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Villains, like the characters, should advance in level. But if you're worried about him overpowering the party early on, they can face him while he was just wounded and not at full strength.

It's not about you as the DM winning (I hope you don't see it that way), it's realizing that you as the DM should be capable of challenging your players regardless how powerful they get, or what tactics they use.

What you are missing is the difference between macro and micro. In our general population and in large groups like the military, new people are always entering as older and sometimes not so old leave. That also holds true in an RPG world. A small (gaming) group need not follow that rule, and...

Has the DM ever had an enemy hit the party with a fire spell? Or fought them with a creature that flew or crawled above them? I had my Wizard fill a Mord's Mansion with rocks, and had the spell expire over an enemy castle. Not just rocks, but Green Slime too. The NPCs defenses became a...

When my company looses an employee (like an adventuring group), we try to replace that person with someone of approximately equal experience. We will not replace a 12th level engineer with someone fresh out of college. That's how the world works. I found the content of your post to be a...

That assumption of yours is not what I said at all, please go back and read.

Wow, I have absolutely no idea what this means... Which agrees with my first point, on the drive for balance. Both good and bad... and different.

OK, you win.

There are differences between Fourth Edition and earlier editions. Why must every comment that mentions a difference be labeled WAR?

I believe that I have been fairly consistent in generalizing all video games under the demonized term WoW, and in stating that I have no experience with video games. Realizing that those that are not video game players probably have very little exposure to those games on the whole, it would be...

Of course not, but we were not discussing the financial impact of the decision. The topic seems to be... from the perspective of a player, do you like the new direction of D&D? In recently joining a 3.5 game, I missed my at-will attack spells and cantrips. However Silent Illusion and Rope...

In my opinion, 4.0E handles the situation very well, by encouraging role playing by the players. My Wizard has even functioned as a leader. No, he can't inspire or heal, but he can lead. No, they had role playing also.

Start with WoW, which seems to be the most popular one. It also seems to be the one demonized most by players who do not care for the new edition. Regarding "ET for the 2600", I have not yet seem anyone compare 4.0E to it... but I could be wrong. In fact, your post was the first mention of it...

Step #1) Please try to put yourself in the position of someone who is not a video game fan, and has maybe heard of WoW and two or three others that are advertised on TV. People like me do not know of the multitude of diverse games out there, so let's please try to communicate on a common level...

You know how correct they are, and I believe you also know what the result of a debate with them would be. Are you familiar with the saying "winning an argument on the internet is like winning an event at..."? Anyone who has been following what Rechan has been posting knows that he is a fan of...

In my professional life I have often been called on to be "an agent of change". What I have come to learn is that people do not oppose change, they oppose chance they have no influence over. When Hasbro/WotC released 4.0E, I believe they made a mistake in no longer supporting 3.X. But now...

Thank you! I am relatively new to this forum, and do not participate in any other RPG on-line communities. I am also not sure what YMMV means, as far as I know it could mean you mashed more vegetables (or other things that fail the grandmother rule).

It would be appreciated when some not so commonly used acronyms are defined at least once in a post, if not previously done earlier in a thread. I believe that 3pp is "third party product".

What we have going on are two camps yelling past each other without making an attempt to understand what is being expressed (while poorly stated) by the other. One camp that favors older editions over 4.0E and on average are not big WoW (or other video game) players are criticizing 4.0E as...

If that's what you enjoy, then incorporate it into your game. As for me, I'd rather concentrate on the role playing and killing things. Very few first level characters can afford to cast first level rituals. I couldn't afford to cast fist level rituals until I hit fourth level. At 12th level...