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I read the book to my wife (as with previous books, there was no way we were going to fight over who got to read it first) over a period of about 36 hours (accounting for breaks) starting at about 1 hour after the midnight release. To say we're looking forward to these is a bit of an...

DMing and playing 1-2 characters should be plenty. Your friend can play 3-4 characters. No real fiddling with encounters required.

Echoing what's already been said: They want hack, slash, and loot? Give them hack, slash, and loot. Not comfortable giving them hack, slash, and loot? Don't DM for them.

To be clear, I am not necessarily on about "healthy living 'balance your carbs' stuff." In point of fact, my diet is abominable. Instead I'm describing, from long experience, something that almost always saps my energy in an attempt (less than successful, it would seem) to help the OP with the...

I'm actually going to recommend *against* junk food -- speaking for myself, too many carbs (as found in most salty snacks) lead to satiation crash, and too many simple sugars fuel a short-term "buzz" that is followed by a longer-term post-buzz crash. Therefore, I'd say see if you can share out...

Ditto -- fine for me as well. Maybe a momentary ISP hiccup?

Acrobat Pro for sure. Possibly Standard. Foxit Reader (according to the user manual -- I've never used it myself) allows you to manually select portions of a page to print; you'd have to select, say, 8x10 inch areas one by one, but the software is free.

Try "Tile Large Pages." EDIT: This setting appears to be unavailable in Reader. Oops. :(

Long story short, my wife and I were high-school sweethearts. We split up when I went away to college rather than pursue a long-distance relationship, but we reunited afterward and have been together ever since. Our 14th wedding anniversary was earlier this year (and that's where I placed my...

My twin girls are 15½ months old. It's too early to tell whether they've inherited any geek genes. But they're only circumstantial evidence.

Ask yourself what, in the end, is the harm. If it's that you're not having nearly as good a time as your players, then yes you need to do something about it... but "putting the screws" to the PCs, as it were, by thrusting them into a new, punitive environment is the wrong approach, IMHO. In...

If you're the DM, and you think the player would have more fun playing the familiar than {whatever the player's other options are}, then the familiar stays an intelligent creature until you say otherwise. You can come up with a rationale for it later... if you even need one. But perhaps even...

I do fudge, but rarely. I don't know what that has to do with the general notion of players being allowed to peek "under the hood," as it were. In the specific case you cite, it seems to me that a certain amount of player trust (and a certain amount of everyone's fun) was on the line, so I'd say...

For the maps that are new to the 4E conversion, Steve (not Sean... whoops) is definitely the guy to contact. By the time I get the maps, they are flat raster images and already tricked out with "tokens."

Apropos of nothing, I imagine, but I think you just named my next adventure.

In general, we followed the class restrictions but jettisoned the level limits.

In my experience with EN Publishing's Lulu.com offerings, overall it's good to keep the total number of pages down, as the price of the book (to the publisher -- IIUC, Lulu.com lets publishers decide what the final price of the book will be, but charges the publisher a set amount per copy based...

It's the Player's Guide (page 15) that explicitly says.

I think I see what you mean; I'm not sure I was clear enough. In earlier editions the PC generally got a chance (a player's die roll) to prevent the condition landing in the first place. Now while I realize this roll is directly replaced in 4E by the DM's attack roll versus the PC's static...

It also occurred to me that maybe this is a result of turning the old saving throw into a static defense -- with a static defense, the players don't feel like they have any "control" over whether the status effect lands, whereas with the saving throws of old, players at least have a chance to...