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For me the magic is there whenever my players come across something mysterious in the game and they wonder, "Now why would that be?". While the question may be nothing magical, when I see the players trying to make sense of something on behalf of their characters in the context of the world...

While 4E has without a doubt made characters tougher than ever out of the gate I think the mortality rates are still determined largely by the same factors that they always were: the players; the DM; the style of the game. I'm playing in two games driven by story - one at 9th level and the...

There are some respectable independent offerings that are free, both for online and on-the-table play. WotC would need to better those offerings, or at the very least match them, if they had any serious hope of making money from it - not to mention recovering any prior investment in abandoned...

I feel the same way about minions for a couple of reasons. The first is that they're anticlimactic. The players see a large number of enemies and rub their hands together in anticipation of a tactical challenge. Then someone drops an area attack to hinder the enemy getting themselves into...

This is kind of a close call for me, but if I had to make the call on "most", both in terms of frequency and interest, right now I'd say 1E. I'm playing in three 4E games, but each of them only runs once every two to four weeks. If I averaged it out it would probably come close to playing once...

Ayatollah Already Cantor Canny Chaplain Low Mother Superior Payne Pastor Present Reverend Ender Or you could take inspiration from Major Major Major Major with titles like Abbot, Bishop, Cantor, Deacon, Dean, Elder, and so on.

You could have just rolled with it considering that it was his first time out, not just as a DM but as a tabletop role player, then after the game you could have given him a few pointers for his next one, perhaps.

My father was a powerful lord of air. Had he been a D&D player he might have blamed things on air elementals, but as it was the dog copped the wrap.

What don't I keep in a bag of holding? I can't help but recall the KoDT shenanigans when these topics come up: (from Comixpedia)

We're using it in our 1E game, but only for spell casters declaring if and what they are casting before the rolling of initiative - I don't think the 1E rules call for any other actions to be declared in this way.

I used to feel the same, as evidenced by my decidedly anti-4E posting on these boards leading up to its release. I eventually put my preconceptions on the shelf and gave it a shot: while it doesn't feel quite like D&D to me I enjoy it on its own merits regardless of what it's called. I enjoy...

While I agree with spreading the game to new players, I don't agree that any opportunity to introduce a new player to a group should be taken. I say that because the social mix at the table is, for me at least, one of the biggest factors in determining whether the game as a whole is fun. I...

Since Gabe started posting about running his 4E game I've found it interesting reading: he approaches the task without decades worth of role playing preconceptions that many of us have built up by now.

Quite clearly a puff piece, but I say tabletop role playing is well overdue for such treatment.

Demon Prince or no, that request is likely to get you into trouble. The best you could do is look for a copy of 8.8 and do a scrape of your own, assuming you have a DDI subscription and WotC haven't changed anything to break that feature of 8.8.

This reminded me of the topic of user memory when operating user interfaces. In short, there are only so many things a user can keep in active memory before information starts getting put into longer term storage to make room in active memory for new information. It's because of this that if an...

This seems like little more than a listing of bullet points about the Dark Sun setting. Not surprising, perhaps, considering that the author mentions in the comments that he's still restricted by an NDA, but I was left wondering what the point of it was under those circumstances. The artwork is...

Thanks to both of you for the answers. This does seem vaguely familiar so perhaps I had just forgotten.

Good topic, I've been thinking about this kind of thing a bit lately; I may be running a game soon and would like to aim for having at least one set piece encounter each session that emphasizes the dynamic battlefield element of 4E (you know, that element that WotC modules seem to ignore...

BBEG (DM): The hand of the wizard is enveloped in green energy as he speaks some impossible words and then points at Torrick. The green energy extends from his hand as a thin ray and strikes Torrick in the chest. The fighter feels the green energy working to rip his body apart. Torrick (Ben)...