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Exactly. Considering how many times I've seen people go batshit crazy on message boards because of a company declaring 'we're not printing new ones' or 'all copies sold out!' I'm beginning to think that companies are better off not saying this at all. "We're going to second printing" doesn't...

mkill has a good point. It's not like the Essentials combined with the lack of reprints of the first books means that these mechanics are going to fade away. These aren't poorly kept manuscripts or badly stored film reels. Some catastrophic disaster notwithstanding, the original classes and...

Take the levels of each one of your characters and take the XP of that and add that up as your base budget. (e.g. "1 Level 1 = 100", 3 Level 2 = 375 and 1 Level 3 = 150" ergo 375+150+100=625XP for the encounter) Keep in mind that a standard encounter is not challenging at all (DMG errs on the...

That build is great. Where would you take it at Level 5, which is the starting level for our upcoming campaign?

Great suggestions all. I had originally been trying to avoid taking the fighter class simply because we already have a half-orc tempest fighter in our party, but I think building a brawler style is a great idea and probably better than trying to create a MCed/Hybridized monk or avenger...

Because I am clear, concise and straight to the point, the thread title is exactly what I'm asking. I'm trying to visualize a character concept that is about tanking and using fists to do it (think The Thing or The Hulk) but has the complete defender functionality of an actual defender, rather...

Yeah, that whole non-interventionist angle of Eberron deities was something I already grokked. Of course, there's always the exception to the rule, which is why I kind of had it in my mind that my Traveler Cleric -- who was the first to have declared his deity cause he's a cleric -- has a deity...

After the first four levels of play, I've discovered that the players in my Eberron game are of widely differing faiths. No I don't mean that I have a Scientologist on one end of my table and a Mormon on the other. Rather, at level 4 they took it upon themselves to settle on a chosen deity and...

Contrary to popular belief, Mike Mearls has never won D&D. D&D has won Mike Mearls.

I remember seeing it on the WotC product catalog, but now it's vanished. A quick search of it on Google finds the page but it's no longer linked to from the main catalog page. Did the Tieflings and Dragonborn book not sell well enough to justify these books or were the contents folded over into...

I endorse this answer. HS1 Slaying Stone presents its information in a much more structured fashion so that you can keep the bits and pieces in your head better organized for when players decide to pursue the adventures threads in a different order than you had planned. It's a rather simple...

I know it sounds horrid, but I just give players gold according to the DMG rules, and then distribute magic items on an as needed basis. (What? Someone's fallen behind on his pluses? Okay, the next magic item is designed for that player?) I don't spell that out for the players though. Sometimes...

If you pay more enough for pizza you actually get away with this.

The advantage of being old in 4E is that usually, you have more disposable income to pay for pizza. This entitles you to an audience for your stories about the good old days when PC stats were derived from matrices and tables and wizards had a single digit of hit points for roughly 1-3 levels.

I like how this can be taken to mean either something good about Paizo design at WotC's expense or vice versa. Which means that everybody wins!

Yeah I wasn't keen on the whole minor action to pick up a nigh infinite number of survival days. I mean, come on, how much in the way travel supplies could you possibly carry and how quickly could you gather them all? Imagine if you left for work or school and you decided hm, I need another...

I like making up organizations in Eberron with nonsensical backronyms. Like Secret Weapons, Operational Research Directive of Breland (SWORD) Or Covert Headquarters, Aberrant Intelligence Network (CHAIN) Or Knowledge Enclave of Intelligence, Trust and Hospice, Breland-Aundair-Karrnath...

I wouldn't even bother trying too hard to find new players. If by chance I meet another person who wants to play, then sure, they can jump on in and fill in those missing roles. But take it from someone who has run as little as TWO player parties, and run for several newbie groups: Parties...

I think the biggest challenge 'nai_cha's sister faces, and I'm saying this as one of their fellow players at the table, and currently the DM of the game she mentioned, is that in a non-healing capacity, a warlord more than any other player needs to be situationally aware. That means knowing who...

*bump*?