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Okay, let's just assume that ALL stats are higher than normal. I don't really care about the notion that 4e requires a very specific ability score spread (16-18, no stat lower than 8, et al) and the notion of what constitutes balance, or the merits of point buy vs. the risks of random...

All and I mean ALL rolls are observed by me. I never ever let people roll without me. I don't let player argue over rolls, simply because I police rolling strongly. I empty my dice tin and then let people roll in there. No cocking, no slamming, no nuthin. I do also force players to reroll if a...

I am disappointed that this is not about playing D&D with friends in a public bath. It's probably really big to do that nekkid with friends in Laguna.

My worry isn't about sub-par rolls, my worry is about the fact that random generation consistently generates higher stats in all my games and makes it difficult to rely on the DMG guidelines. Simply put, I need more than 5 Lvl 3 monsters to challenge a 5 PC party of Lvl 3, but I don't know how...

I wonder what kind of a fight an artificer would put up, considering he has that and the ability to reuse magic items and confer a +2 bonus on a pre-charged weapon's attack roll.

One of the things that 4e has been careful about is balanced level progression that maintains a deliberate pace, to ensure that a DM always has an easy time building encounters. Level 1 monsters fight level 1 players, level 2 players fight level 4 creatures for a 'hard' challenge', etc. The...

You're assuming that ALL people who've played 1e/2e require that a return to role-playing must be a system that is identical to what they played 10-20 years ago. Now, I'm not saying those people don't exist. There are certain people who, upon a cursory glance at 4e, won't give it a chance or at...

So now I have to buy a new product just so that my pizzas are up to date and I can eat with other players?! Money-grubbing whooooooooooooorresssssss.....!!!!

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OMG, that pizza build is totally broken!

Quinn Murphy of the At-Will blog has a great post on tips and preparatory mindset for running 4E without a grid. Fluid 4e: Gridless Combat.

I agree with all of this. I make sure that all my monsters try to look and sound like they're really gunning for the PCs no matter how often they miss or hit. However, I actually misread this for a moment and thought you had roleplayed the Gelatinous Cube as sentient and capable of speech...

Don't you mean "focused totality"? ;)

It seems that they don't really do much with the Self-Forged Battlefist except give you a few Paragon powers with it. Granted, they are powerful powers, but no more than any other Paragon power. There's no reason it can't be re-crunched by WotC as a more mundane piece of equipment. That said, I...

Yeah. The wolves have a story justification for being there, but it's really a paper-thin one. I like how he uses very little to describe the NPCs, but you get the gist pretty quickly that it's easy to roleplay them, unlike the many many faceless personality-void NPCs you can't even care...

So... have the adventures improved? I'd really like to know, in the wake of HS1 Slaying Stone and any new adventures being pumped out through Dungeon.

I have on player who is kind of an attention whore and always makes cracks, or parrots exactly what I tell him as a DM. "You know that this is the place where all the halflings go when they sorely miss the taste of authentic Talenta cuisine--" "So guys, this is the place where all the...

Oh shoot. That wasn't meant to be a sly attempt at being crude. Honest.

Did anyone check out the adventure that Penny Arcade's Mike Krahulik uploaded a few days ago? Penny Arcade - Gabe's D&D Corner It's essentially a Scooby Doo-style whodunit parodying Twilight. It's not terribly clever -- consisting mostly of NPC interaction and a very basic mystery and three...

So she'll become a Fistmage?