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As an a non-D&D example: The just-concluded and polarizing 'Ultimatum' crisis/event/cross-over in Marvel Comic's Ultimate universe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_(Ultimate_Marvel)). I thought the nerd rage fueled by that comic limited series and the Forgotten Realms' RSE were very...

I consider myself to be a Sandbox-type DM, even before I heard that term. Basically as a DM I will not always scale encounters to meet the party's existing level. They have the chance of being overwhelmed and TPKed. That said (!) in cases where they are going towards a way-to-powerful foe, I...

This is a very bad thing in 4e. Most people would just shrug and take the combat optimized powers even if they wanted a skill-monkey. We had a warlord in one of our campaigns that 'sacrificed' two feats for out of combat/RP situations -- Skill Focus Diplomacy and Linguist. The first was good...

I've only DMed and played in Heroic Tier games so far. Does the problem with 'grinds' get worse at higher level? I'm just asking for an average or general assessment, I'm familiar with several threads that advise DMs to mitigate grinds. I guess what I mean, would be if combat becomes more...

I run a lengthy campaign set in the homebrew World of Spire & Abyss campaign,. Its getting pretty heated in its adventures. When we all can't make the session, though we still like to game. This story hour will chronicle our 'off' side trek campaign set in Eberron -- specifically northeastern...

Baldur's Gate is actually supposed to have the bigger population now in 4e. I roughly remember a designer saying that it had swelled to a million -- possibly including outlying areas. C.I.D.

I wish there was also more feats and more varieties of shifters in the Eberron book. I wanted a 4e version of the 'cliffdive' shifter. C.I.D.

I loved 3.0/3.5. It had a lot of great products and I still think its the culmination of D&D's culture created by Gygax/Arneson/et. al. Anyway, in terms of 4e ...... its such a coherent and unified system that WotC can almost just paint by numbers for certain products. The...

Thanks for the link. Realizing that a guy like him produces the DCC products makes me want to check out their 4e support. Too bad he hasn't published his industry research. It sounds like an interesting read. C.I.D.

Yeah that is true. I just meant that he was touched/empowered by a much more powerful force/being during his Trial (which was a development unique to him), but despite that special-ness he was still fairly weak. C.I.D.

This is quite true. Just look at the endless debates about how to stat out Gandalf, the preeminent example of a wizard in Middle Earth (others include the Five, possibly Worm Tongue, and only a handful of others). Of course there's that old Dragon article about him being a 5th level Magic User...

Well, if you're usin 4e and it sounds like you are, the system and many monsters already take into account most if not all of the psionic rules. Psychic damage is a well-established part of the game since the 4e came out. Just treat the newcomer psionically-inclined as if they'd always been...

How about Raistlin Majere. Yes he's directly tied to the AD&D 1e initially, but he was a very weak caster in the first Dragonlance triology. His main spells were sleep, magic missile, and other low level tropes during the heroes' first encounter with the draconians just outside of Solace. And...

A reboot of lesser proportions has already happened a bit in Star Wars. The discrepancies from the events about the Clone Wars published in the 1998-2005 (ish) prequel novels (of which many are really excellent), to the Cartoon Networks' original short Clone Wars cartoons, and then the Clone...

When I heard 'clone wars' as a kid it was in the 80's and I figured the clones were special warriors used by multiple/both (?) sides as force multipliers and great shock troopes. The term 'Clone Wars' was so evocative and somehow botched in the prequels. That said, I still enjoyed the prequels...

Not to derail ..... but that sounds like an interesting 4e skill challenge for a certain type of player character. It probably requires a group willing to focus on mature subjects (other than the intrinsic violence of most D&D games). C.I.D.

Hellcow, I really have enjoyed Eberron since it came out. Its my favorite published D&D setting, along with Greyhawk and Dark Sun (maybe that means its a 'best in a decade kind of setting'?). One of the things I latched on to early within your settin was the Cabinet and especially the Aurum...

Those stats are cool. Thanks for the heads up. I also should add for more details about the ECS (IMO of course) -- - The maps (embedded in pages and the foldout) are about as good as I've seen in any gaming product. - Some of the most obvious parts of 3.x Eberron were not mentioned (The...

I haven't read into the Open Grave material too much. It sounds like I would like it though!

I just looked at the DDI entry. Great monster. I think the healing surge needs to be brought into play by more monsters in the future ....... though that probably goes against 4e design philosophy. C.I.D.