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OK, so I'm really struggling with skill challenges. I understand the concept, but I cannot seem to transfer it into play. I've had a couple of improvised skill challenges, which worked out well, but now I want to plan a skill challenge I know will come up sooner or later. One of the...

What you should, is have one of the names on the list be a young boy or girl, maybe not older than a toddler. It will give your players a great moral dilemma to wrestle with. Maybe the child isn't born yet, so the players can kill their parents? The old "would you have travelled back in time and...

4E Dungeon sucks because all the quality writers (one or two exceptions, I'm looking at Greg Vaughn in particular) either a) works for Paizo or b) has started his own company (SKR and Logue). Sometimes a decent freelancer is hired, but most of the time I think the writers just randomly creates...

Yeah, they really should start publishing adventures other than 1st level. Right now, Dungeon is flooded with either SoW or 1st level CoS-modules. Some of which look good (Stick in the Mud, Brothers Gray), while others.. not so.. but that may be to my dislike of aberrations... I really hope...

To make it even more complicated, I'll probably mix it up a bit, sometimes using published material (where the pacing system works great), and sometimes using self-made adventures which contains a lot less combat. So one extended rest per adventure doesn't work universally, since some...

Yeah, I thought the same. So unless the creature REALLY wants to attack someone else, he stays with the marker.

Maybe it's a stupid question, but: Does creatures know they are being marked by fighter's challenge / divine challenge etc.? And do they know the penalties for not attacking the marking character?

You're right. None of my players have tried 4th ed before either, while I have, so they might be at a tactical disadvantage in the start. I guess everyone has this problem to a certain degree, but more often than not, not everybody can make it to every session. That's OK, since we are 5-6...

No, I don't want to have more than a couple of fights per adventure. I don't mind allowing my players to use dailies, but I also don't mind giving them a challenge, which means that the one or two fights they'll be in each day, needs to be more challenging than normal, if I'll be using dailies...

I'm about to start a 4th edition campaign next years, and while I'm really excited about a the system, I am curious to how I can adapt the system to my play style. I prefer to have 0-3 battles per day/session, so the pacing mechanism og resource distribution part of 4th Ed won't work perfectly...

With respect to the encounters where she is supposed to be a part of, should the encounters be modified if Torrent is not in them? Is the party effectively a 6-man group? Could it also be possible to have one of the PC's play Torrent's role, I mean, give that player all of the information that...

Thanks. It was I had guessed. No more level loss. Huzzah!

Hi. I understand milestones and action points, but what about milestones and the death penalty or the daily powers of magical items? a) You get -1 on all d20 throws until you've reached 3 milestones. Do they have to be without taking an extended rest? I really hope not. b) You get one more...

I feel like I'm spamming the boards with stupid questions this weekend, but OK... I was wondering about encounters that move into other encounters and encounters where the PCs break off from, and come back. Case 1: The encounter moves into an other area, triggering a second encounter. Is this...

OK, thanks. A controller is actually what I lack as well.

I'm a little confused about the Implement rules. Do wizards and clerics get a +1 bonus on powers that have the keyword Implement in them all the time, or just if they have a magical implement?

I actually ran a test combat yesterday using the pregens in the back of the book. Both the Wizard and the Dwarf was knocked unconsicious, but they made it. Irontooth... well, he was actually down i 3 rounds or something. Of course, it does help that both the rogue and the dragonborn rolled a 20...

I am running this adventure with only 3 PCs, so I have already downsized the encounter based on my budget. Irontooth, however, was not cut. Maybe I could just remove the ability. It would certainly make it more doable. Can I ask what you mean about bad module? Do you mean as in bad plot etc...

I have a question about one of Irontooth's abilities (the goblin from the kobold lair). Blood crazed - While blodied, Irontooth gains +1d10 damage and loses the ability to use goblin tactics. He must attack the nearest foe, charging when possible. At the end of his turn, he heals 5 hp. Does...

OK, thanks. I was a little confused about the paragraph about Healing surges in PHB (p. 293) which says: Some powers allow you to heal as if you had spent a healing surge. When you receive such healing, you don't actually spend a healing surge. But now I see that it's all in the wording (can...