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White Plume Mountain looks interesting. I've never played or read it before, but it sounds like it has a lot of interesting encounters and puzzles.

What the thread title says, basically. What are your favorite set pieces from earlier editions' adventures/modules that work well when adapted into 4e? I am running a campaign in the standard Nentir Vale setting, largely with stuff I'm making up myself, but I am borrowing liberally from the...

I don't suppose it has any Rare magic items? (Any new magic items at all?) Sounds great. My campaign is still at low heroic level, but I eventually want to do a sidetrip to the Shadowfell and maybe a lot more there and in the Feywild if we make it to paragon tier.

Here is how I personally like to play. I design my encounters to be balanced according to the DMG XP budget guidelines. I take into account the PCs' equipment and abilities and my players' strategic skill. I make every attempt to create an encounter that will be thrilling and challenging but...

I'm not a big fan of extensive backstories in games like D&D. But I do a few things when I'm a player to try to create a character that's different from myself. I'll often use an accent or a voice and maybe a few verbal mannerisms or quirks. For instance, when I was playing a dwarf cleric I...

I agree, it certainly works better when you can keep the mystery on your side of the screen. In combat it would really require players who are willing and actively involved in playing along. Still, I think it's an interesting thought experiment to work out a mechanic that would be interesting in...

I think that if monsters always obey a defender's mark (or a knight's aura) it's boring for both the defender's player and boring and frustrating for the DM. Static combats where the monsters line up and stay in one place are dull. So I move them around even if it means risking opportunity...

I was thinking about the mage hand trick too, or perhaps a juryrigged periscope. But I had forgotten about line of effect being needed for almost all powers, so I guess this is less of a DM's judgment thing than I had originally thought. I suppose teleportation is one of the only things where...

Yeah, I might as well use his name just for the "gravitas" although I will have to stat him up myself - the level 20 solo in Open Grave is too tough for four level 10 PCs. I'd like to do a version closer to the original idea of Strahd being a magic-user vampire. Maybe a gloom pact warlock with...

If my campaign makes it far enough (I'm hoping to adapt I6 as the capstone for heroic tier) I plan to turn the village of Nenlast into Barovia, with Castle Ravenloft located on a cliff looming above it (essentially an extension of the Dawnforge Mountains, although the map doesn't show them...

In my game last week, one of my players (who plays an eladrin mage) declared (half in jest) "When I get back to town, I'm buying a mirror!" with the idea being that he could then use it to fey step around a corner. Would you allow this in your game? What about other powers that need...

Anyone want to help me try to adapt the Silence as a D&D 4e monster? http://www.enworld.org/forum/4e-fan-creations-house-rules/305455-doctor-whos-silence-d-d-d-d-4th-edition-monster.html

I don't know how many people here watch Doctor Who, but the current series features a monster called "the Silence" with an interesting gimmick. When you look away from them, you forget entirely that you saw them. They are also able to control people through post-hypnotic suggestion in...

Thanks for the great ideas. I ended up using the DMG NPC rules to build a necromancer using some of the necromancy school powers from Heroes of Shadow (which is not a book that I would want to use for PCs in my campaign, but it has some great stuff for villains!), and then adding the Death...

You don't need to push your players to develop extensive character backgrounds at first if they're not accustomed to roleplaying yet. Let them play stereotypes based on their race and class (big dumb fighter, effete eladrin, goody two shoes paladin, etc.). It's a start. Then help them get into...

I'm working up an NPC that will be the main villain in my campaign for most of the heroic tier. The NPC is an agent of the cult of Vecna, and I originally envisioned her as a cleric of Vecna but now I'm leaning towards building her as a necromancer using some of the powers from the new Heroes of...

This makes a lot of sense, and I was probably planning to do something in this direction, but I feel uncertain about how to make sure a magic item is appropriate for its level. I don't remember anything in either DMG about designing new magic items. Has there been any advice published in Dungeon...

Maybe... they did fine on a L+3 back at 1st level. I think the knight briefly bounced off the ground for half a round until the warpriest healed him, but other than that it wasn't too bad. To date that was the only time they have had someone fall unconscious. Maybe I'll try L+4 rather than 5.

Plate +2 is worth 11 in Heroes of the Fallen Lands because it gives you a +9 armor bonus (as opposed to the +8 for ordinary plate armor) and the +2 enhancement bonus. They smoothed out the bonus curve of masterwork armor in this book, so that each plus of magic is also accompanied by an increase...

He has a 24 AC because I just gave him plate +2, which might have been a little dumb on my part if I'm annoyed by not being able to hit him. But I figured I'd give him some toys to help him do his job even better. You're right, though; I should be more bold about having my monsters let the...