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To echo what was said by some previous posters, if characters are dying and have not been stablized, I don't end tracking rounds. I keep going through rounds and having people roll death saves until everyone is either stabilized or get the three strikes. You get your healing surges and...

Beat me to it! There is indeed, and it is from the Scepter Tower of Spellguard. My players toasted him rather easily though, but were really creeped out by the encounter. I also allowed the person who suffered the blood drain ability to take the Dhamphyer feat when she leveled. The levels are...

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Great start to season 3! They love to end episodes on cliff hangers, "alright everyone roll perception checks"

I think you made a fundamental misreading of David's point. He's not talking about the existence of the Cleric as a class, but the idea of a "healer". The idea of a cleric would have been a lightly armored mace swinging religious warrior. A religious worshiper and "guardian of alignment"...

The same reason they "blew up" the Realms, to create space. The idea is that, here is a book for players, here is a book for DM's, and an adventure. The rest is up to you. You are free to create whatever you want, drop whatever elements you want, and create your own stories. You are no longer...

I actually REALLY liked this article and wished we got all the charts and tables they referenced. I'm planning on introducing a "companion" character into my game TOMORROW. The players are going to rescue some captured slaves from their old village that has been sacked. However, amoung the...

Looks like we got an "official" answers via Twitter:

The revised DS box set did more to ruin Dark Sun than 4e FR did to ruin the Realms. The fact that they recognize it and are retconing it out is fantastic. I'm a Dark Sun fan, and I'm excited about this announcement.

I think instead of immediately jumping on the WoTC is EVIL AND WRONG! bandwagon, let's look at this from a different point of view. They have provided a kit full of their images, artwork, logos and branding. They say, look, some people want to put D&D fansites together, and they would like to...

Did you print out this entire thread and then read it? Just wondering. I was slightly irrated when I first saw it because OMGWTFBBQ CHANGE IS BAD! Then I just clicked the links of powers and hit the back button and read on. It looks out pretty well. I'm using firefox, does IE handle this...

I believe you can use both. However, Fey Step is an encounter, so you can't do it on every enemy you kill, just one.

Well, I think one thing about WotC 4E "bloat" is that it's organized bloat. In 3E, you could have a player come and sit down at your table and all of a sudden their cleric casts something ridiculous that happens to be in some random Underdark source book. In 4E, you know his powers are going to...

I wonder if this race isn't OMGWTFBBQ!?!?! powered, because it is DDI exclusive and not in published books. They probably decided to be conservative on this race's mechanics so people don't start the bitching and moaning about how subscribers get over powered races and what not. I think the...

Well, this might be a surprise to some, but people on the internet like to argue. Second to that, people on the internet LOVE to prove that they are "cooler", "hipper", "more with it", "more indie", and "more hardcore" than everyone else on a forum. So, you'll find it anywhere with almost...

I think it all depends on the player and the game. Now, you mentioned how YOU would be upset, but you didn't mention how the player who got mutated felt. You said it was a surprise to him, but you didn't tell us his (or her) reaction. It could possibly be that the DM of this game knew that the...

For Bloodied, I've been using small red glass beads (they are actually really old White Wolf branded blood counters from the Vampire card game). I drop them in the mini's space for bloodied. For other conditions, I took the idea I saw on Penny-Arcade of using flags. With photoshop I made some...

0/7. We are in the heroic teir, and I suggested it to everyone. People just found other stuff that they liked better. *shrug*

I really liked this article. The cover art was great, and the advice was pretty good. It wasn't that the advice was some new never thought up advice, but it was a good solid reminder of things. It also doesn't advocate "THIS IS THE WAY TO DO IT" it looks at a subtle, blunt, and balanced...

One thing to remember as well is that "saves" have been off loaded into the defenses (Fortitude, Reflex, Will), which a spell an attack requiring a d20 roll. In 4E saving throws are just a 50/50 duration check for a condition as opposed to a saving throw in the "traditional" sense. The idea is...