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Each combat encounter occupies one to four pages (four is rare; two is most common) depending on several factors including complexity and the length of the stat blocks involved. Some encounters just refuse to fit in two pages, and some encounters simply don't occupy two pages. DMs familiar with...

It includes the new map Steve posted and so is marked "Revision 0.5" (no other substantive errata corrections). I'll see if I can update the color versions by the end of the week.

New-fangled gewgaws; sounds fancy. I'm convinced. Greyscale PDF is landing in Russ's inbox shortly.

I can whip one up if there is serious demand for it. It's entirely my fault -- it doesn't exist yet, so it wasn't in the finished package I delivered to Russ. Mind you, I've had the same thought in the past regarding printing the color version on a greyscale printer or set to greyscale through...

Much will depend on whether psionics makes it into the SRD....

Would you believe it's so dreamy and shroudy that it actually escapes notice? ... Okay, it's a goof. Sorry about that. Here's the relevant text:

Based on how I choose fonts, and the fonts I've chosen for projects I've completed, I recommend: 1) Pick a serif you like that has enough variations (at a minimum, regular, bold, and italic, but I find a bold-italic useful from time to time) and use that for the body text. I always stay away...

Ravenloft appears to have been diced up and planted piecemeal in the Shadowfell. Which is not a bad place for it, frankly, especially considering the Ethereal Plane has disappeared.

I understand what you're saying, but I'm still of the opinion that the whole thing is not destined to be very productive. I'm willing to be proven wrong, of course. Regarding point (1), I'm inclined to doubt that taking a batch of characteristics which some attribute to older versions of D&D...

As I implied in one of the other threads, I think the "old school" label is, in the end, personal to the person applying the label and can't usefully be constrained to mean any one thing.

AFAICT, "old school" seems to most reliably mean "reminiscent of the game (or the same game) I was playing when I was younger." Sometimes it seems to mean "reminiscent of a game (or the game itself) that isn't being published anymore." For my money, anything (originally) published before I...

The way I understand it, passive Perception (et al.) works all the time. That is, if Tordek (whose passive Perception score is 10) is out smelling flowers, and something happens nearby that has a Perception DC of 10, Tordek notices it. Period, end of story. I take it as a basic assumption of 4E...

It's as official as it gets. As far as updating the PDF, I'll get around to it as soon as I can. Adventure Three will be out prior to any Adventure Two update though.

Trying to avoid spoilers, there's certainly an Iron Heroes-style metaplot here: there's evil magic afoot and the fate of the world depends on the muscle and grit of the heroes and their erstwhile, gutsy allies. I think you've already identified the two most important things to consider are...

Cause it's huge (as you may have heard)! ;)

A small outbuilding. (A one-shot using the Four-Color to Fantasy rules.)

Well, gripes aside, as a relative thing I would say the 4E layouts* aren't "bad." I've seen "bad." These aren't "bad." Long story short, while there's some choices there I wish had been made differently, and some techniques I wish had been executed differently, I deny thinking of the books as...

Nailed it in one! This encapsulates my general impression of the 4E books almost exactly.

This being an opinion-based thread, and I having a strong opinion of my own, it's time to make public Marius's List of 4E Layout Nitpicks. There's a really good design here, it just needs loads of refinement. Had I but world enough, and time.... :) Ugly, huge fonts. This is the first time...

Well, nightmares, for starters, as they are mounts and can teleport.