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In my gaming experience, although we all knew the god-like potential of wizards (and CoDzilla, Druids, Pun-pun... whatever), those were only theoretical concerns and never really impacted our play. When a player talked about her/his future build, or started to veer in that direction, either the...

there's room for paladins, melee clerics, and spellsy clerics I'm going to veer off into Paladin territory for a bit before coming back to clerics. I think it would be unfortunate for D&D players to conflate the Paladin with a Cleric by classifying each as a “holy warrior” or "warriors of...

It's funny because I'm reading your response and I don't see anything that disagrees with the OP. Point buy and rolling exist as method of character creation in all editions of the game. However, 1st AD&D the basic assumption was that players would roll stats and in 4e the basic assumption is...

IRC, the 1st edition module "treasure hunt" had the PCs start unequipped, shanghaied, and effectively "0" level, and I think you could choose your class once the adventure kicked in... I think, it's been a while (:

I think character creation can exist as a "mini-game," but it shouldn't be naturally assumed to be a mini game - especially a mini-game that exists outside of the D&D "gaming experience,"because although there are rules that govern character creation, they are rules that have a direct impact on...

I DO like creating characters for the sake of creating characters! My family and I just recently moved to the Kingdom of Tonga (I'm a researcher with the University of the South Pacific) and there is VERY little D&D going on here. Not only is there a general lack of reference (many people here...

That's certainly trued, although I hope no one expects god-like characters with 4d6-1d6. I certainly lucked out with my initial roll, but my son's first roll didn't have a stat over 13. It was something like 7, 9, 11, 11, 10, 13 - and although I've played PCs like that in my day, it took a...

Perhaps my biggest concern is that character creation (whether it's 10 minutes or 3 hours) is treated as more than simply a means to an end - more than simply a gateway to the actual gaming experience and is, instead, recognized as the part of the gaming experience. It has many of the same...

My son and I recently conned my wife and daughter into playing D&D. My son wanted to play 1st edition because he wanted to see D&D from my perspective (someone who's played through all the iterations of D&D since 1981). We all sat down together and started making characters, and at that point...

#2 - Voltan, played by Brian Blessed (although he doesn't really look like Brian Blessed in the pic), from Flash Gordon. I love Voltan, "Gordon's aliiiiiive??!" (as a side note, he was also the voice actor for Boss Nass in the Phantom Menace, but don't hold that against him. He's an excellent...

I would agree with one caveat. It depends on how it is introduced. If you ease people into it, then yes - there are things about 4e that are good for beginning players, but if you unload all of the material on them, it can get overwhelming. I was the adviser for a middle school gaming club. The...

Disclaimer: This post includes a discussion about “Armor Class adjustments” and “Weapon speed factors” from previous editions of D&D, but this is not an argument for their inclusion in the next iteration of the game. Rather, it is a discussion of what I believe was a design shift from a choice...

just for clarity, I didn't mean a to hit penalty for the entire encounter. The stun effect wasn't for the entire encounter. I thought of something like until the end of the Dragon's next turn or something along those lines.

I like it too I thought it was a nice twist on the original MMI Red. Personally, I think Frightful Presence should be something along the lines of a penalty to hit. That way, when an elder red dragon pops up, you tell the PCs... "the majesty of the fiery menace before you overwhelms your...

web based tools speculation With all of the speculation about ebooks, silverlight, etc... it will probably be a web based version of "dungeon tiles mapper" or something silly like that. I'm curious to see what happens next, and although I was disappointed about there not being DS or Essentials...

Hello all, I was wondering if anyone knows of, or knows how to develop, a program that will take an existing monster, slap a class template on it, and output that things as a statblock. I know. I know - my brain.... but apart from that, has anyone heard of such a thing? I like having the...

Lol, nice.

Cheating? Am I playing a game? Is there a rule about what videos I can post? While the encounter is not edited down to 10 minutes, the video is almost certainly edited. My point is not to "one up" the video, or even to compete with it, but to offer other demonstrations of play. I think you...

My sons are trying to round up a game tomorrow (since they don't have school - thank you 'President's Day.') So, if that happens, I'll break out the camera, record an encounter, and edit it down to a 10-minute video. I'm not saying our sessions are any better, it will just be a different take on...

Our group plays different editions, we're not locked into a particular edition, but right now we are playing the scales of war [4e] and our game sessions DON'T look like these. I think part of the problem was that he was teaching people to play, and it is a challenge to keep the energy high when...