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Well, thats how we used to do it at my table as well. These days, with kids and people having moved to different cities we are just meeting at the table twice a year and run the other sessions maybe once a month using MapTools. It requires some more DM prep time but the result is really good...

As I have introduced the 5e Death Save system 3/3 as well as 25% lover hit points in my own 4.5 version of D&D, I am interested to understand the player take on this. We have only gamed a few times with the new rules so I have not had first time experience of multiple death save rolls. My gut...

I totally agree to the litte support of exploration and social in the 4th Edition official DM material. There is much more in 5e DMG. In my own game I have tried to compensate by playing D&D as I always have (with these elements a natural part). However, as you have seen an actual change in how...

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I tried to do the opposite and bring in some of the good stuff from 5th Edition to my 4th Edition game, and I am quite happy with the result so far. Most exciting has been the Bounded Accuracy applied to 4th Edition. It get rid of some of the magic item "necessity", but most importantly it...

I guess the map making must have been a big 4th Edition show stopper for a lot of DMs lacking the Photoshop skills or the money to buy miniatures and dungeon tiles. It takes quite a while to build battle maps in 4th Edition. I think the time is well worth it, but not everybody would not agree to...

Thanks, great input, maybe the -2 would be valid then.

I have decided to do my own 4.5 Edition combining what I liked in 4th Edition and incorporating the changes I liked in 5th Edition. However, I would be very interested in hearing from those of you that fully embraced 4th Edition - played it, liked it, but have now moved on and are running 5th...

Yes, maybe both a success and a failure should Count. However, I think a -2 penalty would be to go too far.

One thing I have experienced with 4th Edition as a DM is that you have to plan 3-5 encounters between each extended rest in order to challenge the party. This is fine when in a dungeon or any other multi-encounter environment, but less so when the party for example is travelling and you want to...

Maptools latest version has support for isometric maps. Have not tried it yet but it would be cool to try it on this map

Finished and done already (for most of the relevant stuff, that is). Don't need the online tool much longer.

Well who knows. If WotC realize they can make money out of fan created content and sell it in their DMs Guild who knows what will happen? Maybe they will realize that they can make new money on recompiled 4th edition material, as well as selling 5e material fan-compiled for 4th edition? Should...

Well the Changes i have done are basically the following: - I merged 4th Edition Themes concept with 5e Backgrounds to get more of the juicy bonds, flaws, etc for roleplaying purpose - Inspiration system (with some small modification) - Bounded Accuracy (i.e. Progress att +1 per 4th level...

Well in the end I decided to do the opposite. Taking the good things from 5e and adding it to 4th Edition instead. That was also a mountain of work. But now (1,5 year later) I have the system I really wanted from WotC. And with Lulu.com I have been able to easily get the new 4.5 books printed...

Well on top of my head: - I merged 4th Edition Themes concept with 5e Backgrounds to get more of the juicy bonds, flaws, etc for roleplaying purpose - Inspiration system (with some small modification) - Bounded Accuracy (i.e. Progress att +1 per 4th level instead of +1 per 2nd level) - The...

I did something very similar. Moved all the good 5e stuff that I liked into 4th edition. Now I have a system even better than before.

I don't really see the point in staying with 4th edition if yo don't like tactical combat. Why not go over to 5th edition, or 13th Age if you like some tactics but don't want a grid and prefer TotM

I had my own homebrew rules for this before I went over to 4th Edition. It add a lot of realism to the game, but my concern is that it adds complexity and lengthening of the average combat length (in turns). Is this something you have experienced? Especially in higher levels where the average...