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Well, I'll probably port it over to 3.5 for this game; we're not going to upgrade to 4E, though I may do my next campaign in 4E. As for skills, that's a good question - there's nothing that really cries out as a "Tactics" skill. In 4E terms I could see using Insight, Bluff, Perception...

I'm reading through various preview threads, and it suddenly hits me that I think the Skill Challenge rules could be very easily adopted to allow for the resolution of large-scale battles. Probably a Complex skill challenge (12 success before 6 failures). Each battle would need to be set up...

Let's keep the religion out of this, guys. -your friendly neighborhood Moderator.

These threads have a history of going downward very quickly, so I'm just going to close this one and add it to the history books as well.

In 4E, the trenchcoat can be cloth armor - no armor bonus on its own, but it can be enchanted. That's probably how I'd go.

Wow - that seems a short-sighted way to approach things.

Gilladian's points are excellent. What I do when I'm doing locations (of any kind) is to come up with a fairly simple, hopefully evocative description that the players can kind of hang on to, and then if I want the chance of "random" encounters, I'll try and prep one out that enhances the...

Mike, As some one who's worked in corporate video and shot and edited these kinds of programs, I can understand completely how tough it is to try to do something like this without the full resources needed to really make it the best it can be. I sympathize... I will point out that it is...

That is my biggest concern with it as well.

Check out the stickied post at the top of this forum....

One thing to keep in mind is that you need to make sure not to use minions against too low-level of a party - for example, I wouldn't use orc minions against anything less than a 4th to 5th level party, maybe even higher. I guess the key "sea change" in the concept of minions is that the stat...

I get where you're coming from - for me, I almost never used the fluff as it existed anyway, and in fact a lot of the fluff changes match up really closely to the changes I made for my own game.

From my standpoint, Wulf, I'm hoping to see a 4E take that is slightly less over the top than what some of the 4E previews have implied, and Bad Axe Games is one of the companies I'd trust to do such a thing. More "woohoo" and less "wahoo." EDIT: And, yeah, email notifications are not working...

Its pretty much the same idea as posting WoTC articles in their entirety as described in this thread. A picture is an entire work, there's no way to post only part of it. While you may well be technically correct, we'd prefer that folks link to the original webpage rather than linking to the...

Great news!

This was my goal with adding the magical auctions in my world - it may take some time to sell an item, but you'll get closer to full price.

This is how I'd approach it, too. Warhorses are trained to ignore that sort of thing.

Here's my take on this. The only difference I see in the 3E and 4E systems is that 4E is trying to discourage the magic shop/selling magic concept via the 1/5 selling price and residuum (I like handwavium, though perhaps I like phlobotinum better). I would like to see a sidebar explaining what...

Even in a world where there is significant danger in between the ares of civilization, merchants will try to ply their trade. The more dangerous it gets, the more potential profits there are. As others have noted, the reason that cities have money is because of trade. The cities and towns pay...

My goal in assigning feats for NPC's depends very much on their shtick. Swashbuckler? I pick a certain suite of feats - things like Spring Attack, etc. Bruiser? Another set, including things like Power Attack. I sometimes like to pick one unusual feat for a group of NPC Mooks to...