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Let us consider the humble owlbear, and how smart one is. As far as I can tell from the Monster Manual, there's two entirely different interpretations: 1. The owlbear has an Int of 2! They're dumb! Seriously, owls are not that smart, and bears are not all that smart, and together, they...

Which treasure parcel did you use for this? Cheers, Roger

It's not 3E or OGL, but there's a Traveller: New Era supplement called "World Tamer's Handbook" that covers this topic really well. Cheers, Roger

Some of the monster races in the back of the MM look a bit crazy, but the book itself pretty much tells you to allow them at your own risk. Cheers, Roger

It'd be fine. It might work better in 4E than in some of the earlier editions, in that there are no minimum stat requirements for any of the classes or races. Cheers, Roger

An excellent question! I've been thinking about skill challenges for a while now. You've got a strong initial idea: players fleeing from an erupting volcano. Now it's a matter of growing that seed. A useful starting point is that old rule of thumb: The purpose of a role-playing game is to...

I'd probably go with Thievery, but the other suggestions also seem fine. Cheers, Roger

1. Bagpuss -- thanks! 2. Thread hijackers -- boo! 3. A heads-up: Looks like a lot a bit of Martial Power has already made it into the DDI Compendium (mostly ranger/beastmaster things.) Cheers, Roger

I might be tempted to use the following items from Adventurer's Vault: Bridle of Conjuration (level 4) (AV pg 169) Phantom Soldier (level 7) (AV pg 175) Cold Iron Weapon +2 (level 8) (AV pg 66) -- whatever weapon would be most useful to your party. To close the gate, use the Bridle to...

Feats that give powers can be a little dicey. I'd be inclined to make it count as a multiclassing feat. On the other hand, a half-human half-drow half-dragonborn might be fun. Cheers, Roger

Please post submission guidelines (or something to the effect that you are not accepting unsolicited submissions) on your website when you have the chance, OBE. It'd warm my heart. Cheers, Roger

This is primarily a question for DMs. The deathlock wight has an encounter ability called Reanimate: a destroyed undead creature gets back up with 1/4 hit points. The boneshard skeleton has an ability called Boneshard Burst that happens when first bloodied and when reduced to 0 hit points...

Thanks for the comments, everyone. To move forward on this, I think it's just a matter of adventure writers making a note in their adventures that the quest-completers get the achievement. If players then want to make a note of it on their character sheet and/or bring it up in conversation...

Wow; yeah, that's quite the convergence of independent ideas, alright. Maybe I saw your thread earlier and just forgot about it somehow. It looked like some of the concerns were about bookkeeping and the mechanical elements; I think we should be able to set up a system that doesn't have any of...

This is sort of a random thought (I've been playing a lot of Spore lately) but I've been thinking lately about achievements. What I'm thinking of is that every adventure (or, more fundamentally, every major quest) would have associated with it an achievement that the PC would earn by...

Figuring out your encumbrance levels without an actual Str stat might be a bit more labourious than it needs to be. Cheers, Roger

I'd recommend you use "4th Ed as it is". The penalty to swimming and Endurance while wearing plate is -2. Full stop. If you're going to start house-ruling things to make heavy armors worse than the rules-as-written, of course there are going to be problems. Don't do that. Use "4th Ed as it...

I'd make it a swarm, absolutely. I might give it the Split ability that the Ochre Jelly has. While we're still in the Ooze section, the Engulf attack of the Gelatinous Cube might work. Or the similar Swallow attack of the Purple Worm (among others.) If I were feeling mean about things, I...

Points of Conflict #3 -- The Roadside Keep -- presents an abandoned keep near a crossroads that has been taken over by bandits. It is available for free download from: http://roger.carbol.com/rpg/4e/poc/poc.htm Points of Conflict is a series of complete, self-contained, ready-to-run...

Does it come in a box, like the 3E one? I've found the box really handy. Cheers, Roger