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Use an erasable battlemat with some different color dry-erase markers, and use some of the nifty online counters you can print up instead of miniatures, and you can play D&D to your hearts content for the next year or so for less than $20. And many people will have gotten all 3 books for as low...

My personal rule is that a natural 1 is a fumble, but the only effect of that fumble, other than an automatic miss, is that the fumbler grants Combat Advantage until the start of his next turn. No other penalty, no loss of attacks. It seems reasonable to me, but not excessively punishing to...

There's a KotS ranger? Another bonus, like the warlord? Anyway, yes if he has 14 strength his Longsword should be +5.

Why did you keep having to grab their power sheets? The powers are pretty straightforward, did you have to interpret the powers for them? Especially since you said you made photocopies, why didn't you just keep the player book handy for you to look at, since they had their own sheets to look...

Well, of course this is better. Why should Harry Potter, a magic school *student*, be able to cast more spells per day than a level 30 archmage? The spell memorization thing never made sense, and was in defiance of how magic works in almost all fantasy literature that has ever been written...

Cool, looks time consuming. The only thing I noticed on a quick look-over was that the initiative should be +9 (dex modifier + (1/2)level). But I'm not totally clear on the level up rules yet myself, so I could have missed plenty.

There used to be a rule, which I don't believe made it into the final product, that if you rolled a 20 on your death save you not only stabilized, you got to activate a healing surge and jump back into combat. Personally, I think I might retain that rule.

All the MM does is show you what different roles of the same monster might look like at different levels. You're able to take those roles and make opponents of any level using the simple formulate for hp/dmg/etc in the back of the DMG. If you want to add a level to a kobold skirmisher just...

By making a mistake, I fixed it but see it was already read... Ah well.

There are certain situations that are a bit weird... like the low level rogue power that allows them to swap places with an enemy they make a melee hit against. Doesn't make sense when they're hitting an enemy through bars, or fighting a gelatinous cube, or any other enemy that is behind an...

Some powers specifically say that they target only enemies. Otherwise, they target PCs as well. At high levels you can pick up feats to exclude certain squares, but otherwise getting rid of friendly fire would be a house rule. Edit: Examples Divine Glow, Cleric Attack 1 - Close blast 3, each...

The problem here is the kobolds, not the character. Combat advantage is actually pretty easy to gain, but it requires being able to control the enemies movement to an extent. You just can't do that very easily with kobolds, who can shift out of harms way. If you can get a surprise round, then...

Important thing to remember that being pushed into a pit square triggers a saving throw. The word "can" would normally imply that it's a choice to go through the portal. But the point of bull rushing or sliding them into the square would be to specifically target the portal. Therefore, the...

This is not correct. The (4d6 -lowest) still exists as Option 3 in 4e, though they recommend against it. So, technically, ability scores (before racial modifiers) can extend from 3-18.

It would effect your Reflex score, not your AC, unless you were wearing light or cloth armor. Reflex is your ability to dodge an attack. AC is the ability of your armor to withstand damage (an enemy miss isn't necessarily a miss, just a hit that inflicted no damage). So bad dex, I would...

You don't have to look at the builds, those are suggestions. Like a control wizard doesn't have to take icy terrain and cloud of daggers. You don't have to have a trickster rogue or a brawny rogue, you can mix and match. There are a limited amount of options, yes, to keep it from being a...

Can you imagine driving that thing into the middle of a gelatinous cube? Not just trapped inside the cube, but trapped inside a cube inside the cube? You'd never get out!

Not all *that* metagamey. You might have just looked at the tarrasque entry, which means you could have missed that half the abominations were created by gods to fight the primordials, and half created by primordials to fight the gods. The tarrasque is one of the latter - spawned from...

Makes a little bit more sense to me than the old school adventures where one room had a giant snake, 1 room had a horde of starving rats, 1 room had a band of angry trolls, and 1 room had an evil magic user in it, and for some reason they never stumbled across each other until the PCs showed up...

I agree. The Eladrin are just a magic-heavy form of elf. Their citadels and cities shifting between worlds doesn't sit very well in a low magic setting, and the best thing to do would just be to make that race unavailable. Just like if you were from a low-planar interaction setting you might...