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Hardcore boardgamers/wargamers swear by PLANO boxes -- tackle boxes and craft boxes made by that company. Cheap, easy to find, customizable, durable, with lots of little compartments for all those chits. Target, Walmart, sporting shops, dollar stores, craft stores -- you can find 'em...

You'll want to concentrate on "short cons" -- things you can set up and follow through on quickly. In my opinion, you can't go far wrong with the Pigeon Drop, or any combination thereof (found money scam, fiddle game, lost dog con, etc.). The rule in a con is that the mark has to believe...

I see no reason why we'd change the way we "spend" powers just for Full-Discipline powers. So I'm fairly sure that if you don't use the Movement technique of a Full-Discipline Encounter power during the round you tap it, then you lose it, 'cause the power is now gone until replenished. So...

Full Discipline Sidebar, second paragraph ... "You can use the techniques of a full discipline power in whatever order you like, and you can choose to use one of the techniques and not the other during the round" So you can activate an Encounter Full-Discipline power, use the movement...

I think that the interview process needs to go both ways. Part of your job in the interview process is to state, quite clearly, the sorts of things you are *not* looking for, and find out the sort of thing that the player *is* looking for. Just be honest, and state it plainly for them...

A lot of people have made some very good points, so I'll try not to repeat them. 3E is a very detail-oriented, somewhat simulation-oriented game. There are tons of detailed options with specific rules and rulings for how to handle a wide variety of non-combat situations. There are detailed...

After watching all of the cool videos of the wii-mote whiteboard projects, especially the new digital gaming table videos, I'm going to take the plungee and build a digital projection table for my group. In case you're not aware of what I'm talking about, check out this video. YouTube - Game...

Bunnies and Burrows. Essentially, the game where you played as rabbits, in a "Watership Down" style world. I loved it because it took everything that I thought about RPGs and turned it on its (pointy) ears. It wasn't about the power fantasy, because as rabbits, you never really get that...

Rather than talk about what you can expect from a 4E game, I'll just make a few suggestions as to how to present 4E in its best light. What I found worked *really* well for our crowd was ... a) Power Cards! Having individualized power cards with finalized calculated numbers (not simply...

I think that a lot of the suggestions people are making are well-intentioned, but miss the mark. When Rob Heinsoo and others first looked at the design decisions for 4E, they felt that 3E had taken the simulationist aspects of gaming in a good direction, had taken it about as far as it could...

So, does anybody wish to hazard a guess what the playtest article for the PH3 is going to be about next Friday? They didn't announce a class name alongside it, unlike previous classes, so it might not be a class. (but wouldn't seeing a monk playtest be cool?!) Or it might be a full-fledged...

I cut my teeth on AD&D, and converted to 2E when it came out. I stopped playing, but followed 3E (and 3.5) but realized that it was now more focused on pseudo-simulation. As that style of game, it is extremely good, but it is not the AD&D style I was used to. When 4E came along, it completely...

My advice ... a) don't buy a single campaign product, megadungeon, or anything of the sort. You wind up investing in a single throughline, which might not play out. More to the point, it locks you in too early in the process. Nothing hurts worse than designing a campaign about...

There are examples familiars which are skulls and animated hands, dogs constructed from spellbook covers, and the like. I don't think that it is a far stretch to simply re-skin one of these as a sword or a hat.

First off, I wish you the absolute best of luck with your endeavours. However, in the spirit of helping you refine your idea, I might make a few comments. After all, you had one failed attempt, and if your second attempt is going to work, you want to enter it with a completely realistic...

I love the people who somehow try to justify their piracy by claiming that everything works out in the big picture. If I pirate and don't spend 15 dollars on a game book, I can spend 15 dollars on a shrimp dinner, thereby supporting the companies I like. What this fails to take into...

If anybody has any templates, example notebooks, or basically any other cool OneNote resources, I would be extremely interested in seeing them. I only just discovered OneNote, and I have a feeling that I'll be re-inventing the wheel if I spent days and days trying to set up a campaign...

I wrote up a couple of my experiences regarding 4E, the differences which drew me back to D&D, and the boardgame-style presentation adaptations we adopted to entice new players to give 4E a try. I presented my thoughts on Boardgamegeek, and here on Enworld. I told how my own home-group was...

Here is what I gleaned from listening ... Radiant Vengeance At-Will Ranged 10 WIS vs. REF 1d8+WIS dam Effect: Avenger gains temp hitpoints equal to WIS Overwhelming Strike At-Will WIS vs. AC 1W+WIS Dam Effect: Shift 1 Square and slide target 1 square into the square you just vacated...

My gang doesn’t “do” roleplaying – they came late to the party, and are enjoying 4E strictly as a tactical miniatures game, boardgame, storyboard sort of thing. But they don’t do roleplaying, and they hate coming up with their own ideas, and thinking out of the box. They don’t initiate their own...