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I find Tubular Bells and stuff like it pulls my players out of the moment, because of the incredibly strong cultural attachments. It's meta. I use stuff like this; YouTube - Peter Gabriel 02 Gethsemane To be effective. There's definitely a sense of "...!" when this stuff comes on. Also...

I think it's a great example of the clash of cultures between AD&D and D&D4. In AD&D, spells just said stuff. Could say whatever the author felt was interesting to say. "They fall asleep." What does that mean? Well, what does it mean when you fall asleep? Lots of room for interpretation...

I think there's a difference between "that past which has influenced my character" and writing 3 pages of backstory including where he went to school and what he parents did and whether they got along. You start with something like...he doesn't trust relationships, because that's interesting...

I find backstory work to be a kind of...self-gratification...that distracts from the real work of character. What I want to know is...who is your dude? What does he look like, what impression does he leave on people when he meets them? What motivates him, what does he want? What is he willing...

Ahh, I misread it. Good! :D

The Assassin's extra damage encounter power says it only triggers when the target is "helpless." That seemed an odd condition to me, so I looked it up in the compendium, which says that typically only unconscious creatures are helpless. As far as I can tell, the encounter power is the only...

I use Fantasy Grounds and though it...it presents what I consider *serious* obstacles to anyone who wants to run 4E with it, including the need to first *find* then download other homebrew tools...it's pretty powerful and, in balance, I prefer it to MapTools. The other VTT solutions I checked...

God I wish I could just see Popular Builds in the Character Builder. Not WotC's crap prebuild stuff, the builds people are actually building and playing. Wading through the CharOp boards is like a labor of Hercules.

Are you...are you arguing that anything anyone does with a computer is just as easy to do with an Xbox controller...once you get used to it? You're saying that you, personally, find it easier to play video games on a device expressly made for playing video games, than you do on a general...

This seems like such a colossally bad idea to me as to be possibly, actually, impossible. Maybe the Kinect makes things different, but the Xbox Controller seems to me an *incredibly* poor tool for doing...well, *any* of the things a GM or players would want to be able to do. Draw on the map...

I don't think it matters if it's likely or if it follows. What matters is; does it happen? And in my experience and the experience of a lot of people I've talked to, the answer is yes. When you give people cool stuff to do, then they enter a state where they're waiting to use those things. When...

Sabotaging Presence ✦ aura 5 Enemies within the aura take a –5 penalty to skill checks They do? Why? What is there about a Gremlin that makes their mere presence suddenly cause everyone to become inept? I mean...Acrobatics is pretty different from Diplomacy, why does standing next to a Gremlin...

I don't think we need stats below 8, but I certainly believe 8 is stupid though that wasn't your point. 8-18 is a meaningless, arbitrary range decided upon for reasons abstruse to the new user. 0-10 would be better.

Don't take this the wrong way but; the life side of death magic? Isn't that a cleric? I look at that 2E Description and I see a writer desperately reaching to try and find a way to avoid saying "Necromancers raise the dead," because he's been told parents will read that and throw their kids...

I love 4th Ed, I love the battles and the fighting, and I think it's the most fun-to-play version of D&D yet, but I basically agree with you here. Here's the core problem, as I see it, and the one all of us who love 4E would like to ignore. If you give people a list of cool things to do, they...

I think I'd rule that if you were bound and gagged, you couldn't cast a spell. Though note that the Silence ritual does not impair spellcasting.

I wonder if this isn't the reverse of how it should be done. Because Silverlight doesn't know anything about D&D--and never will--they're probably always going to be storing every click server-side. Which they're already doing and people are complaining about. But it *does* mean that when it...

Statistically speaking, there have to be some people who will roll better than average over the sum of their lives, and there have to be people who will roll worse. Of course, there's no way of knowing which you are unless A: you track every roll over your life and until B: you die. Whatever...

People often say that the old modules had monsters and bad guys sitting around with no rhyme or reason. While that is true, it neglects a certain aspect of the game. The players didn't know that. The GM might not even have known it, he might have just presumed there was a reason and he didn't...

I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and say your printer doesn't have enough memory to handle then 600+mb file the CB spools.