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I really like the "triggers" idea someone had — a quick reference list of "remember that if this happens, you can do this".

I'm not talking about forcing players into a linear, railroading story. I mean that you should think about your NPCs as characters (in the non-D&D sense), your plots as stories, and the agendas as activities of the people in the world. Don't think of the NPCs as a collection of stats and the...

some comments Layers apparently don't work in Evince on Linux. (Or xpdf.) Acrobat is available, but it is kinda glitchy in its own special ways. It'd be nice to have a non-layered version available too. Right now, the only thing this really affects is the colors (at will/encounter) for the...

They're minions because they're credible threats for the encounter, not credible threats because they're minions. That is, the game isn't about setting up a clockwork world which the characters crash around in. Instead, set up a story (which may indeed involve a big-picture world), and use the...

I need to be able to vote twice, really. I left my order with Amazon, but also went to Pandemonium and picked up a copy of the PHB. Looked like they were doing pretty good business for a 90°+ Saturday afternoon. I figure since I'm the one pushing 4E heavily in my gaming group, won't hurt for me...

Either that breaks the "credible threat" restriction, or else it's not really a problem. Sure, have 100 encounters a day if that's what you really want. There's a certain number of people slain ("one", in most cases) where your ability to be stealthy and do the same thing over and over is...

Ooh, glad to hear it. I love your 3/3.5 sheets.

Right, but it seems like Amazon could have figured that out before the release date — isn't that the point of pre-orders? And it's not like it's some niche thing that they might not have noticed — if something is #2 top seller in all books, it seems like it'd be someone's job to be making sure...

Done! It's the gnome. HTH.

So, the big thing is that as the game stands now, no race has stat bonuses which synergize perfectly with any of the classes. Changing the bonuses to free-floating will be equivalent to an increase in power. If your goal is precisely to allow that synergy more easily, changing the races to one...

I understand that 4E doesn't want to create the ranger-rogue multiclass=heaven / cleric-wizard multiclass=hell situation one finds in 3.5, but still, it'd be nice if multiclassing wizard and illusionist was easier than multiclassing non-arcane-caster and illusionist.

Maybe. I think the primary effect of this rule would be: players who happen to have classes where int is important will get to do more interesting non-combat stuff than the rest. Why does the wizard get to have hobbies and a day job and play the piano, while the rogue gets nothin'?

minion/follower section Are there any rules to support this? It seems like a lot of wasted space....

Except for Dragonborn. And perhaps something else?

This might be where the power source types might come in useful.

Nah, keep it clean. Some color wouldn't hurt, though.

Do you have a table made up for the "Finder" items, or do you just do it on the fly? What's the curve for gp value?

wait, so... Of all the elements of D&D, this is the thing which breaks your abiltiy to suspend disbelief?

So, for our first session, I'm going to try some of this, and I'm also going to do the exact opposite: run an encounter with the battle grid behind the DM screen, and have players work entirely by description. They tell me how they want to move, I move their mini to match. I move the monsters...

Sure, of course the decision was made for game balance. But the point is it's not so far from plausible as to physically require breaking suspension of belief if you're in the least bit willing to work with it. Where, where, and where?