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I have to concur with renau1g. The analysis I have read DOES include references to Magic. But as far as I can tell Dungeons and Dragons is a complete nonissue for investors. I suspect, it it is only my opinion, that Hasbro bought WOTC for Magic and a vague hope of somehow monetizing the D&D...

I have a regular campaign so I know the passive perception scores of the characters. So I can pretty much guess how the trap etc. will play out. Basically, I know that the character with the highest perception will discover the trap or, depending on DC, I know that they will not. I therefore...

Very cool.

First, the obligatory "I like the old CB better." The online CB will work exactly as you expect for the purposes you describe. A couple weeks ago I was introducing a new player, so we did a "flashback" encounter with the new player's character and a couple of NPCs converted to PCs played by the...

I see. Thank you.

It would be helpful for everyone if you were to read the original post, rather than just the title, before answering. The post had a number of specific questions.

Did you play 3rd edition? There was plenty of content. Character creation could be very complicated because there were (it seems to me) more options to modify your attack and damage, plus situational bonuses, DC modifications, potentially multiple prestige classes, wild multiclassing combos and...

Maybe the easiest way to think of it is: you apply those bonuses (including weapon focus etc.) once for each attack roll. So 1W, 2W it doesn't matter. The character only gets the bonus once. Further posts will amost certainly point out exceptions to this, but in your specific question the...

If you are still open to suggestions, the Red Box is pretty much a choose-your-adventure training aid in a box. It doesn't require a grid or all the accessories of a standard game. So, if you and her kick back on the couch and try the Red Box and her response is, "this is totally not my thing"...

Sorry to spam with two posts in a row. Railroading... I think with experienced players alot of people get uncomfortable if they feel they are forced into one plot direction. With new players the fact that they can do pretty much anything on a minute-by-minute, round for basis, is so hard to...

You may also consider fashioning and running encounters in a way that allows individual characters to shine. Or even simply running the encounter in a way that favors each of the character's strengths in turn. You can position minions so that, maybe with your encouragement, the wizard can blast...

This is EXACTLY what I am getting at. The OP was concerned because the rules as he or she interpreted them did not make sense from an economic standpoint. My point is that any DM worth the job description can easily make it work, and actually make it fun rather than simply a work-around. And...

I think it is important to emphasize this concept in the context of the OP's concerns. On one level treasure acts as a secondary pool of experience points in so far as the party pretty requires a baseline of gear (especially weapon, armor and neck slot) in order to function using standard...

Check out inherent bonuses and page 138 of the DMG2. That, and don't allow characters to buy or sell magic items unless it is part of the narrative and I think your problem is mostly solved.

Magic items have had a theoretical cash value going back to 1e so this is not an issue peculiar to 4e. But unless the DM decides to include stores that specialize in magic items it is, and always has been, an entirely theoretical problem.

If you (an no one else) are not adjacent to it, then no creatures are adjacent to it. If you are adjacent to to, then the "other than you" qualifier becomes relevant. I think is is painfully obvious that you must be in melee (and adjacent if you are using a reach weapon).

I don't want to come across as a nag but... I agree with you that the new CB sucks. Until, at the very least, I can add a bonus feat it is no use to me. On the other hand, this Saturday one of my players was running errands before the game so he logged in my computer, printed his character and...

Just curious, why are you so confident that yuu own the program?

It does not cost anything, as a thing-in-itself. Anyone who is sending money to WOTC is doing so because they have bought a subscription to a variety of online content. I know that you really dig the original CB and that is what you thought your were buying. But you were wrong. You paid for...

No sane or sober person would have used it, but there was NT 3.5