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I like Druids more now than their incarnations in prior editions of D&D. They seem more focused thematically now, rather than just being a big kitchen sink of various nonsense intended to make a "different kind of cleric" with a vaguely nature-y feel. Although, if they'd made Druids the...

Those are really nice-looking. I'm seriously considering buying one or two of those collections in .pdf form. Do you think you'll do a similar counter pack when the new Dark Sun monster book comes out? I'd buy that in a heartbeat.

Actually, the tokens in the box that are intended for PCs do have this very feature, a red-tinged "bloodied" side. The monster tokens, on the other hand, do not. Instead, they have a different monster on the reverse side. Which is great, because it's like doubling the number of monster tokens...

I am sad and angry about this. All the king's horses and all the king's men at Wizards of the Court can't bring out the much-touted suite of DM digital aids that they promised years ago and have been presumably working on for years now, so they have to shut down the excellent efforts of...

The ones in the current 4E Starter Set are really nice, actually. They're just like the dungeon tiles (same material/thickness/texture), and have full-color art from the Monster Manual pictures on them.

I'm sure there will still be plenty left undescribed, and plenty of empty spots left on the map.

I think that the stat blocks themselves should be lean and trim, and only contain the most mechanically combat-relevant information. Like the 4E stat blocks. But the adventure text outside of those stat blocks should contain tons of information beyond "how will the creature use its powers in a...

I think that this is exactly the kind of creative narrative retexturing that 4E encourages players to do. I really like it.

Beautiful.

I think that hit points need to be kept firmly in the realm of "abstraction", or else they really start making no sense, with or without martial healers. They're an out of character, game mechanical abstraction that measures whether or not a creature can keep fighting, and how close they are to...

Haha, awesome. "I found an awesome loophole! On page 242 it says "Add oregano to taste!" It doesn't say how much oregano, or what sort of taste! You can add as much oregano as you want! I'm going to make my friends eat infinite oregano and they'll have to do it because the recipe says so!"

This matches my experience.

Yes, I believe that's how it works.

Very interesting. I'm working out a similar system for my game. This was helpful inspiration!

Would have been hilarious if the kobolds ambushed them, all missed their attacks, and then immediately hailed the party and tried to negotiate, acting like they just wanted to talk.

How come?

This. Epic characters are crazy tough. Really skilled 4E players with well-built characters are crazy tough at any level. Combine the two, and you've got unstoppable killing gods against any standard published encounters. Go nuts with encounter design. I'm consistently shocked by how much...

Very cool! I love it. Interestingly, the previewed monsters do significantly more damage, but their hit points don't seem to have been reduced. I would have expected that.

Ah, nice. Cool ideas there.

This. Also, all of the times that your allies could get into slightly (to highly) more advantageous positions in the melee, but choose not to because they don't want to provoke OAs. Dropping a Winged Horde on a big mass of your allies and enemies all tangled up in melee together is almost like...