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Yeah I have a hunch that its going to be a striker with a shade of defender as well. Some "defender-y" bits might be gaining temporary hitpoints (or damage reduction) while bloodied, after dropping a foe, taking damage, scoring a critical hit...etc. I could see the barbarian's damage ability...

I guess it depends what gaming system you're using. I'm not sure if by "EverQuest d20" you're referring to the Swords & Sorcery version of EQ, which was pretty bad imho. If you want to use it though, thats great, I'm just saying that it doesn't encapsulate the "feel" of EQ that I got from the...

I think its meant more for min-maxing. The game assumes that you optimize your character's feats for balancing reasons. If you played a 3.X fighter and put all your bonus feats into Weapon Focus for every weapon imaginable, rather than going with a more optimal build, encounters designed for a...

Shielding swordmages are perfect. They get the job done, but they can't free+multi mark or dps like Fighters. And they don't have the survivability of Paladins. Instead they're the best at "hey, you must attack attack me" Their dps output on single targets is weak, but they have a wide variety...

What are you looking for? It seems like you have everything planned out already. I would agree that anything to do with a dracoliche is too crazy for a low level party. As some general advice, I would recommend against having a DMPC follow the party...if for balance reasons there needs to be a...

I would agree that computing has had a strong influence on D&D's development. But after thinking about it, I don't think its unique to RPGs. I mean, compare "old fashioned Risk" to the new variants today. Or the Alpha/Beta set of M:TG to modern releases. Or final fantasy twelve to final fantasy...

It works on my iTouch; they use the same software as iPhone. I'm loving this app so much its unhealthy. Care to post a tutorial about how to add powers? I'm unfamiliar with the code, but I wouldn't mind putting in some time to add more stuff to it *cough*swordmage*cough* :) My one beef with it...

I really like this mechanic, but the ripple effects on monsters that gain/recharge abilities on the bloodied condition are fairly significant. Perhaps you could hand-wave that problem away by give monsters that have bloodied abilities a "rage" DR of 5/10/15 while they are bloodied. THis would...

This is an awesome idea! I'm totally going to try this out with my next campaign. At a first glance, I'm going to say that "elites" are going to dish out slightly more DPS. Every hit they deal is going to do more damage than a regular PC, but they are going to have the same miss rate. Probably...

I think the key is to know your players well. Some people want to sit at the table just to hang out with the guys, some people just want to watch a cool story unfold, some people want to actively participate. When I first ran large groups I was always worried about giving each character equal...

1. More paragon and epic content. It's amazing to play a high level D&D campaign that is no longer a nightmare. Personally I think paragon tier is even better than heroic. Epic and heroic are about equal in fun imho. 2. More "Monsters" that are really humanoids with unique powers. I want the...

This is absolutely brilliant. Great write up!

Ahh, ok, yeah I missed the distinction. I thought he was talking about talking about the fighter making 9 OAs on the fighters turn, rather than 1 OA on each of the 9 goblins/kobolds turn, ASSUMING that the goblins/kobolds/whateverreally decide to move instead of shift. So yeah, logically the...

Nice, I'm an EQ fan as well. =) Although I thought it was amusing you used EQ1 photos instead of EQ2. =P The module as written is rather railroad-y. However, after thinking about it I think this is good thing for a module intended for new RPGers. But if you want your future modules to have...

inati, I think you're missing the difference between an OA and the immediate reaction basic attack granted by the Fighter challange. Its easy to confuse the two because they both use the same "melee basic attack" wording, but they are very different. I had a PC that tried to abuse this...

Yeah unlike celtic/medieval music, there isn't as much demand for roman/greek stuff. The only really good find that I know of is E.S.Posthumus. I used the OSTs from the Rome TV-series and Gladiator for roman settings, and classical music for greek--Spartans were Wagner. Eastern-flavored music...

The cool thing about choosing Pelor is that light can banish shadows...however if light is not used properly, it can also strengthen them :) So how about this. The seal is unperfect. The priests of Pelor periodically perform this ritual to cleanse the world of the shadows that leak out of the...

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It depends on the style of campaign. However, I think the "sweet spot" for D&D is 6 people. This is more than I would say for most RPGs because D&D (especially 4E) requires more teamwork than most other RPGs imho. I've found its really hard to do D&D with 4 or less people, unless they choose...

From a complexity standpoint, the thing I like about 4E is that all the classes have depth to them. Whereas in D&D 3E the only classes that truly had depth to them were the cleric, druid, wizard, and sorcerer classes, due to the many things they could do with spells. All other classes were...