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What if the minions had a damage aura instead of attacks? Move next to you, activate aura, 5 damage. Then minions from each side would kill each other in waves, and each would do some small amount of damage to PCs (who are 12th level and shouldn't worry too much about minions) or the serious...

In my next session, the party will be starting a fight. In addition to the party vs. main opposition fight, there will many lesser combatants on both sides. What's a good way to include those combatants without bogging the game down brutally? Obviously they should be minions, but what other...

I'll echo others that say you need a strong hook and GvE provides that pretty cheap. My current campaign has "you're all goblinoids" as it's hook, and it's holding the group together very well, even 3 years on. Is there any reason you couldn't make more likeable NPCs in your sword and sorcery...

Our games have seen a bunch of deaths as well - many single PCs, a couple pairs, one trio, one quad, and one TPK. But none of that compares to the 1e days. We would send 8 PCs into a 1st level adventure and half of them would die. Then we'd send another 8 into another 1st level adventure, half...

Get some way to quickly cross the distance to the enemy ship - far faster than flying there. Your best defense against enemy airships is to send PCs onto their decks. Perhaps develop a method of quickly freeing the enemy ship's bound elemental. Then you can both knock them out of the sky and...

I'm not suggesting you run another set of scenarios, but fighting one powerful monster should be in the barbarian's wheelhouse. Taking half damage from large hits is going to help more against one big attack per round. If they fought 3 lower level monsters the fighter might look tougher, as he...

That's a Warlord power, right? ;) PS

Had another session of my Goblins of Eberron game yesterday. This is the 2nd consecutive session of trying to start a war. A certain bugbear tribe will ally with our "heroes" if they can get the Llesh Haruuc to declare war on the elves of Valenar, but the Llesh won't do it unless other nations...

4e is my favorite edition of D&D, and likely to be my game of choice for . . . ever? . . . but I don't think it'll ever generate the most discussion. It's not as interesting to talk about IMX, nor is it as necessary. 3.x requires some pretty deep system mastery, and has pretty arcane rules...

While I have preferences, and wouldn't have ordered them like that, I'd play in any of those settings. PS

Even when we played 1e we used minis constantly. For D&D, where movement rates are low, they are a great tool for precise tactical combats. They are fantastic for 4e, which really rewards a tactical focus. And the game where you can break out whole armies is awesome. I've never used minis for...

You see how S'mon used his Twin Post power there? Well played sir . . . PS

Right - everyone's good at combat so it holds true there. But that doesn't apply to skill challenges, where players can frequently try their crazy idea, even with a -1 CHA mod and no training in Bluff. PS

The "Roll 9+" really only applies to things you're good at. Trying an untrained skill with your dump stat means you might need to roll an 18. I've seen encounters were I, as the DM, was able to force the players to work without their strengths - FREX continuously hitting the strikers, while only...

That's pretty much it. More fun, less work. Kinda like a hobby . . . He did have the bonus schtick of being a "stereotypical dwarf", in that he never met another dwarf outside his family, so everything he knew about dwarf culture came from watching human plays that included dwarves. Hilarity ...

ToS had a very consistent inconsistency. Every week the Federation was assumed to have solved all of human foibles except the one on display this week. It always isolated one failing and worked its morality play around it. Then next week, that one was solved again and a new failing cropped up. PS

Are the threads moved to make way for a new spotlight? Locked? Left to clutter things up? PS

My first real 4e PC was a lot of fun. Thraak, dwarven cleric. He embodied a lot of departures from my old gaming mentality. I used to take lots of notes, have a detailed inventory, and spend a lot of time thinking about my characters away from the game. That all got too exhausting. Thraak's...

Absolutely. It would also take one of the character's actions to give the order (I no longer remember what type of action it takes in 3.x), but I would just have the animal companion do it. PS

I would have said "ok, your leopard does that" and moved on. PS