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There is, unfortunately, all too much about 4e that has turned out to be not what we were led to believe three years ago. Or since.

I used to play a thri-kreen fighter called T'kila back in 2e Dark Sun. Flinging that polearm thing they use ... chatkcha, is it? Ah, happy days.

Does anyone else remember (and I may well get a reply with a url or a direct quote here; here's hoping), ooh, must be three years ago now, that Wizards were saying something about how race would be with you throughout your character's career? I mean, obviously, the character will always be the...

Just to sort of drag this thread back to the topics of its title ... Very much looking forward to seeing these themes. I don't have the Dark Sun book but I have seen it and something about themes elsewhere and they look to be very interesting. Certainly something I would be VERY interested in...

Okay, I am due to restart my 4e game soon and I want to implement this maths fix by granting free feats (we use a VTT so keeping things systematic will make things easier). I propose to give every player Improved Defenses as a free bonus feat, which will fix the NADs issue, but am unsure how...

Should we start saying "Over" every time we finish speaking?

I skimmed over this article perhaps too briefly, thinking it was just more of the same from the DMG2. Having looked at it again, I can see that it's actually pretty useful stuff, another one to keep in your DM's Toolbox.

Thanks, Doc. As it happens, I haven't had to relevel many monsters so far. For those that I have, though - say I find an appropriate post-MM3 monster in the Compendium which is good for a direct swap but it's the wrong level - then I fire up the online (so-called) Monster Builder and use that...

power2ool is pretty much the dog's. I have posted on here before about updating older monsters and older adventures to use the revised monster maths and power2ool is making this process a lot less painful than it might have been, especially with the "automatic stats" feature. I am generating...

I see there are numerous problems (to put it mildly) with the newly-released online Monster Builder, and I don't have an active DDI sub anyway, but do you guys think I could resolve things that way? I mean, could I use the MB to update the monsters I am using, or else look through the...

This looks to be sensible and do-able. A question though: will this apply and be valid right through to the early epic tier? Thanks.

This is very true. Unfortunately, I have a player in my group who will all too readily cry foul! "WTF?! 21 damage with a dagger?! He hit me with a massive greatsword last round and only did 8 damage! What gives?!" Cue cries of "&%@$-ing ridiculous" and "unrealistic" and sulky (and...

Thanks for all the replies; some really good points in there (notably, Mengu's penultimate paragraph in post #11). However ... I really don't want to appear ungrateful but I fear that some of the replies are missing the point. Or rather that I have not fully explained myself. I do not have...

Good reply, Kingreaper; thanks. First off, I didn't actually intend that first monster (an oroc, what's that? a cross between an orc and an orog?!) to be a Brute in mechanical terms, but that's largely by-the-by. Okay, let me rephrase the question then. Given that I have a length campaign set...

Given the new maths for monster design (ie post-MM3/Essentials), am I right in thinking that things have become a little ... flat? What I mean to say is this: take an 8th-level monster, a hulking thug of an oroc that attacks with a greatsword. As per the tables, he does ... 2d8+7 damage on a...

Anyone?

Has anyone done a comparison of the old 4e DM's screen and the newer Deluxe Dungeon Master's Screen, or can point out the differences/errata on the old one? Thanks.

Citations, please. Not being confrontational here, just interested. Thanks.

Ooh, I like the sound of this. Might have to try it out as I continue to have problems with too much tactical thinking and seeking the optimal manoeuvre. This thing of yours sets aside the ruling that you can only take (non-interrupt) actions on your own turn but still. Presumably if a player...

My apologies. I went back and took a look and it turned out that I hadn't cleaned up the pdf copy-and-paste import sufficiently. The raw text for Level was "Level" and the raw text for Role was "14 Artillery". Once I fixed that, the ability score calculations worked just fine. Thought it was...