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Howdy, all. Our group of 30-something professionals has gone through some changes and has at least one upcoming move, but we are soldiering on, deep into the 4e version of War of the Burning Sky, and need at least 2 players. An ideal player is comfortable with 4e (we are paragon level, so the...

I'm confused as to why your party thought that was a good idea ... taking an assassin, accused by the crown, and the royal troops sent to stop her (whom you've just attacked and mostly killed) back to the crown just seems like a recipe for a dead assassin and arrested and executed PCs. Did the...

Cool. Thanks for the idea and the heads-up. I think I'll try similar, though I fear similar issues. As an 18th level "disease," it should rightly have something like +22 vs. Will. That, on average, will hit 3 of my 4 characters (assuming I roll sub-5 once). Maybe I'll just roll some dice and...

Hey, all. So my party is approaching Eresh and the Monastery of the Two Winds, and I am trying to figure out how to work the effect of the Trillith, Balance, on the PCs. I want them to have some concern about being affected by the malaise, but I don't want it to be this annoying drag as the...

Seaquen and Trolls As told by Van, revenant/tiefling warlock Still haunted by Steppengard's banquet hall. Lady Namin being cut down by the king. Nina's tiny body being shrugged off by the enormous welling of flesh and madness within. My father appeared. He looked strong, renewed by his...

This touches on what I was trying to bring up when I mentioned 'tailored campaigns.' I was playing a bard on a dungeon crawl. I believe that I should be able to play a 1st-level bard (its status as a multitalented gish notwithstanding) without it being boring. Now, this dungeon crawl was not at...

Exactly. I am not suggesting that you are wrong for wanting to play the way you do, but I don't think it should be the default. I think (THINK) that more people feel the way I do, based on what seems to be the default adventure type and style, than the other option. People enjoy surviving and...

No. I don't miss it at all. At GenCon last summer, I played in a Pathfinder game in which I was playing a bard. As the dungeon crawl developed, and I quickly found myself out of daily powers and with only a handful of hit points, my character chose the better part of valor and fled. It would...

In the aftermath of the battle, the injured are hustled away to the Chapel of the Aquiline Cross to be tended to, while the dead are carried to their respective royal/noble holdings. The bodies will be dealt with appropriately over the coming days. Missives are immediately sent to the lands of...

This is fascinating to me. Like using xBox games in a 360, the idea of being able to use the piles of old books on my shelves is extremely intriguing. I have to wonder, though, how literal Rob is being here. O

Yeah. It was a rough battle. I used the revised Madness II stats but didn't upgrade her to MM3 damage levels, since I thought she would probably be tough enough with all the domination. I also didn't have her become insubstantial until she was bloodied. That said, she was still pretty rough. We...

-=*SPOILERS*=- Howdy, all. So on p. 48 of The Mad King's Banquet there is a short write-up regarding the succession of the throne in the case of King Steppengard's death. It says that "one of the nobles (Lady Namin, preferably) picks up the king's crown and offers it to Duke Gallo."...

Madness The party had swiftly defeated the Ragesian ambassador and his inquisitor comrade, and summoning the Inquisitor's thoughts from beyond the void, Alain saw visions of his harsh upbringing, brutal initiation into the ranks of Inquisitors, and most urgently, a conversation between he and...

Psst! Don't eat the soup, it's poisoned. Pass it on. As told by Fiona, halfling rogue: Naturally, everyone was in a much better mood after winning the battle – the soldiers were resting, the wounded were being tended, and so forth. Steppengard seemed to have learned his lesson and didn’t...

Yeah, this is the sort of thing I had in mind ... The PCs in my campaign have heard the word 'trillith' a couple of times so far and also have an idea that there are these 'primoridal' entities that represent abstract concepts (Indomitability, Deception, and Madness) floating around out there...

[SPOILERS] So, I find myself in a kind of neat position ... My campaign is currently in the Mad King's Banquet, and, while one hero sits in on the banquet itself, convinced that everything is poisoned and trying to keep Timor (his romantic interest) and Gallo from eating anything. Meanwhile...

Isn't there a section on grafts in the Open Grave sourcebook? I think it's primarily undead-type additions, but the rules could probably pretty easily be adapted to biomancy.

The group returned to Gallo's Fend and spent some restless days recuperating and preparing itself for war. Some character-specific backstory, involving the Prince of Frost and his handling of the pitchlings, in response to their destruction of Fern, dominated the free time. Finally...

The group returned to Gallo's Fend and spent some restless days recuperating and preparing itself for war. Some character-specific backstory, involving the Prince of Frost and his handling of the pitchlings, in response to their destruction of Fern, dominated the free time. Finally...