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Like this a lot, although I don't know how much I would get out of it as a) I do not currently have an active DDI sub and b) we play our 4e games using FG2. That said though, I have just been playing with it a bit and noticed a couple of things when entering a monster (copy-and-paste from a...

The RC treasure system works like this for magic items: d20 roll for each encounter; 13-20 = one magic item of level + 1d4. That is static throughout all levels except for the very high ones (27th and up) as it would be impossible to give out a Level 32 item. A point of interest: I really do...

We have used a few of these over the years but we currently use MapTool for our Pathfinder games and Fantasy Grounds 2 for our 4e ones. MapTool is free and has a number of cool features, not the least of which is the very good lighting system. You can also edit properties and write macros (or...

This. For me as a DM, story is everything. I am fortunate that the people I play with (and they are the same people I have played with for donkey's years) feel the same. They enjoy the story we are telling much more than the numbers and so on that sit behind it all. Sure, you need to advance...

Nice article. But he uses the word "forward" instead of "foreword" not once, but twice. And that, with me being a shameless pedant, put me off.

One thing this type of thread always teaches us is that it's horses for courses.

This issue crops up every now and again and I am pleasantly surprised to see just how many DMs have dropped tracking xp, as I have. One thing bothers me though: those of you who still award xp, you all mention things like "bonus xp for good roleplaying" or good ideas, paying attention or even...

I think you'd be surprised to learn just how many people pay very little attention to XP rewards, using either the story or time/sessions elapsed as the metric by which to level up. I am one such DM.

And the new DDE season - March of the Phantom Brigades - is to take place in and around "Castle Inverness", no less!

It further occurs to me, reading the blurb on the 'Madness at Gardmore Abbey' product page, that there is a distinct 'Temple of Elemental Evil' flavour to it. Am I wrong?

I have been using Masterplan for many months now and it has been getting better with every version number. I don't actually use it for *running* games but it is eminently capable of doing so, keeping track of combats and battlemaps and effects and everything. I like it very much for the...

I find it extremely interesting that WotC output for 4e D&D is decidedly backward-looking, almost retro. Take a look at some of the titles we have seen over the last couple of years or so ... Revenge of the Giants Tomb of Horrors (both a direct 4e RPGA Reward rewrite and an expanded tale...

When I first started out gaming - far too many years ago now with the Ghost Tower of Inverness - we didn't even have polyhedral dice! We didn't know anywhere that sold them, certainly not outside of London and we were in Yorkshire. So we used 2D equivalents! We made cardboard spinners of...

Thanks to everyone for your thoughts on this thing. Lots of good ideas and approaches. I should say that I specifically avoided posing this as a problem requiring an answer, because I don't think it is one. But I do think it is an interesting issue and I am enjoying hearing everyone's...

A recent conversation with my brother turned into a full-blown philosophical debate on the nature of RPGs and I found the whole thing extremely interesting and would rather like to open it up to another forum. So here goes ... In essence, the discussion arose from my brother voicing his...

That pdf layers thing is just genius! Kudos to them and here's hoping more publishers take note.

As I understand it, Forges was actually written for 3.5e before 4e was published and then converted to 4e as preview editions appeared. That process obviously allows some problems to creep in and there are some big ones in there. That said, it's an enjoyable adventure module with a good...

Good call on using Masterplan. I use that to plan and manage my current overall campaign (though I use a VTT - Fantasy Grounds 2 - for actual play) but honestly hadn't thought of it for this conversion project.

One of my players recently suggested that I might try to do a 4e conversion of Desert of Desolation (an old adventure series that we played several times back in the day but never really got very far). I still have the book and maps and everything but I was wondering if anyone has been here...

One important argument against awarding ritual books in place of equivalent value magic items is that you will very quickly run out of rituals. Magic items are more valuable than rituals. Take a sixth-level item, worth 1,800gp, and compare that to the sixth-level rituals. I don't think there...