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    Beginner DND player Help

    Your son's age makes a big difference. But I DM a game for my sons (11, 8, 5) and can tell you that the advice about letting them have a lot of liberty with character creation is important. Some things my kids like: - interesting NPC's: allies with quirks and flaws, comic relief guys...
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    Why is 4e like World of Warcraft?

    For the record, I'm not a 4E hater, but upon reading the PHB there were a lot of nagging similarities to video game RPG's. WOW is a convenient target but I think the idea applies to many more video games as well. The thing is, the similarities are difficult to articulate. But I would say...
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    Strategery: 4E combat and the insecure DM

    Well this is going to sound painfully obvious, and will maybe get me flamed, but just ignore the rules you don't like. Or introduce them slowly as the game progresses. That's basically what I'm doing with KotS right now and it's going along just fine. We're probably using around 70% of the...
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    Wizards become the "needed" character over Clerics

    "Good" for me is keeping the game fun, interesting, and fair. And at times there's no doubt he did that by ignoring the holes, or problems, in the system. Plus we all knew the rules inside and out so it was tough to keep them out of view. All I'm saying is that if you feel that a party...
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    Wizards become the "needed" character over Clerics

    Don't you think good DM's will adjust the adventures to make it fun for the players, no matter what classes they want to play? The best campaigns I've been in involved characters either of similar classes or similar races. It didn't matter that we didn't have a Wizard or a Cleric, or that we...
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    KotS Total-Party-Kill!!

    Not bad, I might use that. About the Irontooth confrontation: They wanted their own characters so I let them pick races and classes and then helped them with powers, etc. We have a Human Rogue, Elf Ranger, Eladrin Wizard, and Dwarf Cleric. I also ignored some combat rules for various...
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    KotS Total-Party-Kill!!

    That's funny, I was wondering about the mirror too. I'm running the adventure with my kids (ages 8 and 11 plus a 5 year-old who has a character but mostly rolls dice). As soon as they found the mirror they took it to Valthrun, got the info. that it was some sort of ancient, possibly evil...
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