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Since in real life you cannot hold anything in your hand while using a shield effectively (you need to grab that handle tight!), then I would not allow it in my game, period. Dual wielding of implements is fine and the current rules work

+1 sword In my heavily modified version of KotS, suceeding in a skill challenge convinces Sir Keegan that the party is willing and able of stopping Karalel & Co. and gives them a whole level´s worth of treasure (I try to avoid the "every encounter drops loot" thing) Included in Sir Keegan´s...

They kill each other. We all win. ;)

Must-have Supplements IMHO, the must-haves for this edition are (will be): 1.- Adventurer's Vault (at least the first one): The PHB does not have nearly enough magic items to fill the parcel system as described in the DMG (not that they could have crammed more info into that book, poor...

My intention was to discuss the subject, of course. This is a discussion forum, where people have strong opinions about gaming subjects. Of course, that is no excuse for being rude, so once I realized my choice of words had been very poor, I came back I apologized. Best of luck to Wolfgang and...

Thanks to Munstrum Ridcully and others for their comments. What I believe is a bad strategy is not selling the product after its finished. For example, a better (IMHO) ransom scheme would be: Option 1: Pay $100 before the project starts, and get full access, voice and vote on the developing...

This. Creating artificial scarcity of a completely electronic finished product is a braindead marketing strategy. Sorry, but there's no way I am buying into this "I will start working into a cool adventure, but only if you pay before seeing it or even reading a review" scheme. Edit: And the...

I'd go with "techniques" for ki powers and "disciplines" for psionics... Agreed on "mysteries" for Shadow

I read that Robin Williams was a gamer too... I'd love to be a player with him as DM (listening to him speak like a barmaid, dwarf warrior, elf wizard, and troll in quick succession must be a blast!)

Well, in my best buddy's homebrew world, there are no "humans" and a lot of people feel challenged by that...

This is a gaming forum, so there's no need to cite your sources ;) ...and besides, I didn't feel like paraphrasing something that has been in Wikipedia for a few years (since we had the "plate armor weigh" discussion in my group 2 years ago, and that info was already there)

Sigged!!;)

The notion that it was necessary to lift a fully armed knight onto his horse with the help of pulleys is a myth originating in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, so we do not need to perpetuate that myth. While it looks heavy, a full plate armour set could be as light as...

Copyrights, anyone?

This. Since 4E is less vulnerable to the "15min workday", you can be a lot more strict about not letting characters sleep in dungeons without consequences. Now, if the party insisted on sleeping in the dungeon, I would then have to bring up the "sleeping in armor" issue. Improvising a bit, I...

My character is, mechanically, a Human Brutal Scoundrel Rogue. Narratively, he's a chandelier-swinging, ladies-charming, swashbuckler in the best tradition of Zorro, or the Errol Flynn Robin Hood... This was achieved using only the 4E Player's Handbook, no problems

Right, funny, but it would work better this way: Standing behind the fighter, the warlord whispers: "I'll distract him, you gut him!" The whip cracks right above the head of the monster *Crack!* "Hey you! idiotic beast! Look over here!" The monster looks around, trying to assess the new...

This happened on my game a couple of months ago... a minion provoked an attack of opportunity from the party's warlock, who had no melee weapon, so she tried an unarmed attack... a lucky roll, and the minion was down (I ruled that it wasn't dead from the blow, just fell unconscious)

Weren't they originally goblinoids? The smallest, lowest, meanest of the goblinoid totem pole...?

I know this is probably not very helpful, but I have decreed that, in my world, cast iron (not steel) disrupts most teleporting powers (but not rituals). So a simple and cheap iron gate prevents an Eladrin from teleporting out, however pure iron is brittle and easily broken, so people wanting...