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The example art for the Monster Vault is nice, I especially like the minotaur (bronze golem maybe?) and the eye in the tower (awesome). The artwork for the peryton actually makes that monster look scary and evil, unlike the 1e MM version, where it just looks like taxidermy gone wrong.

Haha every time I think about statting up Asmodeus for 4e (mainly for kicks), I think about what his ruby rod should do, and that pretty much makes me break down laughing, and I have to go do something else.

Did you use the Reaper Figure Finder? How about these: Reaper Miniatures :: FigureFinder Reaper Miniatures :: FigureFinder Reaper Miniatures :: FigureFinder Reaper Miniatures :: FigureFinder Reaper Miniatures :: FigureFinder Reaper Miniatures :: FigureFinder I also like Rackham's...

If you want to play a divinely-powered dragonborn battle leader, why not a runepriest? If you play a wrathful hammer runepriest, you would get the following: Str-based powers Proficiency in military hammers (including that maul) Scale armor proficiency (better than clerics) With the ability...

I really like the name "Empirical Prison." Another thing you could do is actually have the PCs succeed -- but their success gives the bad guy just the advantage he needs to gain more power and frame the PCs. In essence, the PCs are working for the bad guy. It might also be nice to very...

Keep in mind that Gamma World has no ability score increases, while standard 4e does. So if you go with adding character level, the PCs will eventually outpace equal level monsters in terms of attacks and defenses because they ability scores improve. But I like the simplicity of adding your...

It was called Trouble in Freesboro, I think.

Not a whole lot. There are already feats and a background that do similar things. It will certainly let players allocate their ability scores more effectively, and obviously favors only classes that use Intelligence or Wisdom. Classes that use neither potentially get zero benefit out of this...

The Choker of Eloquence (neck slot) gives you an item bonus to Bluff and Diplomacy checks equal to its enhancement bonus. A level 13 Choker of Eloquence is +3, so that's not a bad bump. Alternatively, a Peacemaker's Periapt gives an item bonus to Diplomacy checks equal to its enhancement...

I like the landscape format. I like to peer furtively over my DM screens, and now I can actually see things that are closer by.

I played a lot of 3.x, including Arcana Unearthed/Evolved (a variant PHB from Monte Cook), and a little bit of Pathfinder. I didn't find much difference among the 3 (3.x, AU/AE, and PF). They have the same advantages and flaws -- Pathfinder changed 3.5e in the details, treating symptoms rather...

I think the 4e engine would rock for a supers game. You could either go class-based, which is probably not the preference for the supers genre, or go point-based, which would blow the balance of 4e out of the water, but the framework of powers, feats, skills and things like themes, paragon...

I might also consider going fighter, since they are stickier than wardens and do more damage.

Marcus Ten-Guns -- I had a shifter rogue/bounty hunter named Marcus Ten-Claws in a short-lived Eberron PbP game, and Santiago seems like a pretty good setting to revive that particular character concept.

When I DMed 3.x, I just had the group level up are irregular intervals, usually corresponding to story events, or just the desire to have them face bigger and badder challenges. In 4e, I use the XP system to roughly balance encounters, but otherwise I stick to a "level when the story demands"...

I am unclear why this would be the case: It seems that, so long as my off-hand is free and my primary hand is wielding a weapon, I get the AC and Fortitude bonus. At least, that is how I read it.

Actually, I had another question about the gauntlet axe. I was thinking of having my mul brawling fighter wear two of those. Since many of the brawling fighter powers require a hand free and start grabs, I was thinking that I could use a power, grab one target, and then use another power the...

Karrnath might have potential. There is inherited rule (the nation is currently ruled by King Kaius III), the military uses necromancy to animate the dead to fight for the nation (though most people are not suspicious of magic, the use of necromancy plus the Blood of Vol adds a darker edge to...

Having only played Warcraft 2 and 3 a long time ago, and never played WoW, what are Warcraft trolls like? In D&D, trolls are large, violent, evil, and regenerate like nobody's business. Most of these characteristics do not mesh particularly well with PCs. The way I see it, you have two...

Let me post a couple examples of auras I am trying to craft. One seems to function a lot like standard warlord at-will attack powers or the at-will stances we see for the knight and slayer, the other does not. Stirring Words At-Will * Aura, Martial Minor Action Personal Effect: You...