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I'm a GM as well as a New York Bartender. I used to do a Sapphire & Tonic before the game, but now occasionally I'll have a beer or two. Sometimes, we'll do a nice meal before or after the game, so we'll have, for example, Fettucini Alfredo and drink maybe Peroni. Sometimes we go more...

Stay tuned in the next few days for an announcement from Poison Ivy Press! I think you'll be pleased, and we'd love to hear your feedback when it hits to forums! ;)

Very good article! My biggest concern is the ability to take advantage of the system, and have it spiral out of control. The heavy frequency of conditions, as you pointed out, can kind of present "stunlock" situations that really are more about optimizing than exiting combat. This isn't a...

WoD actually has a much larger reader-base than player-base. This is subjective, of course, but from personal experience I see WoD books fly off the shelves and almost never being played. No doubt they're the 2nd place to WotC, but as for 2nd most played game? Tough call.

Ugh, these arguements are futile and rediculous. I give up. Sure, justanobody, Wizards of the Coast are trying to model the tabletop RPG for the sake of the minis game. It's actually something they told us 4th Edition cool-aid drinkers in a mass email. You figured it out.

My god, are we still stuck on the idea that Wizards is now designing their tabletop roleplaying game to cater to their minis because they made a very minor adjustment to one creature on one page of one sourcebook in order to please those who might have an Aspect of Tiamat mini? I feel like every...

It'll always happen. They'll always find a way you use (insert word here) to criticize 4th Edition. It won't stop for many years to come, god knows why.

Art is huge. For third party publishers especially art is a huge factor. It's one of the most enormous expenses a developer can take on. High-quality imagery simply reflects on the professionalism of the content, whether or not it is good or bad. People, by majority, want great art.

Have you seen the statblock? There's 6 of them. One for her, and one for each head, all of which fight on separate initiative counts. Looking closely, I can't really see how you could make her more of an epic, 5-headed dragon queen than she already is. As for Shadow of the Colossus type...

Hey, I started a thread about Tiamat (which got forked twice and evolved into more edition wars)! Mainly I think there's just not enough to disagree about, which is a huge thing in the forums these days, unfortunately. I'd love to be talking more about this supplement. I'm simply amazed by the...

Really, I'd suggest first and formost an out-of-character conversation at the table by all present about whether or not this is the direction everyone is comfortable in going in. By the tenor of the way in which you've presented this, it seems that it is not. Having this displaying in the open...

A successful save gets you out of the effect. Continuous failed saves make the effect worse.

See the entire arguement around the idea that Wizards has a company, and therefor will release supplements that appeal to the majority of players. The majority of players want to kill Vecna much more than Pelor. And they want to kill Tiamat for Bahamut, not the other way around. They have...

Like I've mentioned in the thread specifically dedicated to another War on Wizards for somehow demonstrating a re-prioritization of the franchise in one word in one stat block in an optional supplement, Tiamat is also a female, which in some magical beasts (or even natural beasts) means slightly...

As of now, impossible to say. I don't think anyone can make any solid judgements that don't have to do with just disliking the current edition and how they handle things, which has been explored extensively in other threads that are even now on the front page of the forums. Powers probably...

Quoted for EPIC truth. I'll repeat what a previous poster did... If you do use the minis, Wizards has done you a favor. If you don't use minis, you can change Tiamat to gargantuan size to very slim mechanical difference. If you're really offended that Wizards would make the Queen of dragons...

But aspect of Orcus is an actual, large-sized monster in the Monster Manual. I might be wrong about both counts, but I also believe they plan to release a gargantuan-sized Orcus mini as well.

Many do, which is something I don't particularly understand. Rorn is also huge size. Although Tiamat is one of those gods who you'd assume would be absolutely Colossal, I much like the idea of most gods not being larger simply because they're more powerful. If Moradin, for example, was bigger...

I didn't spot where this had been said before, but if you're running it with 3 1st level characters, you're gonna have to tone down the fights a bit. The module is designed for 5 characters, so when I did it with 4 players I compensated by having the monsters simply not take advantage of every...

I totally bet Open Grave: Secrets of the Undead has Raven Queen stats (I'll even go a step futher and say Vecna, too).