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While I never forget the pages on motivations -- and the in depth exploration given to it in the Player's Strategy Guide -- I had completely forgotten that the DMG had pages on out of control players. I'm going to try to read the Player's Strategy Guide a bit more as well to see if it explores...

Well that sucks. I didn't actually examine the file contents, but I get what you're saying: the *.dnd4e files wouldn't have the data necessary to spit out power details unless a given *.dnd4e converter actually references the CB database in the process of conversion.

I'm a relatively new DM who's always struggling to improve his synergy with other people and players (as opposed to wrestling with the rules, that's not a problem) and I've got a problem: I have a player who is generally a problem when it comes to allowing the entire party to make meaningful...

Don't get me wrong, I don't see it that way, but that's because I don't think one should enforce specific logic (reasoning pattern) on another set of logic (given ruleset) because that means you try to second guess rules based on hypothesized intent.

Okay, so there is an RP event tomorrow that my girlfriend and I are running. We built the pregens and just last night, we stress-tested a gladiator tournament for timing and balance concerns. With all that covered, there's just one problem: accessibility. This isn't a problem at the table...

But there IS going to be a Monopoly Movie. Ridley Scott is supposed to direct. That premise alone is awesome.

I like how you have a serious yet open-minded approach to the topic, but you have the silly genius of saying "sexforged" (Yet etymologically speaking it make sense) I'm thinking of making it an eccentric quirk that isn't common to all warforged but isn't rare either. After all, some Warforged...

I totally think everything you've expressed is valid. Sometimes I just want a night with three combat encounters, and letting my dragonborn fighter suffer massive hit point loss from the tactical use of his marks. To me, that's still a story, that's still role-playing, even if it doesn't...

The only D&D movie I want to see has TWO things: Vin Diesel as Half-Drow Fighter Judi Dench as Genasi Barbarian This is not negotiable.

Our swordmage's arm was amputated. She can still wield her scimitar, and we are replacing her arm with a 'mundane' battlefist. Is it possible for her to replace 'swordbond' with 'cyberarm' and use it as an implement? I know I'm free to fluff things, but does the RAW allow for non-sword weapons...

For me it's a high fantasy action adventure make believe game, where dice stops people from going "I hit you!" "No you didn't!" "Yes I did!" "Nuh-uh!" That's a broad definition, I know, but it also allows for the fact that my mood for what kind of game I want it to be changes. Given a...

I'm not much of a Luddite but I'm totally in sync with this. I do in fact use the character builder, mostly to tinker with things and get a better understanding of how the rules work -- (as well as discover parts in which the builder doesn't handle them) -- but I've always relied on pen and...

Thanks for the tip, but that's exactly what I was using. Advanced Google Search is great for broad cross examination of entire site contents and use it on ENworld myself. I'm worried that I am misremembering this and it was on RPGNet. Which is unlikely since I'm never there.

I think what Roger is talking about is how new players have difficulty grokking aspects of any edition of D&D simply because of the disconnect between player level and item/spell level. Some people, at a cursory glance, expect that 9th level wizards should have 9th level spells and 4th level...

Any monster whose abilities can be summarized as Standard Attack, No Special Effect: XdY+Z damage and Encounter/Recharge Attack, No Special Effect, More Than One Target: AdB+C damage is a snoozefest to me.

Yes, and my eyes are beginning to get crossed. I'm also beginning to notice that many of the older threads are deleted so I'm worried it's gone gone gone.

Okay, I've tried dozens of searches but I can't seem to find a thread that I could swear I saw here a couple months ago. Do you guys know of a thread where the OP talked about players who were basically amoral and didn't give two cents about the world, and towards the thread's end there was a...

Excitement. Misdeclaration. Masochism. A desire to be bloodied so they can get some race/class feature bloodied-dependent bonus. Who knows?

Okay, I'm now worried that I've been reading the OA rules wrong. My impression was that 4e was meant to increase the cost of disengaging by making the five foot step "shift" a move action, and lock them into melee by allowing them to scoot around a monster by NOT provoking OA since they remain...

My players trust me enough that they know I fiddle things around to make things more interesting, so I simply just use the percentile dice to determine random decisions and I use the d12 to replace monsters with d8 or d10 damage rolls a bit more 'dangerous'.