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I'm sorry, but I guess I'm confused. Wasn't VTT something promised to be a part of everyone's DDI accounts - something that WotC said would be available for all 4E DDI users? So all of us who have been paying for DDI all this time, waiting for VTT, were really just buying a Character Builder...

Think you're kinda missing my point... sure, it's a power in 4E, and now its in 5E. But compared with the pile of powers (spells) they dropped on the pregen Wizard, Reaping Strike is just a side effect of missing with your one melee attack. And I certainly hope WotC manages to make enough...

I find it ironic that 4E finally gave D&D the higher level of simulation for melee, with actual movement on the battlefield, like circling and forcing enemies' moves, and it was accused by many grognards as being gamist and unrealistic. And it also showed that increased simulation could be even...

I think was what I was trying to get at was that there is no "right" way to handle the problem, no perfect solution, because it all comes down to what each individual group and DM defines what "role-playing" means to them. Every DM and player has their own ideas of how to immerse in a...

As I mentioned to you via Tweet yesterday, Morrus, most of the time my players describe what their character is doing, and I tell them what appropriate skill or ability score is applicable. It definitely helps immersion over calling out "I roll my blankety-blank skill to make blank happen", and...

I would say it's still relatively useful, assuming you're playing in the current post-Spellplague FRCS. The material contained references changes to Halaster's massive super-dungeon since the Spellplague, and even the Abyssal Plague demons put in a cameo. Obviously, older Undermountain...

No, and I based my appraisal of the skill challenges upon the Rules Compendium, which I believe holds the most recent rules for skill challenge construction and for the skill DCs. Per RAW, Hard DCs are not supposed to be used as often as the ones constructed for the module. And "group" checks...

Alzius - Absolutely... my bad! - I was using my previous article as a template for creating an outline for this article, and accidentally left two previous bits in it. Thank you for pointing them out, and the offending bits have been removed.

At the time of this article, I mentioned that I did not know if the developers of this app had plans for ANDROID users. I received an email last night from Ben Knoll at Goathead Software stating: "As far as android devices goes, we will be finishing device compatibility testing this week to...

Awesome news and congratulations! Glad to hear the cards will be available to gamers now, and I hope those that get their decks will find them an amazing tool for their GMing and writing projects!

Honestly folks, this orc alignment issue is WAY off topic regarding the review. I think that we can all agree that depending on your early D&D experiences, orcs were either chaotic or lawful, and which came first is frankly irrelevant to the argument at hand. Again, my point of mentioning...

My experience with LE orcs came from AD&D (1978). Don't think orcs or any other monsters had alignment in OD&D (at least not in the entry I checked), although they are listed as simply "Chaotic" in the Basic Set (1983). Regardless, I've always viewed orcs as lawful evil, probably compounded by...

Negative: WotC is attempting to create a game system by committee, and will have no clear market to sell it to. If they base the core system too much on the first three editions, they will alienate all the new gamers who jumped on at 4E. These gamers are a younger generation of gamers...

Yea, definitely one of those real-world "learning moments" that you get in college. Then again, stopping a potential fist-fight between a posse of role-players and a pack of miniatures wargamers probably saved an even worse press-day. Never underestimate the power of nerd-rage!

I completely agree - the Pathfinder and AGE articles are getting very good, and showing some real innovation. However, my disappointment with the two 4E articles could have been alleviated if the content would have adhered to acceptable character design parameters, of which we have ample enough...

Pre-Release Review: The Book of Vile Darkness by Wizards of the Coast In what must be one of the oddest choices for a Holiday Season release, the 4E version of The Book of Vile Darkness is hitting the shelves just in time for Christmas. While certainly more fitting as a Halloween release...

Pre-Release Review: The Book of Vile Darkness by Wizards of the Coast In what must be one of the oddest choices for a Holiday Season release, the 4E version of The Book of Vile Darkness is hitting the shelves just in time for Christmas. While certainly more fitting as a Halloween release...

When I attended GenCon 2011 this past August, and got the chance to sit down with the Wizards of the Coast Brand Manager Laura Tommervik, I had no idea that the conversation would lead to some amazing opportunities for me as a game reviewer this fall. Not only did I end up getting a pre-release...

My concerns with the Skald arise from the diminished effect of only have one defense to bang away at, whereas the standard Bard gets to take powers which can target NADs, and have a better chance of gaining the beneficial secondary effect of the attack by targeting a weaker defense (such as...