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I thought Magic Compendium I was placeholder name, but I liked Tome of Treasures. The new title is cumbersome - Adventurer's Vault: A Guide to Weapons, Equipment and Treasure is okay, but the "for your Character" is tedious. Once of D&D flaws for so long has been player knowledge of magic...

D&D 4e will succeed. Games evolve by assimilating bits from other games. RPGs, board games, CCGs and video games are not distinct entities and the designers of all are influenced by the other designers. This is a GOOD thing. D&D 4e represents the assimiliation of many aspects of other...

Here's a suggestion. Don't just get Colbert. Get Vin Diesel to play 4e with Colbert on the show. I am sure those two can shake the trees and get a few other D&D playing celebrities. I would love to see Eddie Izzard GM a party of Vin Diesel, Stephen Colbert and Marilyn Manson on Comedy...

If you want to play Middle Earth with D&D style rules, go buy Fantasia: Book of All Knowing by New Dimension Games. Here is their website (with lots of freebies) http://www.newdimensiongames.com/fantasia1.htm Here is my review of the game http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/12/12068.phtml

Looting your buddy's still warm corpse is core D&D baby!! 30 years of gaming and this has never been a problem.

QFT. We ditched the normal magic item chart for the Diablo magic item generator. WotC put out two Diablo books 2e and 3e. The generator does "over 1,000,000 items" and in the course of our campaign they were constantly finding cool and odd bits of magic with the occassional "hot damn!" item...

I deeply disagree, but I am very glad that you and others found a way to enjoy 3e without minis. I have run 3e / D20 with and without the grid and they are different games. Many feats, abilities, spells and game balancers depend on the measurements. Without the grid, these balancers are...

So I cornered a 4e playtester and offered him a choice of waterboarding or spilling the beans on 4e. After the waterboarding, I asked him again. Most of his beans was stuff you have already seen via ENworld. Nothing interesting on the mechanics front and I didn't care about the fiddly...

1) A 9 square explosion gives the wizard the at-will ability to do 9D6+45 damage (avg 77) in a single action. If there is a cluster of monsters, he could use an action point to do 18D6+90 damage (avg 153). If the monsters are vulnerable to fire, this average damage increases even more...

SCORCHING BURST - Wizard Attack 1 A vertical column of golden flame burns all within At-Will + Arcane, Fire, Implement Standard Action Area = burst 1 within 10 squares Target: Each creature in burst Attack: +5 vs. Reflex Hit: 1D6+5 fire damage Here are my questions: 1) How is burst area...

Supposedly, the combination of Gleemax and DDI will bring together the D&D community like never before so we can all link hands coast to coast and sing kumbaya. DDI will have an online game table so people can gather online and you could have weekly games with people you never need to smell...

Warhammer and Dark Heresy have long term injury issues BUT they are not high fantasy games like D&D. High fantasy does not mix with long term injury. It is not uncommon to have a Warhammer hero with a peg leg, one eye and hook after many adventures. That's not the D&D way. It doesn't...

Hunt down a book called Zombie Movie Encyclopedia. With the minions concept, I want to do the cover of C&C - sending a half dozen wyverns coming after a party on horseback. Somehow I want to integrate SpyCraft chase rules as well. BTW, I can vouch for the minion rules working very well...

I regularly see the 4e designers being given credit for "innovations" that occured during the days of disco. I am glad to see that D&D is finally catching up. The low HP at low levels issue was something our group dealt with in high school. You just added your CON to your HP at 1st level...

The DMG should be free! But hey, this hobby has always put the financial burden on the GM. How often is the GM the person who offers the game space, breaks out the munchies, the minis, the dice, the extra PHB, the character sheet, blah, blah, blah just so there can be a game??? How many...

If my character can shoot fireballs, he can surely catch arrows and bullets and flying freaking high velocity elephants! In fact, he can catch them with his butt cheeks 'cuz its a make believe fantasy game. I will probably rule that Mage Hand has STR 3 / DEX 3. Using those stats, the...

What is the longest campaign your group has achieved? How many levels were gained between the first session and the final one for that campaign? I ask this because it sounds like you are creating an overly huge arc. Be realistic about how many sessions your group really plays before a...

Not only have I burned all my 3e books and every 3e book owned by my gaming group, but every night I sneak into a gamer's homes and burn their 3e books just to cleanse this world of the D20 abomination. Aaah, cleansing fire!! Burn worthless filth burn!! Actually, I really love my Midnight...

Great thread epochrpg! I would like to see more frost flavor to the giant. I did like the 3e implication of frost giants being able to hide in snow and because they are as smart as average humans, I would like to see more team tactical options for him. I like the boulder followup that knocks...

Pour, this is an excellent question. I highly recommend expanding your gaming horizons beyond D&D. Not because D&D is bad in any way, but the RPG world is much wider than most gamers know. Also, I suggest not just looking at new games or currently sold games, but checking out out of print...