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And he gives up his better than average unarmed damage to do so.

The third edition designers obviously placed value on the Monk's ability to attack and defend himself without weapons and armor. Witness the fact that the Amulet of Mighty Fists costs significantly more than an equivalent +X weapon. IMO, they overvalued whatever advantage the Monk gets from...

Nitpicks: 1) It looks like the PC's in the linked post were on trial for accidentally opening a way into the underdark, not for the search and rescue that followed. 2) I don't see any indication in the linked post that the charges against the PC's were brought by a corrupt "enemy within"...

Any magic system that cannot create beer is a bad magic system. Hence, the Decanter of Endless Beer. I've noticed this weird quirk too. An axe does 1d8 points of damage. Nobody blinks. A bullet does 1d8 points of damage, folks complain about how unrealistic it is that a 5th level fighter...

I'm not familiar with Infrno, I use D20 Pro for my game. It's a complete, stand-alone product. d20Pro Virtual Game Table - Online Pen &amp Paper Tabletop Gaming It was built to be used with 3.5, and there are fan-created hacks to make it 4E compatible. I'm pretty sure you can import CB...

Try the Cartographer's guild. Cartographers' Guild - The Front Page The Dundjinni community is a nice place to go for tokens, maps and tiles. Dundjinni Mapping Software - Forums

The Walking Dead Google Map (which appears to be based on the comix and seems spoilerrific) puts the refugee camp at a quarry a half-mile or so from Georgia Tech. That makes Glenn's trip downtown make a little more sense. He's only going a mile or so and he's already well past the 'burbs. THE...

A Nitpick: Why would Glenn and the other refugees head into downtown Atlanta to scavenge? It's pretty clear that their camp is out in the boonies, and Atlanta is surrounded by a vast suburban sprawl. To get downtown, the refugees would have to go past dozens of Wal-Mart's, Rite-Aid...

I use d20 Pro for my 4E games, and I'm quite happy with it. Previously, I've tried Klooge (which was too unstable) and Fantasy Grounds (which was too fiddly). What I like about d20 Pro is that its easy to add Monsters/NPC's and PC's to the program; it handles most of the math in an intuitive...

I've always been in favor of having some market for magic items. The treasure tables and adventures that I used back when I started playing gave the PC's more loot than they could use. I generally set my games in fairly cosmopolitan areas with reasonably high levels of magic around...

I DM exclusively. I don't need the character builder, and I don't care what WotC does with it. I've been a DDI subscriber from the beginning. I will remain a DDI subscriber. I get more than my money's worth for my subscription. BUT. I don't listen to any software developer who says a...

Every few months, the players start complaining that they haven't leveled in a while. Two or three weeks after they start complaining, I let them level up.

I've been using the same homebrew campaign world since 1993. My current campaign is set there in an area heavily influenced by X1 - Isle of Dread, and Paizo's take on the Isle in the Savage Tide AP. Just for funsies, I put a large dungeon using the map of Castle Ravenloft from I6, on the...

I play using a VTT that automatically rolls initiative for each individual combatant and then tracks it, so that's what I do. When I play face-to-face, I usually roll initiative for each group of monsters. So if the PC's were fighting 10 orcs, 1 ogre and 1 orc warlord, I'd roll initiative...

How widely dispersed are your players? For several years, I DM'd a game where I drove 5 hours to play, with other folks driving between 1 and 3 hours to make it. We played every 6 weeks or so for an entire weekend at a time. Under those circumstances, it was essentially impossible to schedule...

For myself, I prefer NPC companions that are powerful enough to make a difference in combat, not so powerful that they overshadow the PC's, and simple enough that it's easy to run them in combat.

It depends on the NPC and what they'll be doing. For the most part, I use either minions or companion characters. I've also used monsters straight out of the Monster Manual. If understand what you're looking for, I'd recommending statting up a companion character and giving it maybe 2-3...

This is the worst problem with WotC's 4E adventures. It's particularly bad with Dungeon adventures.

I don't have Martial Power, but I DM a Beastmaster Ranger with a Falcon companion. Two quick questions that I don't see an answer to on the Compendium: 1. How smart is the beast companion? 2. Does the Beast companion have any particular means of communicating with the Ranger? Empathy...

Ahnehnois: I usually resolve this issue by assuming that type of mutually assured destruction exists. Smaug might be able to wipe the city of Bywater off the map, but doing so will encourage reprisals from the King, who will assuredly hire powerful adventurers to act on his behalf. Knowing...