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Part 2... Continuing on with ideas to revitialize the setting... #2 - Artifacts & Relics. Greyhawk's second most marketable feature (IMO) are it's widely recognized Artifacts & Relics. The Sword of Kas, The Hand & Eye of Vecna, The Rod of Seven Parts, The Mighty Servant of Luek-O, The...

While 4e's new way is certainly servicable, I'd still be inclined to include a caveat - your total must be 5 or more above the minimum needed to hit the target in order for it to be a crit. Just a small buffer to prevent the N20-required-to-hit oddities. I like that the damage is toned down -...

The bottom line is - I don't see how it is helpful at all in looking at Amazon's numbers now for a book released in August 2006. If WotC is saying the book sold great, this is certainly not the way one would go about disproving it. :D

Keep in mind the following when looking at Amazon's sales rankings... Sales Rank: 10,000+ Estimate between 1 - 10 copies being sold per week. Sales Rank: 1,000+ Estimate between 10 - 100 copies being sold per week. So the difference between a book with a 21,000 rank and 90,000 rank could...

Earlier today a somewhat strange revelation occured to me. Perhaps not so much a revelation as something I've never really stopped to think about. You ever wonder why the "ancient histories" of most of the published settings were considerably more interesting than what was going on in the...

Personally I would advance the timeline just as they've done in FR. I think it's come to the point where sweeping changes are needed to help revitalize the setting. The first thing I'd do is leverage all the great Greyhawk villains who really have no power bases in the setting and give them all...

Indeed. A hardcover DM screen would be well, well worth the wait. :cool:

Well, we've already seen the stat card to the Spined Devil so I don't see the Flame Archon really telling us much more than we already know. A 4e character is what we'd need to see to really begin to sink our teeth into the new edition...

Oh, I agree completely. It's more a "feel" which which incorporates party damage, decent spells used and healing remaining. My point was that PCs in 4e might be expected to absorb more "pain" per standard encounter than their 3e counterparts, due to the renewability factor, thus more relatively...

Yeah, at this point it's hard to guage when making direct comparisons to an individual PC. In 4e PCs have more renewable resources, all have some access to self-healing, I get the impression there is greater combat synergy in a standard party makup (very effective "teamwork"), 5 PCs being the...

Actually, WotC has said that solo monsters are designed to tackle entire parties (of that level). However there's no reason you can add additional traps (which fill monster slots in 4e) to make it an extra-tough encounter or if you have a larger than normal party and so on...

Yup, that's basically it. To put it succinctly... 4 Minion Monsters per PC. 1 Standard Monster per PC. 1 Elite Monster per 2 PCs. 1 Solo Monster per ~5 PCs. Now keep in mind this is about creating a standard encounter, a standard monster is not a powerful as any single PC - just that it's an...

I thought I'd throw another one out there I've always liked in the vein of "sensible but attractive adventuring attire" ;) . I think I just like the idea of HL characters who generally have a number of attendants, squires and such in their orbit...

I'm also a big proponent of practical dungeon-delving attire in D&D. It can be "sexy", it can be as fancy as you want it to be, but I have to believe someone would actually wear it into combat. Being heavily armored in every place except your vital areas (plate armor with bare midrifs and...

Dark Sun? They could have been the creations/mutations of the first Sorcerer-King.

This is an opinion I've always held as well. HLers hold all the cards in the campaign - they are literally the best at everything. A saying I like to use when 2 nations are in "dispute" - You get your HLers to win the war... then send in the army. :cool: When you boil it down, HLers really...

I'm also starting to put together a new campaign for 4e and this is something I've been giving some thought to as well. What I'd like to try and do is play up the racial animosity between the Tieflings and the Dragonborn. I like that angle, and it serves a purpose in my game as it's largely...

Yeah, I wouldn't be at all surprised if WotC came out with an Immortal's Handbook (PCs going from Demigods to Greater Gods) and Immortal Adventures somewhere down the line. That is, if the Epic Levels in 4e become as player/DM friendly as they're suggesting. I sure they'll wait though and see if...

Agreed.

Depends how many there are really. I agree that if you have several classes with overlapping aura effects it could get messy, especially if you have a slightly scattered party. Eg. The Paladin is radiating an Holy War Aura, the Warlord an Aura of Battle and the Cleric an Aura of Zealotry each...