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See, from my perspective, most of the latter part of this discussion is just speaking to the fact that Batman is a character who can be used in a wide variety of stories. He can be in a street-level crime drama in which he takes down a thug with a car battery one day and take out Darkseid the...

And next, the City of MarshFall, itself.

Another new map. This time, it's the famed city of Marshfall and it's local environs.

How many cancellations we have depends on your definition, I suppose. Last-minute game cancellations almost never happen for us. Barring things like icestorms and the like. We have a dedicated mailing list and one of my players has created a google calendar. He polls everyone for the...

You may not know it but Feist's Riftwar Saga, like Brust's Jhereg series, was actually BASED on their D&D games. So that's kind of the tail wagging the dog, there.

Just so. All humans in the wizarding world can cast magic, but they're still human. Voldemort is dangerous because he's no longer actually human and has taken years of preparation to make himself that way. High-level Wizards like Dumbledore have decades of experience and accrued personal...

This is an excellent point. The thief and rogue, more than many other classes, directly benefit from the actions of other party members. Defenders and Leaders, for example, enable other classes. Strikers (and back-stabbers in particular) benefit greatly from the essence of combined teamwork...

This matches my experience. Remember that a striker is a Glass Hammer. He can hit very hard...and a rogue especially so...but he exposes himself to do so. A striker starts to feel his vulnerability in large combats or in multiple combats over time. What often happens, in my experience, is...

Saturday's game had a three-stage skill challenge, run mostly free-form, though using some skill challenges grabbed from around the intarwebs. The session began with the players emerging from a chamber under the castle reserved for a guarded teleport circle. They were returning from a lengthy...

Okay, I'm not sure if your intentional being disingenuous or if you honestly don't realize that your original questions were not framed in that context. You specifically questioned whether D&D as a brand 'was healthy enough', that you were playing 'devil'ls advocate' and that you 'honestly just...

So how does this look for a monster to use? Suelwyn Madfire Elemental Level 9 Elite Brute Huge elemental magical beast (fire, ooze) XP 900 HP 250; Bloodied 125 AC 23; Fortitude 24; Reflex 22; Will 19 Speed 6, climb 6 Immune disease, gaze, illusion, poison; Resist 5 necrotic...

In this case, it was serendipity. I had already devised the basic story of the Suelwyn and the idea of them. Then I cast my eye over the compendium to see what I could use for some monsters to be part of them...and found the foulspawn were a perfect fit. Without going into too much detail...

Yes, they are. All of WotC's materials have featured cross-promotional materials. The box games specifically start players into the idea and mindset of D&D, not so much with the specific rules as the idea of it. More importantly, it confers brand awareness and a way to explore D&D in a more...

I think I like this idea: twisted elemental horrors from the Plane of Madness sent to attack the castle. This raises the question, of course, of what kind of creatures would be both an elemental and an abomination? I suppose I can take regular elementals. Any one have some suggestions on...

In my games, residium has been found and collected several times, cost has never been a factor with regards to obtaining or casting rituals (especially as the players are members of a well-funded order). And they have seen use, but I'd like to encourage it more. What I probably will do is is a...

During the third campaign against the Septimond kobolds of the Dryscar Gorges, Zacris found himself stale-mated. The Empire desired control of the Gorges for their vast salt mines. Zacris had attempted to send me in to take the mines by force, but the twisting nature of the gorges themselves...

My motivation for giving Ritual Casting is to promote it. For those who might be taking a loss, we'd decide whether or not an additional boon might be in order, such as enhancing their Ritual Casting. My experience so far has been that rituals get underutilized...and since they tend to evoke...

I am seriously considering offering Ritual Casting as a free Feat to all players...or perhaps Ritual Casting to magical characters and something like Expertise to martial characters. Is there a particular reason to avoid this?

This is some good info and some solid idea, guys. Thanks. Some further context: Castle Whyte is a mythical castle built (supposedly) by the Aewyn, the legendary 'First Folk' created by the Divine. [they have been retconned into being Eladrin]. The castle is made from a special white stone...

I would really recommend going to Piratecat's Heroic Tier campaign analysis thread and skimming through to read the various skill challenges listed therein, as well as the discussion about them after the fact (what worked, what did not). Here is the first big 'Mini-Game' skill challenge I...