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I'm not sure where he said that. That said, if you're getting a negative vibe here, it's because you seem obsessed with making a noncombatant character, and in many D&D games and most published D&D adventures, such a character is going to be a burden upon the rest of the group for large parts...

I probably have fudged from time to time, but I try as a general rule to avoid it. As a DM, I'll sometimes make non-dice-related fudges, such as lowering or raising monster HP totals to produce the effect I want. I generally try to do that before the session, but sometimes a little improv with...

Another "me too". I love EN World, but all the edition warring is just tiresome. I disagree with the concept of having a "4e general" forum. It would be nice to have a forum where you could talk about general adventure concepts and not rules, but unfortunately it seems like as soon as a...

Like almost everyone else I'm excited to eventually see a 4th edition-based computer game. I've played computer games based on D&D going back to Pool of Radiance, which was based on 1st edition AD&D. I do see some significant hurdles though. As far as a turn-based game like Final Fantasy...

I do really have to side with the people saying that you also have to consider how having a bad con score affects your number of surges when you're considering overall hit points. I don't do this every adventure, of course, but once every 3-5 levels, I DM my characters through an endurance...

If you look back to what the developers at wizards were posting around the time, one of the columns dealt with the fact that "box text" tended to make players eyes glaze over. IIRC, the column recounted how a developer had walked around the areas at GenCon where people were playing D&D and...

That's generally how I apply it. If the effect specifies a distance, that distance is reduced. If the effect specifies a target square, I find that it just gets silly if you try to let the dwarf power apply.

Well, to me, some sort of a beam-and-mirror puzzle is certainly something strange and fantastic, and having physical, correctly-themed props enhances the immersion. Having read Penny Arcade off and on, Gabe (the DM in question) strikes me as sort of an arty type that pays a lot of attention to...

I think people are wowed not necessarily by how the props are expensive, but by how well they convey the mood and atmosphere of the dungeon, as well as the specifics of the puzzle. Your post seems focused on the fact that the post and the pictures don't tell you a lot about the encounters or...

Again, as I mentioned in my earlier post, it's true that a number of the powers in 4e seem fairly simple to translate. Attacks that do something like "2[W] + daze (save ends)" or "Area burst 2, 4d6 fire" are a breeze to translate to the computer. This was the case with previous editions too...

D&D Online uses a version of the 3rd edition mechanics, adapted for an MMO type combat system. In my opinion, as someone who's worked on adapting a different turn-based game (Battletech) to the computer, 4e is not particularly well-adapted to computer-based play. It's nice that the rules are...

The problem with evaluating whether the 15-minute adventure day was a problem in your personal campaign is that WoTC (probably) wasn't at your house, checking on your campaigns. Where they were gathering information is on the message boards and at conventions like GenCon, where I frequently saw...

Very interesting thread. But, I seem to remember an official update for the Efreet that corrected its to-hit number by about 9-10 points. The updates also increase a few brutes' damage by a die or two. Did you include that in your numbers?

A lot of good advice in this thread. I want Nth the advice that solos may not always be great actually solo. Think of them more as "super-elites". I'd also like to second Iron Sky's advice that sometimes it's just fun for a party to lock down and unload on a tough monster, even though as a DM...

I think this is good advice. If you're willing to try out a few more things, I have even a few more suggestions 4. Have maybe 1-2 combats where something happens in the middle of combat that drastically changes the combat. Reinforcements arrive (on either side), the terrain suddenly changes...

The only problem I have with that is why is it a move action? In 4e, as far as I've noticed, move actions are used for actual movement.

It's barely a web source, but the book that (I think) inspired the druid class in AD&D is called The Golden Bough. You can read about it on Wikipedia, and there are links to the full text of the book at the bottom of the article. Right in the second paragraph, it outlines the mechanic present...

Like others have responded, I think that the whole "best power" thing is something that depends highly on your group and the style of each player in it. Playing with a few different groups, I've found that certain groups will develop a particular style and that the wisdom of playing in that...

I wonder how much that has to do with it. I can imagine both WotC and WizKids stand to lose, at least in the short term, a lot of their players to WoW minis. I know that quite a few prominent D&D Miniatures players switched to Dreamblade when Wizards launched that. The prospect of a new game...

I think that 4th edition sets the 1st level power level at a good starting point for many, if not most campaigns. I wouldn't mind it if a future book added "Apprentice" power level or something like that for those who want to play out those levels, but really I don't feel as though I need them...