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None of the Essentials products have been cancelled. All ten of them have been released. Dungeons & Dragons Starter Game (Red Box) Heroes of the Fallen Lands Heroes of the Forgotten Kingdoms Rules Compendium Dungeon Master's Kit Monster Vault Dungeon Tiles Master Set: The City Dungeon Tiles...

If you've got room for another, I'd be interested in giving it a shot (as a Jedi...).

That's a bit vague, shawnsse. Do you mean it's pronounced the same as the name of the letter "C", i.e., the same as "sea" or "see"? Or do you mean it's pronounced the same way that "C" is in English, in which case, which way? The letter has multiple ways of being pronounced in English (hard...

Unless your game involves a lot more written elements than anything I've ever played, how you spell something is usually going to be pretty irrelevant. It could be spelled "Arthur"; in many cases, the players won't need to know, or remember/care if told. It all comes down to how it's pronounced...

I echo several previous posters: sounds interesting, but what system?

That'd be great, thanks. :)

I'd love to play in a game like this (I've got a swashbuckler type rogue I built ages ago, the right campaign just has never come along), but I've never done play by post before, and it looks like you've already got a full roster. Still, I'll be watching with interest. (And Rhun, hoping you...

:erm: Really? Seems to me that if their healing wasn't connected to bashing people's brains in, there wouldn't be much reason to call them warpriests. The very act of warfare is what allows them their healing power? Works for me. :)

I continue to be amused by the fresh responses to this. :D The original question was asked in June of 2008. You know, the month the game launched? Just a guess, but I think the original poster is probably no longer waiting on the edge of his or her seat for an answer to how stealth works, nor...

Given that the OP was posting in June of 2008, before the current stealth rules even existed... no.

The highest I've ever taken a character I've played from level 1 is level 5. I seem to have a knack for dying just before hitting level 6 (like, literally in the encounter that would get me the XP to level...). The longest level run I've ever played in one continuous campaign (regardless of...

I wouldn't be terribly surprised if Drow turned out to get Dex (Cha/Int). Then all three subspecies of elves would share the Dex + Int option.

The first words of the Effect line are "You activate an aura 1".

I went with option 4 (or is it 2a?): pencil. I had to write fairly small in some places, and use the margins of the pages at times, but every errata to every book I own (barring a table in the DMG I haven't gotten around to squeezing in) has been added this way. That said, I plan on buying...

The flanking rules never mention the words Melee, Ranged, Close, or Area. They do not care what sort of attack you are making. The rules state that "you have combat advantage against an enemy that you flank."

Easiest way to handle it would be to insert a blanket statement into one of the rulebooks somewhere, along the lines of "Unless otherwise specified, magic items are Uncommon".

To some extent this will depend on power selection, but note that your Healing Word ability can be used on yourself. Several powers prior to level 5 do either include you in the healing, or allow you to be the target of the healing.

Nobody has to sleep during an extended rest. Really. The requirement is that you engage in no strenuous activity. Characters normally sleep during this time, but they don't have to. However, if, at the end of an extended rest, a regular character hasn't slept for at least 6 of the past 24...

One thing to keep in mind is that your two goals might come into conflict here. Some of the suggestions people are offering for extended rests are things that discourage the party from taking them as often. That means more fights being fought without daily powers, which makes them end up...

Note that according to James Wyatt's Countdown to Essentials article, the DM's Kit's DM's book has "streamlined combat rules that can help you run the game until you decide it’s time to pick up the Rules Compendium". It may be that in those rules (for both the book and screen in the kit), coup...