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I appreciate the feedback, everyone. I'll put it to my group and if there aren't any major objections I'll go ahead with inherent bonuses.

I'm considering using the rules for inherent bonuses in my campaign. One of my goals is to make things a bit simpler for my players, who are mostly 4e newbies and not really optimizers. I'd like them to be able to focus on acquiring cool, useful and thematically appropriate items without having...

I don't know if this is any good, and it involves action denial conditions which players justifiably hate, but my thought was to take RangerWickett's idea, and change the consequences of failing an Endurance check so it kind of resembles the Sleep spell. The player is dazed and makes a save at...

I thought about getting a Chessex mat but didn't like not being able to draw in much fine detail, or not being able to prepare multiple maps ahead of time, so opted instead to get a couple 1" grid easel pads. It's a good solution whether you need to improvise a map or want to prepare something...

I also agree that the setting can work fine without any special resurrection rules, and clarify that I didn't mean to say that there's anything about the Zeitgeist setting that makes resurrection any more problematic than in other settings ... I just feel that resurrection is difficult to "do...

Personally, I don't like having to deal with the various setting implications and plot issues that can come up when resurrection is as freely available as the standard rules/setting seems to indicate it is. While I'd like to be able to give my players second chances, to maintain a sense of...

I would have done something like what you describe if I thought my live group would have been down for it. I think that between the lengthy live sessions plus time spent between sessions shopping and updating their characters they felt like they were getting their fill of D&D during the week, or...

How do you handle it if a character dies in a relatively mundane fashion? You might be able to take out one or two items depending on how you describe the death (e.g. a bashed in cranium might coincide with the destruction the character's magical helm), but most of the items would probably...

Like fireinthedust said, it depends on exactly what you mean by iconic. I'd say it primarily comes from familiarity and nostalgia, but a spell with great impact may quickly become an icon even without familiarity or nostalgia working for it. Fireball is a general fantasy iconic spell. In D&D...