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That's what I'm baffled about regarding 4th edition as well. Even a pretty standard computer RPG like Dragon Age features the possibility of mages creating new spell effects by combining 2+ spells (or casting them in close succession), and the game has lots of options for you to combine...

Ey, great minds think alike. Here's what I did. We're using WotC' Power Cards which come with a useless DDI promo card. So all you need is a felt tip pen and some self-adhesive white paper (cut this as suits). However, the card is useless without a very good GM picking up the players' cues...

My take on this: Whether one is playing Pathfinder, 3.5., or 4E, any DM for any of those systems have the Monster Manual. The monsters therein overlap, and that overlap lets you tap into a huge number of monster combinations. (I say, for 4E you really need to add the MM 2, but then no...

That's a tough one to answer (which is why I rather wrote a post than partook in the poll). Most improvements to 4E since you left it were on the players' side. A lot of player character material that one would have wanted to be integral to the game to begin with, has been added in the 1.5 years...

It doesn't appear to me that all BECMI lovers are lovers of 4E. But it seems clear to me that for a great many of them 4E is the edition that comes closest to and for some, really captures, what they most like about D&D in a way that earlier follow-ups to BECMI/RC never did. (Three instances of...

High Points: +Sessions with my D&D group. I love my players and would play any game, any edition with them, no matter what. It's players first! +First experience with wargaming. Tried out loads of brilliant boardgames with my gaming group. +Legacy of Fire! Low points: + Scheduling sessions...

I'd buy that in a heart beat. But it's obvious to me that all companies in the business of making books on monster backgrounds are set on the idea of getting every last penny out of their customers. Let's see... You'd have to get 7 instalments of Paizo's Monsters Revisited series to get you...

I agree 100% with this. As I said in an earlier post, part of my (exceeding) happiness with 4E MMs is that I can draw on other resources. Mind you, not that that's changed much since me 3E days. When I first cracked open the 3.5 MM I was greeted by the first entry - the achaierai. Had no clue...

Appearances are deceptive. We're looking at exactly the same monster entry, except that the information is redistributed. Let me explain. First, a transcript I did from the WotC podcast on 4E MM 2: And now have a look at this: Compare it to the witherling entry in the 4E MM 2. And what do...

Sorry, I wasn't clear. I just thought that there's too much quality variation among every single product line I can think of to say that 4E material should emulate any of them. For instance, I've bought and read (and partially DMed) all SEVEN adventure paths Paizo published for D&D 3.5 (they...

4E MMs are just that - manuals, for direct table use. They fall flat for pretty much everything else. They are my favourite 4E books by a far shot, but that's because I've got shelves full of material on which to base the creatures' backgrounds. For newer DMs I guess the theme-heavy monster...

That's the one Paizo reprinted in the book I mentioned, and updated to 3.5 by Mike Mearls.

I've photocopied the Critical Hits table in Paizo's Dragon Compendium Volume 1 (p.233), and glued it into the interior cover of my 3.5 DMG. Has served me pretty well. :) PS. You may also give this a try: http://paizo.com/store/byCompany/p/paizoPublishingLLC/gameMastery/itemPacks/v5748btpy872f

Thanks, I had indeed not known that! See, in the link I posted Mearls proposed loading all offense and defense +1's when you reach levels 3, 8, 18, 23, 28. In DMG 2 he divides them up so that you get the offense +1's a level earlier than proposed (at level 2, 7, ...), and the defense +1's a...

I'm not sure you're aware of how these items in 3E actually work. The remainder of my post (cross-posted from this discussion) will address this, and compare it to how this works in 4E. The gist of it is this: The book then presents a table with ca. 30 entries...

Can't say about the money, but WotC announcted from the beginning that 4E would be "one ruleset to rule them all" sc. home play and Living format.* By contrast, during 3.5 and Living Greyhawk WotC released pages upon pages telling the LG playerbase which items, feats, and prestige classes they...

Yes, it's one of these moments one fights off the impression 4E is Rabban and 5E will be Feyd-Rautha.

Well, and here you are, the first person ever I give XP on Enworld. Amazing post. No polemics, all example and argumentation. I tip my hat. I was going to write a response to this, but then saw that you answered yourself here: I'd like to spell that out for everyone: Any item they publish...

The product description pretty much rules out that we'll get an actual module as opposed to a loose collection of challenges. The product's level range (10 to 22??) already precludes a tighter design, unless this product overhauls the dogma of only throwing level appropriate encounters at the...

Brilliant! No chance I'd have ever seen that. (And while I'm posting here - my OP forgot to mention that Heinsoo led the design for both Monster Manual 2 and Adventurer's Vault 2. I didn't want to give the impression he wasn't doing much for 4E after its release.)