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They're custom built, and not particularly strong. I'm letting them rebuild from scratch now that we all have a better idea how the game plays. Thanks for all the tips :). Yeah at the moment I'm not sure I trust myself to construct fair and balanced encounters. And seriously, while I have had...

Thanks for that. I think my problem is that I am also entirely new to D&D :blush:... I tried to run the campaign based on the little 3-encounter adventure based on the starter kit because I thought it would be easier on me the first time without having to worry about what's the correct XP...

OK, this all makes sense. What if, in my campaign, the opposite is true? The party is captured and attempting to break out of prison. There are about 4 encounters to fight through. This is their first time playing D&D, so by encounter 2 they've blown all their dailies to stay alive. I let them...

Another quick question. When would a party choose to take a short rest over an extended rest? You get an extra AP every 2 encounters without an extended rest, but then you get your AP back if you extended rest anyway? Also, what does the once-every-12-hours limitation mean in real life terms...

Again, I think we've invested too much into the backstories to change that now. Making deals with "faerie powers" just doesn't sound as cool as with lovecraftian cosmic horrors. I'm not too concerned about the wizard actually, she was pretty pleased to have cleared a roomful of minions with a...

From what I read infernal warlocks should be CON based? And Tieflings get +2 CHA. And that's why for the starlock I gave her 14/16/18 con/int/cha (post racial)... and it really feels like it gimps her pact at-will, I'm really reluctant to houserule but she is my girlfriend... ;) As for wizards...

I agree with most of what you said, and thanks for the advice, but during our game the starlock (and this is a girl who hasn't even played RPG video games before) did ask, "Why does my character feel weaker than the others?" and pointed out how Dire Radiance is at +2 which looks a lot lower than...

We have a pretty weird party. Since we were all new to the game I made things simple for them and just asked them to pick a race/class they liked and pick one of the build templates that the PHB suggests. We ended up with: Orc Great Weapon Fighter (he really wanted to be an Orc, so I allowed...

Wow, I haven't even considered the necessity of items for the PCs yet. I think we're still struggling to get a grasp of the feats/powers! Thanks for the advice though, DDI for a month sounds like a good idea. We have a fighter as well, so I think the pally not being able to tank that...

Dang, of our five players, there is a warlock (star) and a paladin (cha-based). In what ways are they weak, and what's the simplest way to balance them? (ie. minimal purchase of rulebooks, etc).

Just a quick request for advice. I've recently started as a new DM with a party of 5 virgin D&D players (all of us had 0 D&D experience to begin with). We wanted to try the 4E starter kit adventure (I bemoaned its deficiencies on a separate thread already) but create our own characters. Due to...

That makes a lot of sense, thanks!! During that game I did not even know about the existence of "assist" or "ready" actions. It's certainly not mentioned in the quick-start rules... Oh well I've ordered the core rulebooks from amazon, ETA 1 month :( I have really tried to focus on the story...

Thanks for the replies so far! It's good to know there is hope (although we're kinda aiming for monthly sessions, so I probably won't see whether we're going to get better at it for a while yet...) So in the first combat round of our game the Fighter goes "OK I'm going to toss the Ranger at...

I just played my first ever game of D&D (4e) in my life. I was the DM, and all 5 PCs had never played before as well. I had fun and I think most of them did, but man it was painstakingly slow just trying to figure out how it all works!! And only afterwards did I realise I got half the rules...

Wow thanks for all the replies! I guess I'll try to describe the monsters well enough such that the players can get an idea about the strengths/weaknesses and let the players discover the abilities as they are used. All of my players are newcomers to D&D as well, and we're all feeling a bit...

Hi, I've recently gotten myself a copy of the D&D 4E starter pack. I've never played or DM'ed a game before and I'm planning to try out the short starter adventure in the pack with a few friends. I feel that the booklets provided are really short on the details of how an actual game runs! As...