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In a 4e minion bar fight, can a paladin stop it by just putting Divine Sanction on everybody's butt?

I have not yet been beaten, kicked, spat on or otherwise publicly humiliated for the quality my DMing. But there's a way to go yet.

There's a Disney Princess range of Choose Your Own Adventure books which has been OOP for a while, but I managed to get a couple for my daughter through the obvious channels. I think that's a reasonable introduction as it starts off the decision making process, and the RPG mindset.

Savage Worlds: ...is hardly a retro-game of any kind. It's an alternative to the current systems, and kind of a stripped-down, suped-up GURPS with 40% of the intelligence taken out. I love it. Labyrinth Lord: ...seems a bit pointless to me. It really is almost a clone in every sense, down to...

Actually, I think this is a much bigger deal in 4e. One of the things I have noticed about 4e is that it is played much much closer to the RAW than any previous edition - possibly due to the technical "wargame" like nature of the combat rules. Due to this, what was fair game - nay, encouraged -...

Don't nominate a player to be the initiative monkey - especially in larger games - the only thing you can guarantee is that they will mess it up - and whatever marginal time saving is made; is lost immediately the first time the player is either not at his seat, or is staring blankly when...

I think 9-12. The lead up to Paragon Path, and the characters generally trying to place themselves and decide exactly what it is they're good at - and in in-game terms, they're fairly tough hombres - going to the level of minor superheroes. Then they get their PP and a whole new world of...

Anyone know why bennies are called bennies?

Seriously?

WTH are torphies and thorphies?

First part of the plan is to tackle the problems in different sectors. Firstly the new players -I don't want D&D to become a nostalgia brand - so start with real incentives for OP not just at games stores, but at bookstores and libraries. Not just "you can sell Orcus if you have one OP per...

Never given out penalties, but if DL comes out for 4e, I'll make anyone who wants to play a Kender start on -500.

Thinking about it, I think that one of the surest symptoms of an oncoming trainwreck of a TPK is when one player starts to lead the party's direction by taking a lot of unilateral decisions - sometimes dressing them up as roleplaying, sometimes not. In groups I have DM'd, this is also the source...

500 instead of 200 when you pass Go. Changes everything.

David Bowie might have been 6th, but Ziggy was at least 18th...

4e: LEADERS: Heal. Fight a bit. Some funky class features. Cleric : After 30 years, still the healing bitch. Take Pacifist Healer Feat, and you may as well be an NPC. Warlord : A class for only the most generous-hearted players. And your defender had better be a paladin, or the healing is...

Other than obvious stuff like not breaking the law, FLGS should have no responsibility to anything other than their commercial interest.

1. That's right. You can be wounded but not shaken. Otherwise, as soon as you became wounded you would be ineffective until healed. 2. As far as I know, you can shoot at multiple targets with automatic fire. One thing that did come up in a session was that the RoF was only an abstraction of...

Not really. The problem is that people who are unwilling to DM are doing the complaining - and the complaining is about what kind of game they want to play in. It's also not complaining about the quality of the DMing (ie I could do a better job) just that they want a different game. That's the...

1e: Fighter : "I am the God of Battle, tremble at my feet!" Thief : If your thief wasn't a risk-taker, there was no point having one. Cleric: Heal me. They also did something else to do with undead, but I can't remember what. Paladin : Good at fighting, but a roleplaying trainwreck. Druid : No...