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To me, balance in a pen and paper RPG is more about player satisfaction than raw power and numbers. Two classes are balanced if there is significant demand to play them at all levels. Regarding levels, no class should feel more useful than another at higher or lower levels. The notion that...

I like bloodied because it does several good things without a lot of bookkeeping: - It lets players know how tough a foe is without spelling out their hit points. - It gives healers a quick heads up when a PC is in trouble. - Monsters and characters that have special abilities triggered by the...

Good stuff.

Ambitious. I think I would have tried my hand at single player games first like Bioware did. I wish them the best though, and hope they do great.

I think D&D needs ability scores, but perhaps not with the granularity that we've always had. All I really need is to know whether my character is weak, average, strong or very strong in a particular ability. I'm not familiar with systems that just use the bonuses or penalties, but I think...

I bought my 13 yr old son Ashton the new Gamma World rpg last year, and he ran the adventure in the rulebook for us this week. We all had a blast. We normally play D&D 4th, and so this was a nice bit of change, with enough familiarity so that it didn't play slowly. Characters were: Squawk -...

19th level, time to bump this thread.

Some good advice in the thread, I don't have much to add except some generic DM tips that helped me out more than anything when I started: 1. Keep the game moving along. 2. If you make a mistake, try to err on the side of the PC's. 3. Give the PC's as much freedom as you can to succeed or...

Agreed. But in a role-playing game, I don't think every race needs to have a combat mechanic. Of course whether you play 4e primarily as an RPG or as a skirmish game is a dead horse of a different color.

Yay, sub-edition wars!

Which is all fine and good, I do the same, but my point is that because the blade is poisoned, it has to hit him. Otherwise it doesn't make sense. I can't as the DM say, "You rolled to the right, narrowly avoiding the blade." like I could if it weren't poisoned. Luck and exhaustion as...

I miss the simplicity of hit points without healing surges. As far as their abstract nature... I had a discussion with a player about hit points years ago, I forget the edition. I explained that I felt that hit points represented more than just damage taken, it was also exhaustion and luck...

I'm not interested in organized play. I think it's a good thing for the hobby, but it's not for me, so it doesn't figure into any decisions I make. I can see how it would add value for their customers. Browsing is fun, and I would probably make an impulse buy or two if an FLGS was nearby (I...

While I appreciate the initiative to save B&M FLGS's, it's too little too late for me. There haven't been any in business near me for years (yes I supported them when they were around) and I just can't justify spending so much on gaming books now that I'm used to discounts from Amazon...

I believe that Monte Cook is the one ingredient that was missing from making the 4e soup the tastiest version of D&D. His influence would have probably tempered the changes that Mearls brought into the system and created a 4e that fixed the problems of 3.5e without throwing out the baby with...

Couldn't agree more. I don't condone piracy, but I don't think the quoted poster was doing that either. I think the point was merely that people will pirate it, and WotC loses potential profits. Yes, but I don't think of running D&D games as work, so a folk tale about being rewarded for your...

On one hand I can understand the annoyance when exclusive content is no longer exclusive. You feel like you've been cheated of your reward. On the other hand, you did get to run the content before anyone else, and you did get a printed copy. So if it appeared in DDI, which isn't free, then...

I like some fluff with my crunch, both online and offline, both rented and bought. The best Dragon articles, Dungeon articles, modules, campaign settings and rulebooks are the ones that have both. I don't want a fantastic description of a Bladesinger class without the crunch to back it up, and...

My sons are 10 and 13, and they play a slayer and a hunter (essentials classes) and my wife plays a 4e templar. I run an essentials cavalier and DM. D&D is our family night. That's the market WotC needs to target, not the 13 year old DM and his buddies, cause they are too busy texting and...