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EXTENDED REST When building my own adventures I see the flexibility of being able to break up the adventuring day into 3 or up to 9 encounters with my 4.5 Edition changes. However, one thing that I still feel is quite inflexible is the definition of the Extended Rest. I think it would provide a...

My take on the problem is the inflexibility of the long rest definition. I think it would be better if the resource recovery was tied to how "restful" the long rest Maybe full recovery only can be gained at a safe tavern in town. Being on the road, having guards in place will reduce recovery...

You can find it here, send me a private message if you want to have more material: http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?518514-Changing-the-Combat-Parameters-of-4th-Edition As to be bounded accuracy which seems to be one of the topics here. I have applied it to level 1-20 and then use...

Sorry the file is too large for my ISP so I had to take it down. If you send me a private message with your e-mail I can send you a temporary dropbox link where you can download it. Some of the maps can also be found at Deviant Art /Myrhdraak

Have not been much playing lately, but this weekend I finally got some chance to run a larger 4.5 Edition battle. I thought I would take the opportunity to check the outcome of this battle vs. my own 4.5 Edition simulations. The group consist of 6 characters, all 9th level. They faced a 10th...

I used the Adventure Tool to do a Rich Text copy of the monsters which made it very easy to port 4th Edition monsters into a Word document and modify them. Without this capability it is much more tedious to convert 4th Edition monsters into my own 4.5 Edition game.

That folder is actually empty on my computer. I think it is used for monsters you have created yourself and stored. I have some data in the Local folder rather than the Roaming folder, but having compare those files it seems to be related to screen resolution (at least my guess). Otherwise I...

With the Bounded Accuracy rules I have in the 4.5 Edition the "To-Hit" issue you have when facing tougher challenges in 4th Edition somewhat disappears. The cumulative bonuses and penalties do not become as important to hit. Damage and Hit Points becomes more important and allow you to use a...

My old laptop with D&D 4e Adventure Tools will soon join the other good PCs I have had in Elysium. However, now I realize that I have a problem. I have the Adventure Tools application with all the data on my old PC and have in a legal sense already bought the rights to use it. However as the SW...

And that is the purpose. Not every battle need to be a tactical fight. Sometimes you want some smaller skirmishes in between the large tactical fights. That is the beauty of this new design.

As you say, most parties will at least have one character who has training in Heal and high ability in it, which will make the mummy rot quite trivial to the whole party, unless you make a special rule that mummy rot is more of a curse, and the Heal skill will have no effect on it.

This I really like and will use as inspiration. A much stronger tie to the story, while still keeping its deadliness if you do not do something about it.

Yes, you can always build hard encounters. That is not what I am refering to here. It is that you have a fear of a particualar monter due to its particular abilities. The mummy is not a monster that gives you the flu and you have to stay home and rest in order to get better. The mummy gives you...

Was just taking a look at converting a classic mummy into a 4.5 Edition version, i.e. borrowing the best of 5th Edition to 4th Edition, when it really struck me - the 5e monsters are clearly nastier! Lets just start by comparing mummy rot in the various editions. 2nd Edition: "A single blow...

I have found it quite useful to take a look at the encounter length when I do my adventure planning. It is quite good to ask oneself if the encounter is worth the table time or not from a story point of view. If you want to have table time left for other things as well, it might be worthwhile to...

Ran my first session with the new 4.5 edition rules. This session was quite roleplay centric, but I got the chance to test the rules in a fight where the 9th level party encountered a Level 15 Thunderfury Boar, and it worked very well. I think the Encounter Level 8 which was the result under the...

I am about to publish my third book that concludes the game up until 2008. I would be happy to share but then you would have to learn Swedish first ... ;-)

FINISHED Finally finished, or enough finished to start playing. It took roughly 1 month to do the conversion, but it was great fun as well. I will probably have to do some tweaks along the way. In summary I could almost go with the adventure as written, with some small tweaks. Might also add...

DESIGN METHODOLOGY I think the below graph shows the design difference between 4th Edition and 5th Edition (and my 4.5 Edition take on it). 4th Edition is clearly built to make almost every encounter tactically interesting, and in order to do that WotC had to build the game for longer...