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We're recording an episode of the Tome Show right now, and you can listen in via Mixlr. One lucky listener who turns in during the recording will win a copy of the book we're reviewing, Heroes of the Feywild. Come on and listen! Squach - Live Broadcast - Mixlr

Social situations are role-playing situations at my table. If things get to the point that the players are trying something that might fail (persuading someone, lying to someone, trying to figure out if someone is lying to them, etc.) then I'll ask for a die roll after they describe what they're...

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A bard could function in several ways without a songbow: - Using a songblade instead of a songbow, avoiding ranged weapon powers - Using only weapon powers, no implement powers - Being a skald and taking the powers focused on melee basic attacks - Collect both bows and wands If you have a bard...

I voted for the "limited circumstances" option. I put my views on this issue together in detail in this post quite recently. Basically, if a player does some awesome role playing, then I'll give them a bonus or potentially success without needing to roll dice (if it's really impressive). If a...

Here's another request from an Android user!

I agree that the Fey Beast Tamer is really good. I was surprised in reading it how similar it was to the "pet" that the beastmaster ranger gets. Now any class can have it on top of their normal class features - pretty strong! Maybe I should make a shifter beastmaster ranger or sentinel druid...

Admittedly, I've only flipped through my copy of MME so far, but I've enjoyed the flavor behind the items I've seen. That's what makes it interesting to me; it's not just dry stat blocks. I like stat blocks, of course, but I like that MME helps a DM place an item into a campaign with some story...

I have no interest in playing a sci-fi RPG, but I still wanted to chime in to echo Colmarr's comment - that star map is a wonder to behold!

I think Mordenkainen's Magnificent Emporium is very good (so there you go - you've now heard something good!). The Tome Show episode where they reviewed it also gave it uniformly positive reviews. I haven't actually heard anything negative about Mordenkainen's Magnificent Emporium - well, I...

Great review! One clarification, though - the Pixie explicitly has Reach 1 instead of Reach 0 as a Tiny creature usually would have, which means that it doesn't have to enter an enemy's square in order to attack in melee (though it may do so). This comes from the Wee Warrior class feature.

Here you go: Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Tool (D&D Virtual Table)

I thought I'd share my review of Heroes of the Feywild here, since it might be of interest to EN Worlders. Part 1: Overview Part 2: Races and Classes Part 3: Character Options and Building Your Character

Keep in mind that the original poster seems to be looking for resources to make his own maps (objects, textures, etc.) rather than finished maps to download. Those are awesome, too, though!

Personally, I know that I heard it an episode of WotC's D&D podcast. I believe it was Mike Mearls who said this.

In my own MapTool games, my macros are fairly simple (compared to the fancy frameworks). Each attack for each PC and monster has a button that will display the attack roll and damage roll and any effects in the chat window. It's up to the players to say who they're attacking and to apply...

Ah, I see your confusion. There actually is a formula. For a level 4 monster, average damage is 12 and a notch is therefore 3. You move the average damage up or down in increments of 3 for the various modifications I listed. For me, I do this in MapTool. My monster tokens have damage variables...

Do you have an example of what you couldn't make work with the notch system? Here's my formula: -Base Damage = Monster Level + 8 (average damage - convert to dice however you like) -Notch value = Base Damage / 4 -Multi target adjustment: -1 notch -Dazed/Immobilized adjustment: -1 notch...

I believe Charge was errataed twice. The errata you're looking at was in part clarifying that you can take free actions (including spending an action point) after a charge; this came later. The original PHB1 Charge rules on page 287 say, in part: That's the requirement that was removed at...

Welcome to MapTool! I'm always happy to help folks with MapTool questions. As for this particular question, my answer over on the blog talks about a gigantic file with tons of images, textures, etc. that I've personally found very useful for drawing maps in MapTool. You can download that file...