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Well, it depends on how you want to balance things. Players and monsters with lower DPS means that fights will take longer both in terms of rounds and real life. It could still be balanced that way, but it certainly is reasonable to say that the higher levels got a bit grindy. Also, DMs were...

This is why I always have players summarize what they thing the plot was last time. Far too often, it's an entirely different campaign from the one I thought I was running.

The equivalent of Paragon Paths or Epic Destinies for the heroic tier.

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Yes, it's worth it. It's a cheap, portable, up-to-date, copy of the rules in easy to access form.

And FWIW, a fair bit of the information that's out there is incomplete and contradictory. Good or bad it does mean that there's no right, and more importantly no wrong, way to set things up. If a source disagrees, then that's just the clerics of Pelor spinning tales to pump their deity up.

DMG2. I don't recall the specifics offhand, but the basic gist was at level 3 (or somewhere in there) you get a +1 to all defenses, attack and damage, and similarly every 5 levels thereafter (ie +2 at 8, +3 at 13).

Looking forward to the MB update. I'll have a reason to resubscribe again.

I did book reports in 4th grade on my Apple IIe. I'm right at the edge of the computer generation,so I've almost never found pencil and paper to be faster or easier.

FWIW, they have been working to churn out a fair amount of product, just not the traditional products we're used to. The board games have pulled some resources, the VTT is taking some resources, etc. Now, for me, I'm somewhat in favor of this. The books for me have a strong diminishing...

No, but there are objective standards for capacity. There's a pretty good case that the new CB is less capable than the old one. Moreover, there's a solid case that the monster builder is worse currently than it was before the buggy update. Now the current quality of the magazines might...

I'll freely grant that WotC has seemed directionless for quite a while. I'll be surprised if they convince me to purchase much more from them in the next year. As a nitpick though, jumping the shark is about picking a new direction not losing the map. IMO, WotC has been rudderless for a...

I dunno that 3.5 ever did jump the shark. Jumping the shark implies a radical change, not necessarily a constant change in quality or direction. Contemporaneously, the only real jumping the shark event that I can think of is the final episode of BSG; which technically doesn't count as it was...

For WotC to have jumped the shark, they would have had to do something crazy, like convert the whole system to the DnD Adventure system (ie the boardgame rules), drops the ddi and books, etc. That would be the level of changes to be jumping the shark.

Wikipedia says: I don't think that WotC's 4e products have quite hit this yet. Certainly not the beyond relevance or recovery bit. A slow schedule and a few bad books really don't put the entire line beyond the pale for me. The closest I think its come is the silverlight transition of DDI...

In general, my players and I have more interesting things to worry about than tracking mundane ammo. It's just not fun, imo. I could conceivable see a survival situation where it were interesting, but not routinely.

There are a lot of ways to pull something like this off. As a meta comment, within the 4e cosmology, there are 3 things that make up a person, the body, the soul, and the animus. Depending on what you want to do, you could have the evil necromancer steal any of the three. I might do something...

That's pretty much what I want too. I've got a campaign idea I'd love to start detailing out, but I'm reluctant to get started with the offline MB because it sucks, I'm not a huge fan of writing out monsters by hand, and the online version is dreck from what I hear. Without a way to get...

Not to be overly pedantic, but its hard to call something usable if most people can't actually use it.

Isn't it still in limited access only?