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Hey, that's great news! Grats!

If its not for you, fine, sell the books. Classes work radically differently (Martial classes with powers, etc). Diseases work differently, vancian magic is gone, poisons work differently, planes work differently, saving throws work differently, defenses work differently, armor no longer the...

Oddly we've seen it happen a couple of times so far. Lucky player dice rolls in this group. One player actually has a history of having paladins die early, and in the most gruesome ways in the games I run. I don't specifically single out the paladins he plays, but somehow everything within...

There's far worse than this destroying the environment. Plastic Do you know what goes into making those little clear plastic cases? The amount of energy and toxins in plastic is phenomenally amazing. So honestly, the solution of 'the plastic cases are smaller' isn't a solution. Its a...

Just wanted to add my congrats! I loved reading your story-hour as well. In fact it helped me design some really nasty baddies for my own campaigns, and inspired me to run things in a much broader sense than I had been doing previously. My group can be pretty bad at switching around to new...

Fortunately for my group and I, 4e is simply D&D. Same as OD&D, 1e, 2e, 2.5e, 3e, and 3.5e. We've never played D&D as a video game, and never will as long as its on paper. Similarities? I guess, if you only stick to going from room to room killing things and having brief, pre-scripted...

Hmm. I admittedly don't know exactly what Gleemax was supposed to be in the first place. I thought it was just some sort of strangely named upgrades for the current boards. I'm guessing it means their staffer's blogs will be gone, which is unfortunate since I enjoyed reading some of them...

Some valid points. Some not so valid. Oddly my group and I have absolutely no problems with our imaginations. We all, also, refuse to argue over anything pertaining to rules, or what anyone outside of our gaming circle thinks about how we do things. So honestly, this has little do do with...

So far we haven't had a solitary 15-minute work day under 4e. It was a slight problem with us in older editions due to spells running dry (especially healing). As it is, three campaigns haven't seen the characters once have to hole up in a room in a dungeon while the monsters wandered around...

Actually, I have to admit that encounter sounds like a riot! Nothing more epic than suddenly turning the tables on your enemy when things are looking most grim. However, to answer your question if 4e 'fixes' this sort of thing, it sort of does but only takes a different approach to 'fear'...

Four sheets?? That's stunningly bad. Even with the power cards that's supporting less characters at the table than they base the rules on (a total of 5 characters). Much as I like the new edition and will buy some of the supplementary books, from what I've heard about the stock issues in...

I've actually started doing this myself in the last couple of weeks. I found that I was getting pulled into (and getting worked up over) things that didn't actually pertain to the game itself. I was getting caught up in opinion. It wasn't until I thought about the old days when my friends and...

I found that regular combats were generally quick to moderate depending on the mix of monsters used. For the big baddies, I front loaded a lot of HP and/or buffs usually, and combats did start to run long around the level 10 mark (We rarely went beyond). So some combats could be spread across...

I had much the same experience myself when we first ran a game or two. It was pretty much like exploring a new game, but didn't have the added need to relearn a new complex suite of skills. DM prep time remains my favorite thing so far. Its a tangible difference going from a weeks worth of...

Cloaktrick rogue.. ..Why do I see this poor thief having to do kids birthday parties and cloak tricks for coins on the street? ;)

This is in a day full of juvenile posts by the OP in question. I realize I should have clarified that. I'm just tired of this idiocy I guess. Is it over reacting? Perhaps. Then again I have certain expectations when I come to moderated boards. I don't go to Microsoft's boards looking for...

That's unfortunate :/ I admit that I'm looking for good power cards as well, but I might just find some online (There were a couple places that made up blank cards, I think) and print them myself.

Wow.. Some people just look to get banned don't they.

Would you like to drop the stereotyping please?

Actually, I really do like threads like this. The poster in question actually PLAYED a session or two of 4e instead of based their like/dislike of the game off of skimming the three rulebooks. The worst internet critics.. Hell, the worst critics in general are those who base their reviews off...