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Common Cold Level 1 Disease Stage 0: Target recovers Stage 1: While affected by stage 1 target takes vulnerability 1 to cold. Stage 2: While affected by stage 2 target takes vunerability 2 to cold. Character is affected by sneezing and coughing attacks during combat (and intense physical...

Thank you. Very useful advice!

Sometimes a monster has a very cool concept but it is not the right level for your players. I'm interested in particular in leveling down monsters. I play in the heroic tier only and there are many cool higher level monsters I'd rarely have a chance to use. With the Monster Builder (or even...

Ah. Cold as in I've caught a cold and I sneeze, etc. Sorry . Well, I guess in 4e this is purely role playing.

I don't see any examples in the D&D Insider Compendium. So I guess there is no published version of hypothermia as a disease. Instead of creating one, my favorite quick solution would be to just use the rule on environmental dangers, using hard DC if the cold is really severe.

Short answer: normal cold is covered by the general rule on environmental dangers (Rules Compendium, p. 178). 1 Endurance check per day. If you fail you lose a healing surge. Surges can be regained with an extended rest outside the harsh environment. Long answer: D&D4 is not big on simulating...

Yep. That seems pretty reasonable, thanks. Yeah, probably Undermountain would be more interesting to have.

I can buy the Dungeon Delve book for a reasonable price. Is it worth getting? Just to give a bit of background, I am a very late convert to 4E, which I initially despised. I came onboard with Essentials (I'm probably one of the 3 people that were convinced by the Essentials marketing...

I'm probably getting this one. - Lighter wilderness mat. Paizo's basic grass battlemat is way too dark. I've used it and the effect is not great. - The dungeon grid is also lighter and seems to merge perfectly with older D&D dungeon tiles. I plan to use it with my 4e essentials dungeon tiles...