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I enjoyed it. There were some kinda glaring pacing errors towards the end ("WTF Bumblebee's captured? But he was just with the humans not two minutes ago!"), and even if I hadn't had it spoiled on AICN, and the entire Decepticon plot really only works if you squint and try and not think too...

You know, that's almost enough for me to go to IMDB and start threads with wildly unlikely ADwD "spoilers," like "ZOMG has Tyrion no shame he hooked up with Mellisandre!*" But I'm not nearly dedicated to trolling enough to do that. Brad * - That would be even more funny were it true.

The Homebrew option does make me understand why the development team devalued settings for 4e, since most people just used their own worlds, and focused more on non-specific material. Brad

Honestly, while the Dragonmark feats are more powerful, they're not overwhelmingly so. I would probably squint at someone trying to squeeze one in in a non-Eberron setting, but as long as the player made a decent attempt at trying to persuade me that they weren't trying to minmax *completely,*...

Hrm. It looks to me like the Battle Cleric can ditch Wisdom, since with all its features switched over, it only benefits from Charisma, and looking at the utilities, very few mention Wisdom at all. Now, this does lock you out of using the various Wis attacks, but were you going to do those...

Looking at this, the first thought that came into my head was: "Helloooooo, goliath battle cleric!" Goliath Greatweapon Prowess even works with Staff Fighting, since the primary end of the staff has Stout.

So far, we've had 3x 4e games. 1) Maztica-by-way-of-Eberron: First conquering Hisbrelandia, then moving on to the mainland. 2) Regular Eberron, putting Hommlet in New Cyre 3) Dark Sun Brad

I suspect "most" or "almost all." Certainly, in my experience, after making a new Shadowrun character every other session, there was no real personality attached, because it was too much trouble to come up with a different one. Brad

1) Since 1991, at nerd camp between sophomore and junior years (the Cullowhee Experience if anyone knows of it); 2) AD&D 2e, D&D 3/.5, Shadowrun 2/3/4e, SWd20, Vampire: The Dark Ages, Aberrant d20, and (I'm trying to forget this) Amber; 3) Campaigns ended. Right now we switch between D&D...

Lightning bolt, in my 3.5 PHB, says, in its text, "to each creature within its area." I think it was the same way in 2e, and bounced. Not that my copy of Secret of the Silver Blades is an authoritative rules source, but I bounced lightning bolts across Zhentarim all the time there. Oh, I...

The last couple of books were actually pretty decent. Admittedly, you still have to skip the journal entries, but other than that, they were quite entertaining and not nausea-inducing. Brad

Exalted has what seems to be a pretty robust Social Combat system that works amazingly like the regular combat system, with social attacks, dodges/parries/blocks, etc. Edit: So, in 4e, you'd make an attack (Cha + 1/2 level most likely) against Will. You'd want to populate the system with...

We don't have any problem with mixing Essentials and non- in our 4e games. In our "Eberron Invades the New World" game, my minotaur Str cleric retrained into warpriest once we got a reliable striker. This worked surprisingly well, though it was a touch boring, since I wasn't hitting things for...

It's mentioned further upthread, but it apparently comes from Dumpshock. I do note that the introductory adventure for SR4 has a relatively low payout, especially after the big fight at the end. It's about two months' low lifestyle/person, not counting expenses. Though, my favorite part of...

What I think prompts the "you can't make money shadowrunning" meme is the published adventures have fairly low payments. That's easy to fix by the GM, but the adventures I've seen published seem to put you through a lot for very little reward. Brad

Are we sure about that? They may well consider not everyone having a good basic attack to be a feature, not a problem. Brad

The warlord's basic-attack-granting utility really depends on the rest of the party's composition. I know in our Dark Sun campaign, our damage output goes up significantly when both the arena fighter and the eldritch strike-using warlock are there. But the non-executioner assassin and the monk...

Star Trek! Not only would the free-energy socialism of the future mean I wouldn't starve because I had no useful skills, but *anything* wrong with me would be corrected. And I'd be in space! Okay...yeah, that's not really fantasy. In that case, I'd do Shadowrun and hope that 60 years of...

Dammit. I was rather enjoying picking up the trades for Secret Six. Brad

I used to farm the chests in Nagrand with Sense Treasure. Back when potions would be chain-chugged on cooldown, that was surprisingly profitable. Now, though, I pickpocket-farm Lost City of the Tol'vir for lockboxes and Rogue's Draughts. No detectors and lots of humanoids means lots of...