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I agree it should be easy for DM's to create variations, but it would still be nice to get a bunch of variations already created when you need to throw together a city encounter on the spot.

I think the bandolier belt is precisely for holding the "special" bullets, which are ceramic capsules that contain the glue, fire chemical, or stink chemical. The belt is not magical; it merely holds the three special ones so that the kobold can quickly grab them when they don't want to use one...

I think I remember one of the podcasts mentioning they'd be an entry for humans in the monster manual. But given that many DMs like to run city adventures and such, and low-magic campaigns, I am hoping the entry will provide a lot of variety in types of "human monsters" such as guards, thugs...

In watching this video, I was again struck by how the hill giant's damage seems way too low, so low that I think it needs errata. Chris Perkins references how the hill giant, as a brute, does more damage than a monster of its level is expected to. But the hill giant does a measely 1d10+5...

Except that some powers can be used twice per encounter, such as Healing Word, in which case such powers can be used twice every five minutes (use twice, take a short rest of at least five minutes to recover encounter powers, use twice again, take another short rest of five minutes, use twice...

Graf, I like your idea of having the sage as someone who inadvertently helped the bad guy get his hands on the ritual. That allows the party to potentially get to know more about Kalarel and about the ritual before hand, and that will help build the climax towards the need to stop the ritual.

One of my players is going to play a male half-elf paladin and another is going to play a female half-elf warlock. I'm thinking they might be the son and daughter of elven paladin of Bahamut, Sir Keegan Redleaf, who was an elven knight who was appointed by the elven nation to guard the gate...

If a DM is concerned about players being upset that they waste a daily power on a minion, just make sure not to tell them it was a minion after it dies. All the player should know is that the daily power killed the critter, not whether it barely killed it or wiped it out easily.

I like the idea of a travelling bard performing at the inn the (incorrect) tale of Brave Sir Keegan. I decided to write up a quick "epic" for the bard: The Ode to Brave Sir Keegan A shadow fell upon the land From stirring graves The dead did stand And came in waves. The living fled And from...

Won't you have the core books by the time they reach second (and certainly third) levels? The core books will be on sale all over in about two and a half weeks. Even before then you can probably ask on these boards for someone who gets the books early to just share a warlock 2nd level power to...

I enjoyed running a 3.5 game for characters levels 1 through around 12. After that things started going downhill as the character levels got higher and the preparation time for adventures skyrocketed, and battles started taking four hours to play through two rounds, and the players started...

Correct. It appears that opportunity attacks have to be basic attacks (unless you have some special ability that has not been revealed yet).

I like that the half-elf can pick at at-will from another class as an encounter power. That is the only way to get an at-will from another class apparently. The multiclass feats let you get encounter and daily abilities but not at-will powers, if I remember correctly. So with a half-elf, you...

I'd love to know another warlord at-will power besides the two revealed by WOTC, so we can build a human warlord for running Keep on the Shadowfell.

I think 4.0 will be successful. But in any case, I'm pretty sure it will be successful for me and my games.

Lately I can't seem to get enthused about running a 3.5 game. I think I might still be willing to play in a 3.5 game if I had to, but I prefer to DM, and I'm hoping to be able to run 4.0 as soon as I get the core books from Amazon. I'm about to run a 4.0 game for 5 players who have never...

One thing that still confuses me about the KoTS half-elf cleric: why is Healing Word listed as only curing healing surge plus 1d6? Even someone who read the Player's Handbook for a few minutes today reported that Healing Word did healing surge plus 1d6 plus ability modifier of healing. Is this...

I am going to run a game for five players in a couple weeks, NONE of whom have ever played D&D or any other roleplaying tabletop game. I like to consider myself a good DM, but I am slightly intimidated by this task. I am hoping they will all enjoy themselves and that at least some will find...

I am very pleased by the rumors that alignment no longer has any mechanical significance in the game. I find the idea that there is LG but no CG kind of strange. Same with having CE but no LE. But I can live with that as a small price to pay to be rid of mechanically significant alignment...

Did anyone get a chance to confirm the ability modifiers for half-elves, or how the half-elf racial multiclass power works (can a half-elf take a power from any other class, or only one with the same power source)? Also, any more information on how the ritual for creating magic items works...