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Heh. Customer service, in all honesty, tends to give out advice about as good as the first forum poster.. so once the thread has gone on a while you can usually find better solutions.. In this case, either works. It is kinder to keep allowing saves, but it is faster to only allow partial saves...

This is actually a point so important that I will bring it right back up again. If you like the idea of skill challenges you shouldn't punish them for it. Making it fairly impractical to have the dragon along all the time is nice, preparing boss-fights to accomodate for them bringing the dragon...

Think she made the switch in editions? ;) (Oh, and in all honesty - I loved reading these stories, they were great. Super-duper-inspiring :)

I think it is already mentioned in the DMG. Just add the dragons XP value to the shopping pool when creating an encounter, and remove an equal value from the final reward. (I.e., you add monsters just because the dragon is there) And you might want to encourage the dragon and the party to part...

Well, I'll be.. By the rules you can upgrade a power to a more powerful one, but not retrain them? But you still can retrain feats to more powerful ones? Hmm.. I think I'll stick to my flawed reading of the rules and allow retraining to higher levels. Still no doubling up on powers, though...

Permanent injuries could be dealt upon the second failed death save - making it more urgent to heal people. Should still probably be healed by a "bedrest" - resting one whole day in an inn or well-supplied camp. The first failed death save could mean starting the next day with one healing surge...

Well, the difference would be that by not entering the cloud of daggers they could not die, so it turns from an autokill to a "block area". I actually don't know which is the best way to run it - letting it autokill minions without possibility to escape makes it quite powerful - I might rule...

That is because Cloud of Daggers looks like a poor spell, until you realize that its balancing feature is that it is a good minion-killer/blocker.

I'd put a walking staff as a fancy club, with that damage.

Yep. Now they are the result of crazy Eladrin/Fomorian experiments instead ;)

Let's see - 3.5 to 4.. BAB is simplified to Wizards progression, spells and saves are simplified and lots of options are added while many things about the classes are the same.. ;) But I like 4Ed so far. It is about as difficult as 1Ed, it plays a lot like 1Ed, but it is less "seat of pants"...

Hunter's Quarry should be a daily, it seems. Or you could use the errata that says that it only lasts for one round per encounter..

Is Derren and Regicide really different people?

Umm.. no? Someone always gets their stuff first. Sometimes all will have the same bonuses, but the way parcels are divided this will not always be true. And what is this talk about "every level"? You don't always have to pick from your highest level, and you can retrain upwards/downwards later...

Aah.. the memories of moderately high-leveled fighters in 1Ed that would rush in among a bunch of kobolds and make a "sweep" attack, getting to roll attacks on them all.. Limiting to one OA per round works. Not limiting it works too, since your scenario won't come up that often. (Two, maybe...

Elites and Solos do, though, and against them any help is good help ;)

Back to the "only hits can kill minions" as opposed to the current "misses can't kill minions". Does mean that cleave can't kill a minion, though..

Mendicant! ;)

Actually it is the wizard's choice whether the staff implement is a quarterstaff (two-handed weapon) or a walking stick (not a weapon, just an implement. Possibly useful as a club.). So one-handed wielding is still in.

Oh? Well, I sure won't be using that rule. Sure, other classes need to replace powers to get better ones, but wizards are flavored by their book and get to respec nightly. So why remove spells? - I don't think they should get extra encounter spells.. at least not without an extra "expanded...