea of focusing on mobility as an elf barbarian (instead of a crush/charge everything Minotaur) and going into Windrunner isn't such a bad plan.

I do have access to DDI now, but I was chewing on Mort's question of what I wanted out of it, and mainly, if I was to be a Barbarian/Ranger, I realized what I wanted most was two weapon style. Until Primal Power*, that's just a poor idea, but because of the ranger powers, but because of the...

Then make that the goal of the skill challenge. Each roll should be an interesting obstacle or event that needs character intervention. This can represent the most interesting thing that day, or it could be a montage of the journey as a whole. If they pass, then they got to the destination...

Perhaps that's a correction. Any change is going to throw into question precise balance of the game. But this isn't a party fund, it's divided up among the players. So for level 1, each player gets ~750 gold for magic, potions, and to save for later use. If a new player joined, they'd start...