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If you're looking for a list of, "These are the must-have products for anyone wanting to make a collection of world products for Mystara," then my recommendations are the Gazetteers for Karameikos, Darokin, and Glantri and the Dawn of the Empires (Alphatia and Thyatis) boxed set. That gives you...

Popping in for a moment on something I read a couple of pages back: The argument was made that Expertise feats are not a math fix because there exists a multitude of other methods - be it charging, combat advantage, or leader power bonuses - to obtain bonuses to attack rolls that continue to...

Whoever it was that commented on power creep, I absolutely agree that this is the hidden cost of math fix feats. The Expertise feats are so good that you run the risk of this becoming the new baseline of a balanced feat. Suddenly the whole system starts falling apart because you've got, "Learn...

Here's where feat tax, and the issue with it, comes from. When 4e was first released, the developers made it a point to explain their motivation behind the feats in 4e was to make them nice little extras that modify an aspect of your character. The "sweet spot" they attempted to hit was that a...

Saying whether Superior Weapon Proficiency is "worth it" really depends on what you're trying to accomplish with it. So here's a multi-part answer to the question. The general answer is, as with any feat, if you don't have room for it in your build, don't sweat not having it. Increasing...

I don't personally play it, but anyone playing a LFR character expressly cannot ignore it.

It's nice, but not overly nice. If I was playing a straight damage optimizing slayer or scout I'd rather have a subtle weapon.

I get really tired of erratta, excuse me, updates driven not by an imbalance of power or a prone-ness to abuse, but by the dev's intent. If it ain't hugging broke, don't hugging fix it even if it wasn't what you had in mind.

I have two things to contribute to this thread. First, the constructive contribution: My wife doesn't associate D&D with Satan or anything like that, but she has expressed on multiple occasions that she wants my D&D books "put up" before our daughter is old enough to see them because, "They...

That's the route my campaign sketch goes. Since the overall arc is something like KoS -> Filler -> EtCR -> ToH -> Gentleman Caller, the idea is each time the PCs take out the big bad they're after, they'll peel back a layer and find someone else behind it. It works out. They spend heroic...

If you're going to start with KotS, here's what I'm planning on doing when the current campaign wraps up and we do a Ravenloft one. It borrows a little bit from Ravenloft the campaign setting while keeping you in Ravenloft the adventure. Run KotS, but instead of Winterhaven, rename the town...

Thirded. Human Sentinel with Staff Expertise that foregoes taking any of the HoFK at-wills for Grasping Tide and Firehawk and multiclasses Shaman would, by 10th level, pack three encounter heals and occupy/threaten three squares on the board at all times. The build is also perfectly suited to...

If the OCB XML is anything like the LCB's XML, it's actually really, really, frighteningly easy to give a race a selectable bonus. And, anyway, the groundwork of the code is already in there for the PHB3 and HoFL/FK races. Frankly, it's baffling that they haven't added that yet, unless they're...

Pretty funny that a Ravenloft product would pop up in this thread, because I'm actually sketching out a 4e Ravenloft campaign (A Barovia meets Nentir Vale meets Tomb of Horrors campaign centered around Keep on the Shadowfell mixed with Adam's Wrath then a conversion of Expedition to Castle...

Specific beats general. General: PCs get three actions per round - Standard, Move, and Minor. Specific: Dazed PCs only get one action. You begin your turn. Currently you are dazed so you only have one action. If: You have something that lets you save against dazed and you succeed without...

How quaint. Apparently archeology has advanced significantly since 2008. Now we know dragonborn were more closely related to birds than reptiles and were probably covered in feathers on their arms and legs. Really, stand still, the dragonborn can't see you if you don't move. Riiiiiight. ;)

I'm not choosing sides or seeking to start any hat of essentalz here, but it Walking Dad left out the most likely to appear thing that's 100% incompatible with Essentials: Warlock encounter attack powers.

I can see the value in that. Then again, I think the 4e approach - turn the saves into defenses so you have to attack with spells/effects, then simply don't key every attack off of Strength and Dexterity - solves the problem without sacrificing elegance. But if retro D&D is your cup of tea...

The issue I had with C&C (and it's been a while since I looked at my books so forgive me if I get a few of the details wrong) was it tried too hard to be a retro, 1E style game that some changes were made just for the sake of changing. A great example were the saving throws. I seem to recall...

The issue with trying to find the hook that makes Mystara unique and viable in 4e is the fact that 4e core beat Mystara up and stole all its themes already. Points of Light? Check. Karameikos was PoL before PoL had a name. Law/Chaos centered alignment axis? Check. Mystara was always more...