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I am getting really disinterested in 4E, especially with wizards over-saturating the heroic tier with stuff while leaving paragon/epic tier to die. As two of my games are almost in paragon tier, I am beginning to notice the distinct drop in tangible and useful support for my games. It's just...

I am interested in Guardmore Abbey, but a deck of many things in a HEROIC tier campaign? COME ON WIZARDS. God, they are mangling EVERYTHING into heroic tier these days. As for the Neverwinter "Campaign" setting, they successfully killed all interest I had in it and it's going to be one of the...

I liked the article a lot, but honestly the weapon restriction is pretty dumb and a good old fashioned bonus would have been far better. It's still a very good article and FINALLY we see something that needs support getting it. Now do something about Runepriests already.

It's a player article: Let's not have Wizards get themselves any more confused as to what should be obviously in one magazine and not the other more than they already are. At least the theme is decent. They definitely improved substantially since the first torrid theme article. I am eagerly...

1st to 20th eh? I'd make a sarcastic remark here, but what is the point? Wizards have made it pretty clear for a while epic is considered unimportant. I wouldn't be surprised to see paragon tier go the same way.

An article with two themes and I don't have to house rule either of them! They are good as well! Huzzah!

Eyebite does too low damage dice and is actually quite useless in some cases (tremorsensing enemies for example). Unfortunately Wizards gives implement strikers terrible damage dice, then expects them to compete with strikers with 2d6 brutal 1 gouges (not to mention all the implicit charge...

The irony being there is a creature published now, just recently in the creature incarnations that can reflect a missed ranged or area attack back at you. The hilarity of a wizard watching his own fireball heading back in his direction is too much. In general though melee characters are...

There are rules for all the basic maths for monsters, but the overall power design and how they function is up to the writer.

I have exactly the same attitude frank. If the defender is dumb enough to pick a fight with a heroslayer hydra with current damage (+2 bonus to attack and +10 damage vs. marked enemies, combined with current epic tier damage numbers...) then they are going to eat the consequence. Especially when...

I would absolutely hate a 5th edition as given in the OP. Bland and optionless is not my idea of interesting. Personally what I want is the current edition, but fix the flaws in the key areas it went wrong in: EG no epic support, fix how the games damage metagame is based on charging and...

You don't need to update most heroic tier monsters, except maybe a few of the more poorly designed ones in the past. Otherwise they work pretty fine and were always competitive. It was paragon and above that monsters began to rapidly fall off the "meaningful threat" scale.

Epic tier suffers for several reasons, but none are mechanical in nature anymore - though in saying this you don't want to start in epic tier off the bat or really suffer the consequences (as it is mechanically overwhelming if you don't build up to it). There are two primary problems with epic...

I have always ruled that multiple attack powers, like draconic fury will trigger a mark if a creature makes an individual attack against a non-defender. This made certain defenders immensely hard to deal with by paragon/epic, but with MM3s new damage numbers is fairly irrelevant problem that is...

Ravenloft and Planescape are hardly obscure settings, so those are right out. Whatever they do I will be interested in it though.

Yeah, there is both science (the basic mathematics that governs monsters) and a distinct art (how their powers interact with one another and PCs). The best monsters are not just collections of mathematics, but rather reflect their monsters fluff and theme through the way their powers (mechanics)...

PHB martial classes have never been the ones in trouble support wise.

What if my character is a pickle salesman? Then the goblins stealing pickles could be deadly serious business.

Personally the official module (IIRC it was in Dungeon) with the bunch of Giant Frogs is by far and away Wizards lowest point. I honestly have no idea what the guy who wrote those things was thinking. Also, I would have included Needlefang Drakes in my previous list but they were (in fairness)...

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