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There are a lot of flying creatures out there. Most epic (and heck, even a lot of paragon) monsters have flight. The problem is that more than half of the PC classes are solely melee-rangers. A lot don't even have any powers that reach beyond a square, or at most two. Even most ranged...

I certainly wouldn't let them spend all 300,000gp on magic items. That's 270,000gp more than they are "supposed" to have gotten. And being behind in Heroic tier is a matter of at most a few thousand GP for each PC--not enough to warrent such a huge windfall now. I'd say the safest option is...

Another thing that makes no sense is that those 8 short (5' long) stairways need to add up to 80' of height. Which means for each stairway, you climb 10' with only 5' in distance. I'm pretty sure halflings would have to make Athletics check to climb that... Heck, probably medium sized...

I didn't find Obsidian Portal much to my liking. You can get along perfectly well with a general purpose wiki. When I started my campaign wiki, I basically just picked one site at random to start, and it's been fine. The only thing I miss sometimes is the DM Only sections from Obsidian...

Rangers are probably the most powerful, but they are easily the most boring. All you do in each and every round is roll two dice for your dual strike. Rogues are interesting because of the tactics they have to figure out. I think they pale in comparison to a Barbarian though. I haven't...

I picked Guardian Fighter, but in my experience post-Divine Power Paladins are very solid. With a plethora of multi-marking powers and multi-attacking powers, not to mention insanely high defenses, they are a force to be reckoned with. The Paladin's only had Strength from Valor for 2 sessions...

Well, the typical mechanics of the game start to get pretty wonky once you go lower than 3 or 4 PCs. We tried running 2 PC test sessions when 4e first came out, and the battles were considerably lower quality than they are with 4+ PCs. If you only have 2 PCs (say one defender and one ranged...

This is one of those things that depends a lot on the circumstances of the battles. For instance, it's not hard or rare to go through a battle of party level or party lvl+1 without the party spending more than a surge or two total. So you could pretty easily chew through 6-8 of those...

One, it lets you more evenly distribute healing surges throughout the day. You generally have to take an extended rest once a single member of the party gets low on healing surges. So if the Fighter's down to 1 surge but the Wizard hasn't been hit all day and still has 8, those 8 surges are...

The only real death came at level 3, and was because of overconfidence and a staggeringly difficult encounter. Basically, we entered a complex which had already been alerted to our presence, so every single encounter (5 or 6 "normal" encounters' worth) arrived in waves in one giant battle...

For the longest time I had a terrible time coming up with fantasy names. I've never found any fantasy name generators I've liked, and I'm downright terrible at coming up with them on the spot. And now that I'm getting back into DMing and building my own homebrew, I've realized that I need to...

I don't see that at all. At will powers aren't supposed to be amazing. They're supposed to be basically a melee basic attack with an extra little bonus. Preventing CON mod damage is roughly equivalent to doing an extra STR mod damage (Cleave or Reaping Strike), or pushing/pulling 1. There...

As a player, I bought one of those little white boards (about the size of a sheet of paper, the kind that students put on their dorm room door), and it's been very helpful. I mostly use it to keep track of initiative, but I also keep track of hit points, healing surges, action points, magic...

Zero doubt in my mind that he did the right (and good) thing. If there are evil, murderous savages running around out there, it's in the public interest to eliminate them. There are no manly rules for combat, and even if there were evil slavers wouldn't be following them. It's a far better...

Sounds like Maptools is exactly what you're looking for. At it's most basic, it allows you to run a server with a map, some tokens to represent enemies and PCs, and an utterly generic terrain map. It has a chat box and has support for dice rolling. Once you get a hang of it, you can start...

De-escalate and win. Don't come up with a terribly contrived ways to Win The Game with one dice roll. Don't try to come up with every cheesy combo you can find to cake walk through combats when the rest of your group is just trying to play normally. Making a character with disproportionate...

Other than the necessity of a shield, and the side effect of knocking your partner unconscious, my fighter finds that Footwork Lure and Tide of Iron make great dance moves. In combat, the rest of the party calls him a ballerina. Just not to his face.

A 10 year old Chessex megamat (one sided, 1" squares). Best $30 I ever spent for gaming. My only complaint is that the wet-erase markers are rather messy. Anyone happen to know if something similar exists which uses dry-erase? I might consider upgrading for that reason alone, though my mat...

I think the only real time it would be an issue is if it's the girlfriend/wife of one of the players, the gaming sessions are your version of "Poker Night" (i.e. an excuse to hang out with the guys).

They both use the arm slot, and the rule is that only one MAGICAL item per slot functions. This means you can freely use magical bracers and non-magical shields.