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  1. Siberys

    WotBS Zeitgeist Portrait Pack, Meanwhile in the News

    It looks to be the art from this. I don't know what the art is in that package, but that one shown on that page /looked/ to have been from WotBS, and it was one of the pictures in the ZIP file. I seem to recall it, anyways, and none of the art in the package I downloaded was Zeitgeist stuff, so...
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    WotBS Zeitgeist Portrait Pack, Meanwhile in the News

    Morrus RangerWickett (I didn't know which of you this would most concern, so I figured I'd tag you both.) 1) The Portrait Pack on DTRPG has a mistake in it - it's only got WotBS art! Now, I'd already gotten the Zeitgeist art and was redownloading to see if the portraits from Cauldron-Born were...
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    4th edition, The fantastic game that everyone hated.

    [[Double post, sorry. I keep getting timeout errors.]]
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    4th edition, The fantastic game that everyone hated.

    I think it's implicit that what the PCs are facing is assumed to be dramatically appropriate for their level. Besides which, doesn't the fact that it's called out as a "rule of thumb" count for anything? We're talking a trivial connection of concept A (how difficult is this thing the PCs are...
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    4th edition, The fantastic game that everyone hated.

    Derren; Skill DCs /aren't/ scaled per PC level in 4e, though. There is a chart that shows what constitutes an easy, medium, hard, or very hard skill check, but that's primarily to help the GM gauge the DCs he's presenting to the players. In my games, a wooden door (for example) would likely...
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    Smuggler Encounter Question

    I was referring specifically to if the PCs waited until the Silvo was very far from the Grifoni. I'll go with the 'heads to public dock' option if it comes up, with the crew grabbing all but one crate's worth of wands before running off.
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    Smuggler Encounter Question

    In the encounter "The Meet-Up", what are the allies the Silvo is running toward if it's heading to the Wharf? Unless I'm reading something wrong, wouldn't there only be a couple Bravuras back there?
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    Options for Tabletizing

    I use two apps during play; DMTools on my old iPhone 3GS for tracking combat, and Battle Mat on my iPad for minis and maps. It takes a bit to set up and to add status effects to DMTools, but it looks great, and I have my player's current status WRT HP, conditions, powers used, &c. right there at...
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    Defenders of Midgard Out Now for 4th Edition

    I would like to note it's /not/ houseruling to allow a mage to select a PP other than Enigmatic Mage, as that review seems to be implying; that's explicitly allowed by the rules.
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    Defenders of Midgard Out Now for 4th Edition

    The Enigmatic Mage is the Mage Paragon Path in Heroes of the Fallen Lands; each Mage School gives that PP a unique action point feature at level 11, and three unique powers for levels 11, 12, and 20; for an example, see the Enchantment School, on page 238 of HotFL. A mage doesn't need to take...
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    Defenders of Midgard Out Now for 4th Edition

    Quick review after a pass through last night - I like it, though it seems a little bare. I wish the siege mage wasn't so conditional, and I'd hoped the gearforged racial stats would be included, but otherwise it seems good. I especially like the Mage schools. EDIT: ...Except that they neglected...
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    D&D 4E New Year, New 4e

    I'd look to Gamma World for structuring the gaining of abilities, and redesign to remove fiddly bonuses, perhaps with a saga-like or Savage-worlds-like condition track mechanic. Basically, what I'd do if I were designing a fantasy heartbreaker is make a 4e supplement that made theme, class, and...
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    The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey reactions (SPOILERS)

    The movie made me realize that I'd had Beorn and Radagast conflated for a very, very long time. :|
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    Dragon 418 is out!

    Not quite; it was partway into 4e's online-magazine run that they did the player/GM split. There were several monster articles in Dragon all through Paizo's run, and even into the online era. Personally, I prefer player material and setting fluff (like the Eye On) articles to be in Dragon, with...
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    Research and Combat Group 5B

    I've updated the OP. My PC's particular course of action necessitated some winging on my part - I get the feeling it was assumed the PCs wouldn't go along with the handoff plan, but Asrabey's evident skill had the PCs cautious. As an aside, prepping for The Dying Skyseer has been noticeably...
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    Research and Combat Group 5B

    It's just too juicy... Then they hit the Gillie Dhu. Heh heh heh.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Too many cooks (a DnDN retrospective)

    Just popping this in to say I'm disappointed Eberron seems to be continually bagged as 'robot world' - it is so much /more/. Warforged play a relatively minor role in the setting, and for that matter they're not robots, they're golems. You'd have a hard time selling me on a version of D&D that...
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    Research and Combat Group 5B

    I've updated the NPC Dossier, included a link for last session's report, and created a basic Zeitgeist page with the Trailer and links to important Zeitgeist info (in case my players forget or some third party is interested). I've also inserted quoted versions of each session report and the PC...
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    A Problem with Fey

    I posted this in the comments on the article, but I'd like to drop them here also. In other words, it looks to me like Jon is trying to create a problem where there isn't one. My internal image of these fey creatures are the pictures from the 3.5 Monster Manual, which pretty much use these...
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    Research and Combat Group 5B

    The NPC Roster was updated based on last weekend's events. I've also added Episode 2 to the OP. We covered a lot of ground last game; ran the whole Coaltongue fight and denouement, "figured out" the puzzle, roleplayed quite a bit, and got to the walls of the fortress. I think the players were...
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