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Quite possibly, although generally you wouldn't need any more downtime for a hardware upgrade. You'd stand them both up side by side, test the new system while the old is running and then do a "software" switchover (trying to be as non-technical as possible here). :) In fact, not having new...

Well, first of all, I don't have to presume what they're doing - they've stated that already: they're migrating everything from their existing forums onto a new platform. Secondly, I'm calling on a lot of experience doing this sort of thing - more than 12 years professional experience - to know...

Yep, I'd back this up. The explanations I can see for such a long downtime are intentional malice (which seems unlikely if it was indeed announced ahead of time) or incompetence either on the part of the IT staff or the company management. May sound harsh, but from a technical/professional...

I'm generally pretty up to the play with RPGs, so it's not often that the Ennies will bring something new to my attention. When it does, it's pretty much only the nominations I pay attention to. I respect the process and integrity of the judges enough to know that if a product has been...

I'd recommend you check out Continuum then, if you haven't already and can find a copy. It definitely fits in that category (probably more so than any other game I've played/read)... :)

While I can agree with best rules, and certainly the DDI deserves a gold, it's a joke that the MM beat out Creatures Anathema. The MM is pretty much just a book of stats and artwork (admittedly good stats & artwork, by and large), whereas CA is a great resource with excellent fluff and story...

Couldn't agree more. As long as it still plays like a RPG, I couldn't care less whether you use standard or special dice, or whether you use P&P character sheets, character builder generated sheets and cards or a character folio comprised of cards and counters.

You're probably right for a swordmage, because you need to keep a hand free for the swordmage warding unfortunately. :(

I was just thinking how awesome it'd be for someone with the Mark of Passage. Teleport-expander plus bonus on travel rituals! Would make a great secondary weapon for a House Orien tempest fighter/swiftblade...

Somewhat disturbingly, after more than a year of weekly 4e games, I can't really recall any encounters that stand out as awesome... Probably the best I can remember was against some sort of cyclops solo, where it was real seat of your pants stuff - I think in the end the fight came down to the...

Initially? Just about every game I've played. Maybe I'm just easy to wow for something, but my time is scarce enough that unless a game wows me on a read through I probably won't bother playing/running it. :) The ones that really stand out for me though (in chronological order, not order of...

Not convinced this is a smoking gun... The only mention of them I can recall is under the Stormreach/Xen'drik background section. They were already well established there due to the 3e Eberron philosophy of "everything in the PsiHB is in Xen'drik". There is certainly no mention of them under...

Ah yes, quite. I had forgotten about Rapiers... :blush:

What about something like +3/d8/High Crit, Light Blade, Superior? Something a bit different and would make those ninjas easy to build... :)

Couldn't agree more. The WotC adventures (and adventures in general) have definitely been the low point of the latest version of D&D... even the supposedly "good" ones like P2 were very bland and a seemed like a collection of randomly thrown together encounters, IME. For that reason alone, I've...

This particular combo won't work. WotC have been careful with the wording of Pacifist Healer - it only applies when the target is actually spending a healing surge, not when they benefit from healing from another source.

With all due respect to Klaus (and his entry is very good - probably my second favorite), I think it's hard to go past Ralph Horsley's pic(s). He seems to have captured the spirit of a playful ex-circus bear perfectly. Also, he's pictured Oso on both bike & ball, and is the only artist to have...

It's not just you, the Ampersand articles make me feel the same way. That and the fact that they always read like over-hyped marketing/advertising really annoys me. I don't like feeling like my DDI subscription subsidizes WotC's marketing department... If it wasn't for the fact that there are...

I've noticed this as well since 4e. The only time I'll choose an odd stat is when I need it to hit a feat pre-req (usually 13) and it then won't be bumped, or when I can see that I'll be able to get away with bumping an odd pair of secondary/tertiary stats. Or, of course, where you don't really...

I run a weekly 3e game, running through Paizo's Curse of the Crimson Throne AP. I allow any WotC or Paizo materials (after vetting), but mostly the players stick to WotC stuff. I also play in a weekly 4e game. Our regular campaign was running through the WotC modules, but we found them a bit...