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Lowering the barriers of entry for people to get a look at what it's all about is definitely a good move. Thumbs up to WotC on this one.

I like the development track idea for skill challenges to represent an actual progression of events rather than the abstract successes before failures. I'll most likely base my challenges on that kind of model if I decide to run a 4E game or write an adventure for it. Thanks for the input. I...

That dream snippet reminds me of The Shadow Out of Time by Lovecraft.

Keep it up! I guess most people settle, but not everyone does. At sixty years of age my father was eating healthy, had been off cigarettes for ten years after a thirty-five year habit, was jogging a few kilometres four days a week, swimming a kilometre each day on weekends, ran a local youth...

One problem with providing rules for something is that it can give people the idea that they need to keep their thinking inside the box and follow those rules. While the 4E section on skill challenges does cover the territory of describing what a skill challenge involves I think it should have...

Nice post. I look at life through a similar lens.

You're phoning in "working from home" days that involve posting on forums and drinking beer, right? Right?

I couldn't help but note that one of the shifts with 4E was to emphasize that player characters are the heroic good guys and yet the two new player races introduced as core in PHB1 were a dragon man and a demon man. I found it sort of amusing at the time.

A solid feature. In particular I really enjoyed the first couple of pages that cover his background. About the only problem I had was that upon seeing the main piece of art on page one the first thing I thought was "Elven Lich King".

My reaction to this article was pretty mixed. I like the core idea of the race, but I didn't much care for the background. It's a little ironic to see a generally negative response to the name of the race considering that the article, in reference to the 3rd Edition Killoren, mentions "the name...

I've been playing D&D a lot longer than I've been reading webcomics but I considered it Penny Arcade and PvP content. I wasn't listening to it to hear a random bunch of guys playing D&D, I was listening to it to hear the Penny Arcade and PvP guys crack jokes and play D&D. Having said that, it...

So if we get a 4E Wilder class I can play a Wilden Wilder?

I'm pretty sure that Google has a policy of removing these kinds of things from their search results if the owner of the property requests it - a policy based on the DMCA I believe. No conspiracy theories required - unless they're about who wrote and paid for the DMCA, I guess, but that's...

Regardless of the delay the real question is whether or not it translates into sales of the product that wouldn't have been there without this strategy, assuming there is actually a reliable way to determine that. I mean, hypothetically, if you could spend resources to stop piracy of your...

Heheh, good points. I'm tempted to revise it.

I think the intent of the power seems to be that the secondary attack only has the fear keyword and no other keywords. They should probably clarify it; I don't see any mention of it in the updates for Martial Power currently on the WotC site. Otherwise another interesting potential combination...

This is something I do miss. I think a lot of the art nowadays has an "Extreme Adventure" feel to it: everyone is doing something and the overall scene is turned up to eleven. I'm fond of some of the old style pictures that might show an ornate set of large double doors being inspected by one...

Reminds me of the 3E discussions about someone with Cleave dropping a foe on an AoO and then getting a Cleave attack on a bystander. The more things change...

A pool of water with valuable coins visible in the water, like a shallow wishing well. The water is actually acid, the coins are illusory.

I haven't seen the Hospitaler in play yet but if I was seeing what you describe I might make a couple of changes to the blessing: probably only applying it on attacks that don't include the paladin and only applying it on attacks that hit. Still effective, but not excessive.