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Luckily, my wife is craftier than I am. :) The tokens are made by taking little 1-inch mosaic tiles and printing portraits to size (actually at about 13/16ths of an inch), and gluing those on both sides to make the core of the piece. Then we take a bakeable polhymer clay to make the border...

I thought the 4e DM's Guide did a great job of teaching people how to be a Dungeon Master. Those first 30-some pages had some of the best "how to run a game" advice I've ever read, and I've been running games for over 30 years. I also thought Keep on the Shadowfell (still available for free!)...

Dark Sun coins are not metal /nitpick

Beasts of the End Time While one team was meeting with Ekossigan, another RHC team escorted Brakken of Heffanita and a couple of Peace Summit dignitaries to the Rock Rackus show, a preview of Purple Train, set to open at the Navras Opera House the following night. Alienor was running late, but...

"Roll two d20s and..." either that or, "Ragmon has some concerns," apparently...

Into the Cloudwood Cazara, Summer, and a couple of junior constables (Pablo Duende the Bugbearian, and Magnus Magnusson the Pacifist Cleric) trekked into the Cloudwood in search of the Gallo School for Boys. Asrabey of the Unseen Court accompanied them. The orphanage was situated several hours’...

I'm about twelve sessions behind on getting updated here. I will briefly sum up what's going, for those who have the AP and know the main plots, before putting up the session from last night. At some point, I will come back and re-insert the missing 12 sessions. The constables killed Cardiff...

You could house-rule in the 4e version of the crit rule, where a natural 20 is only a crit if the total roll would be a hit; if the bonus+20 is still shy of the AC, all the 20 does is make it into a normal hit.

Weapons of varying accuracy. The prime example would be the difference between Great Axes and Great Swords. In 5e, the sword is just better, unless you have a specific way to leverage the larger damage die of the Axe (Half-Orcs and/or certain-level Barbarians as far as I know). In 4e, the axe...

Only if you want to hand carry everything in that wagon and also butcher the oxen in the road. Much easier to drive the oxen and their wagon to your hideout and then get to the looting and butchering.

If you rolled on a random encounter chart, you already gave up some control. Why are you trying to seize that control back after the fact? You ordered lemonade, and when the server asked what kind, you said "surprise me," and then got upset when it was pink. And anyway, the answer to your...

I've often said that 4e combats run at the speed of the Minor action. Everybody knows where they want to go and what they want to hit. Then they think their turn is done, but the DM has to ask if they're done because an Action Point or Minor Action might come flying out and the table doesn't...

So they run, and if they really care about defeating the Puccini, they do the research and then go a-questing for +2 bohemian ear-spoons so they can defeat the Puccini in the rematch. Sounds like a good turn of events to me. Heck, it sounds like half the Cthulhu games I've been in (and a sizable...

Plenty of time left in the month. Autumn is also scheduled for September, but it's not here yet for some reason. Must be that the seasons are running late. :/

There should be a name for a guy whose Role is to Strike the enemy better than your average combatant... hmm... Also, your text is very stealthy on the black-background theme. :D

The monk has the best move of anyone in the combat, can knock prone, push 15 feet, or turn off opportunity attack any time he hits with a Flurry attack, and yet we assume he's just standing next to his minotaur not applying any bonus effects? Movement is not even tracked in the above stats, yet...

For the super skill challenge, I had Delft basically give them a giant (whiteboard) spreadsheet of tasks to take care of and weeks, then let them each assign themselves to something for he week, then had Delft (or their own intuition) give them updates on how things were going, basically...

I may not have come across clearly in my previous post, but I think that's a great thing, and a good reason to have these "easy" encounters sprinkled throughout the day. If part of the game is resource management, let's make those players manage those resources! :D (In 4e, like many, I cut the...

Choosing when to spend resources and quickly determining how many resources to throw at a situation are two important parts of playing the game. In 4e, where the only resources were dailies and healing surges, it was pretty easy to save the dailies until you got in trouble or felt like you'd...

I require my spell lists to be numbered for random generation. I would pay money for Wild Gazebo's formatting.