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Well, the time has come to change chairs. I have evicted the DM from his chair at the end of the table, and will be sitting behind the screen for the first time in over ten years. Needless to say, I'm a bit nervous. Not only will I be running the game, but I'm overseeing the transition to 4E...

Of course they aren't all totally naive, but many of them are. I suppose the main point here is that people are very sensitive to criticism of their parenting ability. It's a learning process, and everyone is worried that they aren't doing it right. So any kind of negative comment about...

You'd be amazed at how many childless people feel that they understand parenting and can judge whether someone is a good parent or not. Parents hear a lot of well-meaning but naive advice from such people, and have learned to utterly disregard it. It's like going through boot camp - until you...

Good advice all around. Playing in a house with kids isn't all hardship and watching your dice though. There are advantages to be had as well! My kids are older now, so most of these suggestions don't apply to toddlers and other kids likely to pop dice into their mouths. 1) Older kids...

It sounds like the flaw was in the D&D game you were playing. The DM needs to make sure the characters are able to accomplish things within the game. With no progress made, the entire session feels like a frustrating waste of time. Tension increases as the players keep trying one fruitless...

Historically I've GM'd as much as I have played. For the past six years, we've been running only a single D&D game, and my husband has been DM'ing that. I'm going to be back behind the screen soon running two different 4E games. One is KotS with the family and a friend of ours who is...

While it won't impact the stuff you are already good at, I really like Jack of All Trades. Plus two to all untrained skills is fun for any character. I agree with many of the others already suggested here.

Keep in mind the changes here were recommendations from the OP. Many of them were good ones as quite a few made it in, but there are changes that weren't on his list as well. Anyone interested in the actual changes should download the full PDF by clicking on the big gnoll picture Dragon 364...

It seems that in the errata'd version of the article, they fixed many of the issues people were having. The Psychic keyword was added to Illusory Ambush, Grasping Shadows, Phantom Chasm, Phantasmal Assailant, and Enemies Abound. The damage done by Grasping Shadows was reduced to 1d8, but...

Voyager man! Isn't it obvious?!

:D That's great!

Hong loves me. He said so.

Nice changes there GorTeX. I may use some of the alterations myself. My KotS game hasn't started yet because one of the players is going to be out of town for the next week or so. I'm really looking forward to it though. I found some nice creepy music I might use for background from Diablo...

I believe what we have here are differing visions of what it means to be a ranger. The ranger has shifted around in various versions of D&D from being a guy who attacked on the fighter table and learned some druid spells as he leveled up, to being a 2-weapon fighter with his dual scimitars, to...

Now edited for more game balance. Nothing was removed or changed, but I added some stuff. I honestly didn't intend this to be a 1-sided portrayal. Arguing on the internet is all sound and fury, signifying nothing. Don't think too much about fantasy.

For the different racial stats and abilities. In my campaign, all elves are the same species, but the elves live in the real world and are tree-hugger types (wood elves), the eladrin are more closely tied to the feywild, cities, and magic (high elves). In order to reflect the differences in...

Really? In what way? Certainly I didn't go out of my way to make all the criticism equal and balanced. I think a lot of posts around here have been extremely unfun lately (badwrongfun) because it seems you can't say "I like 4E" without some people saying you are starting an edition war. Nor...

We see many words being commonly bandied about on the forums, often used in a way that may not be familiar to those new to the gaming community. Here is an attempt at a humorous look at the usual language of ENWorld posts. Glossary of Newspeak: Anime: The reason elves can have green hair...

I have no objection to using a weaker version of a particular monster against the players. As you say, it's a great way of tying plot elements together. Why does the leader of the orc tribe have a devil standing behind him whispering into his ear when your party bursts into the throne room...

Hahaha, classic. "I roll a critical miss on my Tact skill!"