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As I said earlier, I give myself some leeway with monster hitpoints. If the party is down to at-wills and I make my detect boredom check, then the monster is going to lose some HPs. But defenses, powers and attacks? Play 'em like written (which is easy, since I calibrate all of those values...

Yep. When I was a kid, discovering my father was letting me win in Stratego hurt far worse than losing games to my cheating little brother.

*Love* the Cantina. My vision of the "Points of Light" setting is so multi-cultural that homogeneous communities are things of the past, and those few that remain are cultural throwbacks, treated with curiosity (and distaste).

Since 1974.

Our group: 4 characters + 1 Companion 16th level combats: 1 to 1.5 hours 17th level combats: 45 minutes The difference was a new DM who cut down table talk, uses DnD4eCM like a pro (a computer hooked up to a 52" LCD screen helps), and enforces a 15 minute break every 2 hours. Twice the...

Honestly, with the full DDI suite, every single bit of crunch in all my books can be invalidated and I don't think I would care. Heck, our group hasn't cracked a book to look up a rule since the Compendium was released. The fluff, thankfully, never gets updated. ;)

[addendum to previous post] While I roll in the open and play 'em where they lie, I often invoke Schrödinger's Monster ("there's no such thing as a fixed Hit Point total once the players get bored").

Between Blood Pulse and Winged Horde, our resident Wizard wept bitter, bitter tears. Sooooo delicious.

Out in the open, like everyone else.

In the past, I would find myself fudging the occasional roll to either keep things moving or add a little tension. Now? Never. I (and the other three DMs in our 4e group) roll everything right on the table like everyone else.

I kinda dig it too. They also make the default 4e world a little more distinct from others. /fanboy

Of course. You move it, you lose it.

Agreed---as long as the action economy remains (Standard to activate, Standard to remove), then I see no problem with planting it on a cart.

One time use---but pretty useful nonetheless. Dude moves within 2 of you and you blast him. You cast the spell and immediately blast him 5 squares away from you. If you hit, then he's dazed, meaning he only has whatever movement remaining in his action, then he's done. Sweet! If you miss...

I can pull any of these books off the shelf and read them for pleasure and inspiration. They are some of the handful of books that survived the Great eBay Purge of 2007. Call of Cthulhu, fifth Edition Shadowrun first edition Buffy the Vampire Slayer Revised Core Rulebook Advanced Dungeons &...

1e, 2e, 3e, 4e Romulus Bloodbane, drow, male Raven Whitemane, drow, female Sturm Mordax, human, male Yeege Iuk, human, male Finn Stumphand, human, male Finnowyn Highwater, half-elf, male Ursa Spinecrusher, half-orc, female Thorgrim Runesmith, dwarf, male Hagen Fairfax, human, male Biggen...

[slight tangent] I would *happily* pay a few bucks a month to be able to access the just the Compendium on XBox Live.

This reminds me of an idea I had for the post-Scales of War adventure I was planning: a mini campaign where each player picked "Quick Character" from the Character Builder. One click and you have a completely random PC ready to play.

Precisely 100% verbatim what I would have ruled.

So very true! 4e has taken my group of 5 players and turned 4 into new, enthusiastic DMs. No other game---ever---has done the same.