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Err if you going to make a joke, you might as well make a good one :p

If a thread is buried, it's buried for a reason. Lack of public interest. Honestly your best bet would be a blog where you can post ideas and get feedback. Personally I check out blogs linked in signatures by posters, if I think they posted something good and am looking for more of the same...

Luckily for you, I made such a list a few weeks ago while research hybrids for a possible all-hybrid campaign =) The following are what I call "optimal multirole hybrids". They cover two roles, they share at least two recommend stats, and at least one of those stats must be used as a primary...

I just don't understand your cynicism. If the products are not a upgrade for you (ie director cut/remaster) don't buy it. If they're too unbalanced, don't allow it. Heck you can even preview the stuff on DDI to determine whether or not you'd be wasting your money. As long as the systems are...

Yeah, my goal was to make forced movement more useful in smaller areas, and against adjacent opponents. The reason why I rewrote push/pull/slide and added glide was because I wanted to make it posible to move targets sideways plus one direction, rather than the current mechanic which is move...

Such a change would indeed make things simpler. Unfortunately it would degrade the importance of magic weapons, armor, and a large number of feats. It would also make combat more grindy as NPCs would miss PCs much more often, and as a result greatly empahsize PC offense over PC defense. Thus, it...

Yup, you got it. It's normal for them to have lower attack rolls. This is to compensate for AoE, (artificers have a lot of controller-type powers compared to other leaders), being able to attack from range, and their support skills. Normally I would expect a defend to do more damage than a...

I voted for I'm Brannich Blacksmoke. I love the idea of psionics. I really do. I enjoy heavy magic campaigns, where magic emulates (and in some ways surpass) modern technology in many ways while coming up short in many other ways. I really enjoy the idea of harnessing the innate mind to...

For a really, really long time I've wanted to play Champions. Back in the day I had several friends that played it, and they always wanted me to join, but it never worked out for scheduling purposes.

I'm surprised that so many people who play 4E are against this. Seriously, they have *25 core classes* in this game already. PHB 1 was solid, PHB 2 filled in many of the blanks missing from traditional D&D, and although PHB 3 had some *great* content, it mostly showed that the devs had reached a...

Yeah there's lots of good advise in here. For each description I would recommend mentioning at least 3 of the 5 Aristotlerian senses: sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. And then focus upon 1 of those senses 3x more than others. When you get better at DMing you'll be able to toss out 3...

One of the most interesting PCs I've seen in my games was a Good Assassin. He was far more religious than either of the two clerics in the campaign. This character saw himself as a tool of God to judge and purge the world of evil. The reason he turned into a shadowy killer is that he *highly*...

Personally, I've always found larger groups more satisfying to DM. My ideal group is about 8 people, although the best campaign I DMed had 10. It certainly is a different style of DMing though, and I've noticed several awesome 4-group DMs burn out at the mere addition of 2 extra players. I've...

Acrobatics gets so little love in 4E, and it can really spice up combat encounters. It's a shame most people are dead-set against it. In certain situations, I think an Acrobatic stunt should be somewhere between an at-will power and a encounter power of the class executing the action. That's...

Depending upon how much time you have in your session, it might be interesting to run all four encounters simultaneously, one round at a time each. So each PC would have 4 versions of themselves. And then have the players share HP+healing surge+daily power tools simultaneously across all four...

They are both social skills used to influence an NPC's actions. If you want an NPC to walk away and the NPC doesn't want to, you can either use Intimidate or Diplomacy. It's the difference between convincing someone to leave and intimidating someone to leave. Same result, different way to...

Yeah my opinion is that Acrobatics and Athletics should be used interchangably, much like Intimidate and Diplomacy. The *situation* you use them in may be different, but the *results* are the same. Strength (Athletics) will get you up the slope more quickly and makes it easier to find purchase...

Yeah, I wouldn't go as far as other people and state that you *need* instruction to improvise, or that you should run a fully improvised campaign. Becoming a good DM is just as much learning how to avoid situations where you have to wing it, as much as it is learning how to improvise...

You know, one of these days I'll see you come up with a bad idea Stalker0 =) You're right, thats a fantastic new damage mechanic and I'm totally going to yoink it =) Like others, I am concerned how such a mechanic would affect existing abilities/features that apply to saving throws. But I also...

Okay, so I haven't read the books at all, but after seeing the movie I would be against pigeonholing benders to a specific role. In the movie I saw airbending used as controller, defender, and striker. Waterbending as striker and defender (not really leader). Earth was used as defender and...