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I had good success using Obsidian skill challenge system. Also I found that players choosing just from a menu of skills dont really add anything interesting. Could be my group just didn't get skill challenges. I might try a scene framing one and pick skills depending on their narrative...

Read through the thread mentioned earlier: https://www.enworld.org/threads/pemertonian-scene-framing-a-good-approach-to-d-d-4e.333786/ One I'd missed at the time. I'm half way through and its got some densely packed language but really good advice on a playstyle that 4e excels at. Apart from a...

From what I know of HD from 5e I think Healing surges are more straight forward. Thanks. It was fun writing them I literially wrote and submitted them the day before. I do think rituals need a lower bar to entry and really need to be incorporated into the exploration phase by DMs. Its easy...

I got one ritual published in that book and got $6 for it. My only writing credit ever I'm afraid.

That can be an issue, but its been internet inflated. Mostly it boils down to players himming and hawing on their turn. There is a bit to choose from. However its not unlike mid-level 3e. My players are just damn slow at every game. Were playing Trail of Cthulhu right now and they are still sooo...

I love bullywugs in 4e. They're so corrupt the change their enviroment and the primal spirits hate them. 4e did such a good job of setting up conflicts. Theres a side quest in Reavers of Harkenwold involving Bullywugs, in fact that whole adventure was probably my best run 4e module. Its great...

Dear jebus, I feel like I've timeportalled back a decade. The same disccussions, so weird. If 5.5 turned into a 4.5 it could make me buy it. 5e has unerwelmed me in so many ways I've just ran other things or 4e. EDIT: Just to be clear that there are things I've wanted fixed in 4e, like...

Sadly my 4e Hexcrawl fizzled. In part because of my hexcrawling skills - first time and second because it was run remote on Roll20. We've moved to the rules lighter Trail of Cthulhu and Masks of Nyarlathotep. I would like to try it again. 4e is quite decent for the prep and running of a...

I'm using your system to fill out some hexes for a crawl. Still using 4e. Just wondering what you use the Baron type for as a lair? I've rolled a human outlaw, Oni and human baron lair all within about two/three hexes of each other. So some interesting dynamics there, obviously they are...

Brill, thanks for the update. Its great to hear Dhalia is still running amok. Sounds like its into the Epic tier now with some Spelljammer into the mix. If I read the thread right the reaction system gave a skill challenge amount - I assume to resolve the conflict - like 8 success for hostile...

I'm hoping to restart my 4e game soon and pull a lot from Fiction First into it. So I'd be interested in this. My own games I've fiddled around the edges keeping the player facing stuff as vanilla as possible to avoid a headache for me.

THREAD NECRO!! I've been reading through the thread - at the half way point - and I skipped a head. Very interested in how the campaign above went? I'm still running 4e myself and have made a few changes similar to yours ad hoc; not nearly as interesting mostly around extended rests (not...

I'm running a Nentir Vale campaign at the moment. Just started Cairn of the Winter King, previously ran Reavers of the Harkenwold and the Slaying Stone. I do some similar houserules: - 1d4 surges recovered in safe locations while adventuring. Otherwise nothing. - 8 actions points when they...

Just to give a quick update. My Nentir Vale campaign is still ongoing. Its a mishmash of the best of that settings adventures. Nearly finished Reavers of the Harkonwold. My PCs are sneaking in the Iron Keep after helping to defeat the Iron Circle's army at Albridge. It was a great opportunely...

I've learned to take all the 4e adventures as just frameworks to hang my own stuff on. I've never found them very satisfactory as adventures. Just not enough of the quirky stuff, as you mentioned, they add a certain realism and interest to the adventure. And encourage the PCs to solve problems...

I steer people away from powers that are just about forced movement as they are less useful without exact positioning. I get players casting/using AOE powers to roll d4/d6 to see how many enemies they catch in the burst/blast. I also design my encounters with it in mind so all terrain and traps...

I'm still playing (semi) weekly D&D 4e game. I've dabbled in the 5e playtests and it just didn't grab me, it felt like too much of a backstep to 3e for me. I run 4e a little unusually; completely TotM. It runs fantastic for us. I can run a full on combat usually in 20/30mins. Our campaign is...

There is a lot of overlap between Dwarf Fortress - the sim game - and RPGs, but I came across this page on the wiki and thought it might be of use to some DMs out there: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Personality_trait It lists the different personality traits of the randomly...

My Googlefu says there are kobolds on Krynn.

ARISE!!! Anyone tried this yet? I've never run anything in Dragonlance and thought this might be a great adventure to fix and place in Dragonlance. It would be my players first intro to Dragonlance any tips on what high notes to hit with the setting? What published material would I need to...