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I like the sheet! You should make the Surge Value Box editable, though. A character wearing a belt of vigor for example has a higher surge value than HP/4.

I am currently playing in a Core tomb of Horrors campaign and just started DMing an Essentials version of Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil. We seperated the two systems completely on the players side of things, and there seems to be a vastly different vibe to them. The core game seems...

I didn't look into her stats, just want to make known, I like this article a lot! Really, I was hoping to have one or two of the Divinity/Court/... articles a month. This and good adventures is what I want the magazines for.

You know, there are some rather simple solutions for this problem, if it bugs you so much. Do not stat NPCs up as Solo Monsters. The party rogue allone would be no threat to the group statted as a PC, why should she be one as an NPCs? Elites are what the game seems to intend for NPCs with...

Damn! Why didn't I think of Freeport? And I like the Cthullu Mythos a lot, too. It should be easy to place the city in the southern parts of Fearun. :)

I love DMing in the Forgotten Realms but my campaigns, independent of game system are usually based on an idea, a theme from elsewhere. Either another system or another game world or something else. This something needs to be 'deep' enough for me to plunder it for ideas for month, otherwise I...

I have and do use Bard's Gate. It replaces the village Ashabenford in my Forgotten Realms campaign and it is the defacto capital city of the dale lands region. I never liked the dales not having a single big city. It is a natural fit for the dales. I love Bard's Gate and so does the rest of my...

I'm currently playing a 10th level human wildblood warden... it is an awesome class and my character kind of does what you want. During an avarage battle he takes about 150-200 points of damage without minding that to much. His AC is abysmal though... usualy, if an enemy wants to hit my...

Create more games, maybe? When you look at board games and the companies producing them, there are some well supported games (FFGs Runebound and Descent lines for example.) But they put out other games. The same designers do that. I guess it might be possible to actually create more than one RPG...

Yes, I know. But they are better than the rare Gauntlets of Ogre Power. That does not seem reasonable.

So, with the Gauntlets of Ogre Power being rare and giving a +2 to damage rolls for one encounter, can we expect the Iron Armbands of Power to change? Or will Wizards simply act as if they do not exist, as they are not part of the essentials?

I like the picture :) That said, I just build a Human Wildblood Warden of level 9 to play in a friends Tomb of Horrors campaign... Resolute Stamina in the hands of a warden would be way to good. The Warden can can do a lot of stuff with second wind, even the dwarvens minor action surge makes it...

It is no problem in my game. We play a customized version of the 4e Realms (no Abeir Collusion, but the Spellplague happend). Epic Level threats can not be handled by single NPCs (Elminster and Drizzt are both just below Epic Level in this incarnation of the setting). The setting is full of...

I am currently running a 4e sandbox and it worked perfectly for 6 levels now There was a TPK but we started over with new characters at higher level. We have a few houserules, but those do not really affect the sandbox campaign: Some races are not allowed and we only use player material from...

I think there is some wisdom in this. Paizo continues to support a mature game, WotC spend the last 2 years building 4e. It was not that different with 3e actually, though the 3rd party support helped. For me, the point where WotC should start to go into the depth of their game has come, I would...

I absolutly agree with you, pacing is very important and as a player I hate to be stuck in a situation I can not get into. Depending on system and character that might be combat, social interaction or 'shoping'. But it depends upon the game system and your players if your plan is realistic or...

Currently I would buy Dungeon Delve 2 unseen as well as any 4e stuff from Paizo or Necromancer Games. None of these things or comming :) I will get Deathwatch and Into the Storm (Rogue Trader Expansion) unseen though, I'm a fan of FFGs production values.

What are the most inspiring rpg books you read in recent years? The ones that made you run or want to run a D&D campaign? Most of my inspiration comes from D&D books, not all though. 3 years ago, I got my hands on Against the Giants. It inspired a whole campaign. No conversion, rather a...

I have tried nearly every scheme of HP/Damage changes to quicken combat... IF you are sure there is no other way, adding 1 point of damage per 3 levels and +1[W] Critical Damage while reducing Monster HP to 75% works very well without to many unintended problems (Higher Damage = DR/Temp HP are...

Creating a .camp file is not that much work actually. Though it is a bit stupid that new stuff gets added by default, thus you have to update it once a month.