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What I want is rules for keep management. Sure you can have story reasons for how you got it, but I want to know how to deal with the keep once you get it. One of my favorite 3e Supplement was "Powers of Faerun". Which dealt with getting positions in the church/court/thieves guild/etc. I love...

I like these a lot. I'd like to see your info on the first two. Dragon had a ritual article in November with various low level rituals that had Healing Surge costs. It either greatly reduced the cost, or just replaced the cost for some.

I don't understand how this is different. A setting that reacts/changes based on PC action is, imo, just good DMing.

Agree with D'karr - lack of a controller just means that minions are more threatening and swarms are very dangerous. A well built controller typically throws around lots of conditions; without one, your monsters won't be as bogged down. Let's discuss monsters and combat. For the most part, this...

There's a local con in Chattanooga, TN and I'm just wondering if anyone will be there. The only real interesting thing to me is the Revolution tournament. But if any ENWorlders are going (and planning to run con games), that might give me a large enough incentive to go.

I think it's unwise to play multiple characters, especially when it's just you and one person, especially if you're having a DMPC. Particularly if you're going to not go with Essentials classes, as they have fewer choices. If you're that strapped for a group, you might want to consider gaming...

The last time I ran a game, I removed ability scores from the to-hit formula (all attacks are 5 + bonus). The problem was that it still didn't address expertise/other feats/bla. And I despise feat taxes. There are multiple issues I wanted to address: 1) It's almost a system necessity to pump...

Or you could just donate to the fund. :) Buying a new copy makes for a great gift to a gamer friend.

If you're financially capable, run them both and compare. Anyways, there are multiple threads about speeding up combat. A famous tutorial here on the boards is Stalker0''s guide to Anti-Grind, and another is a recent thread about halving hit points. Although I don't know if Stalker0's guide...

This has been my experience with 3.5 vs. 4e. Even with low level combats. Even with people mainly just attacking normally, in 3.5 each round was just longer.

I think that it won't just be what was present in every edition, but also "When someone says D&D, these are the things you think about". So likely: +1 Swords (Mearls had said when 4e was being designed that "Everyone knows what a +1 sword is and we weren't going to take that out")...

Or they could have also asked other people what they felt was D&D's core elements. :p

Did anyone recognize it as D&D terms? I mean did you hit any gamers.

Does Set 2 have a lot of setting info?

1) Monsters have more HP. The lowest amount of HP for a 1st level monster is 24 HP (unless we're talking minions, which have 1 HP). Players also have more starting HP (your standard 1st level wizard will likely have 24-27 HP). 2) Some monsters have higher saving throws. 3) Classes are more...

It also depends on how fast the player makes decisions. You have the types who have their actions planned out before it's even their turn, and then you have people who haven't thought about it at all until their turn comes up, and they are indecisive as to what to do.

Are you Dming or playing? Also it varies by character complexity. A PHB2 Barbarian vs. an Essentials Slayer. One is, well, much faster.

My question is, why are you asking about PF in the 4e forum? You're less likely to have people who played both. Ask how PF plays in the PF forum. :) Ask how long their combats are and how often minis/grids are used. I haven't played PF. But I know that PF is just a tweaked 3.5. In 3.5...

What Rune said. Nothing wrong with it, and limiting XP is likely going to make things worse. Honestly, I often don't even bother with XP. I say "You level when it's story appropriate/I feel like it", and the only people who object are those that love tracking XP. The only thing I will say is...

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