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Okay, that sounds plausible as the story justification of the allied soldiers. I checked and in the Pathfinder version the allied soldiers don't have the automatic hit capability. Which means that there in the high-level Asrabey fight they can serve as dummy targets, giving the players a few...

At the start of chapter three of Island at the Axis of the World (4E) the players acquire a military escort of one allied soldier per player. And I wonder what they are in the adventure for. I don't see them as necessary for the labyrinth encounter, as the party already outnumbers the single...

The Golden Icon of Urim that the players find in the Sea Cave encounter can create a wall of stone 15' wide, 10' high. That would fit perfectly in the area between the sea wall and the outside the lighthouse area in the "Hold the Lighthouse" encounter. Can the players use that power if I run the...

I play the Zeitgeist campaign in 4th edition, with the maps printed out as posters, Hero Forge figurines for the players, and printed tokens (on self-adhesive felt squares) for monsters. For this the tokens (from...

On page 120 of "The Investigation Begins" / page 28 of "The Island at the Axis of the World" there is a text box about Fortress Security. It says that moving between areas requires stealth checks, with the number of failed stealth checks determining the alert level later when holding the...

Thanks for the advice! My mistake was having not looked specifically for the pdf of the hardcover, but thinking that the existing older pdfs would be updated. Got the hardcover pdf now and can work with that, thanks again for steering me in the right direction!

I bought the wonderful Zeitgeist hardcover and am using it to prepare a soon to start campaign. But as the book is a bit big to lug around everywhere, I am also using the pdfs from RPGNow on my tablet. While preparing adventure one, The Island at the Axis of the World, I noticed that the two...

I love the idea that the Clergy is "divine" and the Old Faith is "primal", I'll use that as a house rule. I was considering another house rule: Not using the D&D alignment system at all. I don't want the conflicts between the various Zeitgeist ideologies to be boiled down to a simplistic good...

I am starting a 4E campaign of Zeitgeist, and I am having some trouble with characters that use the divine as source of power. The chapters on religion in the campaign guide are somewhat vague, with many religions being more like ideologies. That doesn't fit too well with a D&D cleric or paladin...

I'm preparing a 4th edition adventure based on P1 King of the Trollhaunt Warrens, but with the warrens much shortened. I simply don't want every session in the dungeon being one combat encounter after the other. So I am looking for suggestions what non-combat encounters work well in a dungeon...

I bought the Zeitgeist campaign in both printed and pdf form and plan on playing that campaign with my group next year. So I started to prepare things like battle maps for the combat encounters using the images from the pdf and some from http://zeitgeistadventurepath.com/maps/ . But it turns out...

I was thinking of options like play-by-forum, but I don't know which are the good sites for that.

And what would the best asynchroneous option be? With a virtual tabletop application I still need to be online when the other players are online, and as I live in Europe and many players are American, the time zone difference tends to be an issue (one thing I learned from international MMORPGs).

I've been playing Dungeons & Dragons for over 30 years. I am currently the DM in a campaign, where we play twice a month. I always played D&D the old-fashioned way, sitting around a table with friends. The only experience I have with online RPGs is with MMORPGs like World of Warcraft, which...

If you add up the xp of all the encounters in Madness at Gardmore Abbey you end up with over 50,000 points, which you have to divide by the number of players. In my campaign I switched all quests to "minor", because otherwise my group could have gained 4 levels in that adventure, and I found 3...

I am thinking of starting a new 4th edition campaign in a world in which humans are the predominant race. But me and my players consider the human racial bonuses somewhat weak compared to the other races. That is especially true with regard to ability scores, as other races get two +2 ability...

I am running an episodic 4E campaign. We are currently finishing Madness at Gardmore Abbey, which gets the group to level 9. I have a self-written adventure after that, which should get them to level 11. And after that I was thinking of running P1 King of the Trollhaunt Warrens. Now I try to...

I missed the Kickstarter campaign for the ZEITGEIST hardcover books, but would very much like to buy those. I already got the pdfs, but couldn't possibly print them as nicely. So I was looking for information about where to buy the hardcover books, but couldn't find anything. I found an update...

I am preparing the Madness of Gardmore Abbey adventure for my campaign, which is playing in the Forgotten Realms. The adventure has some locations like "Sun Hall of Pelor" or "Arena of Kord" that refer to gods of the 4E Points of Light pantheon. And I would like to use Forgotten Realms gods...

I've been playing for a couple of months, but I agree that the game can be tough at the start when you don't have many items/cards yet. Actually it is a rather weird version of the Free2Play business model: If you want to spend money on this game, it would be best to spend that money early on...