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Just had the first session of my new campaign (cannot begin to stress how much help everyone here has been to ensure that that even happened!) Now that we've started, there are some little things creeping up I realized I'm under-prepared for. Treasure. The DM's guide has fairly explicit...

What first drew me to Themes was starting Scales of War with some casual friends. After playing higher level characters, we all felt bored and limited with only 1 Encounter, 1 Daily and two at wills. One extra encounter power at level one is exciting, but I do see balance issues arising. Just...

keichiku has some excellent points, that's how I've been running my campaign with my twenty-something friends too. Ultimately, D&D is just a rules structure to roleplay within. Some people prefer to focus more on the rules and how they interact, but I know I was more focused (especially at a...

Title pretty much covers it. Up to this point my characters have been allowed one background, as a little aid to flesh out their characters. Have you played with Themes? How do you feel about them? Do you suggest using both, or one over the other? Trit

Great advice, everyone. I think a more cinematic focus for this scene would make it really strong story-telling. Here's how I'm going to structure the mystery so far. Evil King wants an item held by PC's Father. Evil King confides with Angry Noble (member of the Good King's court), who...

The actual opening scene will probably be the attack, but not played strictly as an encounter. Then there's a little time passing montage, as one pc (the lord's son) comes of age. Using some clues picked up from the night of the attack and then some knowledge from npcs I'm going to drag them...

Hey all, Days away from my first session of my campaign! Finally got things set up! Thanks for all the help up to this point just planning out my plot. I had left a big part of my plot vague to give me room to expand upon it, but after some thought figured I'd need to use it to bring my...

Sadly I can't be of any help, but I wanted to throw a most in, in case someone else remembers the adventure name. It sounds very exciting, and I'd love to try it with my group. Oh, and based on my limited experience with pre-mades, that sounds like a free RPG day or game day adventure to me...

You guys are wonderful. Saagael, thanks for the links. I'll probably end up sticking with Maptool for map making (had more luck with it so far than other programs) If it's easy to share your library and any other tips you have, I would be in your debt. OnlineDM , just glancing at your site it...

Finally getting around to making my own maps instead of filtching from those online. Does anyone know of anywhere to get texture/map packs for use in MapTool (or any other virtual tabletop for that matter)? I looked at the rptools gallery page and can only seem to find the same 8-10 maps/images...

This is how I've always felt dailies worked, but never took the time to research and see this was the case. I always struggle when picking my dailies and it usually comes down to one that's really cool and one that's slightly less cool but reliable. I personally like that choice. Trit

If choosing the path of letting the player decide if they want to use the miss effect, or have the power be reliable, I'd have them decide before they attack. Otherwise, it could become a very opportunistic decision that could easily be abused. I am a fan however of allowing action points to be...

I see your reasoning for this change, and I can't say I think it'd a bad idea. The first problem I foresee are the powers with miss effects built into them, even if that effect is only half-damage. Obviously, these could be exceptions to the new rule, but then they become much less attractive...

I'm surprised no one has mentioned DDI as an alternative for buying books. As a somewhat new DM myself, Wizard's online D&D membership has been a great tool for me. While it doesn't really teach you -how- to play or run things (for that, the books have no substitute) you can avoid, for the most...

The old Adventure Tools was downloadable (that worked on PCs only), but a while ago they changed that to an online version so that Mac users could also use it. I still have my old downloaded version for quick use, but have never had a problem reading the files... how are you trying to read them...

That was my guess/fear. Should be easy enough to manually apply them, but I'm mostly disappointed they don't have access online to the various themes already published. Was looking for one in particular but don't feel like/can't afford to shell out the money for BoVD at the moment. Oh well.

I've just started looking into monster themes and templates (due in part to Jhaelen's post below) and I was wondering if there was any way using the DDI Monster Builder to apply themes or templates? I can't seem to find one, but I don't use the builder that much these days. Does anyone with more...

And thank you for assuming I'm pro ;)

You can't use the same power twice in one day. I see where the language there could be interpreted in both ways, but if you followed the logic for option A, you would never be able to prepare the same spell... ever again. This just allows you to have flexibility in which daily power out of your...

I'm in the sorry position of being across the country from 4/5 of my players. As a result we all use our computers and other digital tools heavily (Maptool being the primary crutch). There are advantages to them, no question, and I find myself on the constant look out for new toys and gadgets...