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@hawkeyefan Donal was in some ways like your Judge Cullen. They both religiously took on the burdens of their constituents and served somewhat similar positions of leadership in Stonetop (though Cullen's was bedrock and locked-in as mediator and Eratis-counselled Judge, Donal's was only...

While there have been violent conflicts and journey conflicts, the rather pronounced frequency of social conflicts and spiritual conflicts in this particular game of Stonetop has been fairly remarkable. This session was rather the poster child of the paradigm. If I inventory the 4 PCs that...

MECHANICS, TERRAIN, ET AL * Illumination: Full. * Both sets of Steep Stairs are Challenging Terrain; Low DC (8) Acrobatics or Athletics or Difficult Terrain. * Squares filled with big rocks/ruined pillars are Difficult Terrain. * Unstable Wooden Ceiling Joists, 15 ft up, span rows 7, 10...

Alright @Grendel_Khan (Monk), @AbdulAlhazred (Wizard), @Campbell (Swordmage)...thus begins our PBP game! These three wanted the game to take place in 4e's default setting/cosmology of Nentir Vale et al, so we begin in Fallcrest. We're going to call this Wizard's Tower for the opening conflict...

Primary Goals: Defeat the Duchess of Cinders and end the volcanic threat to the city (nested SC). Secondary Optional Goal: Disrupt her ritual of undead apotheosis. * ILLUMINATION: Full. * MAGMA (FAR LEFT, Hindering Terrain): When a creature enters a square adjacent to Magma, it takes a 5...

The large, spectral-themed figure floats around her on the cavernous floor as it smoothly pulls from the ample folds of its cloak a piece of colored chalk and a sizable, steel-framed hourglass. Clearly they are bargaining. The Duchess scrutinizes the figure, taking in its offering. The...

Nope. I was there. I know exactly what was said and by whom. I know how their arguments were misshapen, misunderstood (of the game itself both text-wise and ethose-wise or of how actual phenomena work in the world) and corrected but they refused to operationalize the corrections because it...

Lol nice. Also: * Fighters are spellcasters in 4e (forget what the extreme differences in total build generates, how that references keyword tech, and what the actual play produces)! * Martial Mind Control is so unrealistic...nothing like that happens ever IRL! * Warlords shout hands back on...

I can't tell whether @Shardstone is fist-pumping his personal, and one of the historically better, Own Goal or if this is some crazy level 4D Chess Uno Double Reverse making a caricature of the 4e detractor not having actually read much of the books (or at least not sincerely...or at least not...

@darkbard , yup. You're on it (y) As you noted, it wasn't Primary Check Arcana (was Secondary). I've fixed with a strikethrough in the post above. Also, if you look at the lead post for this SC, the staged successes are 4, then 6 (for 10 total), then 2 (for 12 total). Given that we've been...

Correct. And Jaws is not for people who wanted Catching Up With the Kardashians. And American Football is not for people who wanted Golf. And a hamburger is not for people who wanted a salad. And The Pixies are not for people who wanted Taylor Swift. And a marathon is not for people who...

I appreciate your anecdote and I believe you that you've had good success at 5 PCs. I've seen others report the same (some I trust and know well and I know precisely what things have gone well for them; hyper-skillful and hyper-attentive players and GM...4e absolutely requires both of things...

I don't get the meaning of your quip here (at least how it engages with my, sincere, post)? Is it that @Retreater 's game is basically toast and he needs to come to terms with that and move on (imo, he needs to stop running games altogether...he reports back anecdotes of misery after misery...

There is so much help out there on this subject Retreater. You just need to do some keyword searches and you should get a cavalcade of help. Look at some of my PBPs on here. Those should help. Meanwhile: * 6 characters is far, far too many for any game (imo) and its basically a killshot for...

I've been involved in four donnybrook-equivalents in my life (to what should be no surprise, three came on the basketball court...which is one of the more dangerous places in the 1st world imo!...the other was a bench-clearing-brawl in baseball...which is almost exclusively just male peacocking...