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My current girlfriend is not a gamer. Neither are most of my former. I dated one girl that I met at a game and it ended a month later in drama and heartache. I've had my own games disrupted or even put on hold because of three other relationships where both members were in the group and the...

I'm fairly sure they are talking about their own 4e sales. That makes sense enough to me. I've purchased everything WotC has put out for 4e (except the adventures) but I haven't touched a third party book for it. I love 4e (or at least major components of it), I'm going to keep buying and...

No winning this one as you don't want minis involved in any way with gaming (I assume), but minis have been a part of the hobby for ages and it makes perfect sense to me to design monsters based on what's available (WotC or otherwise) to depict that monster. Also... fights against larger...

Got my books yesterday. I'm really happy with martial power. It delivers a lot of options for martial characters. Also got the Dragon book. They accidentally sent me two coppies of that one, but only charged me for one. Pitty it wasn't the martial power book. I might have actually had some use...

Planar areas are always handled in squares, so for consistency you have to handle three dimensions in cubes. A medium sized humanoid takes one cube. That's it. Sure, their head and shoulders might technically go into the cube above them when they are standing up nice and tall (just like their...

Just once I'd like to be one of the people who gets a book early. *sigh* You already answered my primary question (warlord at-wills). My only other questions I'd like to get answers on might be... 1.) Multiclassing. I thought I recalled something about better multiclassing options for martial...

I have a homebrew, which I've yet to actually run, where the world remains round (although it is actually the lifeless body of the first god/entity encrusted with elemental matter) and orbits the sun. The sun is little more than a portal to the elemental chaos; from which all creation sprang...

I experimented with alternate minion rules at my last session. The rule that was used... Crit a minion = Dead Hit a minion = Bloodied Hit a Bloodied minion = Save Save Roll 1-9 = dead Save Roll 10-19 = still alive Save Roll 20 = still alive, and no longer bloodied. The results? Minions...

I don't... I use the rules in the DMG for adventure design; dividing the XP needed to level into encounters, quests, and skill challenges of various difficulty. I fill out those encounters with the intended monsters for the level, and then I stop worrying about XP values and look at the...

I gotta say: I like what I'm hearing. I wish the pricing was a little cheaper, but a little less randomization and the promise of better quality figures = good news for those of us who have mostly collected for role playing use anyway.

I'm not sure how to vote. The cards seemed like a no-brainer to me so I fired up InDesign and made a set for each of my players. I'm not certain it has increased productivity at the table. It might even be slowing us down. I'm thinking of moving to a sheet.

Sustaining doesn't provoke. Ranged or area attacks do. Is flaming sphere considered a ranged or area attack from you? Then it provokes. Are you considered to be directing the sphere to move or make a melee or close attack? Then it does not provoke, or if it does... so would commanding a figurine...

I can't deny most of what you're saying isn't true. It is. Death is more frequently a threat in my campaign than your describing, and I still see the fear in my players' eyes when the defender goes down with half the enemies still up... but mostly because of the threat of a TPK. A character or...

So the adventure shortchanges you by 9 magic items? Really? I've not read it, because I'm participating as a player, but this is really disapointing if true.

Huh... looking at the double pact feat again, I see that you get the at-will for it too. Wow. My human warlock will have 4 at-wills. Sweet.

Can I ask a follow-up question? Is it correct that you can curse a new target each round, without losing the curse on your previous target(s), so long as the new target is the closest visible target to you this round? I assumed this was the case, but I've run into some opposition. The curse...

As long as a spell allows for an object to be a target, and not specifically an enemy or creature, I think I'd allow the table thing. The issue arises with how large an item can be before it is too large to be an object. I'd disallow "terrain" as my justification for not allowing floors, walls...

That's reasonable. The PDF doesn't get updated until they reset the pages for print. It can be costly to properly update page layout when text changes. I'm definitely leaning toward going digital now.

Updated print runs, and updated PDFs? Nice. Have the realms books and other releases hit PDF? I haven't been checking. If digital releases aren't too far behind physical ones, I might convert to digital coppies only. Assuming the eratta updates are free on those.

I agree that the standard "guard" shouldn't go up in level just because the party did. The force of 2nd level minions who manned the guard towers at 1st level is still mostly comprised of 2nd level minions at 9th level. Of course, if you run afoul of them and they sound the alarm... you might...