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    Monster Manual IV - an ongoing review

    I'm amazed you're basing this off of Amazon ratings - a more meaningless stat I can't really imagine.
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    Dell customer service lies, don't buy a Dell.

    48 if the nyt article I read is to be believed. Out of 4 million. Yeah - it was a freaking epidemic!
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    Stop buying all the stirges, please; a call for sanity.

    I have 6 and that is about it for me. I plan to hold onto them for another year - at the continued price increase I'll be able to retire!! :p
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    Monster Manual IV - an ongoing review

    I rank it as the second best monster book I own next to the MM1. If it had all the dragons and giants MM1 has it would be #1. Also don't go by the internet for how popular a product is. I noticed many of the people saying they hated it bought it (even with the previews and table of contents...
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    D&D 4E 4E indications - Has it slowed your purchases alreadY?

    That's gotta be the strongest incentive to quit smoking I have ever heard! :D I, too, have seen my purchases increase in the recent months. Of course having a bit more disposable income doesn't hurt but mainly I have found a lot of WotC releases have been right up my alley as of late. 4E...
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    A new Take on Turn Undead

    How about the initial check telling you how many HD of undead you can affect total and limit the turning damage to 1d6+level+Cha? So in the example Fulmar could affect the one 14HD Sword of Kyuss or be forced to turn the 3 6HD Spawn of Kyuss that are closer to him?
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    A new Take on Turn Undead

    Turning Undead is one of those 'all or nothing' abilities that has always bugged me. So, as always, I want to tinker with it and make it more interesting. Here is my initial idea Cleric makes Turn check as normal (d20+Cha bonus) but uses this slightly modified table to determine success 0 or...
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    St. Georges and the cheap dragon (pic!)

    My huge red dragon can beat up your (sky) blue dragon :p
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    [Old Timers] Opinions on the Dungeon Crawl Classics modules and 'old school vibe'.

    Hmmm - I remember buying a $2 DCC leafing through it once and then ignoring it. Looking at Goodman Games website there seems to be dozens of these things! SO a question for you DCC buyers - what the real 'gems' of the series? I don't care about levels - I can always adjust for that and need...
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    Really good things in theory, but in practice...

    That is the one that bugs me the most (and I was having a hard time thinking of one honestly). It is just irritating having undead 'flee'. I've toyed with the idea of having Turning do 1d6/level damage to undead but it seems way too powerful. Fortunately I intoduced a lot of feats from...
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    Really good things in theory, but in practice...

    I just started using the 'each + overcome 5/DR magic' thing and it is working out great definately a much needed change to the DR system.
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    Best Value for Money RPG Purchase

    Draconomicron. Got for $25 from a nice ENWorlder and it opened up a whole new era of dragon themed goodness. Monster Manual 4 - same reason (except I bought it from my FLGS). Traps & Treachery - got this for about $10 in a bargin bin sale. One of the best designed traps books out there and...
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    What's the big stink about Rappan Athuk Reloaded?

    Well I just bought a copy off of eBay for $49 + shipping (it was the only auction listed for RAR!). I hope it was worth it as I based my decision on Nightfall & Treebore's enthusiasm for the product (I can't count Orcus since he wrote the thing ;) ). That and I have always had good luck with...
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    Monster Manual IV thoughts?

    MM4 has 228 pages. And I get my books at less than the US$ price in Canadain$ so :p
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    Monster Manual IV thoughts?

    CHANGE IS BAD!!! Don't you know anything about gamers?! Really I love D&D but I like the people who play it less and less (my groups excepted of course).
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    Non-Core Class Survivor: Round 16

    Wow do these threads get ugly fast. I voted Duskblade simply because I can't vote for myself :p and Scout and Warlock are the two best classes out there.
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    Non-Core Class Survivor: Round 13

    What did I ever do to you people?! :( :( :(
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    Other PC death=Not fun

    I've had 2 PC deaths in my game (I'm the DM) and while both players were bummed that their characters got killed they immediately fell to making new characters before the body was even cold. I really appreciate players like that.
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    DR/Magic - would you change it to this?

    I really don't think this will be the case. I can't expect a 20th level character to have a +4 weapon? C'mon! Actually the max you will need is +4. I changed it based on early comments.
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    DR/Magic - would you change it to this?

    EXACTLY! All those dragons and whatnot with the DRs of 20/magic have nothing in reality. No character would be facing off against them without at least a +1 weapon so why bother with it at all?
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