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Nope. No lance. You could use a spear, or is there a longspear? Or make something up. Or you could wait. This month's Dragon has an article on jousting and I would assume/hope the lance will be in there somewhere.

This is a valid point that has come up in our group before now. Suppose the party is fighting trolls. "Only fire or acid can kill a troll" but it takes a DC 15 Nature check to know that. That is admittedly a rather low DC for that kind of info, all it would take is a passive check by a PC...

Aaah, The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan. This "module" (because they were all "modules" back then) was my first real experience of DMing D&D back in 1982 or maybe 83. Happy memories. I would very much like to see the revised 4e version but unfortunately I don't do Encounters or know of a store near...

An article on jousting? Really? Now? When the lance as an item/weapon has been missing from 4e these past three years?

I guess we shall see what they have come up with next week, at least part of it. I don't particularly have a problem with the delve format per se. In fact, I find they work rather well for individual combat encounters. My gripe is with the to-ing and fro-ing that the adventures require. You...

Wait, Bruce Cordell - Bruce "Sunless Citadel" Cordell - has a supervisor?!

Okay, someone help me out here. Some time ago (probably about a year), I saw a video of (iirc) the cast of The Guild at some convention (probably Comic-Con) playing an impromptu game at a Q&A session. The actual people and location are not important though (which helps if I have completely...

Good exhaustive link there, Dire Bare. I had the Hollow World box set too (*wonders what happened to all his old gaming stuff*) and I rather liked it. In fact, I have often thought that that whole set-up is ripe for a 4e campaign. Heroic Tier: the characters have various adventures that get...

The Gazetteer series from the late 1980s are the definitive books on the setting. You can find more information on them at RPG.net here. The first one - GAZ1: The Grand Duchy of Karameikos - is widely held to be the best of the series and sets the benchmark. Lots of useful information in these...

I rather think that 4e's "Epic Destiny" mechanic is the successor to the BECMI/Red Box/Mystara "Immortals" one, where characters grow too big for this world and move on to a higher plane. It's just one of very many references we have seen in 4e to past editions (and I mean way past, pre-2e).

The title says it all really. I play a 4e game set in the Mystara world (1010 AC) and I was wondering how many other people here use Mystara for their 4e games. Mystara is an old setting, see, but with an extraordinarily rich background and masses (and I mean *masses*) of community-created...

You would think (and I realise I may be a little naive or over-optimistic here) that the software developers would have built the application to be future-proof, inasmuch as they will be able to add to the data without breaking anything. So I would like to think that your two priorities can be...

Thanks, Babbage. Your post serves to reaffirm what my problem is, which is two-fold. One is that certain functionality that used to be available is now no longer available, which makes little to no sense. But the main one is that the custom content I am talking about is minor, so why not...

I think you're being a bit naive there, Herschel. The people who run WotC are gamers as much as you and I are and they will have the same kind of history of creating and DMing and playing in homebrew games and campaigns and campaign worlds. The campaign worlds that are officially supported now...

Another aspect to this whole issue has just occurred to me (must be on a roll!) ... Mike Mearls has been harping on for months now about his spaghetti sauce thing, how D&D is different things for different players and different groups and how that is all valid and good. AND YET the key product...

No, I don't think you did at all.

I know I am risking veering wildly off-topic here but when 4e was first published, it was as though custom content was expected to be the norm. There was no official campaign setting, just the much-trumpeted "points of light" approach (which I rather liked). That has not really worked out the...

As it happens, I have already submitted the question to Rule-of-Three. We shall see if it ever comes up.

Sorry but unless customers complain about a product, it will never change, because the developers will assume that everything is a-ok. And tagging my concerns onto somebody else's "complain thread" does not make them more visible to the people who can do something about them, quite the...

Which I absolutely will do if my concerns are not addressed.