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I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but "the game created by Gygax & Arneson" predates the OGL by some 26 years, and hasn't been published in 30 years.

When you said "threefold model", I immediately thought of the "pretentious/retro/stupid" model. It's a flawless model, as far as I'm concerned. I loves me some stupid gaming, with a garnish of retro.

I don't know why nobody has brought this up yet, but Enchant Magic Item is a level 4 ritual which creates any magic item of the caster's level or lower, using residuum of value equal to the item's market price. Conveniently, the level 6 ritual Disenchant Magic Item converts an item into residuum...

Does 4e discriminate against loners? God, yes. And it fits perfectly within 4e's gamist paradigm. The goal of a loner character is to go do awesome things by himself. If he's having fun playing a loner character, he's doing so at the expense of the rest of the group, because every minute of...

I said >90% player, because that's my ideal. I don't really like DMing that much. I only do it because of peer pressure, and because it provides a second-rate fix when I'm not in any games. Which seems to be "all the time", anymore. Anybody need a player for an online 4e game? :3

Oooh, bad news, champ.

There's no such thing as a system that "forces" roleplaying; there's no way to mechanically enforce roleplaying, save for DM fiat that "you aren't roleplaying enough". People don't roleplay in an RPG because the system incentivizes them to do so; they roleplay because they enjoy roleplaying...

I like this guy. He knows his stuff. I'd also say that there's a second thing that 4e took from MMOs, and it's important, too, but not as important, and that's language. D&D always had disproportionally tough monsters and class roles, yes, but it wasn't until MMOs and 4e that we had language to...

The party won't gain more than four levels over the course of the module? Are you sure about your math on that?

DPS is also a slang term for a character class with a high-DPS role. If you're Teh Hardcorez, it may also be pronounced "Deeps". DPS = Striker Tank = Defender Healer = Leader CC = Controller CC stands for "crowd control". It's for effects which remove an enemy from combat without actually...

This. People complain about concepts like "game balance" a lot, but I think they usually fail to realize that this is exactly why "game balance" exists, and in many regards 4e is the most balanced D&D ever. Your class and ability scores are just about the only things you cannot change about your...

I can't possibly imagine. I was talking to a friend about some one-shots that might be fun; he's threatening to run an elaborate Scooby-Doo parody. Fred has an orange ascot because he killed a kroot with it, Thelma is an adept with a prediliction for the word "Jinkies", and Shaggy and Scooby are...

This is an important issue. Strength-based basic attacks becoming a de facto combat standard results in dramatic relative power of characters using strength-based powers. The starlock's dilemma of being good with half your attacks or mediocre with all of them would be applied to everybody with...

I'm in the house rules forum because I like reading about ways to make my game better or more interesting or more robust. It's not like the house rules forums exist so that people can make rules for the sake of having more rules. I'm just saying that "more rules" does not mean "better rules"...

There'd be a lot fewer 3e to 4e module conversions going on if any good 4e-native modules were being released. If there are, I haven't heard about them.

Oh, sure, he should know what classes they're playing, and the general functionality of their at-wills and class abilities, but he doesn't need to be memorizing how many [W] the fighter's third-level encounter power does or anything like that. If a player has a daily he likes that has some...

Power cards are a good solution to this. You can print 'em out from the D&D Character Builder.

I'm going to start converting Expidition to Castle Ravenloft in the near future; Open Grave will hopefully make this mostly painless. I don't know if I should bother writing up conversion notes; would anybody else actually benefit from that? Or even, heaven forbid, want to collaborate towards it?

Oh, but they are special snowflakes, their existance does mean they are meant to solve certain things, and sometimes they are supposed to be the best just by nature of their existance. The PCs are not special because they're blessed, or destined, or heroic, or just plain awesome; any of those...

The first step in creating a house rule should always be to consider if 1) there really is a problem, and 2) if it is a problem that a house rule can solve. The purpose of a house rules forum is to make house rules as good as they can be, and if a house rule would cause more problems than it...