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DDI has an Encounter Builder. However, if you read a lot of the Dragon Adventures and other published adventures, a key component of all of them is the inclusion of a Skill Challenge. In fact, adding skill challenges seems to quiet a lot of the "4E is nothing but combat" arguments, too! So...

We've been having this same discussion about "Stinking Cloud". Stinking Cloud Wizard Attack 5 You call forth a thick cloud of bilious yellow vapors. The foul fumes overwhelm any creature within. Daily ✦ Arcane, Implement, Poison, Zone Standard Action Area burst 2 within 20 squares Target: Each...

Do the various bonus additions from different items stack? I was under the impression that they did not. You chose the largest single bonus, and that was it. However, the Iron Armbands of Power have a property which grants a +2 bonus to damage rolls. However, if item bonuses don't stack...

In response to the suggested fixes ... While it is kind of you to suggest such things, and such standard advice is never a bad idea to re-visit, it should be pointed out that the module as it stands already has plenty of such motivation, additional fluff, extras, background, etc. They did...

I've been running it as my gang's first real foray into 4E. The majority of my group is new to D&D, so I wanted them to feel confident that they were getting an official product, and not something that their friend whipped up (even though I've got coming up to 3 decades of experience DMing...

The real value added by a cleric is in the healing, and in the buffs. What you want to do is tie together your other party members, add the option for some healing (with a cost) and not have to put up with a complete NPC character. So you make a custom item. The item has the following...

Actually, what you're describing has very little to do with the game, or the game-mechanics, or roleplaying. It is simply a matter of team-management. However, thankfully there is a nice, roleplaying-based solution for handling it. Some game-worlds have areas or countries which require...

So, I made up a combo like I was talking about. Character Sheet cards -- formatted in the same style as Grandpa's Power Cards. Made to sit on the table next to them and blend in. Spaces to put in your character's actual calculated values, etc., but also spaces to hold poker chips or tokens...

It'd be interesting to see a combo of these two ideas. A gamer mat, permanently broken down into a set of 4 or 6 or 8 (or whatever-it-takes) cards, designed to lay out in various formats, but still with spaces to take poker chips as tokens to keep track of effects. Thus, you could have a...

Granpa's Power Cards http://www.enworld.org/forum/4351249-post718.html I've got a link in other places in this thread, and I've edited the original post to include it as well, now.

Very cool to hear some of these positive outcomes! Our own little game is chugging along nicely, slowly but surely. We're on our second version of the character sheet now, using the prettier one provided here. We've switched to using Poker Chips to track hit points (they stack much more...

And this is where you lose me completely. You're saying that you've had "several battles" that end with one or more players down, but not dead. You've *had* the tense, dramatic moments. And then you say that they've worked out a mechanic or two to help them out of those situations, so...

I think that we're finding that 4E is suffering a little bit from a presentation style choice, as well as its young age, and as a community in general we're seeing the consequences manifest themselves in combat-heavy, non-unique campaigns. I am absoluely certain that this will change as soon...

In our campaign, we've managed to avoid deaths at every session -- but just barely. Each session has had at least one battle, if not two, where a couple of people have been down to rolling death saves, and have got to the point where they're counting down to the final dirtnap. The entire party...

While I'm not interested in the iPhone aspects of this, I am very interested in the open-source aspects of this, and therefore interested in seeing if this can be applied to the upcoming Android phones. I checked, and the website can be viewed using Chrome, which means (hopefully) that the...

The idea of non-combat, story-telling/roleplaying mechanics and rules is highly lmiting. You start off thinking that you're trying to help the PC's by giving them guidance and structure, so you can give certain classes a bonus or benefit with certain non-combat rules mechanics, but in the end...

That second map is beautiful! Thanks for posting it! (and it is nicely up to date, too, what with the shifting land-masses, changing deserts, fallen chasms, etc.) Thanks again!

Just clarifying, based on the wording of your post. The "setting book" is the Campaign Guide, and it contains no mechanics whatsoever. The Player's Guide contains the actual rules and mechanics for running the Drow as a PC race. If you pick up the "setting book", you won't find what you're...

Sorry, was unfamiliar with the term "laser cleric", so I had to look it up. He is more melee oriented, although he recently seemed to twig to the fact that when the party needs healing, it'd be awfully nice if he had some sort of healing abilities on tap. He changed his mind about his setup...

Thanks for the replies, all. I had indeed noticed that I'd gone weapons-heavy, but I think that I was just attempting to acknowledge that everybody's first "real" magic weapon tends to be memorable, and cool, and stick with them. I'd like to shake things up, and not be quite so predictable...