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I'm pretty sure it's "Subcomandante Mearls."

I make no apologies playing characters that allow me to work out my own frustrations. That's why my characters are always trouble makers, usually of the big tank variety (dragonborn, warforged, etc.) though I do play a 'striker'-type cyborg street samurai in Shadowrun and a squishy gun-toting...

Outside of 4E, we play Shadowrun and Star Wars SAGA Edition. A friend gave me her copy of Toon and I'm thinking about breaking out the old FASERIP Marvel Super Heroes and the West End D6 Star Wars, as they are games I bought 15 years ago but never had a group to play with.

Okay, there're other threads about Encounters Season 2 discussing this but I figured it was a mechanic that deserved its own thread. Frankly, I think the idea of abstracting food and water supplies into a single 'crunchy' unit is great. A problem I hear is that Encounters allows you to spend...

I tried that once, but it made all the handicapped/disabled min-maxers in my group upset that being 'crippled' doesn't mean they automatically get more points to spend on attributes and skills.

Thanks, Camelot. The only concern I have with my own rule idea is that it increases book keeping which can be problematic at certain tables. I tend to give loot in the form of chopped up index cards, so it's not a problem for me to just put three little circles in there to fill up. Great post...

I'm pretty sure there was another thread about this but now I can't find it. Anyway, this is with regards to the weapon breakage rules introduced by Dark Sun. Does anyone else think they're kind of lame and could be better? Basically: on a critical fail, you can choose to re-roll and break...

I ask players to answer a ten item long questionnaire determining alignment, geographic origin and class inclinations and then triangulate that with blood type, astrological sign and tasseomancy.

I couldn't find the appropriate thread, so I figured this thread is good enough... ..does anyone know how I can secure all the pregens for Dark Sun? I know that there were a bunch for DDXP, a bunch for Free RPG Day and another more for Encounters. (although IIRC, some of those were recycled...

I like the classic 'always hit' magic missile more, even if my experience with it is limited to videogame adaptations of 2e/3e D&D, but I agree with you 1000%, it's a piss poor set of reasoning. To think that almost every piece applied to the ruleset has been applied with judicious balance in...

Considering the number of players I know who started getting into 4E a year or so after launch but do not own their own PHBs and deliberately choose not to buy them ("because at least I have everything up to date on the Character Builder") I'd say there is a market for this.

I don't know about you guys, but sometimes the Character Builder gets things wrong. Well okay it gets 98% of the math right -- like when they gonna finish making items with passive bonuses to skill checks be applied consistenty? -- but I'm just saying is all.

I agree. As far as I'm concerned, the only limitation I've understood to accept in rules regarding magic item creation is that you can't make up new magic items that don't already exist in RAW. Kind of a bummer, but with that in mind, magic creation means yes, you can transmute a scale armor...

Thanks for schooling me on that. I had completely overlooked the NAD-targetting and to-hit difference that would make. I've absolutely decided that if Hybrid-ing becomes the path to go, I'm definitely not taking Battleminds, mostly because I don't want to get bogged down in managing power points...

I've been playing 4E for nearly a year now, and I almost always play a defender. I've dabbled as a wizard before, but mostly in a context where mechanics and combat took a back seat to storytelling and the usage of feats and skill-based problem solving. Now I'm looking to build a warforged...

Iknoerait? I love complaining about 4E just as much as I love playing it, but I'm gonna wait until Essentials is out before I start complaining about it, instead of basing my hate on pre-conceived notions of what product role it is supposed to fulfill instead of I dunno, the actual product itself.

Surges for powers is something I've toyed with before, mostly because I'd seen other people mention it online, but my biggest problem is that I haven't figured out what the right balance would be, especially when certain classes have more surges than others.

I say this without much analysis, but I like the idea of linking the big resources to a die roll, if only because it introduces an element of uncertainty to those big guns. Meaning, they can't guarantee that they'll get that resource back. 'Course the big question is when to limit or allow that...

I'm really excited on a very detached level of "What is 'lethal' for a system/design ethos that says 'reward players don't punish them,' 'bonuses not penalties,' and 'say yes, and...'?" That said, I'm interested in running this for veterans of previous editions who have become accustomed to the...

As a DM, how would you rule a player character trying to learn pieces of language from another player character? I have ideas on how I would do it, but I'm just wondering what approaches you guys would take. The half-elf ranger wants to learn a few choice phrases so that she can manage...