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I'm putting together a new game and it looks like we'll have 3 or 4 players. If we have 3 players, we are going to use a Companion. But for the 5th, we'll likely use a DMPC. Now, before I continue, I can ignore all the groaning about DMPCs. We've used them in all of our campaigns, and it's...

Does anyone know of any blogs that focus specifically on 4e AND are still active? I'm a comparative newbie to 4e and I wanted to read reflections on the game, especially from people who are choosing to stick with it. Everyone I've found so far has either moved on, stopped exclusive discussion...

Also not to my taste, at least not for D&D. (The best death mechanic I've ever seen is in Neoplastic's Books of Pandemonium, Dread and Spite, in which everyone dies like a badass - but that's appropriate to that game's action-horror genre) Where I see this idea especially problematic in 4th ed...

This thread (which, sadly, doesn't seem to be growing very quickly) led me back to the 75 pages of Heroic Tier. I'm not done yet (I'm in the low 50s somewhere), but it remains a treasure trove of fun and great advice, especially for someone new or newish to running 4th. But what I especially...

I've been looking around for it: does 4th have a rule for a character to pull another character free of a Grab? The specific context was a dying character trapped in a gelatinous cube. I ruled it as an Athletics test with a DC 5 higher than normal, but thought for sure a game as tight as 4th...

Thanks, Netherstorm! Between this thread, the pbworks wiki, and your epic notes, I have enough to check and tweak the whole damn AP! I finished reading your epic notes this afternoon and I was pretty sad it was over. They were great. Overall, it seems the paragon tier seems strongest - or...

Netherstorm, I have been having an absolute blast reading your notes this week. I'm almost done and I'm sad that it will be over. (If anyone has anything even approximating this for Heroic or Paragon, you'd be my hero forever.) Couple questions: Normally, you had 6 characters, but it seems...

Thanks. I look forward to reading that. For whatever reason, I followed your link and I didn't have to sign up for anything (though I would be happy to).

These recent posts have been very helpful. Thanks! Reading both the adventures and the suggested tweaks, I can tell you that there is PLENTY enough story and role-playing for what my group wants. On the upper levels, I'm concerned about my laziness in fixing the math will lead to a problem...

Please feel free to point me elsewhere if this is an old question. I've only DMed through 7th level. In that time, I use new monster math if I have it available (e.g., in the MV) but otherwise I ignore it. Thus far, I see that monsters are more dangerous but not much easier to defeat. If I...

OK. But that's a lot of detailed venom for a scenario that is well-established as the worst or second worst adventure in the whole campaign. So I consider myself forewarned. Furthermore, I can't find anything negative about anything after the beginning of the paragon tier. I get it. It's...

Thanks everyone. I posted this thread with a pretty strong preference for Scales and what I've heard and my alternate options haven't really dissuaded me from that. I trust WotBS and Zeitgeist are, in fact, better campaign stories. But in truth, I don't need or want a story that requires the...

Am I correct that Dungeon has only had two (4th ed) Adventure Paths: Scales of War and Chaos Scar? Aside from the "pseudo-AP" that is the HPE series, did WotC officially release any other APs? I'm presently running a homebrew game (with Dungeon Delve giving me some easy framework for each...

Thanks for this. ENWorld has never failed me before, and I was beginning to despair! :)

Two unrelated monster questions: 1) Are there any good adventures out there that specifically feature orcs or gnolls? 2) Besides duergar, are there any other monsters that are specifically defined as worshipping Asmodeus/serving devils? Thanks.

Is this rule explicit anywhere? I've never found such.

Couple questions about the power. 1) An enemy that enters the zone falls prone. If an enemy in the zone already moves to another square in the zone, are they "entering" the zone again? Or can they run around freely in the zone once they stand up? 2) Can a flying creature fly over the zone...

Why is it that I can follow the link to the article, but under the TOC for Dragon, it still isn't linked?

Oh, I agree. I was simply suggesting that I don't think I'll be getting my "Trap Monster Manual" either. What I DON'T want it to be is a little player crunch, a little DM crunch, and a lot of generic dungeon advice. That won't be worth $30 to me (though I'm an obsessive who will buy it anyway...

I suspect this will be a book with player options of some kind, based on both the title and the fact that player books no doubt sell better. That being said, I would LOVE a book of terrain and especially traps, all fully statted out like a monster manual, so I could add cool non-monster stuff...