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Living in Spain has its bonuses as well...? :)

Cool. One cheap alternative for folks is to check out www.ebay.com and look for common sets and uncommon sets. With common sets, you can generally get them for 50 cents per mini, and uncommons for 1.00 per mini. The Underdark Uncommon Set is being offered for $22.75 (including shipping)...

There is a WIDE GULF between a basic set and a 320-page PHB. Maybe D&D miniatures are on an island in the middle of that gulf. The good thing about D&D minis is that they are pre-generated so players can choose between them instead of having to figure out every part of the PHB, and the rules...

Cool thanks folks, that still leaves us forced to invest heavily in STR for the attack to hit/land, leaving us with less of a INT/CHA bonus to have the side benefit from the attack. So my scale well comment may not apply. I think folks are reading a negative mood to my original reply. I'm...

I'm guessing, maybe wrongly, that monster AC will scale up much faster than the STR modifier will.

Warlord looks nice, but his low level powers require a STR vs AC to "hit"/"land" which is OK at lower levels but won't scale well. So the class requires high STR to land the special abilities, leaving you with a tough decision of what to do with your other ability scores (and definitely forcing...

An ideal scenario is that demand is much higher for 4E than it was for 3E. I wish that would come to fruition (more gamers, more fun... maybe). In this case, they wouldn't have to cut staff. Or they could take DDI revenues to support writing and development staff... Wishful thinking, I know...

Very nice pictures!

Knightlord, thanks for the writeup. You inspired me to run a 4E quasi-demo tonight with my Tuesday night group!!! I'm running the Burning Plague and D&D XP characters.

If you are looking to patronize a local store, I know that Borders carries D&D miniatures. That's where I got my hands on the product that I reviewed. I'd be shocked if you have game stores in the area that do not sell D&D minis. D&D minis are a fairly good "profit margin" for stores; similar...

Joe, excellent question (and if you were the "Joe" for the DDI interview, that was a great feature)... It was pretty clear to me that WotC hired Mike Mearls after "Iron Heroes" for 4th Edition (I flatly stated to a d20 writer friend that "they hired him for 4th edition work"). Mearls is a...

Tallarn, Cool! That totally validated made my Sunday afternoon & evening (time spent "designing" the site and writing the review). :) What aspects of the product are you looking forwards (a little British English for you) to getting your hands on?

I'm going to be doing an interview with Wolfgang Baur soon for 4ereviews.com I intend to ask him about Open Design, Kobold Quarterly, 4E, Pathfinder, his writing workshops (@ GenCon?). What questions would you like me to ask Wolfgang? Wolfgang's credits according to the Pen & Paper database

Hey Phil, I did a little playtest for you. The Dragon + Yuan-Ti is 58 points and the other three figures are 56 points. My first run-through was VERY close. The dwarf was the last of the civ'lized folk at the end against the dragon. The dragon had 5 HP left, but the dwarf missed a couple of...

That's cool. Let's say the MM is 320 pages and there are 160 creatures. I'd gladly pay $80 for all the monsters in the MM. Maybe even $160. But alas that would be too easy and remove the "collectible" aspect. I know that wasn't quite what you were saying, just day-dreaming a little here at...

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Right, Dungeons of Dread is for the new miniatures ruleset. So you have the 5 exclusive, non-random minis that come with the Starter Set and the 60 random minis that come in the Booster Packs. I'm not super clear on what is different between the old miniature rules and the new. Never was an...

phil, Thank you for the feedback. I'm going to use some referral links to help pay for the site. I will do my best to keep it inobtrusive. I do need to improve/decide on site navigation. I chose FRPGames.com (over Amazon) because I've ordered a buncha stuff from them in the past and they...

I don't think options are a bad thing for players who are probably experienced and likely looking for something else to say in combat than, "I rage." "I power attack." Why can't the barbarian player have 4 options? Just because the character is dumb and the player may want to smash stuff, why...

Hmmm, I hadn't thought of the Universalist in the same terms. They don't get the specialist bonus that the other specialist casters get, AND I don't think that specialists will tend to memorize "banned" schools and forego their specialist bonuses and special abilities. The Alpha 1.1 rules for...