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Starting in September and rolling out until the end of the year, the Dungeons & Dragons Essentials products consist of 10 key products that form the basis of the roleplaying game system going forward. These 10 key products are designed to be a great place to start your Dungeons &...

Originally Posted by Plane Sailing One must wonder whether this means that Fireball might see a similar "effort to restore the power to its classical form". After all, Fireball was THE iconic wizard spell, above all others. In 4e it is a paltry mess, inferior in pretty much every way to...

Hope for the best is pretty much where I am at now. I hope Essentials gets it right, because 4E has been problematic thus far. Longest and most bitter edition wars, most mid-edition errata/update/revision, and its made me lose faith in the brain trust at WOTC, rather their poor handling of it...

Below is a snippet from an article by Bill Slavicek regarding the Essential's Line and what it represents; "Hi. Welcome to a special free-to-all edition of my regular column. Every week throughout July and August, I’ll be here to tell you about the many exciting things going on around the...

Lego designers however found that the original red, white, and blue blocks were too cool for school...and since legos in schools is a big deal, they have been "updated" and no longer resemble anything cool at all.

I know, its like 4E has an identity crisis and is now trying desperately to figure itself out.

I suspect that many people wouldn't mind a significant errata to MM1/2, especially if it worked as something as simple as damage increase formulae based on tier. I have been advocating from jump street that much of the revisions updates could have been handled more appropriately and elegantly...

You may have nailed it! These monsters I think were designed to be found in mixed groups with other monsters in others complimentary roles. But I think its more likely DM's are throwing many of the same monster at parties in an encounter (i do that too sometimes because its easier than...

There are those of us who liked 4th Ed fine for the couple of years it has been out, but don't so much anymore with the recent (as of the past few months) heavy errata and revisions that make the core books inaccurate in many ways, and just plain don't like the new direction the game seems to be...

This. I would have said as much in a comment on the original post instead of quoting but I don't know how to just leave a comment. Can anyone help me out with that please?

The more I read about things like Essentials the more it sounds like its 4.5, they just aren't being upfront about it. Time will tell.

I don't penalize for it, but if the players are in a dungeon and don't take some precaution against being interrupted, they may get hit with a random encounter. It may even happen with precautions. But generally no, as long as time and safety aren't believably an issue, players can do this as...

I think also it might be better to err, if an err must occur, on the side of a big bad named boss monster maybe being a bit too tough rather than too weak. Player's can always get better and try again, but if they run the BBEG down like it was little more than a speed bump, then it will have...

This should sum it all up... YouTube - How Lord of The Rings Should Have Ended This is why flight is OP in a fantasy setting :p