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I like gaming with and without minis, depending on the game system. Usually figs are good for rough placement and I enjoy bringing in 3D terrain pieces to set the scene as a diorama. However, D&D 4e combat is a miniatures boardgame and that means you need a minis and a board to play...

Ugh, that was a painful blog post. The author is a sharp guy who drank the Internet Kool Aid. I know its impossible for most forum people to imagine, but the vast majority of gamers have NEVER heard of ENworld, RPG.net or WebRPG or any other online game site. They know Amazon and eBay. We...

No third party has been screwed. Quite the opposite actually. The fact than any GSL whatsoever is being offered at any time in the product's first year is a MEGA-boon and a tremendous blessing. There is ZERO reason they have to do this. That fact they are doing it at all and this soon is...

4e is the best edition FOR ME since B/X. 3e was the worst FOR ME and I am thrilled that WotC producing stuff that I want to buy. And kids, $70 is chump change. Lay off the twinkies and the soda for a month and buy the books. It will do good for your bookshelf and waistline.

I have heard the RPGA crew from the Strategicon conventions will be putting on some events at Game Empire in Pasadena and I have heard a few snippets about events in Seattle, but what is happening at your game store this weekend for Da Big Launch? Anything fun / cool / exciting planned...

My OD&D plus house rules has lasted through many editions, but I have to admit that 4e is a better game for high fantasy. It is so much fun to play that I am seriously impressed across the board. I feel bad for my buddy who is stuck in a 3.5 campaign. I suspect the players will revolt...

A massive raging controversy would be the most awesome thing for our hobby. D&D sold far more books when we were demonic monsters eating babies. Pat Pulling and Jack Chick did more to sell D&D than anyone in TSR's marketing department. So get out there and munch on some babies! Hail...

I ran 4 games of 4e at the Gamex convention and every game had a Warlord for two reason (a) he's new and shiny and (b) he rocks. The Warlord is the pointman from SpyCraft on steroids. His job is to buff the other heroes and bring some tactics to the battlefield. Contrary to online...

Improved Init + Greatsword is a vicious combo in this edition. That +3 vs. +2 becomes real meaningful when you miss by 1 with your encounter power. Being able to lay down your encounter power in the first round and deal slammage is quite awesome. Having run 4e over the convention weekend...

4e will draw in many more new gamers than 3e simply because its a far better game for players and more importantly, much better for the DM. It is the best edition since Basic for presenting to noobs. If WotC is smart, they will be able to draw lots of teens into this game. This is the one...

Wizards posted the D&D championship Qualifiers on their website: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=rpga/news/20080521a

This (almost) exact minion rule was in Waste World back in the late-1990s. I have used it and it works extremely well and can be very dangerous to PCs if used properly. Minions are great ablative buffers for a serious artillery tossing enemy. In Waste World, a common enemy are the various...

Great idea! I am going to run this at the Gateway convention in September. I ran a similiar event with "Commoners vs. Diablo", but 4e and Gauntlet will be a great combo! This sounds like tremendous fun. In "Commoners vs. Diablo" each player had zero level PCs and their job was to escape...

XP? Screw XP. After 10 encounters, everybody gets a level. Woot! Baddabing baddaboom! As for roleplaying, get into the character to the exact right amount that brings you maximum happiness and does not detract from the game or enjoyment of others. As for "OD&D", it means much more than...

I fully agree. If the random events don't mean something important to the players and their characters, then the stories built from these events have no power. The implicit heroics of the question "what are YOU going to do about it" are tremendously important to get the player buy-in to fully...

Shabe, your poll doesn't work because of this sentence and it negates most of the whining noises on this thread too. If you are the only person with book, then it doesn't make sense to hold up your game waiting for your incredibly cheap "friends" to pass the book around and read it at...

D&D is great for playing D&D, but things often get muddled when attempting to make D&D play like something else. However, I would interested in running a no-magic D&D game where it was just Rogues, Rangers, Warlords and Fighters against a world of monsters and evil sorcery. I will be...

It's a tough situation because you want to reward their ingenuity, but it gets frustrating when they negate a chunk of your work and then look at you for what's next. The skill challenge in 4e is going to open a whole new segment in the adventure generator that is just focused on creating...

Name them. I own dozens of their books and most have errors of some sort, there are no sourcebooks I have heard of that are simply dedicated to erratta.

1) Thank you everyone for your suggestions 2) Send me more! "Fully fleshed out" is beyond my scope, but instead I am going for the writer's shorthand of "archetype + quirk" that produces somebody memorable we meet on screen for a scene or two. I wll also approach NPC generation with "actor...