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Lazy DM: Best book. It should be distributed like a bible.

I thought more about renting a cheap, run-down youth hostel in Portugal for a long weekend. Oh, wait. I forgot the problems of a highly splintered international community...

I use it for my DM things. It's great.

I really don't understand why they don't include the tokens, maps, or at least the power cards. This was the case in some other 4E products on Drivethru, wasn't it? A real shame.

King Splug, eh? Nice reference there :) Terrain powers (grid-based as well as abstract) are so important for interesting encounters! I learned this only recently and want to build them in much more often. Last session I had the party stumble into a Kobold ambush with a lot of traps. With a...

Yes, It would be a shame if this had been lost! Found your conversion a year ago (or so) and like it very much.

To run theater of the mind in 4E is actually not as hard as it sounds. But i find it nevertheless an achievement when people run it smoothly and to their group's satisfaction. It is I think easier for people who haven't been invested so much in the grid before. My current group plays also with...

I really like your ideas about the skill challenges as well as allowing only partial rests in the wild. This is something I want to put into my next game!

Yeah, the example of the BG-map is exactly how I would see it. It's (mostly) all about the destinations, the wonderous places the party can explore. It's also what I really liked about the Chaos Scar mini-setting in the later 4E Dungeon mag. It was basically the Caves of Chaos reimagined. And...

I like both play styles btw: classical inch-by-inch crawling terrified through a dungeon as well as story driven or encounter based cinematic hero brawls. I'm currently having kind of a let's call it "cinematic sandbox" campaign with my group in 4E. I give the players two to three paths they...

I think a (not THE) very general definition of sandboxing and treasure hunting (at least in the tradition of 0Ed) has to do with resource management and a kind of grittiness. Somehere have already mentioned things as encumberance, managing mundane but hugely important items like torches, rope...

"Unfortunately, all the 4th edition games are filled up, because it's just so popular" I had to laugh a bit. In a sad way. Oh man, no easy choice. I think that having played 3.x for years it now puts me of so much that I would be more willing to play 2nd Edition (even if I loathe ThAC0). I...

Yes, after MM3 the stats got fixed in this direction already. But I nonetheless went with the 25% adjustment even post MM3 and Monster Vault in order to make combat a bit shorter and grittier. My problem was that combat could drag on a bit too much for me and my group. It's only been a few...

And here is another grateful 4E DM. The Cheat Sheet is exactly what I was looking for recently. Thanks!

I'm also a big fan of 4E and try to lure as many unknowing people into the hobby and into 4E as possible ("So this is this D&D I keep hearing about?" "Yes, yes.. you will love it!" "And it is the newest edition, yes?" "If by 'newest edition' you mean 'best edition', then yes, right you are." :)...

And another one in the boat. Toss me the life vest, please. I only recently got into the WotC forums (for some 4E content) with the username Grasshopper. But the discussions here I skimmed through are already more than promising!