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If this character is really a kleptomaniac, and actually has difficulty controlling his urges to steal from others, it stands a real chance of being a major factor in the campaign (for good or ill, depending on your group). You have a character with a serious personality...

I think that this idea (incorporating race and class options into the race/class) isn't a bad one, but a bad one for D&D's publishing model. D&D doesn't produce all of their races, or classes, at one time. They will introduce new races (which fit into old classes) and new classes (which are...

Also, depending on the "speed of play" of your group, preparing a sandbox can simply be more like a "shrub" adventure than a "tree" adventure. Rather than having prepared a long and dependent series of encounters, interaction, and descriptions, you might be able to prepare short chains of...

Echoing some things said by earlier posters: GURPS Magic is a very specific way of modeling spell-casters. You may love it (like I do), hate it, or have no use for it, as it doesn't model the way YOU want magic to work (like I do). It makes magic VERY different from D&D. GURPS Powers is...

I myself love GURPS (and I really urge everyone out there who hasn't looked at it to download the FREE PDF and look at it). However, D&D does have its strengths (and, I think, one of the strengths of 4e is recognizing and playing to D&D's strengths). The critical one, for me, as a GM with...

This is just weird to me, but, admittedly, it's just my personal experience as DM. Our rogue isn't INSANELY optimized, but she's pretty damn optimized for combat. She has the best attack bonuses, 2d8 sneak attack, etc. She LOVES solving the trap rooms and hazards. She LOVES clambering onto...

Really good article. I'd like to offer a few ideas which are compatible with yours, but rather different in emphasis. The grind seems to be widely defined as the point in combat where the party has effectively “won”, but have not yet beaten the monsters. One way of "avoiding the grind" is not...

Given that "half-elves" emphatically don't exist in Warhammer, and elves are definitely a different, and significantly "older" species than humans, I really am highly dubious of any sexual attraction on their part towards humans. Certainly a fondness is possible, even a deep devotion, such as...

In defense of the thieving, greedy, shifty, sneaky, scouting Rogue: have you considered that some of this is roleplaying? I mean, Wizards get cantrips and familiars, and get to gad about with their Prestidigitation and the like. Paladins and Clerics (and Invokers, and Avengers....) all get...

Concealment is also ineffective against Close Burst Powers, so they are ideal for targeting invisible enemies (note that most Fighter Close Bursts are limited to visible enemies only).

Also, not having played it, but owning it and having read it (as well as everything else Warhammer, I think), part of the problem is that keeping to the "feel" of Bretonnia means making some types of game play difficult. In the Empire, while there is wealth and power as well as poverty and...

This is the part that burns me. While you are very polite, what you seem to be saying is that either everyone who disagrees with you on this is either: much less intelligent than you are (and can't see through the illusion) or is deceiving themselves and actively lying to you, and others...

Also, it is easily imaginable that some creatures might trigger one of the two limits (height or weight) but not the other. For example, a bonecrusher skeleton (a ogre/savage minotaur skeleton) might easily be Large, in reference to reach, size occupied, and height) but weigh a lot less than...

On Power usage I'm just confused. At the level you are talking about, the PCs should have 2 At Wills, 2 Encounter Powers, and 1 Daily Power (as well as a Utility and possibly a racial power). That's 7 Powers. They might have a few powers from Magic items. Lets say 3 each. That's 10 powers...

Correct on the shorting of magic items. First thing I did was go through and add those magic items back in, as well as altering magic items to better fit the party that I had. I think that throwing some of those items in can help the party substantially. Also note that he is basically a...

I guess my group doesn't have this problem, but they do have the associated "Lookit Me!" problem. That is to say, regardless of how tough a monster is, the party would rather die than Aid Another in combat. H2 Spoiler Alert! They were fighting the Bronze Warder, which has a REALLY good AC...

I don't think you are missing something from Downward Spiral, but I do think that you are discounting something. Knocking prone automatically is very rare, and pretty darn useful. Regardless of defenses, each target is down on the ground. That's pretty good, and is very useful both for...

Normally, only Unconscious is Helpless, though I think that perhaps someone who is restrained AND immobilized might also qualify. I can't point to any rules on that, but if you can't coup de grace a completely bound, tied up prisoner (because they aren't HELPLESS), then I don't think coup de...

Or not. Maybe they got lucky, played smart, and took down someone way out of their league, with no repercussions. Give them the victory fair and square. Now, of course, other villages have heard of them, and are going to be pestering them with other challenges WAY out of their league. You...

I also have trouble imagining any good reason for not posting H1-H3 that explains WHY they have posted maps for P1-P3. Furthermore, if they would just post "unmarked" maps, these would be both MORE useful for the DM, and less useful to the "spoiler player". The maps in the book would actually...