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I actually do that already in my other campaigns. Just not for this one. I'm not so concerned with micro-tracking the XP so much as I'm trying to assess how the approach to one chapter will affect the gains they make before the succeeding chapter. I generally calculate XP gained according to...

That would be the greatest thing ever.

I just finished running the first chapter of Tomb of Horrors (the published edition, not the DM Rewards one). We're handling the entire adventure as a kind of 'staggered' paragon campaign, to give ourselves a taste of paragon play after a year of heroic tier campaigns currently on hiatus. Now...

I agree. In addition, I think the 'open' nature of the game's narrative helps as well. A product where you're not under any pressure to make the game fit into some canon or establish a serious tone or demand too much player-character immersion -- instead making those things you can develop...

The only kind of tweaking you'll need to make will be in response to your players, the challenge level they are experiencing or the kind of party makeup they have. But in terms of whether or not Essentials classes will require you to make changes to the adventures: No. You don't need any...

I think stickies count more like a lich than any other kind of undead. You have to find out where they put their soul in to truly kill them. And by that, I mean hacking the admin panel. Not that I would encourage such behavior.

If we're going to include players you DM for, then I've got a lot: In my Chaos Scar game, I've got: Dazzle, a Gnome Warlock Darkwing, a Dwarf Pursuit Avenger (prone to using loads of thrown consumables) Trask, a Kobold Battlemind Ulrik, a Dwarf Battlerager Vigor Fighter. Squint, a Halfling...

I play a: 1) Dragonborn Paladin of Sehanine, replacement character in a campaign where I previously played a Warforged Warden for 12 levels. 2) Dragonborn Great Weapon Fighter, the only straight man in a room full of crazy ditzy elves, half-elves and eladrin that speak Tagalog in place of...

To me, the Dark Times is when players and DMs go AWOL as they cross the realm hunting down some entity called "Christmas Spirit," in the hopes they can acquire some strange mystical artifact known as "Family Time."

I like it too. The way I see it is this: If you're new to DMing or Dungeons & Dragons, it's pretty neat if you can get into the game, buy the books and some tiles and find an adventure that makes whole use of the tiles. I draw my own maps, or improvise them based off the 'ideas' in a module...

Fixing bugs IS an update. It's been called such very often in the software world. Everytime your Wintel system automatically updates itself? That's really just going online to address newly discovered security exploits and programming bugs.

I'll comment since I'm actually playing the latest edition of Shadowrun on a regular basis. (We basically have about 5 six-hour sessions of different DMs/campaigns every month, and Shadowrun is in regular rotation.) The speed of combat resolution varies. Due to the number of dice required to...

I totally understand what you mean. Depending on the individual, the automation that the CB provides does not necessarily inflate the burden of pencil and paper generation nor do skilled 'pencil and paper'-capable builders necessarily imply that the CB is a needless tool. The truth of one...

I wasn't suggesting that I was against this logic, just that I didn't want to imply that my explanation wasn't to be construed as support. Nor was the line, "marketers think there's a reason to brand differentiate everything." to be taken as snark. I'm just saying that I don't challenge the...

In which case muls get off easy in the fashion department.

Marketing directive. They probably thought calling it 'essential' as a looser, friendlier way of saying 'must buy' was a better idea than calling it 'Player's Handbook 4' (too sterile!) or 'Simplified Classes' (no one wants the 'light' version). I'm not saying it's right or that I agree with...

Man, my players circumvented that encounter entirely by accident.

Exactly. I know some of us don't like the idea of gaming that requires some math homework, but I think it's akin to learning how to do arithmetic without a calculator. Sure, you can compute some problems faster with one, but after a while it gets easy enough to do without one. Heck it's all...

When can we see the rest of your conversions? ;)

I have absolutely no idea what is going on in this thread.