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I'm pretty sure I in no way said that 4th edition is somehow bad or neglectful of roleplay or DM support. Seeing as I wholeheartedly embraced it and have been DMing it since release that might be a bit of a contradictory position on my part. To clarify, I was jokingly referring to the attitude...

I think there's plenty of room for creativity and the power is worded well enough that the worst abuses are curtailed quite easily. In most cases you'll be dealing with +5 to the initial save, as most NPCs you encounter are going to be at least your level, and any of potential threat or notable...

As someone that never much cared for rituals (or the design issues that they were created to deal with) I'm honestly pleased to see them bleeding back into player powers again even if only in a few specific cases. It's definitely an old-school power. An ability that seems to openly assume...

The cheapo solution is to grab some sticky-labels at your local office supply store and tack them onto coins. Write the monster name and a # on them and you're good to go. Alternately there are a few print-and-play token sets available as pdfs but you're still going to have to mount them on...

I'm going to diverge a bit and say that people really should wait and see before we start assuming that all future classes and books geared for characters are going to be straight-path essentials style. I say this because essentials appears (at least to me) to be designed as a basement-level...

Pretty crummy luck to get the same huge twice in a row. Hopefully that won't be too common an occurrence.

I think the absence of expanded setting materials is probably more closely tied to sales and interest than people want to admit. When you look at which books were getting the most sales and the most attention it seems (at least to me) to be books that catered directly to players (The power...

Sadly it appears Slimy Transformation did not make it into the Mage power options. That was one of the more flavorful spells in the Red Box. :/

Sounds like it might be set up as a direct sequel to the Red Box adventure. I'll have to check this out.

These were all of great help. Thanks everyone. @DerbulBaskul: I actually had planned to run a mini-campaign around the Mere of Dead Men and its two black dragon occupants. So I'll keep an eye out for those Dungeon issues.

I want to run a pre-spellplague campaign in the Sword Coast/Waterdeep region but I'd like a little more information to help flesh out the area and improve my own knowledge of the setting. If anyone has suggestions for specific books or websites or any other helpful resources, it'd be much...

I sort-of use wish lists, or rather I take under consideration what classes and builds players are using. In older editions I was perhaps a little less open to this because magic items weren't so tightly tied to character development and filler rewards were more plentiful (Potions, Scrolls, etc).

I am spoiled for geekery locally. I've got several game stores and hobby shops (with gaming or activity space) within a 10-15min drive. Two are premiere+ stores. There are also half a dozen comic shops with gaming space in addition to the aforementioned stores. So I generally focus on buying...

I have it and I'm just over halfway through. I generally don't go in for genre fiction, but this one is pretty brutal. Bill designs great games but his writing leaves much to be desired. The novel jumps around to various groups of characters while not doing much to establish or build any of...

Not really a mechanical issue so much as an editing one: In the Dungeon Master's Adventure (SPOILERS!): The White Dragon's name changes from Ferron to Farallax between the tactical entry and the skill challenge section.

At this point I think it could go either way. There may be an elegant transition element that we're missing because we don't know about it, but there might also be a statement in HFL telling you that if you started with the red box you'll need to make some changes. I'm also inclined to believe...

I'd like to confirm the OP. My local FLGS (premiere store) has them in stock as of today.

Agreed. As I read it, it really goes either way. There's no prescribed limit or delay indicated so I'd allow a single instance 20 hp at once or five instances of 4 hp per day.

I've managed to get along with only a handful of dice at any one time. My problem is I'm forever losing them or they get nicked or 'borrowed' by players. So generally I've never had a large collection and never felt it necessary to. Though I can understand the appeal, and there are far more...

From what I've seen of the game thus far (admittedly very little) it feels a lot like a self-contained roleplay game more than a traditional RPG. Something more on par with 'host a murder' and similar games. There seems to be more room for collective storytelling, but at the same time I wonder...