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Not quite sure what happened to the original post, put this is the new version I'm working with. I'd be interested in feedback, specifically on the point costs relative to one another. Does anything seem too cheap or too expensive given its usefulness or potential for abuse? Fate Points...

Crossposting this from the other thread about D&D Encounters in the 4E section... I posted a very lengthy two-post report on my experience running the first session of D&D Encounters: Dark Sun over on the official WotC DDE forum. I'll repost it here. It's extremely long, and full of spoilers...

A "survival day" is an abstraction of all of the food, water, extra clothes, protective gear, medicines, and so forth that one person would need to survive for one day out in the wastes of Athas without undue negative effects from the environment. Should someone go a day out in the wilds...

Wilder theme does, too.

I posted a very lengthy two-post report on my experience running the first session of D&D Encounters: Dark Sun over on the official WotC DDE forum. I'll repost it here. It's extremely long, and full of spoilers for the first session. ***** In a sentence? "Tonight's experience with D&D...

That WotC forum for D&D Encounters is really good, actually. Every question you could have is answered there, and there are some very smart and helpful people on there providing tons of great ideas and even a number of nice DM aids for download. And the author of the adventure, and other WotC...

I love these podcasts. I'm a big Penny Arcade fan anyway, and I really like the way that Jerry (in particular) thinks and writes about gaming. He seems a lot like me. And he and Mike (and Scott Kurtz, too) are really hilarious guys. I dig their sense of humor. And Dark Sun! My favorite...

Wow! Four failed Heal checks and he dies. That's tough luck. Awesome encounter, though. Sounds like it was very exciting. No way that was grind.

There are two kinds of D&D players in the world: Those who think that Dark Sun is the most awesome D&D setting ever... ...and those who are wrong.

Yeah, I'm in that minority with you, Danzauker. I'd rather start a campaign with Kalak still alive, or in another city-state far from Tyr.

I'd like to see an all-new setting. Designed by Bruce Cordell. With art by Brom. And free pie when you buy it.

Sweet.

If someone wants to use up two feats and a magic item so that they can spend two minor actions (which is really like spending a move and a minor, if you do it all at once) to essentially shift two squares whenever they want . . . I'm more than fine with that. RAW or not, if it's important to...

Teos Abadia has started doing a series of blogs with background information about Dark Sun here.

Right? I, for one, like all of the conditions. And special bonuses and penalties. And I like daze and stun and weaken, too. I don't find any of it to be a problem at the table, neither as a player nor as a DM. Then again, I hear all sorts of tales of players who have to use calculators to...

I think I'm going to try this. But slightly differently in the initial rolling. Every PC and each monster/similar monster group will roll their own initiative. We then compare the highest initiative result from each side. Whichever side has the highest wins initiative, and then each PC or...

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Wow, this turned out to be a wonderfully challenging fight. If those last two kobolds fought to the death, they'd surely TPK the PCs. I love to see it come down to the wire like this. Probably a good idea that you had to have them flee at bloodied, though.

This sounds great!

Irontooth is tearing them up.