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Yeah, I think they have said this is a known issue, that problems arise if not entering the site through the standard login. Now, that still is poor design, since being able to bookmark a direct link would be much more convenient. But... so it goes.

I mean, I'm just going based on the blurb on the amazon entry, so who knows how accurate that is. And it otherwise sounds quite similar to the 'adventure game system' - so could just be an off-shoot, and more of a hybrid between pure board game and standard D&D, or it could be trying something new.

Interesting thing about that Dungeon of Dread - it has a DM. The Castle Ravenloft (and similar games) are designed for fully cooperative play, with players running both their characters and automating the monsters and the dungeon. Dungeon of Dread describes having a DM who runs the...

A story that (these days) my group tends to laugh about quite a bit: A friend is running a high-level D&D one-shot. I decide to play a cleric, because I've never played one at high levels before! And I think it will be awesome. Another friend is playing a rogue, or duelist type, or someone...

I get the sense that they did not originally plan to have the Executioner in the book. When they shifted it to a hardcover and decided to add more content, they grabbed the Executioner and dropped it in there. Which kinda sucks for DDI subscribers if it is just repeated content, and sucks...

That's not remotely true. A playtest version was posted last... September, I think? With all indications that it was remaining a DDI-exclusive class. In November, the 'final' version was posted, which upon receiving heavy criticism, WotC announced that it was still undergoing revisions and the...

For the same reason they cast Comrade's Succor when my 6 surge rogue is out of surges halfway through Encounter 2. :) Honestly, I'll wait to see this in action before giving final judgement. I can see the potential for problems, but they seem to have done a decent job of addressing them...

I'd love to see more 'combo' mechanics. The Wizard casts a few lesser spells in sequence, which opens up a more powerful spell. Overall balance is preserved, he still has regular activity in the game, but gets to feel distinct in his own way. Actually, I'd like to see stuff along this lines...

Just as a note, a Scroll of Water Breathing is a single-use consumable that lets anyone cast Water Breathing. That's the entire point of ritual scrolls - anyone can use them, they are consumables that allow a single casting of the ritual without actual Ritual Training. You pay your 815 gp (a tad...

I think Zinovia has nailed it. The concept for the delve format - letting the DM switch to a single section to have the full details of the encounter - only works if that section has the full details of the encounter. Now, the problem I think WotC has run into is fear of redundancy. If...

That's not the real ToC - it is just a list of some joke articles for April 1st. Seriously, of all the things for folks to get bothered by, this is it?? This isn't anything new - in the past, sometimes the ToC would go up at the 1st of the month, sometimes a few days before, sometimes a few...

Hey, no worries! Honestly, being able to engage in discussions where both sides can reasonably disagree while still acknowledging and understanding the other side's point of view is, I think, an example of ENWorld at it's finest. It's true - though, myself, I've always found healing surges to...

Is it wrong for someone to have such an opinion? Well, probably not - I might disagree with it, but that doesn't mean someone can't believe it. But, at the same time, offering such opinion seems to merit the sort of concern expressed at the start of this thread. In the same way that, I imagine...

It is certainly true that balancing different resource structures is much harder than balancing within a single type of class design. And so I can get your concern, here, about Essentials classes. The potential for a lack of balance is there. But... I don't think it is there in actuality. I...

If you don't find it silly to propose a game where you have to play a card called "Angry!" in order for your character to get mad... I'm not sure what to say. Using cards in a game isn't inherently absurd - but the portrayal of such things in this joke is, and that's part of the fun.

It could be, yes, that what they are saying is that they "do not like Italian for this meal, or at this time." But they didn't actually go ahead and say so - they've instead just presented Italian food as a negative quality, without any limitation on how or why. Without that context you provide...

What are you talking about? Of course they do! That's exactly the sort of example you gave moments ago! "Your use of garlic, wine and fennel in this meal has rendered it too Italian in style- we were looking for something more Southwestern in flavor." You just explicitly said that this is the...

In some posts, yes - I'm not trying to say this is universally true. But I have certainly seen those who have used it in a way that does carry criticism of video games in the process - being used as shorthand to say that an RPG is akin to a more mindless form of entertainment, often implying...

Cunning Stalker being a good feat doesn't make this a bad power. Feats are valuable. Often, honestly, more so than a second At-Will, especially early on. This isn't a power to use when you need CA. It is a power to use when you already have it, and will want it next round. That is what is...

I've never seen a need for the feat taxes like Expertise. As far as items go, though, I think those are a bit more relevant, though probably not significantly noticeable until you are getting into Paragon. Either way, outside of that, I can't think of any magic item properties or powers that...