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The best resource and explanation I've seen for the stealth rules is the "Hidden Club".

I do like keterys and the Jester. Another (better?) option for defining the way we do it may be to say "any action that has an attack has to include the defender"? Don't know if this creates any new confusion.

As I was reading this thread, I had a few ideas for "cleaning up the encounter". - Instead of being certain to lose a Healing Surge, the closest player to each monster rolls a saving throw (unmodified). Fail = loss of HS. - Instead of costing healing surges, each monster deals normal basic...

People fear the unknown and what they don't understand. Little girls are always scary :P I read another thread here about making an alien spaceship creepy. One suggestion was for the pcs to find a painting of themselves. It depicts them doing something they did earlier in the manor (like...

Yay! That would be a great way to keep orcs (a very classic monster) relevant throughout a longer campaign. Perhaps they would be less numerous, but more dangerous. This raises one question though.. Half-Orcs?

Our newest adventure: The case of the mysterious squid people!

Denmark doesn't have them in Danish - thankfully - so no conversions/translations here.

In most cases I would agree Leif, especially with 4e. I guess it is up to the OP to decide if the players can handle an obstacle like this. A twist on your medallion idea would be to have the creature ignore anyone wearing the talisman (perhaps it has a hide from undead spell on it?), and there...

Double post, pardon.

My idea was a sudden change (as mentioned in the first post) where the people just felt compelled to be orderly. In my mind this change was not odd for the townspeople, everyone simply woke up one day and accepted the long list of new rules from the mayor as something good and wise. So if...

How about introducing a monster that they can't kill? Perhaps it drains healing surges (which could get dangerous quite quickly). I am visualizing a ghost-type monster, but it might be good if the players are able to physically bar it from getting to them. If you go with the ghost, perhaps it...

Very good replies. I like the point about citizens being in good shape. Perhaps it is a requirement for visitors too? Sorry Mr. Wizard, you can't enter. Outsiders does bring a form of chaos into the town, which I could see the townspeople acting negatively towards. However, I don't see the town...

How would a fantasy town look and feel to the players if the balance between order and chaos in that town suddenly has shifted all the way towards order? I can imagine every detail having to be registered and people being very rigid in their actions. - The players being stopped at the town gate...

Agreed. I would be interested in reading that, any chance you can find a link for it?

You said: "..A) hoarded magic items and power.." Perhaps a reason would be that a family member of a character has a strange illness and a magical item inside the crypt can remove the disease/illness/whatever. I was thinking a sort of necrotic disease that can be removed with a container of...

I think you could simply put "the limb shares up with the zombie". I don't think there are any real mechanics to this. The "throw it across the room" idea is really cool :)

Do you ship overseas? Your post didn't mention for or against, so I'm making sure. Sign me up if that is the case. :) Also, I agree with the previous comments - cool designs!

It removes some of the simplicity, but I would have the limb do minion damage. So the zombie has an additional attack, but it does a fixed damage. You could then go all the way and treat the limb as a minion (possibly taking up a square). Having it be a minion will also avoid players asking if...

Going off of your ideas.. Perhaps the player chooses a number of dailies instead of getting all of them (that would weed out some of the crap choices). Not sure I like the "use it or it is lost". I was thinking instead of drawing when the player is planning on using it, it might be more fair to...

Thanks! I haven't looked into all the classes and how they are affected yet, but I think I will fix it on a class by class basis afterwards (so have a scaling bonus to damage). It is a larger overhaul of the system though. Right now I am fixing the most immediate "problems", but one thing I...