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Heh. I totally should. But my players took away control of XP from me long ago. :D PS

It was pretty basic. They've found Mournstones, strange stones that are tied to the boundary of Dead Gray Mist in the Mournlands of Eberron. With a Mark of Storms, a person can control the Dead Gray Mists with Summon Winds. So the PC with Mark of Storms created a new ritual, using the...

My players will continue to wreck Eberron until the summer. Then I move across the country and we try to figure out how to keep the game going with the DM in another state and one player in another country. But my move will put me into at least one and possible 3 other campaigns, so it's...

Nothing shows the need for multiple approaches like healing. There's no one method that will get majority approval. I doubt you could get 75% acceptance if you had 4 different methods to choose from. PS

Certainly effort and design goal should make a difference. Something like 10% is perfectly reasonable. PS

Would have been a disaster for me. I stopped buying 3.5 material long before the end, so I would have missed it completely. And I grew to loathe DMing 3.5 (and no one else would), so I would have abandoned D&D entirely. Instead, I got 4e, which is my favorite edition by far. So lucky for me...

I just stepped into my friends' Pathfinder game. I've never played Pathfinder (tho years of 3.x), so I made a 9th level human fighter. I imagined I wouldn't be too effective, but for me it's a one shot and I didn't want to get too fancy. One of our combat rounds, everyone hit. Damages from...

Wait, whaaaaa? ;) PS

LOL. The first thing I thought when I read this article was Kamikaze Midget isn't going to like this . . . PS

I went with Published. I play in Eberron, and at the start of the campaign it was pretty much exactly as the book describes. Now that we're 12 levels into the game, the world is heavily impacted. I haven't done any modules this time, tho I usually do. I find 4e pretty dang easy to run...

That's a pretty good article, and a nice adaptation, Quickleaf. I think #16 in a D&D game would lead immediately to PCs chasing after red herrings. PS

With exploding d6, each d6 has an average of 4.2 instead of 3.5, so that fixes one of the tables. I'd have to think about the distribution a bit to get it right. PS

Game design has moved on from death penalties. :D PS

As I thought about this more, it don't think it's crippling. Charm effects are pretty limited and well defined in 4e. It's not so much that he's a liability as that he gets hit with Will powers, and if dominated he's going to smack his friends (same with any of the "force target to make a basic...

In my recent campaign I started the PCs in a goblin city (they're all goblins). I never defined how big the city was. The first few adventures revolved around the clan, and essentially, the PCs knew everyone in the clan. Then the adventures moved out into the city, and it was big enough that...

This. Simple to run and has a clear way to contribute trumps hole in the defenses. PS

For some, that's a feature. I have a player that is way, way behind the rest of the group in terms of powergaming. Three of my group really enjoy putting together a clever PC build, three are also good at it, but not as enamored of the style, and then one guy is pretty hopeless. But pop a 20 in...

We never had a lot of respect for the RP side of gaming when we played 1e. It was middle school and high school. My favorite PC was Water, the halfling thief. We needed a thief, and our party was 4th level. We never dreamed of started a character at higher than 1st, so we made a huge pack of 1st...

I haven't quite finished the excerpt but it's pretty fantastic. PS

I've taken to using this math http://dmg42.blogspot.com/2012/02/boot-on-face-of-level-1-damage-forever.html for my monsters. It's a pretty good pile of damage, and my 12th level PCs are feeling the sting. PS