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Not too much; I'm not a big spender on RPGs. Serenity RPG: Got this as a gift from a friend (who doesn't play RPGs). Loved the show, but I don't think I'd game in the Serenity-verse even if the system weren't, well, by and large unfinished. Dread: I am madly in love with the idea of Dread...

Shadow of the Colossus had a great soundtrack for big, action-y segments, especially for fighting against gigantic monsters. (Naturally.) Sample: YouTube - Shadow Of The Colossus OST - A Violent Encounter

As a short aside... "beta" really doesn't mean what it used to. I mean, GMail officially had beta status for over five years without actually seeing many major changes. The Monster Builder -- while it still needs a bit of a spitshine beyond what it's received lately -- is a pretty serviceable...

As the others have mentioned, there's really no timetable for any additional tools. If you haven't heard of Masterplan at this point, though, I would strongly recommend using it as an adventure building/organizational tool.

I'm going to toss my hat into the "Yeah, this is not so great" camp. From what I've seen so far, it tends to just interrupt an actual conversation with walls of "Good post!" or "Yep, poster X sure is dumb, good telling him." I'd much sooner read the conversation without having that kind of...

I am somehow comforted with the knowledge that I haven't done anything remotely Pokemon-related in the last decade. Thanks!

Er... does WotC not still handle the Pokemon CCG?

YouTube - Braid Music - Long Past Gone

How is it accurate to have my ability to do adventurous things be unrelated to the frequency with which I do adventurous things? Why should running across wet balance beams in the Temple of the Great Tide while dodging swipes from water archons provide me with less valuable experience than...

We did something similar in our 3.5E campaign in college, and it always seemed unnecessary and annoying. Ours was just a time commitment, not gold or mentors, but it was jarring to say "Okay, so I spent a month adventuring through the Underdark, solving puzzles, picking locks, and fighting all...

Oh dear, I like this. I like this a lot. Also, to respond to the OP... in what way is this a reinvention of hexcrawling?

On the subject of auto-detection... I don't actually have a PHB -- does 4E perception still use the 3.5E rule of characters taking -1 to Spot/Perception per 10 feet? If not, that seems like it would be a reasonable compromise for passive perception. So if the Rogue has a passive perception of...

A very simple example is a session I ran for some friends a couple weeks ago. I was guest DMing a short side-trek in an ongoing Keep on the Shadowfell game and, thanks largely to some positively ridiculous resource hoarding on the PC's part, 3 of the 5 party members were down with the battle...

While we're veering wildly off topic... Your condition cards are already out of date! As of this week's errata, domination no longer dazes, for fear of weird compounding rules that I can't imagine 99.99% of people would've noticed anyway! I don't think I quite grasp the color coding, either --...

In response to these comments, I will point out that Monument to the Ancients in Dragon 170 had a pretty good skill challenge/puzzle thing that you two might appreciate. I haven't run it, but it looks pretty well thought out. The PCs have a MacGuffin that consists of 9 glyphs and an object...

Because fudging is something that really only works in moderation, just like it doesn't do much for a campaign to have nothing but cakewalks every encounter or to kill half the party every encounter. Even if you design your adventure with all of the numbers pegged exactly right, there's still...

1-3 really makes the most sense at the moment, given that it's the range covered by the Character Builder for non-DDI subscribers.

To try to add something that others haven't already, both I and my players really enjoyed seeing a semblance of the Victory Points system from Heroes of Battle appear in Red Hand of Doom. I had been quietly tracking the passing of time from the start (as advised by the module), and when...

I also just had my first go at this today, and I'm impressed with how well this works. I'll need to tinker with it more to be sure, but I can see using this in the future, even if only to make centralizing my Character Builder files a little easier. That said, there are a few things that...

Absolutely, and it seems ridiculous not to. I've had way too many encounters where the main villain -- often an Elite or Solo -- curses my d20 with the complete inability to roll above a 4. That makes for a boring fight for the players and a frustrating experience for me as a DM, since those...