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Forgotten Realms, Eberron, and Dark Sun each got two books, a published adventure, and online content every month. Neverwinter got a bunch of tie-in merchandise. I'm hoping Menzoberranzan is just a stand-alone book like Gloomwrought, and we'll get something original for the big campaign setting.

Are we sure Menzoberranzan is seriously the big campaign setting for 2012 and not just a one-shot deal? That would be very disappointing, since last year Wizards explicitly said they were doing something new this year. 4e desperately needs its own campaign setting so it doesn't feel like we're...

Have the whole thing memorized the best you can. Your players will be displeased if you run down the clock looking things up. Draw the maps in advance if you can.

I didn't have time to read your post, but I felt I should point out then when you hit paragon tier, you can retrain paragon tier feats into heroic tier feat slots. So maybe there's a heroic tier feat you don't need anymore?

MME is fantastic. It's not just a list of magic items, it makes magic items fun again.

It looks like he quit because he was fed up with the toxic community. Can't say I blame him. I've always wondered how a game that fundamentally involves interacting with other human beings attracts so many angry, entitled people.

- All monsters updated to MM3 format, complexity AND math. Please yes. It wouldn't even be that hard. You could just get a computer program to do all the work. - Errata the level-up chart to include math fixes to attacks and NADs. Wizards has said they are reluctant to make such a...

When 4e released, people complained that all the classes played the same. When Essentials released, people complained that they broke away from their precious formula. It's human nature to be afraid of change. Some people just aren't aware of their own nature and think their gut hatred is a...

Sure he did. If a pixie shrinks a weapon down to tiny size, it treats the weapon like a small character would treat a normal sized weapon. That means that even if a pixie shrinks a great sword, it still couldn't wield it.

Certain classes can use holy symbols as implements. You are not required to use a holy symbol to use powers, and the basic holy symbol doesn't do much good. If you have a magic holy symbol with an enhancement bonus, you can add that bonus to attack and damage with any power that has the...

Hit points are meant to abstractly represent the number of hits a character can take before he is knocked unconscious. Every hit does not mean the character is stabbed in the gut. Perhaps he blocked it with his sword, or it was just a scratch, or he moved in just the right way to minimize the...

You're not going to be able to come up with an exact dollar-gold conversion. Food is going to be more expensive in D&D-land than real life because modern agricultural techniques dramatically lowered the price of produce. However, a riding horse is going to be cheaper in D&D-land because it's a...

People are lazy. Companies are abstract entities that cannot be personified as such. A group of playtesters needed to sift through over three thousand items and determine a rarity for each one. And they had to do this without slowing down Wizards' release schedule. I'm impressed they got it...

All flying animals have an altitude limit. Wings work by displacing the air around them, sort of similar to swimming. In order to fly, you must be able to displace an amount of air equal to your weight. The farther you get from the surface of the earth, the lower the air pressure gets. When...

ForeverSlayer thrives on complaining about things that don't matter. The less they matter, the angrier they make him. If we stopped responding to him he'd go away. (I say with no sense of irony) Mod Note: Ad hominem is usually rude, and always weak rhetoric. Please stop trying to dismiss...

Holy crap you're right. The carrying capacity rules don't adjust for size. I guess we can assume that whatever magic keeps the pixie afloat also allows them to carry people hundreds of times their own weight.

Every player has a certain number of healing surges per day. When a player spends a healing surge, they recover an amount of HP equal to their surge value (usually a quarter of their max HP). Most healing powers require the player being healed to spend a healing surge, but some do not. For...

This is the best thing I've seen from D&D in a long time. I think I need to get my dwarf killed off so I can bring back Flufflepuff Faceripper.

I can guarantee you that D&D 5e will not even be announced until at least 2013, and that's being generous. Most likely 5e will be released around 2015. And when D&D 4e was released, Wizards did not remove their content supporting 3.5.

I was under the impression that the book, the fortune cards, the Facebook game, the novels, and the MMO were planned simultaneously. Which probably means they did a lot more market surveying than if it were just a couple books.