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Cool - I'm glad to see the modular approach has worked. Even if the players "cleared" an area, I'm thinking there could be ways to open up new areas - for instance, their rivals from town (The Black Hats) find a secret door to one of those tombs, but only one of the Black Hats makes it back to...

I guess here is why I'm drawing attention to the wealth problems with the Parcel system... Game balance expects PC's to have a certain amount of magic items (and money to spend on more, or potions and rituals) - and in 4E, this aspect of the game is managed by the Parcel system. From that...

Problems Okay - so I think there are some problems with megadungeons... some 4E specific, some not. 1. Overdesign: You want the place to feel "big" - so it makes sense that multiple NPC parties could be exploring at once, and there are multiple ways into and out of the place. However, I also...

4E Sandbox, Megadungeon Style I want to try a sandbox approach in an upcoming campaign. I like the idea of putting a megadungeon out there, provide a half-dozen hooks or opportunities for adventure, and then let the game unfold. I have a compelling idea for a 4E/FR-based megadungeon that I'm...

4E Elements that make it feel like 1E for us... Easy DM prep time Easy monster creation Emphasis on practical stat blocks for monsters, NPCs, etc Monster stats and rules are different than player characters De-emphasize 5-minute workday The small village as a Point-of-Light Emphasis on roles...

We're averaging 45 minutes per combat (4 combats in a 3-4 hour session) - although I wish we'd consistently get down to the 30 min range. Slowly getting there. One of the player's sons plays (he's 12) so things tend to bog down on his turn, and one of the guys is an over-thinker / recites all...

I picked up the Necro JG supplements for 3.x (Wilderlands, Players Guide, City State) - great stuff, really brought back the Swords & Sorcery feel. Really makes me wish I knew about Judge's Guild in the early 80's when we played AD&D... though maybe I would've been too young to appreciate it...

Yep, P1 is solid - just finished my first read-through this weekend. (My group kicks off our H2 arc with their newly promoted 4th level characters tonight, so it'll be a while before we get to the P1...) I was concerned a big dungeon crawl wouldn't feel 'Paragon' enough, but that's not the...

In core, I like the 'Seed of Evil' planted in the Elemental Chaos that created the Abyss; I like the demons as corrupted elementals and some of the Demon Princes as corrupted Primordials. I agree that the Shadowfell and Feywild are very cool and am looking forward to Manual of the Planes now...

Here's a question - the previews point out that Moonstair is 'south of the Nentir Vale'... are there new regional maps expanding the POL setting or building on the Nentir Vale map? Just curious if more of the POL setting is starting to take shape. The other thing - how about hooks to P2? What...

YES. ABSOLUTELY. It's part of why you see in the 'grognard' style threads the idea 'challenge the players, not just the characters'. If the wood the party is passing by is the lair of a dragon or some creature, the players should have the sense (once they read the signs the DM provides) to...

Sure - published adventures (which clearly were marked to encompass a limited range of levels) typically kept the encounters within the level range. But the encounter tables presented in the DMG were based on terrain and rarity, not monster level, and the lair guidelines for monsters in the 1E...

You really hit it - the 'old school feel' has more to do with DM style, DM philosophy, and the style of adventure than the rules set. Most of the 'signature' 1E rules were either blown off or house-ruled anyway. The one area people keep coming back to is the Tome of Horrors, and I tend to...

Hmmm... how to give 4E that 1E feel... 1st level wizards, I mean Magic-Users, that get killed by the house cat? Maybe we can add back in Weapon Speed Factors and weapon bonuses versus armor types? Psionics? Overbearing and grappling and percentage based unarmed combat? (Okay, got to get...

First two replies pretty much hit it on the head - as a DM, 4E feels like a throwback by dropping the simulationist approach (ie, logically consistent rules for PCs, NPCs, and monsters) and giving the DM a freer hand with monsters, prep, encounter design, NPC creation, and situations 'not...

There was an old column in Dragon called 'Known World Grimoire' that expanded Mystara's known world; some of the articles revised elements of BECMI and I know Dominion Economics was one of them - I think there are some posts over on Pandius.org as well. Cool to see people still using the CM...

Dare I begin to hope, that since Goodman has the GSL and now a license for Chaosium, we might see some 4E (D&D) cross-over products? Cthulhu d20 was my all-time favorite d20-era product... Lovecraftian rituals and monsters would be a killer sourcebook for 4E. I agree that Pagan Publishing was...

Super-Adventures / Adventure Paths Campaign Settings Looking at my 3.5 bookshelf, the 3PP adventures on it are Goodman's Castle Whiterock, and the first two Pathfinder Paths. And my eyes will be on the lookout for a Sword & Sorcery setting - I have the 3rd edition Wilderlands of High Fantasy...

What's pretty entertaining in this thread is looking at 1E or Classic D&D and conflating the lack of defined options means 'everything is available' versus a modern design that outlines more options suddenly means 'only the defined options are available'. Yep yep, the infamous page 42 again...

Curses you villain, posting the map! Must... resist... urge... to buy... I don't even play C&C, and it's got me scheming (hmmm, how to convert to 4E....) Anyway know if there are plans for follow-on adventures too?