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I got the 4e ECS and the player's guide this week as well. I think that in terms of user-friendliness, these books are much easier to use for a quick and dirty campaign or just an adventure backdrop. The main reason for that conclusion is that practically every entry (for an organization (ie...

On several occaisions I fell into unknowingly having campaigns I was running mirror certain historical eras or situations. The bigggest one was when I was DMing the WotC 3.5 Red Hand of Doom campaign mixed with Necormancer's Game adventure - The Vault of Larinn Kar. The Vault had a tri-gem...

...p. 15 PHB -- "each character class specializes in one of four basic functions in combat: - control and area offense (controller) - defense (defender) - healing and support (leader) - focused offense (striker)" Those are the bare-bones and precise terms for what the designers originally...

I was surprised they didn't have 'Swordmage' and 'Warforged' as options for the survey. Those seem like pretty important parts of the 4e experience. C.I.D.

Dr. Manhattan would definetely be an NPC. Player hero powers would be balanced in relation to one another ... at least similar to the way the Star Wars SAGA rules balance Jedi powers against non-Force users. Anyway, I don't intend to be faithful to the Watchmen story, just its expanded...

Oh yes. I figured that if Nixon could get 5 terms, then Arnold could get himself elected at least once. A conceit that I really want to play up on is the somewhat internationally agreed upon authoritarian limitations placed on the Internet, while on the flip side TV and celebrities become even...

That sounds like a pretty cool system ... and I can assume that since its roughly d20 inspired that I could pull in some of the equipment and vehicles rules from the d20 Modern SRD? As an M&M fan, have you seen any fan-brewed settings that have something similar (which might save me some work)?

He's obviously too dark to be Good, but the ambiguity in everyone's analysis over Law and Chaos makes me think that he's True Neutral. He's not a balance-crazy True Neutral like Mordenkainen or a 2e Druid, but he effectively has such an idiosyncratic and personalized view of the scope of his...

Hey thanks, is M&M gritty in feel? What I kind of want is a more realistic super hero campaign ...... I liked the Watchmen since most were just really skilled , i.e. Batman, as opposed to Superman. At the same time I want to give players the option to be more powerful with really wild powers...

Hi I'm planning on running a campaign inspired by the Watchmen (graphic novel/movie), some elements of the Ultimate Marvel universe, and my own somewhat satirical reimagining of the post Cold War world (as inspired by the Watchmen. The conceit is that its 2009. The world feels like today...

Mouseferatu, I also really enjoyed this element of your article. Overall it was top-knotch and it really fits well into my new campaign (see sig) below). It really also fits well with the history of paganism in places like the Roman Empire, which involved a lot of plural worship of differing...

One of the main points that was in contention here (whehter or not it was part of a misunderstanding) was still the amount of divine intervention at hand in a campaign. If a DM doesn't want his game to turn into a Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal style game (at even a minimal level), that...

I've read through all of the adventures for this adventure path and found them wanting. They are very very repetitive in terms of monsters used in the early adventures, and if I'd run them I would have altered them significantly. Basically I feel like they just used the Kobold, Goblin, and Orc...

Sometimes earning a magic item as a reward with political strings attached is an incentive to involve themselves in a local economy. For instance, if they're given a sword +1 in order to defend a specific town, they could be induced to making that a temp or occaisional base of operations. The...

A lot of these ideas sound great, IMO. The DUNE Spacing Guild route, along with a reasonable method of having the PCs sometimes contribute to the success of a ship making its way safely through a challenge are necessary. I also think you have a few premade official tools to use for inspiration...

Never hurts to have a few backup characters, plus their backgrounds and artistic renderings readymade for a PC death.

Its a lot more freeform than in past editions. I'd say a series of skill challenges could be devised that would scrounge up a host of needed hirelings for say - construction of castle. Along with the successes of the challenge, serious coin would need to be laid down as well.

DID NOT READ your stuff. :) C.I.D.

Hi again. I mentioned that several aspects of my campaign are being built up around a more advanced tech levels (vice traditional D&D). That includes airships, as well as teleportation circles and a few other things. Here's a link if interested: The Spire and the Abyss » home C.I.D.

I only read the first paragraph and then felt a compulsion to not read futher, but my advice is for you to let the warforged win. They've been known to tear the arms off people who disagreed with them. C.I.D.