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This. Further advantages of the Basic Flip Mat I've experienced over Chessex (which I also own + love): 1. The colour of the pens tends to come out nicer. 2. You can draw your stuff at home, fold it up, and port it to the session without smearing it. Here's an example of when I last did that...

That's part of why this is a problem, though. We have a game which doesn't quite effectively communicate its design to its customers at this point. Contrast the card-dominated boardgame Dominion, which lets you know from the get go that the players compete against each other in terms of 3...

I think what 4E could profit from would be a way to help the DM to adjust the difficulty bar. See, the tricky bit is that you want 4E to be a game that succeeds wildly at fundamentally different things. The spectrum runs from "an introductory step into a larger world, that of RPGs" to "a nice...

That's a bit much to ask for. But the reward is absolutely there. I didn't know the game officially catered for groups wanting to kill Jar-Jar Binks.

Thanks, that's useful. For SWSE latecomers like myself, I'd like to point people to the full archive of articles and web enhancements here. And even if someone never intends to run more than 1 SWSE campaign ever, I think the downloads for Rodney Thompson's "Dawn of Defiance" adventure path is a...

That is very true, but I think "Classic 4E" was the final step on Necromancer Games' way out of the 4E 3pp for a reason. Absolutely. I remember a sunny afternoon when I got this PDF by a guy - let's call him Jason B. in the interest of anonymity - who'd haphazardly put together a couple of...

I think Mistwell is definitely on to something. But I'd add that Clark may have figured out at one point the impossible odds of doing the 4E product he wanted to release under the GSL. I mean, just compare Goodman's output to Clark's plans. Goodman's DCCs stay extremely close to the type of...

In all earnest... I picked up the taunt mechanic from the WoW miniatures game. In 4E lingo, it looks like this: Taunt________Defender Role: Class Feature, Level 1 Stance, Initiate: 1 minor action. Target: all enemy creatures adjacent to you on the start of their turn. Effect: Target is taunted...

For me the problem with options-bloat in D&D 3.x and 4E is that the options that get bloated are (a) very nuanced i.e. very specific and very fine-grained and (b) rarely invite you to make the stuff you've chosen "your own". Let me explain. I remember a good discussion on the new "base classes"...

The only written source which details the very first "manuscript" circulated in 4E's design stage is Wizards presents: Races and Classes, which credits Dave Noonan as the author of that manuscript. You gotta be careful here though, as Noonan basically penned down a couple of design goals that...

... going Patron Project a lá Wolfgang Baur. I am astounded Paizo hasn't looked into this, given how they can talk to Baur about the intricacies to get round and the things to observe to ensure this takes off well (without e.g. violation of NDA's). It's the same type of product - a...

It's the freshness that makes these exchanges so appealing.

You know, I can't even find them. Can you (or anyone else indeed) please link them? Thanks.

And appreciated as such. :) My jaw dropped when reading your post because I'm personally far removed from retailers' experience with WotC, not being one myself. That said, I'd appreciate further feedback on your post by retailers (here's hoping some are actually reading this thread) with...

Characters making intelligent use of ritual magic.

'xcept that 4E is the very first edition of D&D to not follow that model. Sure 3E turned it down, and Pathfinder diluted it even further - to a point where the undead in room 1 must be sneakable, and the unturnable creatures in room 2 must be effected by the cleric's blast of negative energy...

Yay, another one for running skill challenges in stealth mode and track successes behind the screen. You've been bested by Mearls' articles on this one, though I emphatically agree with suffering from assaults of narcolepsy at attempts to digest them. In my book, skill challenges are simply a...

That's the funniest line I've read all week, and I regret I didn't think of it when drafting my OP (cited in the OP to this thread*): NEWS FLASH - WotC lights fire under retail stores ... Greg Leeds weighs in: "Yep, we deeply care about them. Whence the friendly fire." *Speaking of which...

4E lead designer Rob Heinsoo is one of those people. First 4E campaign he played in was Savage Tide. They were playing the 3.5 campaign and when the design documents for 4E were ready ported the campaign over to 4E mid way.

Or better yet, don't sign the GSL and still produce stuff 4E'ers wish to buy. Like Kingmaker! :D Go even further and split the Pathfinder (30-pages) module line from the rest of the Golarion/PFRPG stuff ... or at least loosen the ties. Make these into modules which are light on the rules (sc...