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Greetings, first, let me apologize if I failed to find any threads that alread answer the questions I'm about to ask. I googled enworld with as many relevant combinations of words I could think of and didn't find anything perfect. If all you do is provide me a link to a thread that answered...

By necessity, a good game designer should have to play all editions to understand what's better and worse about the edition they make their living on. Every new mechanic played is an opportunity to learn. most of us only have time/money for one edition or the other or have subtle preferences...

A few people mentioned the odd-ness of a levl 30 linkboy. Do keep in mind that the article mentioned specifically that paragon and epic are extremely rare people. Imagine wise hermits or ancient martial arts masters secluded high in the mountain tops. The pay is likely only a small part of...

I loved the henchman and hirelings article. It does a great job of balancing the desire for more simulationist aspects of gameplay while still trying to keep things at a level of 4e complexity. It has done a good job of calming some of the angst I've had about march's article release rate. My...

So... to summarize the original post: Assign more man hours to develop each product, assign man hours to developing new ways to consume the product based only on the original purchase, and branch out into several highly risky, tangential markets with already niche IP to sell new kinds of...

it also helps as a sanity check to make sure you're not crazy in what you're doing. obviously he was trying to keep it simple, but i would have added that if you're moving more than 7 levels away (which the original DMG discourages) to take a look at the status effects the monster imposes as...

I recommend gutting the Living forgotten realms guidelines, but for use in your own campaign. If you read the guidelines on creating LFR adventures, you can get an idea for how LFR handles things in it's system, where players within a 4 level wide band can journey together. Of course, the item...

I'm pretty excited about this book, but then I was excited about the books that got canned as well. I think there's some legitimate concern from the anti-essentials folks. My group is not anti-essentials per-se but we have been going in this campaign for longer than the existence of...

the fortune cards don't appeal to me, they don't seem interesting or worth the complexity. on the other hand, the gloom deck or whatever it's called from the shadowfel boxed set sounds great to me, i would buy boosters of that. i'm also intrigued by the deck of many things they're promising for...

My players are on hiatus, i needs me some D&D. the last session ended on a really high note though, which was a fitting sendoff for two of my players who finally got into grad school and won't be coming back. I'm nearly done running H3 pyramid of shadows, but i thought it was dumb for a mere...

There's really no need to defect, you can have both. maybe you can't play in a campaign with both at the same time, but you could do both. I probably wouldn't DM pathfinder, even though some of the things they've done with 3.x intrigue me as a player, it's just too damn easy to prep 4e compared...

yes, I was sharing some of my failures with the thread. I've found with skill challenges you have to do a lot of different things and see what works. Also I have a ton of gamist players so i suspect that a sufficiently elaborate attempt at a carefully woven and multithreaded story runs the...

I started a campaign back in august of 2009 at level 1 with 3 players. We have since gained 5 players and lost 2, leaving us at 6, over the course of just over a year. The players have just hit level 10. my original plan was to just run all the modules: H1-H3, P1-P3, E1-E3. This changed...

my players almost immediately took feats from essentials when I made it available. I also plan on using the monster vault in tandem with MM1-MM3 when i start making my own encounters (i primarily run mods because i'm lazy). In terms of rules changes, we are picking and choosing, specifically...

interestingly, it's just XML underneath the various character builders, but any kind of attempt at a solution to integrate to the CB is likely to expose 3pp to the risk of piracy, which is no bueno.

i find this funny more as someone who has been a producer of internal webpages with those kinds of issues. much as i grumbled when the CB kept crashing on launch day, silverlight is hardly outdated and microsoft is a lot less likely to go out of business than macromedia. but i definitely see the...

I have fallen into this trap, specifically with regards to navigating the wilderness, of underdescribing it and leaning too heavily on "This is how many successes you have, this is how many failures". if you're a DM trying to do any kind of extended skill challenge, you want to make sure you...

I make it a point to try to integrate skills into the game as much as possible, even outside the realm of skill challenges. This sometimes ends up devolving into somewhat gamist situations, but it helps the skills feel relevant. For example, my home party has many high arcana checks so i let...

I actually think a more effective 3rd party monster publication would be a book with an accompanying box of cards with monster stats, that way i can easily build encounters on the fly without having to resort to photocopying or flipping pages, but that might be a tough thing to budget with 3rd...

they either need to make a "player level" or some sort of premium level where i can share with my friends short of completely duplicating a subscription. So many D&D games are built on the fact that different people are willing/able to make different levels of monetary investment in the game...