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How about for a DM that uses DDI heavily? Is the non-crunch stuff worthwhile?

I read that as Elves never cut down living trees. Cutting a limb off is better described as trimming or pruning.

That would be my instinct as well. As for balance, the only abusive issue I've seen with this is the Arcane Wayfarer PP, which gets a speed teleport 2 at 16th level. Combining all these effects give an eladrin a huge teleport speed usable constantly.

3e ability damage never bothered me all that much, though it could take forever fully recover. But drain always sucked, IME. Ability damage and the fixing spell lesser restoration you hit at about the same level, and as mentioned, you naturally recover anyway. But you start hitting monsters...

Are you using backgrounds? If not, you might want to ask him to select one. They aren't particularly inspired story-wise, but will at least give him a few motivations. That said, at 13 and being new to TTRPGs, making a story background is probably pretty unobvious. I mean, at 13, pretty much...

I personally wouldn't encourage evil development, unless your confident he can handle the distinction between evil and chaotic psychopath. That said, there's nothing wrong with encouraging off the wall thinking. I would have let the blood act as a potion (healing or something cool like heals +...

For some reason, my characters always ends up being much more effective once I get dominated. I'm always impressed at it. As for what I hate, I hate anything that takes me out of combat/the adventure. Ability drain, level drain, level loss are the main ones. Also some minor stuff like...

At those prices, I'd go all out and go for a tub that's closer to small swimming pool.

I don't know about it's current state, but my experience with PCGen was that it runs on the mac, but I'd never describe it as working.

We've been over this. The collective noun is a Death of Orcuses, not mob. I guess I should get around to starting that collective nouns for DnD monsters thread.

I love Eberron, but unfortunately as a DM I don't have a good story to tell there. I really wish I did, or that someone was making AP for it. Planescape I love to read about; its Byzantine complexity has a very satisfying just-so aspect to it for me. That said, I have no desire to run a...

Maybe the themes allow access to some feats early. That could be kinda cool.

As a thought, one of my (admittedly slim) hopes for the Castle Ravenloft and Dragon Dungeon board games coming out is that they will offer a slimmed down and faster combat mechanic for DnD for use in minor fights. I'm not sure if it would work, but might be cool to have distinct rules for fast...

It says that pre-orders start on the 15th.

FWIW amazon is listing pre-ordering starting on the 15th.

In fairness, the goal there was to play through the entire adventure in a relatively short timespan.

Right, a festival for the death of a 9th wife under mysterious circumstances. IE, he just killed his previous wife. And probably several other wives as well. Of course, with a LE spouse, all you need to do is insert a no murder clause into the pre-nup.

Mearls is surprisingly active on the BGG forum for the Ravenloft one.

In the podcast from DDXP, they specifically mentioned that painting would raise the costs beyond their threshold. If you look at something like Decent or Space Hulk, both of which cost a lot more, you still have unpainted minis. If you run the math, DDMs sold for ~1.50 per mini. At 40 minis...

The minis are the same scale as the DDM.