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Cool combined use of Dwarven Forge 3d terrain, 2d tiles and maps, and 3d placement of 2d terrain.

If a player wants his ancestral weapon to be an important part of his character's identify, a good DM will work with that and not destroy the weapon or offer a powerful other weapon as reward. Instead the DM can offer some ritual or magic that improves the existing ancestral weapon, etc.

I added a final $5 to my pledge in the last five minutes, but I wasn't sure until the smoke cleared that the $5 increase went through Amazon, since all the folks joining or increasing their pledges caused everything to crash. Reaper did a great job making the whole Kickstarter campaign a fun...

I just recently bought it and find it very useful, not only for the stats on monsters, but a lot of cool adventure hooks with crunch to make it easy to implement. It's a great DM tool.

When can we expect the next preview from this set?

As to the art, I like the trog better than the lizardfolk. For both I thought they really missed the mark in failing to make them scaly looking. They both look more frog/toad like in the smoothness of their skin. The lizardfolk also looked kind of froggy in its face too. I don't mind the...

I prefer having turn undead as a spell and not forcing all clerics to have this power.

I'd love to see Greyhawk revisited.

I read the rule on advantage/disadvantage in the latest playtest packet and understand if you have advantage from one circumstance and disadvantage from another they cancel out. But what happens if you have advantage from two circumstances and disadvantage from only one? Does the one...

I am a 4E fan, and don't really think DND Next at this point is headed to be a replacement for 4E for me, at least. However, I think I could see myself being pleased with DND Next as an alternate game with a different play style, which could also be enjoyable. I did enjoy playing 1E, 2E, 3E...

I took my first quick look over the Blingdenstone adventure and really liked it. I have many reservations about the D&D Next rules system proposed in the test packet, but I wanted to express my praise for the playtest adventure's design in terms of providing a LOT of opportunities for...

As a DM, what I want from monster design is ease of constructing balanced, interesting monsters that fufill their roles as threats and challenges for the PCs and that are easy to scale for use against PCs of different levels. I am not opposed to having "monster" PCs but that is but I don't...

The one thing I find most puzzling an troublesome about the D&D Next rules so far is this reliance on the advantage/disadvantage mechanic. It seems like a very limiting mechanic. Why not just use bonuses and penalties as in every other edition of the game, which allows for smaller and larger...

The OP hit on my biggest worry regarind D&D right now. I already decided looking at the playtest I have zero interest of changing to 5e and prefer to keep running campaigns with 4e. But if Wizards takes down the DDI tools for 4e once 5e comes out, I may have to quit DMing altogether. It's...

I have read through the Playtest packet, and as someone who likes 4e a lot, I am not at all happy to see D&D going back to what looked a lot like 2e to me. I loved the ease of DMing 4e, and will not go back to the challenges of tracking spell durations, tracking spell slots, worrying about...

As someone who mostly DM's, I love the 4e approach to monsters, and I'm glad 5e seems to be generally staying away from using a simulationist approach to "classed" monsters. I do not, however, like the approach of using damage expressions like 1d4-2 damage. That seems like a throw back to...

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From 3e/3.5e, without a doubt for me the classics will be: Sunless Citadel - fun adventure that most of the D&D community experienced Shackled City Adventure Path - pure awesome

It would be so awesome to have Descent into the Depths of the Earth and Vault of the Drow done in 4E as well next.

Agreed. I really find those useful. Along with the Against the Giant adventure 4e adventure series, they are at the top of why I'm subscribing to DDI.