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My question for both Dragonlance and Dark Sun would be: What Era? There's a big down side to the re-releasing the Prism Pentad (if they do relaunch Dark Sun): They're less likely to pretend it never happened. That's lousy. On the other hand, there's a chance that the Relaunch would involve a...

No DragonLance? What's up with that? Although in all fairness, we already have rules for Minotaurs and Kender, so there isn't much need for a whole Campaign Setting write-up. I "hope" for Spelljammer, Al-Qadim or Ravenloft (especially Ravenloft). But I expect Dark Sun, since it always does the...

No. It's not a campaign setting. It's the 4E Core Rules (plus spellscarred) barfed onto a map WotC had publishing rights to. Some echos of a former campaign setting remain, but I already own the Grey Box. The Forgotten Realms used to have a feel. So did Dark Sun, Planescape - all the good...

I don't find his sheet to be much better than the official one. It's a little cleaner, but that's it. You still need to flip between the front sheet and the power sheet during combat. Further I don't think the power page is well organized. Mad Irishman (who used to be my "official" character...

I'm sort of surprised how neck-and-neck the poll is turning out. There are no one-page character sheets that I can find, so I sort of thought that the majority of people preferred the multi-page variety. Odd. I bet is someone made a good one-page sheet for 4E it would be popular. Maybe a...

More like this? I've improved the template a bit.

One of my Top 5 Feature Requests for the CB is the ability to save/export a character to a CSV file so that it could be sucked into any number of third-party character sheets. For instance, I'd love to import a character directly to Verys' character booklet or that playmat. Maybe Wizards will...

We all know what the standard 4E character sheet looks like. I hate it. For one thing, I do not like flipping pages during combat. Or fiddling with power cards. I want one page, face up, with everything. Sometimes I feel alone in this however, as there are no character sheets that I've found...

That's quite apt, actually, except that I would remove the term "unintentionally." I think that it was quite intentional that 4E is very similar "on the outside" to Basic, however different their internal mechanisms are. Incorrect, both with respect to D&D and to fish/dolphins. They're...

Okay, okay everyone. I was just having a little fun with the "superiority" quip. I knew it would poke people. I was just "in character" as the 19th century botanist, including the Victorian bias of superiority of the present. :) I also know how evolution works. There's no better or worse when...

Well, naturally each D&D is "its own", when narrowly defined. But I think the strongest argument is that 3E is a species in transition, still demonstrating the "Advanced" strategy of having a rule for everything (RFE) but also with some of the "rationalized" traits that will only reach their...

Oh, and "on more thing", I've decided that some of the adventures will usually have 'helpless' NPCs around that need Defending. This will really allow the Divine Mark to shine (Ramstein can clearly take care of himself). Plus, it's the Paladin thing to do. The first adventure is going to...

For the curious, here's Wendy's PC: ====== Created Using Wizards of the Coast D&DI Character Builder ====== Paks Fellsbain, level 1 Amazon Paladin [As I mentioned, this is a re-fluffed Dragonborn. No rules have been changed. - IR] Build: Protecting Paladin Background: Auspicious Birth [Use CHR...

Thanks so much everyone. Unfortunately (or not), running 2-3 PCs really isn't an option. The wife is a bit rules-phobic, so asking her to learn three classes probably won't fly. Plus, she likes roleplaying out conversations & detective stuff, and running multi-PCs is a real RP-killer IME. I've...

I agree that of all the classes she could have picked she really went with the best one for solo play. But (IMO) no solo PC should ever go adventurin' without a buddy to drag their unconscious ass out of battle in the event of "bad luck." The "They left you for dead / decided to take you...

Hey all, SITUATION: FACT #1: My wife wants me to run a couple short adventures for her using 4E rules, as a solo PC. I know that (because of the explicit Roles) 4E doesn't support solo play as well as other games, but I absolutely want to do what I can to make this work. What we've decided...

The form of ownership should not effect moral choices, as corporations are ultimately owned by people. If an artist forms a corporation for tax purposes, and assigns all his work to the corporation, do you still feel no obligation to respect the copyright merely because of the legal ownership...

I really appreciate Old Timer's description of the Scandinavian Tradition of attribution as the only benefit of authorship. I hadn't seen that before. But I come down with DaveMage: Copyright is good, but the current term is way too long. Just to sum up where that comes from: 1. Ceteris...

Not entirely; currently there are rules missing. For instance, the CB will help you make a character with a certain weapon, and the Compendium will tell you that that weapon has the Brutal 2 quality, but neither tool will tell you what "Brutal 2" actually does. You still need the AV (hardcover...

Now if you could just find two DMs who agree on exactly where that line is ... Personally I'd think it was pretty neat if a PC managed to make every spell he had Fire keyworded in some respect. Fire Shield, Wings of Flame, Fiery Portal (allows a campfire to act as a Teleportation Circle), etc.