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Can you play after 8pm Pacific Standard Time on a weeknight? I am putting together an online campaign for after the kiddies get strapped into their bunks.

8pm pst Are you available to play after 8pm pst on a weeknight? I am putting together a playtest group for 4e.

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0 More Playtester needed. <Updated: June 27th> We have currently filled our group. Thank you all for your interest. We are starting a gridless/mapless online 4th Ed campaign using Ventrillo and Tris IM chat. I understand many people have had successful 4th Ed experiences without a tactical...

Found this gold nugget in the 2ed DMG (combat chapter) that summarizes things for my DM style nicely: "Too many rules slow down play (taking away from the real adventure)and restrict imagination. "To have the most fun plaing the AD&D game, don'r rely only on the rules. Like so much in a good...

"I don't see why that can't be done in any edition. In AD&D, C&C, or 3e, I just grab an orc, slap whatever AC and HP I want on him, give him +3 to hit, just cause and roll with it. Nobody cares that I didn't follow some blueprint. They just care whether or not it was an interesting encounter."...

I too support mapless/gridless d&d. We had discussed a mash between Ventrilo and Tris. It looks like that would do the job well but now I am going to check out twiddla. Thanks for the link! Why am I going mapless? I find there is a huge disconnect with the players from their first-person...

Hope: I hope they come through on their promised reset. A simple hope, but still a fervant one. Fears: Well, the FR fanboys scare me. Seriously. The ones that won't let the setting go, the ones that are so enamoured of every book and tidbit to ever be published, the ones that can recite the...

Halivar- You made me choke on my guffaws in order to avoid the Wrath of Coworkers.

oh the pain Can't believe this hasn't been brought up yet. One comment: Palladium. Choose any book printed by Palladium. Go ahead. I'll wait. They have entire sourcebooks- yes, multiple sourcebooks!- over 100 pages long each dedicated to clarifying their mistakes, inconsistencies, print...

favorite tool My absolute favorite tool for coming up with adventures: The Adventure Deck from 2nd ed. For those unfamiliar, it was a card deck with some places, items, and scenes. The way I used it was to shuffle then deal out like 5 or so cards and try to string them together like a...

Very much looking forward to this. Planning to use it as a player scouting mechanism. Not all dms and players enjoy the same styles of play so widening the pool from which to draw will be a huge plus! Putting together a stable and long term oriented group based on initial playtests and...

3.x set up the expectation- rightly or wrongly- that what was in the Book was gospel and to deviate at all was some form of cheating. Horse pucky. The more rules there are the more restricted actions/responses become for player and dm alike. quite possibly my biggest beef with 3.x ...and the...

DDI pickup games sound like a perfect opportunity to scout for new players. Put out a mini-adventure, see which people fit, rinse repeat until you have the number of players you need. I love the idea.

Primal- No, it isn't a valid interpretation of the rule. It is AN interpretation. A wrong interpretation sustained by a crunch-monkey and flying in the face of the spirit of the rule. Seriously, I despise the gamers that attempt these types of rules-mangling just so they can achieve some...

No! Bad Dm's! No Rules! Bad! I think the focus on the underlying math and the way of retro-engineering monsters is the wrong kind of "think". Specifically, one of the main things I am looking forward to in the new edition is being able to look at a bunch of critters of an approximate power...

This discussion has taken place in a number of other threads. I advocate strongly against board/map/grid combat since it removes the immersion. I think the OP is taking this a little further than it needs to go. If you emphasize the story aspect of the scene you can do pretty well without the...

In our own world, we have myths about the amazing abilities of the Minotaur to navigate mazes. If I were to run into a minotaur (stay with me here), I would reasonably assume that trying to lose him in a maze is not a good option. As a counter-example, a paladin daily power is to cause the...

Mustrum_Ridcully is a genius. "I'd be happy with 'Athletics vs Reflex as attack action to gain combat advantage'. Save Ends or Strength vs Fortitude to negate" Excellent resolution for the halfling scaling the giant. Gives the cinematic action desired and ties it to a nice but not...

sort of on topic I am glad there are others out there with an aversion to the battlemat. Although the mat clarifies a lot it does remove me from the action inside my head. So for those of us with more emphasis on narrative spatial relationships rather than concretely defined space, this...