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Varsuvius's optimistic hopes aside, I don't see why there should be time to warn anybody. The dragon has extensively studied his home cottage and she cast Greater Teleport. Presumably she appeared immediately outside, burst through a wall, and immediately began devouring the juicy elf filling...

I would rather they did a campy movie that made D&D seem like goofy fun than a dark, "serious" movie. Visual a beer-n-pretzels adventure and put it onscreen, is what I'm saying. I bet you could do a cool film adaptation of ""Keep on the Shadowfell".

Hey Regicide, are you sure that you're really in as much disagreement with everyone as you seem to think? It seems like you're stuck on psychology when what matters is actions. In what way do you believe monsters should behave that is different from the way they behave in a "typical" campaign...

Being attacked from behind is all that a fleeing foe can expect. The real test is how they treat enemies that try to surrender.

They give wizards someone to brag to. EDIT: Not a joke. In my experience, that's their primary purpose.

I'm a little unsure about the continued support of the Swordmage class. Do they really intend never to reprint it anywhere other than the Forgotten Realms Players Guide? I think a lot fewer people are going to have access to that than will have access to the PHB I and II.

Have any of the PCs tried "stunting", either using the standard 4E method or your action point + daily extra cost way?

Some of the replies have been going this way, but why not have the PCs literally earn it? As in, an NPC will pay them a lot of money/items to do something for them, and they accept an in-game contract. Some variations on this: 1) A relatively poor individual holds the deed to some...

After reading that other thread about your group and their speed demon combat rounds, I'd be worried the new guy couldn't keep up.

I've heard that folks have a lot of success with an initiative wheel. Whenever someone takes an action, move their marker that many ticks ahead on the wheel. Then go back and start moving tick by tick until the next person's marker comes up.

It's not some kind of moral judgment. Just, they made the decision not to present this stuff with level adjustments and ECLs and stuff like that. It's not intended to be "balanced". That was one of the core decisions of 4E D&D, not to try to balance monster abilities for PC use. If you're...

I sort of get it. I think it's based on the idea that fey can pop up anywhere, vanish when you take your eyes off them, leave tracks that mysteriously vanish in the woods, and that sort of thing. In folklore terms we don't think of that as "teleportation" so much as fey being amazingly...

You could make it their problem and tell them to come up with a reason they're all working together. I think players understand that you're not going to run a separate game for each PC. You could just provide an IC introduction and then tell them out of game that their PCs better darn well...

Thanks for the responses. I was kind of wanting something on the microscopic level as far as how Traveller pacing goes. Does every day get played out, or is it more like, "Three months and three planets later...."?

I'm interested in hearing what people have done with Traveller official "Third Imperium" setting. Specifically what kind of campaigns you've run, how they progressed, what the characters did, where they started, and where they finished. Any "Actual Play" threads you could link to would be great...

Hey, that's just a theory held by some people in the campaign world about what would happen. Nobody really knows, probably not even the .

It's possible for A to dislike B for reasons that are valid, but don't necessarily mean that B is a bad person or that anybody else should dislike B. Sometimes other people just grate on your nerves.

This milestone business is a metagame tool to ensure that there is some penalty for a PC dying, but that the penalty doesn't last forever. It is there to encourage the player to keep pushing forward rather than rest and wait to recover. Feel free to justify it in-world any way you want, or not...

I've seen that advice a lot in this thread and frankly, it's a little simplistic. The truth is that a lot of activities aren't binary fun/not-fun but contain a mixture of both. RPGs take place over a multi-hour period, interacting with multiple people, and it's easily possible for some parts...

Or don't take the penalty and move on with the game. Works equally well.