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Yes. It doesn't remove the old bonus when you level up and down. PS

Most of the time you can just customize a monster, level it up, level it down and save it and it's good. I just tested it with a green dragon, and it's attacks went from 1d10 + 6 to 2d8 + 11 (there were other changes as well). I don't think it does the defense changes for solos properly tho. PS

I typically use mayonnaise or bacon grease instead of butter. PS

I only ran one session of Next. I did the first combat sans grid/minis, and the players were hopelessly confused. Few of them were veteran RPGers, and couldn't keep track of where everyone was (I was right in front of the dwarf! But he charged, remember? So now he's in front of you . . . ) We...

I backed the Reaper Bones kickstarter, the Primeval Thule kickstarter, and the DDi subscription. I think that's all for this year. PS

I think 3e fans will complain about the lack of customization for characters. 4e fans will complain about the lack of interesting combat options. 5e fans will complain that the adventures suck. :D PS

That is pretty awesome Kinak. Just the sort of thing I was looking for. I'll have to be careful about the design, because I'm sure my players will instantly be looking for the skill challenge angle. PS

I had a priest of the Silver Flame attack my PCs (all goblins) with Word of the Silver Flame. In addition to the blast of damage, the Lord of Dust imprisoned inside the Flame spoke to them and offered two of them Warlock pacts. Going to have very interesting ramifications for my campaign . . . PS

Those are good starts! I like the blast attack. He traded in a Power Strike for a burst attack, so another area effect would help him. He's got a great untrained Stealth check, which he's used often. I'm thinking of adding in something that plays off that too. Hmmmm maybe I'll just give him a...

In my paragon game, Goblins of Eberron, I'm giving every PC an artifact. The player and I work together to define the powers and fluff and how it gets worked into the game. Well, except one player. He's pretty casual and pretty busy IRL, so he doesn't really contribute outside of game day. So I...

You said at one point you didn't want to gang up on him, but you probably should. Are there a lot of people at your table that are unhappy, or just the one DM? Everyone that's unhappy about his PC should be there chipping in about how they are unhappy. PS

Very fond of the Traveler from Eberron. My last PC was a cleric of Kord that was a ton of fun. I always wanted to do a campaign that was a bunch of Kord followers that wandered the uncivilized frontier, dispensing rough justice and doing the right thing in a lawless land. Kinda like a biker...

The most effective integration of a portal shutdown style of combat I ever ran was in Mutants and Masterminds. The players were in the Atlantis throne room, fighting a 3 way fight with 2 factions of Atlantis and the Nazis, while a kraken sat in the middle of the room. The kraken made some random...

Fortunately, my players are the goblins, so I don't need to figure out how nasty they are. And since they're PCs, it turns out they are plenty vindictive, scary and . . . comic relief. :D PS

What if the cambions "stepped out" of the guards a la Alien, and the rent holes in the bodies were the portals - and one closes when a cambion dies? Then killing the minions traps her in the material plane where she can be killed, setting up stage 3. PS

I wouldn't let a lyre of building plow a field. The amount of work is well within the limit, but there's no building there. PS

You've taken on a hard task, SD. I think you've done a pretty good job. Honestly, if someone had drawn up something like this way back when, then designed classes to it, instead of lumping things together hodgepodge, I think we'd be in a better place. As it is, people think you've misplaced...

I've noticed lots of Skirmishers, Soldiers and Brutes in the 3 part boss fights. Your stage 2 looks like you might be able to work a Lurker in there. Lurker fights are weird. I find it's hard to make it work. You definitely need lots of other things happening, because if your PCs are just...

I no longer hand out XP, and have no desire to ever track it again, so different tables probably wouldn't work for me. But I'm not at your table . . . PS

I'm well into the phase where I have to play something before I'll spend money on it. So we'll see what my local gaming scene looks like - right now leaning towards unlikely. PS