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I've recently downloaded MapTools, which I'm sure many of you out there use, and I want to make my own maps for it. Does anyone know of any good resources for images to use in maps? For example: trees, bushes, chairs, tables, viewed from the top. Google searching for every little thing is a...

I don't think domain keywords are needed. The reason they added school keywords was so that the powers could interact with the school mechanics. For example, "Whenever you hit with a wizard evocation attack power..." There are no mechanics for clerics that say "Whenever you use a cleric earth...

In my homebrew world, the first nine intelligent races (which are, for most of the world's history, the most common races) are each made by an individual god. Dwarves - God of Justice, Protection, Skill, and Earth Elves - God of Wilderness, Earth, Sea, and Storm Gnomes - God of Hope, Life, Sun...

D&D skill systems that I've seen have a wide range of skills that each use a specific ability score, implying that they are only used in certain ways. The best example of why this is a problem is Intimidate. If a really strong fighter with a high Strength but low Charisma wants to scare the...

I am liking Cook's articles, but I agree about the poll, at least today's. I think that characters should have a team-mode and a solo-mode. * With 5 players, if every player is in team-mode, they should handle combats well by working together, but if they all play in solo-mode then it will be...

If you have ever wanted to play a dark knight character, but without all the baggage of being a blackguard, or the striker role of a slayer, then these options for Knights from the Heroes of the Fallen Lands book are for you! Fearsome Knight Now your enemies will quake in fear at your...

The hunter ranger in Heroes of the Fallen Lands can use a bow or a crossbow to great effect. But the third ranged category, the sling, is ignored. Here are alternate class features to play a sling hunter, as well as the slingshot weapon, a two-handed sling that doesn't deal as much damage as a...

Thanks to both of you, and I do understand the skepticism. But I like making stuff for the game, whether the game needs it or not. No, I defintely encourage my players to reflavor things to fit their concepts instead of coming up with characters based on the options. I actually am going to have...

Sometimes, you just want to play a hobbit. But halflings in D&D, at least for me, don't cut it. Halflings are sly, dodgy, thieving, and charismatic, and while those are all things a hobbit CAN be, but it's not what a hobbit is most known for. They're relaxed, happy, somewhat chubby, and like to...

What I do for passive skills is have the check compared against all the characters' passive skill. The group only notices something if it fails against at least half of them. So, a group with only one very perceptive member will still not notice things very often. The one with the enormous...

Matt Sernet mentioned something good in today's Design & Development article on the Neverwinter setting. He said that they designed the setting to be played in levels 1-10, so bosses who would normally be high level challenges were fit into those ranges. Then the quote of the day: Game...

Apparently there's an ad around here that plays the sound of babies saying "da-da" over and over...and over...but when I look, none of the ads match the sound at all, though the one that's always there is the Lysol ad. It's seriously playing every page I open. Is there a way to stop this...

I agree. I do hope they manage to surprise us with what turns up in this book though. I think that a completely new race is likely. I know I can't hope for the bladeling as a player race, since those are associated with pretty much any realm except the Feywild. But I have an inexplicable...

Many moons ago, I created the dragon pact for warlocks. That was before the hexblade came out in Heroes of the Forgotten Kingdoms. Now the hexblade also has the choice of dragons as his or her patrons! Dragon_Pact_Hexblade

At least I had the best number. ;)

You know, why not. I'll give it a go. I won a free Player's Handbook 3 from RPGnet last year, so maybe I'm lucky at these things. :p

Let's get back on topic. I was looking through the product list and noticed that the Neverwinter Campaign Setting is coming out before Heroes of the Feywild. We know that the bladesinger, which I believe is a swordmage subclass, will be in Neverwinter. Could this mean that we'll see some...

I definitely like the kitchen sink approach better, at least as a DM. My one rule is that everything has to have its place in the world: races, mosnters, classes, feats...everything. For example, half-orcs aren't just there so that there's a "tough guy" player race, with their origins kind of...

What I've thought of doing is letting the players choose powers, feats, and features that they would get at the next level and have to "practice" them throughout the level before. They'd start off as much weaker and sometimes even useless, but each time they used it, it would get a little...

I don't think they'll have the fey-pact binder in there, unless they reprint the whole binder. They can't (or at least in my opinion, shouldn't) assume that whoever has the Heroes of the Feywild book will have Heroes of Shadow. For someone who doesn't, that whole section of the book would be...