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Well, this is supposed to be spoiler-free, but I suppose an sblock won't hurt. Every group figured out that the trapped sarcophagi could be turned on the hobgoblins. Every group. In my first group, the initial player to jump on the trap figured it out (and the trap didn't even hit him.) In one...

I had my first 4E kill. Took a fighter down in two rounds. I think he was even healed in the first one. I pretty much did it to show that it could be done.

Sorry, I just don't see this. What amazing insight was required to come up with the claim that a wooden spoon won't dig through a stone wall? If you can come up with this idea while writing a post, you can come up with it during a game.

Well, I added a spur of the moment skill challenge: In the final fight, the PCs noticed the bad guy summoning the statues using his staff. The wizard used arcana, once the bag guy was dead, to see if there was any connection between the staff and the statues. I decided that there was, and that...

That's probably an OK thing to do for a intro to the system game day like this one. I didn't read out the stats, but I did tell the players a lot more than I normally would, so that they could see how the system worked. I did this without invoking any knowledge checks. That being said, a bad DM...

This is the perfect representation of an argument that 4E is like a video game. I mean, seriously, this seems to represent the core logic of the argument. On its face, it is a non sequitor; that is, the argument presents premises that bear no relationship to the conclusion. If we accept...

Dig through some Hasbro quarterly reports. The information is in there somewhere.

Only "one". Some of those attacks count as basic attacks, so they are the default attacks for Opportunity Attacks. Some "single" attacks are powers that let the monster attack twice or more with one basic attack. So the young black dragon, with its standard action, could attack once with its...

Chapter one could be from Keep on the Borderlands. Chapter eight was the last thing my PC saw in at least three or four campaigns.

Here's my small suggestion regarding the riddle: Take the time to introduce the players to the deities. Make sure that you call Bahamut the "Father of Good Dragons" and make some sun-god reference for Pelor. This at least gives the players some background to solve the riddle. It would help if...

We have so many people coming that we are probably adding an extra PC to each session. This means I get to add in minions!

I don't think I'm really happy with it. I'm going to add a few minions in the mix and I think I might just ambush the PCs after they are done with the adventure. Depends on the time it takes, though. I'm running the damn thing twice, so I have to shake it up a bit. Maybe I'll change one of the...

I think that skill challenges will go better, complexity and all, if they are done in the middle of things. If the challenges occur in the middle of combat or in the middle of social situations where the PCs must keep track of other things in order to get the opportunity to make skill rolls...

I find it kinda funny, but this comes up tangentially in one of the WWDNDGD adventures. Clerics (and paladins, I guess) still make better war god priests, but I can see warlords as better martial worshipers of these gods, somewhat like a lay order of religious workers, than just fighters. But...

Me too. And because I'm DMing for them on WWDNDGD, they were willing to sell them to me early since I will be out of town on release day. However, I will be out of town for too long for that to be feasible. So I'll have some crazy prep on Saturday morning.

Sword in a circle is a basic melee attack. The other symbol is the one for an effect that starts next to the character.

This sentence makes me unable to take your review seriously. I mean, it simply isn't true. At every level there seems to be at least two of the following things to choose: feat selection, ability score boost selection, power selection, class/paragon/epic ability selection. Given that it is in...

I love how you look at something and derive the opposite conclusion from what was actually said. Mearls was saying that they wanted to put decisions about the importance of elements like secondary skills in the hands of DMs, since they are the ones best equipped to do this work for their own...

No, darkvision was removed so that the designers could change the environment of the game and unify the descriptive text in published adventures. A society that doesn't need lights is going to live much differently from a society that does.

On the plus side, actual sales seem to be doing incredibly well. They are #6 overall on Amazon. However, we'll see how long that lasts after the books are actually released.