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Agreed. It was very well done. For those who have not read or played it, the module is set in an elvish wood after a dragon and its minions have devastated much of the area. It's for one PC, who plays the last surviving elf from a destroyed village. It has a great fey feel to it without giving...

Wow, that's really cool. Does Jim have any interest in pursuing more RPG writing, or has he moved on?

I'll have to google Team from Hommlett and check it out. I think the British D&D adventures are almost all forgotten classics. They had an inventive bent, combined with good stories, that you don't often see in American designs. I'm not sure why that is. Maybe it was just the talent they...

It all depends on how much arm twisting I have apply to Dungeon's editor, Chris Youngs. Believe me, we're very much aware of the number of people who would like to see 4e takes on classic adventures.

I'm running Temple of Elemental Evil at the office. I also have notes on converting Keep on the Borderlands and the first module in the Slavers series. Night's Dark Terror is a great choice. I love that module! IME, the key to adapting older modules is knowing when to add stuff. There are also...

The truth is that just as you can spot the bias and misdirection in any story as long as you are informed about and fluent in the subject. Just because you don't see the distortion in a story about politics, the Middle East, or anything else outside your area of expertise doesn't mean that it...

The text clearly indicates if a power is daily or encounter. Color is a secondary, or even tertiary, tool in sorting them. FWIW, half the dev team is going to see Iron Maiden in a month or two, so that should make up for Dave's music.

If you played 3e without miniatures, you'll have no problem with 4e. However, there are a few things to consider. First, forced movement is much more common in the game. However, I don't think it will be any harder to adjudicate in the game than normal movement. For instance, if the dwarf...

That wasn't the case. As a guy who has the job of looking to feedback to shape what we do, the response was not "No custom monsters." The response was "No custom monsters that we could just do ourselves." In MMIV, the classes monsters were just that, critters with levels. In MMV, the monsters...

I think it's really, really sad that the editors at Slate have decided that getting hits for their web site and views for their ads are far, far more important things than simple consideration for Gary's friends and family. Gary invented a game. He wasn't a powerful world leader, a...

Yup, that's the one.

For my own campaign, I've brought back the concept of demon types from 1e, you know, type I demons, type II demons, etc, assigned each type a role and level range, and bolted on Gary's old random demon generator from 1e, with attacks and abilities attached to those random elements. It works out...

The dragon was intentionally hamstrung a little - no real room to fly, not much water to swim around in, to give the party some chance of victory and to force the action. Since it was a demo, we didn't want the fight dragging on too long. There was no story reason for the dragon to be there...

The answer is that we don't assume that all level 4 monsters are equal. That's where roles come in. For instance, a level 1 party might not have much trouble against a pair of level 4 artillery monsters, if those monsters don't have any buddies around to protect them. The party runs forward...

The dragon encounter was there as a meat grinder. Since most people don't have much of an attachment to pregens built for a demo, it was a good excuse to challenge players and see who could beat the dragon. There were a few bugs in the system: the dragon's AC and Reflex defense were both 2...

Pukunui: I'm not bothered at all by enthusiasm. I just want to make sure that people who see the thread don't think that D&D is going classless or anything. It's important that people get an accurate picture of what we're doing. That said, I think that 4e is going to be a lot of fun for...

Yes, as Darkwolf71 said, this is a bit of an overreaction to what I said in the other thread. That was speculation, which perhaps wasn't clear in my first post. So, while it's sort of cool to have like 15 threads with my name on them on EN World :lol: there's some overreaction going on.

The classless thing is pure noodling/theorizing/game tinkering on my part. It isn't something that the core game comes out and tells you how to do.

One of the nice things about the roles is that they let you play around with power sources without messing up the basic structure of the game. You can totally do a no magic game with the PH by sticking to the fighter, rogue, warlord, and ranger. You wouldn't have a controller, but it is possible...

Actually, Monte does have a time machine. He just uses it to steal great works of art from the future.