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Since alignment doesn't have any impact whatsoever on the game mechanics, I couldn't care less what happens to the system. Go ahead and choose Good alignment and try to be chaotic, fine. Odds are the most players won't notice or remember anyway. As long as the rules don't say things like...

I think that the healing potion mechanic and scaling works well in practice. There really is no substitute for a healing potion when trying to revive a party member with negative HP. Heal checks are not guaranteed, but 10HP from a potion will get you back on your feet every time. 50gp is a...

I would speculate that they renamed it for a couple reasons: 1. Grab is shorter and easier to say, in line with change from "attack of opportunity" to "opportunity attack." 2. You aren't really grappling them with this maneuver, it literally is just a grab. To me, grappling would include...

DM PCs: For people that don't have enough real life friends. I can see it now, logging on to DDI with an alt account so the DM can also participate in party as a PC. :cool:

I've definitely wasted my skill points on Intimidate before. You'd think it would be a key barbarian ability, but even wit the BoNS it's just... no. I am looking forward to 4.0 where skills are ftw!

This approach sounds good to me, a monster should be more than it's stats. Off-page rituals are par for the course, and trust in the DM is paramount as always.

I was most surprised by the HP chart, as players level up the total difference between a fighter and wizard will shrink relative to each other. Also the +7HP vs. +9HP at character generation seems odd. Simplicity is always welcome I suppose. That extra 2HP will make very little difference at...

Many of the females I have attempted to introduce to D&D have found the character creation the most obtuse part of the entire game. The idea of infinite complexity can scare people outright, so I recommend creating a few character sheets beforehand that you can simply hand to her and say...