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Couldn't agree more. To echo off other posters, CHOICE is good, but for exploration type games its good to make the game appear organic. To do that, its important to give the PCs a map or at least some rumors of other locations, which they can choose their path based on differing priorities...

I really like that idea. I would love to read about how it works out for your group. One idea I immediately thought of (and excuse me for this) Star Wars-style pacing. Whether it be just a nod towards the movies attempt at putting their characters 'in media res' at the start of each...

I really like that idea. I would love to read about how it works out for your group. One idea I immediately thought of (and excuse me for this) Star Wars-style pacing. Whether it be just a nod towards the movies attempt at putting their characters 'in media res' at the start of each...

Well I can't recommend Pathfinder. (I haven't checked it out yet, but if its based off of 3.5 it can't be all bad). That said, the OP said that he liked SWSE and had hoped it'd show up more in 4e. I couldn't agree with that statment more. So I can deliver the next best thing, Final Fantasy...

Okay so dragons are smart and have long memories (or at least the ability to be well educated/well read). Your dragon might take a page from the little mortal races and use his intellect for far reaching plans. I don't know .. whether it be as a crime lord, a subtle mover and shaker with various...

I agree with a lot of what you said. I play 4e regularly (in fact as my only regular game system nowadays), but I do have gripes. One of the smaller gripes I had was regarding the way they treated gnomes. Now I know that gnomes are handled differently by a lot of people, sometimes ignored...

Well another idea would be an absolutely ironclad rule that says all Dragonborn-humans are carnie folk! I.E. fire breathers ..... sword swallowers .... bearded ladies ...... C.I.D.

Ah .. well bards only suck if you let yourself be pulled into the Stormwind Fallacy. A suboptimal choice shouldn't deter a truly good roleplayer :confused: Anyway, Paizo hasn't been criticized as much because they're just the smaller companay in the mix. They aren't the ones forcing the...

4e does fit that bill generally. You can do a LOT of damage to your party before they really start feeling desperate. Be careful with big elite monsters with near endless hit points. The PCs can probably stand up to them and eventually subdue them, but this sort of thing can lead to what people...

On that line though, what is the effect of people just going into Borders or B&N and just page-flipping? That catches a lot of casual interest. That's the sole reason I picked up a lot of game-related books over the last few years. The 4e original core books are especially attractive to the...

A powerful combo I've run against two 5th level PCs (a dwarf cleric and a dwarf druid): - 4 troglodyte warriors (level 12 minions; AC 25 - F 25 - R 22 - W 21) Short entry, but this encounter proved to me how interesting higher level minions were as enemies to lower level PCs. The defenses were...

As a person who bought into the marketing and even listened to a former player's complaints about 3.X's semi-permanent conditions (i.e. longer than a round or two), I thought so-called 'bad fun' argument had merit. I began to think that the penultimate basic rules (initial core books) of the...

I basically use the DMG for the class templates and p. 42. But then again p. 42's DCs (and the DM screen) have been erratted.

Well I started gaming with D&D in 1992 in 8th grade. The first setting I fell in love with was Dark Sun (and later Greyhawk and then a decade later with Eberron). Anyway, I want to discuss 'fluff' aspects of the new Dark Sun that the WotC developers will throw into next year's campaign...

I wish they make retcons/renewed 4e versions of the classic adventures a staple of DDI's Dungeon. I think a 4e version of the old basic D&D adventure of Rahasia (great for tactical use of teleportation zones and also the moral quandry of attacking dominated opponents) or the Veiled Society...

Urban sand-box adventures work (for some groups) as well. The main thing to do is to make a lot of different locations in the city preordained. Make equal or higher level NPCs which have motivations for various things around the city, but don't make them overshadow your players' decisions (at...

Oops. That I did .....

And that problem is easily fixed by the simple introduction of a new quest or arrival of a new villainous threat. Heck even something as simple as a flyby dragon attack could lead the PCs into helping protect and ferry now homeless refugees to a redoubt city or new campaign area. That's the...

At least we can all agree that Loeb's work in the RSE -- 'Ultimatum' limited series was a text-book case of hamfisted and poorly conceived and executed reboots. The first Crisis really saved the DC universe after 50+ years of baggage. The recent ones were unnecessary. /derail. In concept I...

As (typically Marvel) comics guy, I'd have to agree about the Crisis of the Infinite Earths. Retconning/rebooting/RSEs in a general RPG way, though works best when the players themselves have some input or impetus. C.I.D.