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I don't have a problem with combining the players book and the DM book now after reading Robin's Laws of Gamemastering. The best idea from that work is that getting the players invested in the campaign setting, by say, letting them read the DM book, is worth much, much more than any inherent...

I am finding I'm buying a LOT more (as in all of them) of the DM specific books. The player books after Martial Power, I leave to the players...with the exception of the core PHB books.

I have to wonder if, given the fact that there are now other healers than Clerics, whether or not they pretty much eliminate the Divine Power source from Dark Sun. I can see the Elemental Clerics basically Shamans with Elementals instead of Spirits.

The new feat for the Assassin...Assassin's Cloak... When you become invisible, you can make a Stealth check to hide as a free action. Is this really worth a feat?

Okay, I DM'ed Dark Sun with the Original Set and was out of D&D entirely when the Revised Set came out. So my question is what parts are so objectionable in the Revised Set? I've heard about the issues with killing off the Dragon and half of the Sorceror Kings...but what about the...

The campaign has been going for about 16 months now...with the PC's at level 15 (and about to start advancing faster than normal...). The campaign has been pretty much a series of separate adventures linked by character subplots and the Rod of 7 Parts (loosely...since they lost the first two...

Originally I had XP going at the normal rate. Then seeing how combats were taking longer than I expected, I increased the rate...eventually going to double. I gave treasure out at the same rate per level though. This caused problems in that the players had to absorb all the new powers of...

It occurs to me that simply giving your monsters Brutal 1 or Brutal 2 would make them more 'brutal'. :-)

Is anyone doing a 4e Dark Sun campaign before the books come out next year? Any ideas on how to adapt current 4e rules and classes to Dark Sun? It seems to me that the Divine power source isn't really needed as Shamans can be reskinned as the Elemental Priests. I wonder how to make 4e more...

Even if I don't use the adventure, I love the fact that there is a substantial skill challenge/problem solving aspect to it. Not just a bunch of combat encounters.

Another option could be Breland near Droaam.

Yeah, I'm trying to think of how I might shoehorn that into Eberron. Not a lot of opportunities for barbarian attacks. Maybe in Aundair near the Demon Wastes or Xen'drik with Stormreach filling in for Sharn.

I get up to draw on the battlemap, but after that I use a laser pointer.

I found this interesting. GameSpy: Magic & Memories: The Dungeons & Dragons Index - Page 1

I think this is acknowledging the idea that just adding on another monster due to one additional PC does not balance the encounter. If you accept that 5 vs 5 is the base...one addtional PC is more powerful than one additional monster. Personally I've kind of found this to be true. The party...

One of my favorite blogs now is Sly Flourish, who also submits D&D hints via twitter. One of his recent ones was if you're running a game with 6 PCs to add 2 monsters to the encounter (above the normal 5) rather than just the one. The idea is that the additional monster is not enough to...

One of the great things about 4e is that as a DM I've never had to pull any punches. I've actually had a bit of problem challenging my PCs (although that has been less of a problem lately). One thing that was addressed by one of Sly Flourish's twitter hints is that adding just one monster to...

I've started a thread on the Wizards forms: Whoops! Browser Settings Incompatible but thought I'd crosspost here for more ideas.

Use a monster to grab your Teleporting Weenie From Hell. Then describe the DM's...uh...monster's annoyance when he Feysteps out of his grasp. :lol:

Have you bought Dungeon Delve?