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My Paragon level Wizard is fast discovering that if you don't mind sucking up the fairly useless Vistani Heritage feat, the feats Vistani Pathfinding and Vistani Healer are two of the absolute most useful feats for anyone who wants to regularly use Rituals. They save an awful lot of money on...

Note that anyone can use a Ritual Scroll, regardless of level and regardless of whether or not they have the Ritual Caster feat.

Here's some general advice... Description, Atmosphere and Detail. What I do is first I ask myself, "If this was a scene in a movie, how would it be filmed?" I imagine the scenery, with way the camera would pan or zoom in. I envision the the lighting and the sound effects and the music to set...

Not within a single campaign, but I've been doing it over the course of several campaigns for the last ten years or so... In effect, I've got a single campaign world, which happens to be a "mythological" version of the real world. Each campaign takes place in a different era... Things that...

Dragon 368 is the one you're looking for. It had a two-part article on gladiators in arena combats. The first half focused on player options... All of the crunchy stuff from this article is already in the online Compendium and Character Builder. The second half focused on encounter design for...

Here's a cool little house rule for 4E Magic Missiles that we've been using... As per the errata-ed version, Magic Missile still does fixed damage. However, the damage does NOT increase as you increase in level -- it stays at 2 + Int Force damage. Instead, the action it takes to cast Magic...

Is it just me, or do Wily Kat and Wily Kit look like they belong in a Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles game?

I've noticed they give him a majority of the rap numbers, as well (almost all the ones that don't go to Morrison). Unfortunately, Tina already sang at least part of that song in the pilot episode.

Which was my intention, as well, but I wasn't paying enough attention, apparently, and phrased it poorly. Oh, well.

Consider me properly chastised for generalizing my personal experience with many DMs (including myself). However... While I do hold the perception that many DMs have gotten into a particular habit, I never asserted that it was a bad habit or that it must be stopped... If it's not a problem...

It seems to me that part of this specific problem (and several other problems as well), is the common misconception that everything, even the smallest action, must be challenging in some way. A great many DMs have gotten into the habit of making players roll checks for just about everything (a...

In case anyone didn't notice, there are four parts to that whole article. And this post has sample solos that people have made, using the system. I'm afraid I lost the notes for my combat, otherwise, I'd post them here. Pardon the digression, but... He overstated it. Our big collider, the...

Recently, we finished up the Heroic Tier of Scales of War. For the climactic fight between the PCs and the general of the enemy army -- which marked the transition to Paragon Tier -- I changed things up a bit from the published adventure. The fight took place in the midst of a city that was on...

I always wanted to see a Sci-fi Space Opera version of the Roll-and-Keep System. Of all the games I've owned but never had a chance to play, 7th Sea is one of my favorites.

Yep, all good points, and very true. Read Asimov or Niven... They both do a pretty good job of portraying what fairly realistic futuristic space combat might look like (accounting for the requisite science-fictional technologies added into the stories). In general, the weapons tend to be high...

...Or, for that matter, a small, but sufficiently fast, bullet. One of the most effective ways to to disable or destroy a fast-moving spaceship would be to simply scatter copious amounts of sand or pea gravel in its path.

Technically, the power would last until the end of his next turn... only a few seconds. If it happens to recharge (2/3rds of the time, it will), he can do it again, and it'll last for another few seconds. However, if he is wearing Ever-Fading Armor (+2 is a Level 10 item), he can effectively...

I ran across this one not too long ago...

Credit where credit is due... that was Aeolius, not me.

Too bad my local library system doesn't have it... :erm: