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While I agree with you that mechanical viability shouldn't necessarily be the goal, I think this is still a key point in the possible character concepts discussion. If a concept is possible, but mechanically a lot weaker than other concepts, it often becomes frustrating to play this concept...

We usually create a list of all the characters and monsters and write it on the battlemat together with their iniatives. Behind their names we put down bloodied markers when necessary or write any other conditions they are currently undergoing. As a DM I have somebody else keep track of this...

I think I would sriously walk out on a game where the DM decided that I could not play any female PCs... I actually have this idea for an infernal pact warlock half elf, who had to give up her first born as part of the pact and after that had a chance of heart about getting all this power and...

I made it 1 hour, but then I don't do a lot of random combat encounters in my games. I have a 1 or 2 plot related, important combat encounters per session usually and so I make them last longer...

While I like the levelless skill system of the Storyteller system with its unified mechanic for simply every roll from hacking a pc to attacking to convincing somebody you're really a cop, I really like the balance and tactical options of 4e. However, mixing the two seems impossible, because as...

This. Many many times this. I've tried to come up with a way to do this, but it's bloody hard.

I've only done it in 3e and although it could be fun sometimes, most often it just became terribly frustrating. Yes, things were epic, but the combats lasting for hours, the broken disparity between AC and AB, spell DC's and Saving Throws and many more problems just made for a game that wasn't...

What I like most about defenses/saving throws 4e style is that the dice are rolled by the people taking the action. When casting a spell/using a power, it's the attacker that is acting and thus (s)he rolls, not the target. With a saving throw in 4e, it's to end an ongoing effect and thus the...

Then again I don't know how much new stuff you should expect from the Martial Power book. More powers, feats and builds is what I am expecting and though they will not be world shattering, they will simply be needed for some much needed diversity in 4e character design...

In no particular order of preference: - D&D 4E - nWoD (Changeling and Werewolf if I had to chose specific lines and a bunch of the mortals books) - Earthdawn - Shadowrun (haven't played in a long time, can't remember which version we played, but we had fun)

Well, the idea is to do a new setting every year, right? So that's 3 books and I don't think they'll run out of settings soon... With a new PHB every year introducing new classes and power sources there will also be options for new power source books, I guess. So that's 2 or 3 books... With that...

I kind of recognize the OP's point, because I too feel that we are less in character during combat and busier with tactical combat. However we enjoy the tactical combat way more than the 3e combat (which didn't have much description in oru games either anyway) and we are also still learning all...

Whereas in 12 4e sessions our group is casualty free, in contrast to 1 death per 3 or 4 sessions back in 3.5e... It just depend way too much on player/DM style to make a meaningful relation between edition and mortality...

I haven't seen a problem so far with the warlocks. The one in our party is pretty kick ass. The warlord doesn't seem to be all that though. It is too dependant on the presence of other characters adjacent to him, but I hope martial power will correct some of that by giving the warlord some...

True, but while every player probably has the PHB, not everybody has the FR campaign book or downloaded the play test characters (or has a DM that allows them, I don't for example). Plus, these characters came at a time when many people already had a character up and running in their game...

Considering strikers are also the most numerous class role so far with 3 of them in existence vs 2 or 1 of the others, it is nto strange it is the most picked class role. Also the strikers are the ones with the highest damage output, especially the ranger and it's just nice to be able to deal...

Definitely the sheet. I made an Excel sheet that automatically updates all skills and defenses and such to level and has an extra page with space for powers with drop down menus for keywords. Allows me to fill in pretty much every power with indeed a few exceptions like flaming sphere, but I'll...

I have my bad points as a DM certainly. I try to railroad the party too much sometimes a little too obviously and they resent feeling forced that way. I'm horrible with giving people equal time when there is a party split, because I always go with the stuff I expected them to do first and do the...

Quoted for truth and I absolutely love it. It's great both as DM and as player of a cleric to see how inetereste deverybody is in ther actions of the other players to make sure they everybody gets the most out of their powers and such... It also warmed me a lot to the leader type characters...

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