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I would not attempt to maintain any cool, calm DM composure. I would probably shout, "YES!!!" and give them a high five. I am always rooting for the PCs. Last session, I was really dreading my pending coup de grace of the fallen Paladin with my nearby "Bloodied Raging" Goblin Skullcleaver...

You needed a 30+ year category to separate the true geezers from the wanna-bes. ;)

Players are headed into a swamp next session and I was considering bringing out a couple of these guys but there are two points of concern. 1) Their Clamping Jaws attack triggers at the start of their turn but it's a Standard action? So... it's not really at the start of their turn, no? It's...

I should mention that "Xi" was summoned even had they failed because "Xi" was a new Genasi PC they were summoning from the Feywild to help them with their quest. Telling the player, "Sorry, they failed, you'll have to sit this session out," was of course not an option. ;)

Our group just started using this system. We need to gain some experience with it and I need to gain some experience in running the challenges and coming up with good partial victory and failure results, but I think so far that everyone likes it. 'Course, they had complete success each of the...

Also, if you're doing a nice 50/50 mix of Skill Challenges and Combat Encounters, they're reaching a Milestone with every Combat Encounter.

In Skill Challenges, if a player does something clever, tactically or otherwise, you should reward them with a +2 bonus. And Skill Challenge DCs should be set so that those +2s are really desirable.

When an encounter sputters like that and the NPCs have no chance of turning things around but won't run or give up you should absolutely say "Everyone hand over a healing surge and describe for me how you dispatch the remaining soldiers." Easy peasy. You don't have to play it out.

Agreed. A cleric would be a better choice for a two or even a three player group.

??? The Tactical Warlord has been the superior choice to the Inspiring Warlord since 4E came out. Their powers were just straight up better 1-30. They gave a lot of love to the Inspiring Warlord in Martial Power in part due to the chorus of complaints that the Inspiring Warlord was the weaker...

I recall this module. Everyone died in the platforms hanging from chains room. We made a new party and all died in the crab fight. It was pretty fun, but it had a reputation as a meat-grinder around my middle-school... Not as bad as Tomb or Horrors though.

I sold my core books over a year ago, but I've held on to everything else; they're great idea fodder and I can covert the stuff to 4E pretty easily. All my Scarred Lands and Midnight stuff, the Book of the Righteous, etc. It's all wonderful and I'll never see 4E versions of them. I've...

I can't properly judge your specific circumstances, but I'm given to suggest that if a GM doesn't see many opportunity attacks it's possible that their combats have only been about who lives and who dies. Since 95% of the time (give or take) that question is pretty much a given (the NPCs are...

Both of our Ravenloft campaigns ended in TPKs. Just part of the package I guess. In any case, we didn't feel like continuing on with new characters.

World-building is a lot of fun, and I've spent a lot of time doing it. You just need to know up from that there is the strong possibility that the 10-100 hours you spent on it may result in no more than an additional 5-10 minutes of fun at the table for any given player, and that it may...

My group only had one combat every other session or so in 3.X (but when there was a fight, it mattered!) and we plan to do the same with 4E. I don't think you really need to adjust anything. Combats are more fun with the Daily Powers in every fight; they whiff disappointingly often as it is...

Wow. Must be heat exhaustion (no AC). Thanks so much!

Didn't see this in the collected errata: PHB p77 indicates Javelins use Dexterity. PHB p218 marks Javelins with the property Heavy Thrown PHB p216 says that a Heavy Thrown Weapon uses Strength instead of Dexterity for the attack and damage rolls. What's correct? (post was giving me a black...

Ander00, Your Warlord Viper's Strike card needs an edit. I tried to send you a private messages but the site won't let me. I like your cards. It is a pain to individually resize them, rotate them, and paste them to Word, but I'm not sure how else to manage it.

1) Is there a FAQ yet for 4E? I couldn't find one at wizards.com (I can't find anything there). 2) Does Shifting provoke Attack of Opportunities? Thanks in advance.