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    So what are you going to play with 4e?

    Well, I'm going to be running published adventures for a while. May in fact be doing pick up games at the local store. In terms of setting I'm thinking going to run the POL assumptions as read through the Medieval US Southwest. Villages in cliff palaces. Lots of hunter gatherers. Pilgrimage...
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    I attended DDWWGD in Seattle.

    I went to the local event here in the wilds of west Texas. From any perspective it seemed to be a tremendous success. I saw one person who was dissatisfied, but otherwise the worse that happened was a GM who was disoriented by how functional the system was. He was literally frustrated that...
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    Now that 4e is out, are you into it or sticking with a prior edition?

    4E unreservedly. This is the first time I've ever had fun DMing - outside of world creation - in a DnD game. Pathfinder, thus far, just gives me the creeps. So much so that I'm actually looking forward to the splitting of the community base. Like a car with too many bumper stickers it's just...
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    Strategery: 4E combat and the insecure DM

    Well, I'm no expert - who is at this point? But here's what I'd say: 1.) Try the maps out and skip the minis. Just use counters or make your own with bits of construction paper and brightly colored markers. I recommend this because seeing the whole thing in action really does make all of the...
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    What is wrong with 4E?

    This seems rude. Personally, it's been refreshing to have a version of DnD that can actually be explained in terms of other games.
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    What is wrong with 4E?

    So far the biggest thing wrong with 4E that I've seen is people refusing to take it at face value. It's as though all these players have been lied to for years and now that someone is being honest with them they can't believe it. Just shocking to see. I'm kind of shocked by the description of...
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    PVP/Penny Arcade 4E Podcast from WotC

    Chris is playing host. The players are doing plenty to engage the five sense, he needs to engage the sixth sense - Sanity.
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    Default "PoL" Setting - Setting Info Compilation (Now Wikified!)

    There are some details from the preview books and KotS. Are those fair game?
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    Anyone working on a 4E derivative?

    So you're looking for settings, among other things?
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    Who wants to talk theory?

    I'd like to complicate the "Suspension of disbelief" criteria, perhaps in route to complicating the immersion description. Personally, I'd argue that suspension of disbelief harms the gaming experience. A passive movie audience suspends disbelief, a participatory gaming player should not. At...
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    Paper Minions - WT?

    Can I just say that though there have been a number of decent minion explanations and clarifications floated in this thread, I for one thought that Korgoth's first post on this issue was really really cool and I'm sad that it didn't get more appreciation. Thank-you Korgoth, initial anger at...
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    How do Good Infernal Pact Warlocks work?

    I'd be tempted to set up a Theological perspective that believes it is impious to presume on a dieties will by drawing on her power for your own ends, but that manipulating infernal powers for some purpose other than their own is an act of merit. It'd be a perspective that believed in weak...
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    D&D 4E Warhammer fantasy 4E D&D - Proposed House Rules?

    You know. Dragonborn = Saurus. Halfling = Skink. Could that work?
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    First rule I don't like

    This is a wee bit monstrous on the second point and on the first point there are at least as many disadvantages to keeping a captive.
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    What do you make and what do you do?

    I make category 2. I sit by a phone and watch cameras. When someone calls and tells me that their SO is abusing her or him I arrange for civil standby, drive over, pick up the client and kids, and then hide them. It's sub-social worker, but it's all right. I also do a lot of the grant...
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    Eladrins, Tieflings, Dragonborn Too Far Outside Standard Fantasy?

    Paragon at best. I can't account for the higher than heroic level abilities you mention since I don't know precisely what account you're going off of, but based on what you mentioned specifically: cleric buffs - could be from first level on if that's his first class or just what he got out of...
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    We're back to AD&D1

    I would say that it isn't true. It is a dungeon crawl and it does have an introductory rules set. In either of those genres combat rules are going to take up the majority of the piece, but... the setting is well put together and the monsters and encounters are interesting. There's plenty in...
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    Another Grognard Reviews 4e based on KotS

    Actually, I can't answer for Fluff qua Fluff but in terms of Crunch to Fluff 4E works pretty well in the boothill terms you mentioned. Afterall, a fighter who sets up his daily right stands a pretty good chance of one shotting an equivalent levelled PC let alone NPC. The mortality is back...
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    Another Grognard Reviews 4e based on KotS

    It's a six second round in which everyone simultaneously acts in turn and has their actions go off all at once. The instant you begin looking at chronology in combat things start to get wobbly. That said: since marks work based off of the Defender hitting you - either physically or with eerie...
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