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The best way to deal with characters that deal too much damage is to use more minions.

But defining subraces as backgrounds prevents us from later having to deal with subraces defined as racial variants or mutliclass feats or themes are some other over intrusive design.

Definitely not the right gallery. I think that's the Monster Vault gallery. HotFK has approximately the same mix of old and new art as HotFL.

Each class extends from levels 1 to 30. Some classes have more choices at different levels than others. Each class has one paragon path in the book, or you can pick one from another book. There is one epic destiny in the book, appropriate for all classes. Again, you can pick one from another...

The 4e adventuring day essentially has two distinct clocks which count down, for the most part, at the same speed. These clocks are Healing Surges and Daily powers. When either or both of these clocks ticks down to zero, that is to say when the party as a whole has run out of daily powers or a...

I played wow from launch until the end of burning crusade. Blizzard's policy was that if, by any fault of their's, the game became unplayable they would not deduct those days from your 30 day subscription. So, if you payed for 30 days, and the servers went down for two days, your account would...

I do not believe there is any reason to exclude rituals from an essentials game (except in the case that you simply don't have access to the rules). For the purposes of essentials, I would not allow players to purchase Alchemical Reagents or the like, but rather have ritual components be given...

I don't see what you're talking about here. The power says if you have "any cover or concealment", you can hide. Allies grant cover. Why would that kind of cover not fall under "any cover"

My bad. I was thinking in terms of diameter->area but goofed on the formula :( The area of a circle in 4e happens to be diameter squared. Also, depending on how you interpret the geometry, the equation for circumference may vary. If you take the circumference of a burst 1 to be the some of...

Under this system, Non-minions are too weak (or perhaps minions are too strong). I would give PCs 3, 4, or 5, based on their role. 3 for controllers, 4 for strikers and leaders, 5 for defenders. Maybe a +1 bonus for primal controllers, strikers and defenders. For monsters, I would either do...

I would absolutely not allow this in my game. When 4e first came out, I hated the squared-circle geometry. I had implemented houserules to have diagonal moves use up 1.4 moves, and mode a whole set of templates for proper blast radii. It was too complicated and sucked all of the fun and...

Do you mean Elishar and Toldoth would be the only deities in the campaign? I'm curious how you will handle domains. Will they be divided between the two deities? Will there be overlap?

There are male and female thri-kreen. Males and Females have practically identical appearences. Gender is identified among thri-kreen by pheromone detection. No part of thri-kreen society, aside from mate selection, is dependant on gender. Kreen mate for life (which is only about 25 years...

Doesn't this need to be a Dominate effect? Edit: Oooooh, I see what you did there. You should specify that the free basic attack is once per round, only on their turn. Also, I would change the save adjustment to either +2/-2 or +5/-5 to be more consistent with other adjustments.

I think the intention is to to use the power as you fall to place a duplicate standing on the ledge you're falling from and have him holding the other end of your rope. It's my least favourite part of the power, but since he's trying to capture Zendikar's Kor in 4e terms, it happens to be the...

The rule in 4e is one printed module per setting. Dark Sun was lucky enough to get a Free RPG Day, Game Day and Encounters module released as well, though those aren't easy to get. There is a module in Dungeon Magazine which I believe is designed to follow Bloodsand Arena.

He said that they wouldn't create a martial controller just for the sake of creating one and that at time when they have tried, it just didn't feel right. I don't think he ever said that there'd never be a martial controller.

To me, they made the most sense when they pointed out that some of the big box retailers were just stocking PHB3, thinking "hey, it's 2 better than PHB1, right?" and directing potential new players to start out with that book. I've seen that exact situation at B&Ns and Borderses before.

Level 15 Daily It's a close blast 5 A cone would've been cool, but I don't think the Essentials book is the place for such a complicated concept. Remember that cones cover a different pattern of squares depending on which way they were aimed in 3e. If Essentials is presenting an easy to play...

You're confusing OD&D and BX for BECMI. BECMI came after AD&D 1e by about 3 years.