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although the GSL is not quite as forgiving as OGL, i suspect the real culprit is that so much of 4e is "plugged in" to things like the compendium and the CB, to which 3PP have no way to integrate with. Assuming there even WAS some way to integrate, it would probably skyrocket the cost of...

aside from the standard caveats about voluntary polls, i mentioned in my post that all of my players were piggy-backing off my account. They're still not going to add a sub but i think it's safe to say most people who were previously content to share a subscription don't frequent enworld. in...

Put me down as another wait and see. I have a very long time til my account lapses (year based subscription). Years of MMOs have made me comfortable with the idea of a monthly fee, and I just took the biggest deal. That being said, I am contemplating the possibility of non-renewal, although...

great advice all. for those curious it is a theater of the mind, so the players will in some sense be hallucinating somehow to create these theatrics. Similarly, the mechanic will be they pick whos story they focus on and then if they succeed that hero will get some sort of boon (as described...

In a few months time I have cooked up special encounters for my PCs to usher them into paragon level and cover the gap between H3: Pyramid of shadows and Revenge of the Giants. I wanted a little change of pace and something unique, so the idea is that each encounter is meant to showcare the...

incongruous example, try again. both options are absolutely available to be used. Look at LFR, do you expect all of their modules to be retrofitted to be random treasure? How would you verify the DM didn't cheat at say he rolled all 20s? Yes, people who are coming in on essentials will be...

In terms of what these articles portend for quality and promptness of future dragon articles, they are great, and I like how they are presented immensely. In terms of what's offered in them, I feel like they're a little off the mark. I can see the importance of supporting essentials builds...

the 3.5 fighter archer was one of my favorite unconventional builds, this makes me happy.

there is a theif's trick (at will move action) that lets you make a stealth check if you so much as have cover. so... if the half-orc slayer has 18 str 18 dex (or even 20 dex if you want to just be silly) does he get to double dip with dex mod damage? ie: do you include dex mod for a ranged...

I played in the D&D gameday for redbox/essentials which, mysteriously, lacked a knight defender. Instead our frontline was me as the cleric warpriest and a slayer fighter. sure enough, I tanked quite well. especially fun (and aggravating to the DM) was when, after opening a door to a room...

i have to admit i was looking for the other kind of randomness: being able to randomly select magic items. unfortunately this essentially means that wishlists are still a point around which the remaining treasure system is balanced which means to select magic items randomly can potentially...

I'll throw my hat in as someone not looking for an oblong way to jab at 4e. Of course, my beard has been growing for less than a decade so I am by no means an original, authoritatize source on "what is D&D". I didn't even start RPGs with D&D, but with was final fantasy, and not even the...

I've only ever seen up to level 9 in 4e (both as a DM and player) but i'm hoping to break beyond that and on to paragon. That being said, some of the articles related to the essentials line hint at the designer's own opinion. It was said somewhere in all of the info that heroic tier probably...

aside from the methods used in 4e I can imagine a few: -outright forced attack. not merely a penalty and potential reprisal, the tank/defender/big guy/whatever has an ability that leaves the monster no choice but to attack them. paladins in 4e have a few of these abilities, but they represent...

you seem to have some sort of deviation from the DMG, as the original write up of fallcrest implies moonsong is the most prosperous temple. No matter, of course it's your version of fallcrest and that's the important part, but i'll use the information provided in there as the best frame of...

why not roll d30s? because d30+45 != d20+50, while you may have the same average, you've got a higher and lower top end and therefore a greater variance. The underlying concept of the d20 is that +/-1 = 5% change in your odds. A lot of people rightly point out the traps you can fall into, as a...

someone wiser than i said that difficulty advancement should be "Sinusoidal" which is to say that you should experience tasks you undertake getting progressively easier before moving on to the next "step". So perhaps over the course of going from 1-10, your party progressively takes on more and...

not to hijack this thread: but what are everyone's recomendation for the opposite of what the OP is looking for? I've been curious about returning to sci-fi RPGs after my ill-fated attempts as a teenager nearly a decade ago with the alternity system. In retrospect it's apparent most of the...

Clark, does this mean there will be some necromancer games producst for pathfinder? Also, while your preference is known do you think there's any hope of Necro taking a stab at 4e, even if it's not your bread and butter?

it seems like there's plenty going on there. clearly mr. peterson is an avid D&D player in general and so he has his own biases to play to (as we all do) but he also has modules to publish and to sell. Add to this, it's certainly possible the initial potential of 4e was very appealing to...