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Lots and lots of setting material - the book opens 15 pages covering how all of the different races fit into FR (including nice crunchy write-ups for Drow and Genasi), then later has 50 pages of local backgrounds - basically every region gets 2 pages of basic background material, player hooks...

4e is by far the most rogue friendly edition in the history of D&D. Some reasons: -Many rogue skills have been combined, allowing a rogue to actually use that high number of trained skills to have a little diversity, while still covering their "rogue" base skills that other party members expect...

Funny - I was worried it was going to come off as too 4e friendly - I'm a big 4e fanboy, and the NFL is by far my favorite sport. Guess it worked out ok. :)

(ENworlders on the European side of the pond, feel free to re-interpret this as 3e:Cricket::4e:Soccer or whatever the analogy is over there) Quick and dirty analogy - just throwing it up to see if it feels accurate to both sides. 3e and Baseball are both very popular, but both have a...

3.x is a lovely game if you stick to the sweet spot levels and don't DM it by the book. Personally, I was already getting tired of it and branching out to try Iron Heroes and other options about a year before 4e was announced.

I get where you're coming from Celt, and I'm sorry to lose you. None of the things you posted about bother me in the slightest, but I feel bad to lose you. Best of luck finding a non-4e game that can keep you having fun.

New races are coming along pretty well - so far I've seen played: 6 Humans (3 wizards, 1 fighter, 1 rogue, 1 cleric) 4 Tieflings (2 wizards, 1 warlord, 1 cleric) 3 Dragonborn (2 fighters, 1 paladin) 3 Eladrin (1 wizard, 1 warlord, 1 ranger) 3 Halflings (1 rogue, 1 cleric, 1 warlock) 2 Elves (1...

Hmm . . . most ridiculous one for me has to be the time that both of our casters got petrified, so the rest of the party went back to town to try and find a magic item that would get us un-petrified. They found a rather kooky druid who offered them a cheap potion that would grant them a "vision...

Answer in 2 parts: First, I don't think 3.x style multi-classing and 4e roles are diametrically opposed - it's more of a sliding scale - on the one side, you have something with no multi-classing or customization, sort of like OD&D (at least what I've heard about it, only played those rules for...

Heh. This is gonna take a bit to set the scene. The ruined city lies at the base of the volcano - a wall circles the volcano, dozens of miles long, warded by magic and patrolled by an order of holy knights. Unlike most city walls, this one faces in - the paladins guard against the resurgence...

I ran through the whole of KotS while only having 3 PCs most of the time. I started them at first and just pulled monsters out of the encounters (some guidance from XP encounter totals, some just going by my gut feel for how many to pull out). Pick which monsters you pull out by group...

Game number 1 (homebrew): Just hit 6th. Game number 2 (KotS): just finished, at 4th, about to start H2 Game number 3 (KotS): one more session to finish, then home brew - almost 4th level All started at level one within a week or two of June 6th.

Thanks TerraDave, I appreciate the blessing. You were obviously the inspiration. :) Morrus said in the post that it was pending expected changes to the GSL - Necro's stuff (Tome of Horrors?) is also pending expected changes to the GSL, obviously. I'll wait until those changes happen and the...

True - it's one thing to point out to the DM that your character has superior cover, therefore you shouldn't have gotten hit by that shot. It's another thing when the players are trying to tell the DM that he's doing it wrong by letting the monsters do X. I remember almost blowing a gasket as a...

Only if he has Dwarven Weapon Training - otherwise, there's no good reason for the Dwarf to get the magic weapon instead of the Dragonborn Paladin. Come on, when was the last time the paladin got a decent weapon upgrade? I've been lugging around this +1 Flaming Longsword for 7 levels!

Just to join the chorus - this really is fantastic. I haven't used a DM screen since I used to run Aberrant games back in the day, but this beauty will be seeing constant use. I love the sturdiness, the laminate (spill a beer/pop on the DM screen? No problem), and especially the landscape format...

Yeah, that's one of the ones that stretches things a bit. If it bothers you, either don't use it, or come up with something that makes some sense. My Wizard (multi-classed Fighter) uses it, and with her I always explain it as "oh, the poor vulnerable Wizard has slipped, I really hope these nasty...

In between this, and the mention in the other GenCon Report of a two-weapon fighting tree for fighters in Martial Power, I am currently looking for a facility that will put me in suspended animation until October so that I don't have to wait anymore. Need my delicious splatbooks!

Hmm - wish I'd seen this thread earlier (or that it was around earlier). I'm going to be wrapping up KotS for my group this week. Anyway, here's a list of some of the changes I made as I went: 1) Had to re-arrange about half the goblin encounters on the first level as the party left and came...

Well, this has been a lot of fun so far, and has definitely achieved my personal goal of broadening my awareness of what's out there. Hopefully people keep submitting stuff and it turns into a decent resource. Here's another way of sorting what we have so far: New versions of...