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Data point: six 11th level characters (one healer, 5 strikers) against 3 wisps and 3 chuuls. Ok. Just over two hours when we finally called it. Just timed the next round of the next combat. 20 minute round, monsters taking 8 minutes, players between 1 and 3.5 minutes.

I go CutePDF and store the PDF. It's the best way I've found.

Sure, because 3e was new, and the folks who liked other editions were predominately on other sites. EN World was basically a 3e site. Now it's expanded to include 4e, but a lot of the posters who like 3e are still here. There's bound to be discussion of both systems. It seems to me the...

I agree. I quit subscribing to the podcast because I didn't like the actual-play sessions. It seems they could have made most camps happy by splitting the feed. Most folks are happy to check youtube, and the drop in volume for the downloads might have made it possible to keep podcasting the...

My guess is that you've lost a cell in the battery and it can't deliver as much juice as it used to. When you put it on the table, it is in a spot where it needs to use more power to push through to the cell tower. Since the battery is marginal, it can't get enough juice and it turns itself...

For the 4e game I play in, I carry a couple mechanical pencils, an eraser, character sheet, dice, and notebook. Also an Alea Tools case with their magnetic status markers and the mini for the game I'm playing in. I have a very thin Macbook Air which I carry around everywhere. When I'm playing...

How exactly did you do that? The Rules Compendium is an AJAX web app where every button makes another call back to the server...

No, you can't. You can download Dungeon, Dragon, blog articles, and the windows tools. You can't download the Rules Compendium. If you're subscribing because you want digital access to content in the books, you cannot access it after your subscription ends.

I take the long view when it comes to gaming material. When Dragon 1-250 came out on CD, I snatched it up. I mine it for resources all the time. Similarly, there's tons of stuff 10-30 years old I continue to use in games. DDI is a great way to copy and paste into a game now. If I go back to...

Don't try to hang the bag by a rope outside the opening. That doesn't end well.

We run about 1.5 hrs for 5 rounds, with minis.

Rituals are something a DM can absolutely ruin for a group. We had the "rituals are too expensive" problem. It wasn't that we were averse to spending gold on reagents. Our DM decided that the Points of Light in the Nentir Vale were smaller areas, and didn't have much reagents. On a good day...

If a player can keep track of what he wants to do, and resolve his turn quickly when he comes up, is it a problem that he's browsing the internet or texting? In our 4e game, it takes about 20-25 minutes to cycle a turn. I resolve my turn in about 90 seconds, and then mostly tune out for a...

Exactly. I've been "benched" for up to 2 hrs before. Since I like to play D&D and not just watch it, that is boring. (I don't like actual play podcasts either, just bore the hell out of me.) Me, if I'm going to be unable to do anything for a half hour or more, I will find something else to...

Part of the problem is that most players don't like homework. Scouring all the books for magic items is homework. Personally, I don't enjoy reading catalogs of items with "+X, with daily power". I am more inclined to read descriptions of wondrous items because they do weird stuff, but magic...

It is pretty cool. Hopefully, they've set it up so any docs you have on the tablet are accessible on the Windows side, and aren't completely locked off. I have a feeling if I had one of those, I'd end up carrying the whole laptop around all the time, and never using the tablet. But if it's...

I'm actually ok with the aspect ratio. It's a compromise between the aspect ratio of movies and the aspect ratio of paper. It's also an aspect ratio that is common and, therefore, cheaper to produce.

The biggest thing for me is that "something cool" needs to be adjudicated in such a way that it is not worse than doing something boring. Our group had "do something cool" quickly drummed out of us early in 4e when we'd try something, be faced with high rolls and huge penalties to failure...

On the flip side, newer books are also being used to fix problems that existed with the original game, as they develop solutions. A description of this can be found in the latest D&D podcast. Some of the changes (like stealth) are in the errata, but others are only contained in the newer...

I do that on a Mac, using a program called DEVONthink. It allows me to save web archives, or as PDFs, and store it in a DB. It also lets me do full-text searches. Maybe MS OneNote can do something similar? I often see the two apps compared. Other tips, applicable to a lot of situations: if...