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I'll echo the sentiment that the current model for published settings better follows my buying habits. I'm likely to buy a Campaign Setting and Player's Guide but far less likely to buy Cobblers of Baldur's Gate. Once you get out of the high level details of a CS book and into locale specifics...

I had a blast at the Game Day. When I got my Red Box a few weeks ago I felt like I was ten years old again opening up my first Red Box. The Game Day was likewise similar to me first D&D game. The pregens were fun to play and on the whole well put together. I brought my friend along who had never...

If you want to eschew minis but keep the grid you can stuff a piece of graph paper in a clear poly sheet holder (like for a three ring binder) and draw on it with wet erase markers. Use different color markers for PCs, monsters, and features of the map. I use initials and numbers to keep track...

I'm just worried that additional Dark Sun content is going to end up as DDI exclusives. No additional Dark Sun books have been announced while things like the Ravenloft and Shadowfell boxed sets have been talked about. Not having a DDI account but loving Dark Sun I think this is a valid concern.

I'll preface by saying that I feel die rolls are for suspense only. If you want the characters to climb the wall and cross the ceiling make the difficulty such that you can assume the weakest character can take 10 and get across safely. They should only roll a dice if the situation is dramatic...

Awesome info, I was really interested on how the new books were going to be bound. How different is the deluxe DM screen from the existing 4E screen, is it just updated charts or did they actually add more information to it?

In 2E Dark Sun the you were advised if not required to start a campaign at third level or higher. Getting an extra encounter power at first level is power-wise like characters starting at third level. They're not quite as powerful as normal encounter powers but they do provide a little something...

Besides the boxes themselves acting as terrain do you happen to know if there's any 3D pieces (stairs etc) like Desert of Athas?

On Wednesday with the allowance of home made characters a guy showed up with a Shardmind sorcerer. I don't have any problem with him wanting to play that character and since he was the same level as everyone else it was pretty balanced. However at that point in the DDE campaign the number of...

I was going to say the same thing. I like the DM supplements because they give me ideas and let me liberally steal details when I'm trying to flesh out something of my own. Rename a couple of NPCs and change a few details of a town and voila you've got yourself a location with a lot of back...

The DM booklet is very similar in size and scope to the DM booklet that came with the 2008 Starter Set. It's rewritten with current errata applied and presented a little more concisely. There's just enough in the Red Box to cover level 1 and 2 adventures.

I'm pretty happy to hear Target is going to be selling the Essentials stuff. It's not really out of character for them as stores have at least a rack of CCGs including Magic: The Gathering. I'm less worried about the "OMG Satanism!" now than I would have been fifteen or twenty years ago. If...

Thanks for posting these, I love the Ye Olde Schoole format of the sheets. Since WotC is on a nostalgia kick I hope they release some Ye Olde Schoole black and white artwork once the Red Box is unleashed. I really like most of the modern D&D artwork but some Larry Elmore line drawings would make...

I bought a bunch of plastic pawns from Rolco Games in different colors and use them for monsters. I wrote numbers on the sides using a sharpie so I can keep track of which monster is which. I use different colored pawns for each different type of monster. To track statuses I use the colored pony...

Based on the Ravenloft rulebook I think Wizards is trying this idea out. The encounter deck in the Ravenloft game with the way they do tiles and exploration go a long way to obviate the need for a singular referee, after all it is a board game. While I honestly doubt WotC is trying to obviate...

Something I'm puzzled by with Dark Sun is the lack of any miniatures to go along with the setting. I would have been fine with just a fixed set of minis like the Beholder boxed set that is coming out. I liked the Desert of Athas tile set but I was hoping for minis as well. Races like the...

If you think you and your players will enjoy it by all means give 4E another shot. Keep in mind though it is not going to play like previous editions. If you're playing 4E like you'd play Pathfinder or 3.5E you're going to have a really hard time. For starters healing and staying conscious in...

My group was a little undermanned (only 4 people Tomas, Tak'Tha, Dai'Lo, and Kuori) so I think our DM went a little easy on us encounter-wise. We rolled well on the skill challenge through the desert (which our DM ran and described very well). When we got to the oasis with the Elf on the rock...

I have been a Dark Sun fan since the 2E era. It was an interesting departure from the sword and sorcery fantasy, more John Carter of Mars than Lord of the Rings. It really let me rethink how to play the game since the things I was familiar with no longer behaved the same way. For the most part...

For starters it is possible and supported by WotC to completely ignore the Essentials products. They're not going to stop printing any of the Core books. You'll still be able to run a game free of any Essentials rules. The fact that the new rules work with all the products previously published...