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My suggestion is this: Let him play his Essentials Mage, regardless of whether you get around to reading the books or not. After the session, decide whether or not you think it's okay to have that Essentials Mage in your game, given the experience. If you decide against it, just let him...

I liked the fact that 4th Edition is considered a great remake. It is an idea I wholly support. Too bad the rest of the article is crud.

Color me mean, but the way I've responded to players who either a) play real smart, b) use 'overpowered' material or c) have pitch perfect teamwork is to make my monsters fight nastier. Seriously. 4th Edition is already extremely forgiving without the 'plain better' options provided by later...

I do the same thing with the power cards shared on many groups. When you live in a Third World country where ink costs an arm and a leg, you'll want to get the most use out of the power cards you print, no matter how cheap the paper you use to print them on.

More importantly I think all DMs should know that the numbers are not the only thing that SHOULD change from level adjustments.

But the CB isn't free. You pay for it through DDI. Unless of course, your copy of the CB is from teh torrentz, you piratey scum! Kidding aside, I get your point... at the very worse, you're double paying. Just pile the cost of ink onto yr Charbuilder and you've got Power Cards!

Thanks for the explanation, guys. So in effect, the "Christmas Tree" is the a rules-induced play assumption that to keep up with the "needs" of adventuring, one needed to be completely tricked out in gear that makes heroes glow with magic. As a DM, I tend to view some 'magic items' as not...

No, really. I consider myself well schooled in the basic 4e forumite jargon, but I do not understand which rules phenomenon this term is supposed to be alluding to. That is all, thank you have a nice day.

I think they're kind of silly as a product. I understand that they have a very functional intent, but the sad fact is that their utility to dollar cost ratio is pretty poor. Buying all the class power content and not being safely sure that you will use all of them for your character(s) kind of...

I agree and disagree. It would be great for us not to ever see obsolete feats show up again, even if only by a filter. The problem is that it would require someone to actually go through the all feats and make thousands of judgment calls on which feats are obsolete and which ones are not (as...

I don't own any Paizo material myself, nor have I read any, but on that note, I find that older adventures from previous editions of D&D are useful resources. Consider looking for old 3.5 adventures, or even 2nd Edition adventures. I can say that even as a newbie DM like I am, adapting them to...

That just about sums it up pretty well.

Had my first game with my Barbarian. Level 5, dealt about 76 damage with a critical hit of 2d12+1d6+12, with 1d12+1d6 critical bonus and a 1d12+1d6+12 bonus attack. I ultimately went with a CON of 13 and a DEX of 14, while still being able to max out my CHA and STR. That meant decent Reflex...

Wait I'm a little confused, so you mean pre-racial STR 16, DEX 16, CHA 13? And pre-stat bump, yes?

Thanks for the suggestions. So based on those it's a) rely on moderate CON to support axes and heavy armor, or I'm going to have b) sacrifice a bit of CHA to get DEX. Incidentally, my party (I'm the one who DMed them for five levels) consists of a 1) Gnome Fey Pact Warlock MC Rogue: Sneak...

I agree. Sure a lot of people (mostly strategist-oriented 2e/3e grognards) complained that the comparable casting times between rituals and their Vancian equivalents kind of sucks, but at least players are no longer hosed for 'wasting their memorization limits' or memorizing the wrong stuff in...

I don't think WotC ever made a promise of sticking to sequential numbering, nor was it ever one of the core goals of 4th Edition, so they haven't 'failed' on that in the way they have for the other things that they could reasonably accused of failing at. That said, new DMGs aren't really...

LOL, I read this one but I guess I kind of didn't mention it because I felt like it didn't go into build strategies (particularly ability spread configurations per build) as well as the other Handbooks have, and instead opted to simply make feature selection recommendations. I kinda wish I...

So... I'm trying to build my first ever campaign striker (having only played the defenders and a handful of wizards) and as such I'm going for a Dragonborn Barbarian. Naturally this means I'm a Thaneborn Barbarian, so I'm thinking of playing him as an 'American Psycho'. All the pretty-boy...

It was a deliberate allusion.