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Well, it took me a bit, but I managed to find a .pdf converter and a digital camera. Here are some shots of the components I was talking about, and a .pdf of the game mat. Forgive the graphics quality -- I may revisit the game mat and make a nicer version now that everybody has confirmed that...

My take on the whole Realms transition is positive, and that is coming from somebody who was a real fan of the Realms as a gaming setting (and who hasn't ever read a novel set there, etc.) The campaign setting is almost purely background, whereas the player's guide contains the real mechanics...

Okay ... where is a nice free hosting site so I can post some pictures/files? I don't have a digital camera handy, but at the very least I could upload some PDFs of the mats and documents, right? (Office can save as PDF, I'm pretty sure ...)

Yesterday I ran my first-ever 4th edition game for a bunch of us, as a test-drive for the system to see whether we liked it enough to consider starting a campaign. This wasn’t an RPG group. In fact, it wasn’t even an RPG-friendly group, and therein lay my problem. Some of the players had...

Years ago, when I first moved to the States, I kept up with my weekly gaming group by using Microsoft Whiteboard and text-chatting with my friends. It worked (barely), and we managed to have a few good sessions. Years later we revisited RPGs online with voice-comms and dedicated software...

Another alternative ... Wizards of the coast has some podcasts listed where the guys who write the cartoons "Penny Arcade" and "PvP" are taught how to play D&D by WotC official DM's. Funny, and educational! They are are all new to 4th edition, and one of them is a complete newbie to D&D...

I actually wrote up a document, based primarily on copying the "how to play" section in the official 4E module "Keep on the Shadowfell", which I titled "Learn how to play D&D in 8 pages of 12-point font". The majority of it is copied directly, but I did add a few things which I felt were too...

I have a question regarding Opportunity Attacks, Ranged Basic Attacks, and Wizards. I thought I had most things sussed, and then for fun I listened to the podcast of a demo D&D game done by an official WotC DM for the folks at the comics “Penny Arcade” and “PvP”...

I'm unfamiliar with slaughtergarde, and I'm looking for a 4E module to run for a bunch of 4E newbies. I was planning on using Keep on the Shadowfell (yes, I actually went out and spent money on a "learn to play" module even after buying the books ...) but it isn't exactly blowing smoke up my...

Thank you kindly. I'm trying to make sure that I don't read anything extra in from the four accumulated D&D rulesets floating around in my head (stopped reading before 3.5) but obviously there are a few snippets still jamming up the works. Thanks again.

Hi all. First post here. New to 4th edition, and trying to clear up some misconceptions and misfiled rules in my head. 2-handed weapons (say, a greataxe) -- you get a STR bonus to damage with it, but how much bonus, exactly? Do you get get your STR bonus, or 1.5x your STR bonus (or is that...