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You are thinking about it too much. Maybe the ritual gives a +30 circumstance bonus to the UMD check

Use surges to use/activate as a very basic one. After that, get evil. After everytime you use the ring, three hours later you get attacked by wraiths. Things like that

Very weak excuse not to put the book out. In the first place 'DM only' is a myth. Players will buy what they find interesting. The fact that is is for a DM only isnt a consideration. In my group (6 people), a cool magic item book would prolly sell 3 maybe 4. That is more than any book other...

No. Without the online table, none of us think that monthly expense is worth it.

My opinion hasnt changed. Pretty much everything that they have done in 4e is pretty much the opposite of the way I would have done it. But I DM it. One thing that they really nailed was how to make the game easier on the DM. As in less than 10% the effort for better adventures. But to...

Why dont you just add +0 per level and get rid of all the adjustments all together? Character sheets would last alot longer. Technically, this just makes the +n bonus a special effect like flaming. You could call it an 'accurate weapon' First, except in the west, and AK is more like $5 than...

If you take out the 300-400 questionables, then the poll looks like about 2/3 for, 1/3 against, which has been pretty constant for a year, IIRC.

Ya think? :rant: I had problems with 4e from the day it was announced, and alot of the predictions I made about how 4e wouldn't work were correct. My group and I have been playing 4e for about 14 months now, and I still dont like the game. There are too many small things that dont make...

You need to give your players a reason? I mention anything that looks like it might be an adventure location and my players will drop everything to go take a peek. I have to be careful describing things when they are travelling or getting background info, or they will run off in some direction I...

Non-sequitur: No one has even mentioned feats. This isnt even a point of discussion in this thread.

Yup, the best way to help players who like to kill things and take their stuff is to take away the stuff. The ideas are not bad, but I personally wouldnt play a game where my loot poofed out of nowhere everytime I levelled up. My system is to just toss out a couple weapons/implements/armour...

Having one or both stat bonuses be flexible would make the good stats a little better. Considering that the players will fall behind the monsters at some point, the total effect is just to make the game a bit easier at low level, on target at a sweet spot, and less far behind at high level. I...

Until aint aint a word, melee is pronounced me-lee, like a chinese-american stuck in Bejing. :lol:

I doubt that there is a way to seamlessly merge the RPG and tabletop games. The 'mech combat is just too deadly on the character scale. You are going to have to accept that occasionally someone is going to suck an AC/20 to the head. I have always had the view that with Battletech, death is a...

Too True. Good Post. To amplify on Kamikaze's post: What is roleplaying/ a roleplaying game is highly dependent on how you play. Freakin' 40K can be a role playing game if you want it to. Arguing about who is role playing and who is story telling is like arguing if the sky is azure or...

4e is our alternate to Shadowrun. At that it is the alternate only because after 8 years of 3.x, we all got burned out on D&D. Of the six in my group, one wants to play, one dosent mind the game, two dislike it, and two only play cause it is the alternate, and we like to get together every week...

Sounds like two problems here: First, he isnt an 'old school' DM, he is a bad DM. He seems to be too inflexible to take into account the new rule system, dosent seem to what to know what his monsters do, and dosent seme to know how to pace a game to make sure the characters can do what they...

How? Most players expect backstabbing, treachery, and other nastiness from pretty much anything they come across. If you add the fact that the rules set means that the creatures in the encounter are not good, they could be less concerned about morality. You can also use good creatures as a way...

I think you just shorted out my brain. Now I must destroy it all. Bwuah-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!!

A sufficiently quantified magic is indistiguishable from technology