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Parduz, your post was easy to read :) There are some grammar errors, of course, but your English is pretty good for it being a second language! True, you should try and play to your strengths; however, I think DMing is also a great way to expand your skills! I like this :D I am all for people...

I think 4e is great for younger players because it's easy to teach/learn. Of course, the 16-18 age range probably has an even lower attention span than the 8-12 year olds you guys are talking about, so it's an even bigger godsend to me ;) To clarify, I'm a high school senior who (with the help...

I like it! Thanks :D I'll probably end up coming up with something similar.

@Blargney: How'd you manage to get a character sheet on one side of a single sheet of paper? Do you have a PDF or something I might be able to check out? :D Also, I like the clipboard idea!

Maybe this, or something else from this thread? http://www.enworld.org/forum/4e-fan-creations-house-rules/233038-i-made-dm-screen.html#post4340724 Or was it something specifically made for that screen that you're looking for?

As awesome as having a raised area in the middle of the table would be, my group rotates what houses we play at and even at times where in those houses we play. It'd be an awesome idea, but given how much variance we have in where we play it's not too viable an option. :( Having tried this at...

Most of my experience is with DMing. When I've played, there are a few things I've learned (note: might be some 4e focus here): Skill challenges are all about how you run them. I've always thought mine were pretty interesting at the table. When I ran the one on Worldwide D&D Game Day, the DM...

I like Alisair's idea. More extreme option B, just have race be cosmetic and have everything use the human race features.

Why not just up the minion damage and increase their defenses a bit? They would deal more damage, and thus be more threatening. By upping their defenses, they shouldn't die as quickly, though it might get frustrating to repeatedly miss if you overcorrect this. Those changes would make them a...

My only real paragon tier experience with minions is running a paragon-level one-shot last night to take a break from our regular campaign. In Dungeon Delve, the second encounter from #11 has minions with this: Dazing on every hit with a reach 4? That's enough to be a huge menace to higher...

My friend seriously seems to roll a one for every third roll. Last night, he even rolled his d20, and in its roll stopped and came BACK the other way to land on a one. No, it didn't even hit anything. I'm not totally sure how that happened, but I couldn't stop laughing for a good five minutes...

Anyone have advice on how to reduce clutter at the game table? I've been looking at some cool ideas, for example, having players put some visual down when they have conditions so people can see them at a glance. The problem is, even if my group(s) did this, nobody would really notice as there's...

Well, if it wasn't out, I would've liked something similar to Dungeon Mastering 4th Edition for Dummies. Considering the authors were James Wyatt, Bill Slavicsek, and Richard Baker, it's as close to the real thing as it gets for 3rd party products. The book gives a lot of advice on DMing in a...

Could you put the map in a separate frame and just refresh that? I have no idea how doable or not that is, just the first thing that popped in my head. I also have no clue how that'd interact with the javascript for moving stuff around. As far as positioning the camera, what about rigging...

For my personal sets of dice I use while I DM, I use the "official" D&D dice bag from the D&D Premium Dice. Basically it's a small dice bag with Dungeons & Dragons sewn on it. It's a decent dice bag, not super thick but not thin and flimsy, and it feels soft. That's for my dice that I keep...

Here's a simple one: if you're using a battle mat, just write the initiative order on it. Whenever I DM I usually have the players handle taking the initiative order down, and it's easily visible to everyone along the side of the wet-erase mat. Of course, this assumes you're playing a system...

Yesterday we had a friend who lives out of state play online with us. Thankfully, out of the ~4 laptops lying around, one of us had one with a built in webcam. We connected to our out-of-state friend using Skype, and aimed the webcam at the battle mat, so he was able to get a rough view of...

I was actually curious about ways people have worked out having one person play online with the rest of the group at the table. Unfortunately, I don't have the web skills to pull something like what you've done off, but if I were playing remotely I think just the webpage part would work wonders...

Does it make you a nerd if your first response to this is, "sweet! I can keep a character in my wallet!"? :D

Stuff like that is exactly what inspired me to make this thread :D Gotta love it when completely winging it works, though.