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I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that your PCs are "above the curve" in your world as far as how much magic is available to them, and they're probably fairly powerful hero-types. My advice is for you to reconsider allowing them to use the "Arcane Mark" system they came up with, but make...

You can call it d30 all you want, but I don't care what you or the manufacturer say...it's really just an attempt to sneak d20.5 in under the radar.

Agreed. Thanks to Rangers we're now living in the Golden Age of the d12, but I can't think of any occasion in the 4E rules that calls for a percentile roll.

On a related note: know your monsters. When you read through the adventures try to think about what they will do and how you can use them to make the encounter more interesting. Coming out of 2E and 3E, where monsters pretty much made attacks or (if they were complicated) cast spells I didn't...

Given how little I know about Fortune Cards I'm cautiously optimistic and will probably pick up a pack. I'm always looking for ways to make things a little more interesting for my players. I'm fairly familiar with Torg's Drama Deck mechanic (to which Rodney Thompson compares Fortune Cards). The...

I agree with the companion character idea, and actually have a little experience with them. We had five players at the table at one point but one dropped out and two others have serious scheduling problems related to school and work, so only two players are certain to be there at ay given time...

Not to go too far off topic, but to bring it back to an area where everyone might not get so angry, but what Gloomshroud ran into is really a common web design hurdle. You get an idea for a website (in this case, a campaign wiki) and your creative side goes wild...but you aren't a visual artist...

I want to give out some in-game rewards to my players for developing coherent backstories, keeping character journals on our campaign wiki, etc. but I can't think of any good ideas. I thought about using RPGA player reward cards but I'm not crazy about them to begin with and my players aren't...

You make a great point. I have no doubt that this happens, but I hope subscribers think twice about paying $3 just to raid the downloads section. The ENWorld community creates a lot of value for the hobby. Those who buy in should do so in good faith with a full understanding of what they're...

Thanks for pointing that out: not sure how I missed it. And thanks for the great site and great deal on the Community Supporter account!

Maybe this is more of a tech support thing...but when I go to the "Payments" page there isn't a link to a page that allows me to subscribe. The "Subscribe Now!" image isn't a link, just an image :(

I like them because they're less expensive and they don't take up space on a shelf. My gaming dollar is stretched pretty thin these days and I've got ten file boxes full of vintage AD&D/WoD books in my closet waiting for more shelf space to open up. I'll also say that I like the market that has...

I think this is a great idea. I was out of work for a year and am just now getting back on my feet, so I'm not yet a subscriber, but I get a lot of value from this website without paying for a subscription or enduring pop-up ads. Making sigs "members only" sounds like a good way to increase...

I mostly make it up as I go along. My current campaign is thematically geared to examine the nature of law, government and authority. Every session that the PCs are within the boundaries of the Kingdom I try to open the session by reciting a bit of information about a peculiar law. I told them...

I don't think the subject would know that the bluffer could only use the bluff skill: a trained bluffer can match the accomplishments of the trained diplomat but he relies on lies to do so. This has special benefits (the truth doesn't have to be on his side) and risks (if his lies are exposed...

I think the concern is that the character who dumped CHA and didn't train any social skills would be unwilling to engage in social encounters because if you make everybody who talks (or the first to talk) roll a skill check then they could ruin a social encounter by openeing their mouths. A...

Good point C. I like that 4E doesn't "glossarize" the terms "Unfriendly" or "Hostile," but if my Dragonborn Paladin flexes his muscles and the Prince laughs at him then I would qualify that as at least unfriendly, if not hostile. I was thinking more in terms of what the NPC would do next: if the...

Hey, even SEALs without the guns are intimidating as hell :p

A Bluff-related footnote: Most people aren't good liars. Psychologists and sociologists have done a lot of research into the social advantages that can be gained from lying: someone who is trained in Bluff but not Diplomacy might be described as someone who relies on lies to get things done in...

Great post Fuzzlewump! As a DM I've seen a lot of social skill checks play out, and as a player I'm fond of pushing the envelope of what a given skill will let me do.