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Dr? Elijah? Caldwell? Logan? Cobalt? Cartwright? Strontium? I've read Piratecat's story hours before and he puts a hell of a lot of effort into his games... so why did the players choose what appear to be real world/non-fantasy names? For me at least they break the verisimilitude unless, of...

This is strange. I can remember at least really one positive post about 4E prior to its release... and now this. Oh well, everyone is entitled to change their mind.

Great article... but the art really sucks. Sorry, that's not a very elegant way to put it... but it is really bad.

Despite the recommendations for Dundjinni I would warn you against it unless you have a VERY powerful PC. Two of my PCs were significantly above the required specs but both basically stopped working as soon as I opened Dundjinni.

Love The ease with which NPCs and monsters are created. Hate The new FR.

Clearly my answers are opinions only: It holds up very well for a variety of play styles. Yep... fast, fun and furious. Generally speaking, no. I would argue that 4E drew a LOT of inspiration from Savage Worlds, particularly when it comes to minions and the design of NPCs. I've been...

Thanks for your post, Cadfan. It has been really helpful as I prepare to run my first 4E game.

My 4E rules-fu is very weak at this point so I can only say: 1. I really like the flavour of this! Thanks for posting. 2. I hope you post more... because one of the things I want to see for 4E, particularly FR, is more paragon paths for clerics of specific faiths. I hated generic clerics in 1E...

This is a great idea. I'll definitely be picking this up. The idea of "bloodlines" as power source, particularly for a multiclass, seems to have a lot of potential. Hmmm... perhaps this plus FR's spellscarred is the way to duplicate Birthright?

I was hoping that these articles might also introduce customised powers for specific clerics (not just Channel Divinity).

My first 3E campaign was all elves. I wanted to run 2E's Night Below and decided to set it in the south of Faerun near the nation of Dambrath. The wild elves of the Forest of Amtar seemed to be a good source of PCs so the players duly decided to make an all wild elf party. I included some...

Lots of statistics from the Monster Manual I found this thread, "Lots of statistics from the Monster Manual", interesting and have nominated it accordingly for Topic Of The Week 38, September, 2008.

Thanks for posting your campaign notes. They made interesting and inspiring reading. I hope you will post more.

I live in Singapore and frequent the odd karaoke bar or two... so my vote is for young, drunk Malay guys "shrieking" to hard rock songs. Oh, what a noise....

Do you think the book is worth having if you running 4E but setting the game in the pre-Spellplague Realms?

Acheron is, IMO, a badly designed plane at least as far as inhabitants go. It's for Lawful Evil Neutral where the commitment to Lawful is stronger than the commitment to Evil. As such, it is the --wrong-- plane for, inter alia, rakshasa and goblins. I think the "vast war machine" is the right...

Mate, your stuff is simply stunning. Brilliant. Thanks for posting.

You could always do what Savage Worlds does. SW has a "catch-all" skill called Common Knowledge. You can use this for anything related to your character's background. This would be easy to implement in 4E because there are no skill points. Just give everyone a Common Knowledge skill with the +5...

I would argue that the ability to bypass a shield basically brings the flail into the exotic weapon category. As such, a couple of feats might be the way to go in a chain like this: 1. Martial Weapon Proficiency: flail 2. Weapon Focus: flail 3. Bypass Shield: +1 to hit with flail against...

The rules in that book are basically wonky. Ignore the rules and just use the flavour (as you have to do with a lot of Mongoose publications).