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In my experience, you're doing the level adjustment in the wrong direction. The fourth edition characters should be higher level than the third edition adventure calls for. Due to the thirty-level spread in 4e, creatures in the MM tend to be of higher level than their 3e counterparts, so the 4e...

Well, I voted that I'd be willing to run a 3.5 game largely because I am in fact running one that I intend to see through to completion. I would not, however, start running a new game using that version of the system. I also gave a "Willing to run B/X / BECMI / RC" game since I'm considering...

10 years, though with a lot of flux in the group in that time. At this point we've split into two groups with some joint membership and a permeable membrane. All male these days. At current count we have: Software engineering manager, early 30s Software engineering manager, 38 Software...

No way. The fantastic sales of D&D fourth editions's products so far show that Pathfinder is doomed. And vice versa, re: the fantastic sales of Pathfinder and 4e's inevitable demise.

FunkBGR, I'd love to see the mechanics you settle on for Kyuss worms. My AoW campaign is by necessity staying 3.5 (too many players really attached to their specific character build plans), but I've spent some time thinking about how I would convert things if we were going that route. There can...

Started with first ed. AD&D. As I experimented with other RPGs (Shadowrun, Paranoia, Rolemaster, WFRP), I grew to really dislike the AD&D mechanics, and dropped it before 2nd edition ever came out. In the late 90s, we started playing Temple of Elemental Evil in AD&D 1e for the sake of nostalgia...

No deaths in our party of 5 (the included pregens with the errors corrected). Since we knew we were going out that day with the express purpose of KILL IRONTOOTH (although we didn't know exactly how rough that fight would be), we arrived at the Irontooth fight with all of our daily powers...

I voted Neutral, but that assumes that it's something that would see fairly limited use. If it were, say, a system that revolved around heavy d2 / coin flipping, I'd quickly become irritated. But for now I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt.

There are so many options in this poll, and still so little room for nuance. Right now? I'm playing 4e exclusively. In a month or so, we'll wrap up our 4e test game, and I'll resume running my 3.5 campaign. When that finishes, we'll probably be more or less exclusively 4e, but that's end of...

Multiple versions. I'm enjoying 4th edition and fully intend to use it preferentially over 3.x and derivatives for my D&D needs, but I'm going to complete my Age of Worms game using 3.5, and that won't be finished by the end of the year. Next up after Age of Worms: Pathfinder's Curse of the...

Eloquent! ;)

I was disappointed in reviewing "Reading A Power" to see that there was not in fact any guideline on how to read indentation. That said, I have to agree with the interpretation that the indented Weapon line is specifically a conditional on the Hit line. to approach this from another angle, check...

Yeah. I doubt The Rouse will take offense if I characterize my response to the above news as "guarded optimism." After so long, I expect they're all in the same boat. Hopefully by end of business today, we'll be able to ratchet the enthusiasm level up a couple of notches to Blackwatch Plaid.

Actually, Ari, the "1 HP when you're out of surges" rule is correct. Check out "Healing a Dying Character", PHB p. 295, specifically the bullet point, "Regain Hit Points". I like it. You're out of the action; they can keep you alive, but you're not going to be good for fighting until you get...

I think the explanation for that is found in the Customizing Monsters excerpt. As an 8th level NPC, he has a magic threshold of +1, and therefore subtracts 1 from the bonus granted by magic items. It's interesting to see how alike a PC and an NPC can look, with tiny reminders still that...

That is beautiful. I'm really eager to play a Warlord, and I'm glad I have an internet worth of brains already spotting the micro-optimizations. =) And I hope there's a real mechanical reason that the Warlord doesn't have Inspiring PResence, and it's not another error or poorly-considered...

I'm just extrapolating from a mixture of 3e and common sense, but no. All temporary HP go away at the end of the encounter. Innate HP do not go away. In 3e, temporary HP are spent first, I see no reason why that would change in 4e. Our 1 HP minion gains 5 temporary HP, takes 3 HP from a cleave...

Huh! I'm quite surprised to see that potions aren't based around healing surges metrics, e.g., "Regain hit points as though you had expended two healing surges, allow save vs 1 effect."

This is good to know. That's one of the points I'm interested in: what attributes the classes are keyed to. We know that Rogues are Dex primary, with options for either Cha (Artful Dodger) or Str (Brutal Scoundrel) as secondary. Warlords are Str primary, with options for Int (Tactical Presence)...

And the reason you're not doing it right is that you're not using minions! Seriously, the existence of minions (and solos - we'll see how elites work out) is currently one of my two favorite additions I've seen in 4e so far. The Age of Worms campaign has a battle against a lizardfolk siege...