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I've almost always used minis, even in games where you'd never expect to use them (like Vampire). It just saves a lot of confusion in combat and makes the battle go by faster. The only problem I have with combat is the amount of money spent on having the "latest, greatest" minis. Par example, I...

I've found the exact same thing. When I'm playtesting a published product, I find I'm more caught up in the mechanics, thinking about numbers than I am about running a good game. So when we had a gaming weekend up at the lake, I intentionally decided to improv our 30th level god-fest and we had...

Aha, now I know where to find you on here. All looks good except for the level 11 PP feature and power, IMO: Eldritch Mark (Level 11): You may treat creatures you mark as being under the effects of your Warlock's Curse, except you may not deal Warlock's curse damage when you hit them with...

Ahh, kidnappings are fun. Unlike every other quest out there, half of the quest involves transporting the target across country and holding onto them without escapes, being followed, and loads of other goodie-goodie things that can go wrong.

There's a place in Quebec called "Kamouraska" that we passed by on a cross-country trip out east. I pulled over on the side of the road, wrote it down, and used it for the name of a recurring villain in my homebrew. A devourer who was pulling the strings on a lot of heavy heavy in a pirate city.

I'm currently waiting for a test copy from them. So far, there's been some issues finding out the specs but that's just because the sample files appear to be made in InDesign CS4 and I'm only working with CS2 at home.

Having dreams of Orcus - very cool. Perhaps if Orcus is using those dreams to follow the PCs, learn things about them, track them down and dish out some old school revenge. Do the other players know about these dreams? If not, it would be nice twist to find out the source of all these Orcus...

Premiering at the Game Summit con in Ottawa, Canada this weekend is the new adventure series from Emerald Press PDF Publishing, EONS: Emerald's One Night Sessions. Each adventure, designed for 4e under the GSL, provides everything you need to run a one-nighter at the last moment and has been...

ANYTHING for the Mac. More specifically, a character generator for use on a Mac.

Nope, never even heard of it before this year. But it's been the same with most local cons - never heard of them. Same with most of the guys in my group but now we know and can fix that problem. I know Game Summit is planning to move to Family Day weekend next year so there'll be a con in...

We used to have a Hallowe'en tradition playing Horror Rules with that same priniciple but as a one-shot. Turns it into a board game style of RPG - there can be only one. It's a nice break and is loads of fun when you embrace the style and go over the top. Especially when you tell grown men...

Raise Dead's been brought up a couple of times here and I can't stand that spell/ritual (based on whichever version of D&D you're playing). Any campaign I've ever started begins with two rules: no bags of holding and no Raise Dead. That doesn't mean characters can't come back from the dead but...

True enough. Being killed by a trap sucks. Dying to save another...priceless. One of the advantage of being the barbarian, especially in the situation given above, is that you can be reckless and it's part of your character. I think everyone would have tried harder to stop me if I was a bard or...

Not the mechanics (which makes it nearly impossible to die unless you're crushed to -30 hp) but the principle of fighting until you drop for good. We faced that this past weekend when facing an army of 1000 soldiers trying to arrest the city's baron. Half of the party was hesitant and wanted to...

We ran into this issue in our previous game when I played the shaman for a missing player. Wanted to pop the spirit companion to the other side of the battle and help out the severely wounded warforged and was told I had to burn two actions to do it. Then another player said it changed but we...

Send me an email or PM - we have a couple of options with Emerald Press that we can discuss.

Nothing a little stat conversion couldn't fix. If I had the time, I would do it but the real world keeps a lid on that plan. Everything used in Key is a unique build to typical creatures (to save GSL hassles and forcing the DM to flip through multiple books as much as possible) and only the...

We had a concept called "action surges" (not related to the human feat) whereby you can accomplish incredible deeds by spending action points, rather than just retrying a failed action (which most players use it for). Combat Advantage #15

A Storyline/Plot Me likes the plot where there are machinations going on behind the scenes and just when the players think they've done something I would never think of, it falls directly into my evil hands. Nothing is what it seems, characters have deep motivations, and the conclusion will...

It's no different than in any other campaign, really. If anything, that extra element of the unknown is what makes these kind of underworld games more intriguing than your standard rescue mission. Even if you go "cheap" and threaten their lives if they refuse, there are still ways for the PCs to...