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My thoughts after 6-7 months of gaming: Combat RAW could use some more randomness. I use old 3rd edition Paizo critical miss cards to add some spice to encounters and it works well (with some alterations - no more 1d6 Wis bleeds). New content please. My players are running out of feats and...

Right, but you've taken "his" players from the Friday game, moved them to your Wednesday game and you quit the Friday game yourself. What I mean is that he might be taking this as its now "Halivar's show" and it's not the cooperative Friday game night that it was, and that he's not feeling quite...

I don't think this has very much to do with the editions. I think it has a lot more to do with you being a bit gung-ho and adding that second game on Friday. Speaking for myself in that position, if you were really looking for the DM to eventually take over you should have asked if it was ok to...

Getting database errors when trying to view threads. Might be due to the recoding but thought I'd let you know.

Doesn't sound good for Star Wars.

Very cool for a Facebook app. Almost all those kind of apps have timers or some such to stretch out the game because there's only so much content you can put in. It's meant to be running in the background at work where you check it every so often, not played like Neverwinter Nights 3 :P

Heck yes. I already bought tons of their Gamemastery stuff, 4E stuff I'd be all over.

I'm afraid I'm not following the OP. Having one fight a day isn't a problem, just adjust the difficulty of the encounters upward to account for the characters always being at full hp and having access to dailies - elite and solo enemies are great for this. The healing surges shouldn't be a...

Agree completely. Having had plenty of experience of meeting new players and DMing for players I don't know, I have a strict no-conflict rule unless the players involved give their consent, and I tell them this up front. If players disregard it (which has happened a few times), they get one...

255 points of damage. Bulettes get a second wind. My speculation: You threw a high AC, high HP Skirmisher paired with a Controller, both of which generate large amounts of difficult terrain, against a 3 person party with 2 meleers. Hilarity ensues. With a small party you have to adjust the...

Just tried to log in again, at 12:14 PM Pacific time. The front page partially loaded after 3 minutes, then loaded completely after 6 minutes. Once loaded to get to the forums it was a 5 second load time or so.

Tried to load the page at 9:25 AM Pacific today, big lag spike, took around 2-3 minutes to load the front page in. Last night around 10 PM Pacific time it was almost instant.

A project can be "functional" yet still fall significantly short of deliverable.

I'll say here what I couldn't say over on the WOTC boards. Likely massive non-conformance project failure. They literally had to start over from scratch.

As DM my reading of the rules would only allow this to occur on a voluntary move action. However... This begs the question of Close Quarters. If an ally force moves the target, does the rogue still move with him? If I were to be consistent with rulings I would have to say no, but my DM gut...

3 is the ideal. If I deviate from that I tend to go more towards 4, usually because I have experienced players. I don't like to throw no-win encounters at the players unless they go looking for trouble (TM). The greatest satisfaction from being a DM for me is setting up a well-balanced...

They will. What's surprising to me is the amount of people who fell for WOTC's bullcrap and actually thought that a software product of theirs would be released on time or would be feature complete. Look at E-tools and MTGO, and someone tell me where the basis is for anyone to think that WOTC...

IMO there are a few explanations for your feelings on 4e judging from your experience: One, you basically transferred the concepts of fully-fleshed out 3E characters with the benefit of years of splat-book mechanics behind them to a new system that's not even released yet and found them...

I don't want to derail this into a WoW thread, so I won't be discussing it anymore. But if you haven't played a paladin in WoW, the healing abilities were far, far stronger than the other abilities. Blizzard is supposedly taking steps to change that, after only three years. My apologies again...

I meant that class mechanics weren't a huge part of it. At release, many class mechanics didn't work very well either through bugs or design decisions. It took them the better part of a year to hammer those out.