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That elf in the intro picture clearly gets her clothes from Mialee's tailor...

I just realised that the fifth adventure is called Cauldron-Born, and that the cover image is of something cresting Cauldron Hill. Flint is in trouble :)

Oh god yes, PLEASE PICK ME! I'm helpful, really. Remember the treasure thread :)

I see this argument a lot and, to be honest, I don't think it makes much sense in 4e. With the change to healing below 0 - a consequence of healing magic and even 'verbal encouragement' that is observable in-game - a downed PC is almost never guaranteed to stay down, and even worse they're...

You're forgetting that the PC on 1 hp has a full round of actions to (among other things) stand up, their allies are now focused on the threat to them and that the 2d6+14 is every second turn. It's certainly not a good position to be in, but I don't think it's as bad a strategy as you claim...

A character on 0 or less hp who receives surge-based healing regains 1 hp if they can't spend a surge*. It's not much, but at least the PC is conscious and attacking. * (unless the RAW specifically refers to "has no surges to spend", I'm AFB)

Just to clarify, do you mean this one? If so, the only way that wall is legal is if it was meant to be: XX ..XX ....XX If it was meant to be: XX ..XX XX then the placement is invalid because the bolded wall square touches more than 2 others.

Two Zeitgeist threads in 2 days? *contented sigh* Great (and very evocative) picture. And having just taken a short jaunt to Brian's website, I'm psyched that (at least one peace of) his art is in the adventure path.

Divine Fortune doesn't get the respect it deserves IMO. My 13th level battle cleric of a war god has never really spent much time fighting undead (perhaps 15 encounters in 13 levels), and I didn't like the idea of spending a round every encounter weakened, so he's spent most of his career...

Glad to know I wasn't the only one who wondered! As for the RNS Coaltongue, all I can say is "Holy :):):):)!". That's a level of tech far beyond what I had imagined would be in the campaign. I had imagined something more akin to the Monitor or the Merrimac than to the Queen Elizabeth. I'm...

This feature keeps coming up, and I think it needs to be explicitly pointed out that to get to that point the PC needs to spend 2 feats to boost a power that it will get to use once per encounter. That doesn't necessarily mean that Turn Undead doesn't need nerfing, but full disclosure and all...

No, but there's this archway in the Tomb of Horrors...

That is a GREAT idea. It's an informal "ticket to ride" system, the money eventually get returned to the player group, and the store gets the cash in the meantime.

Computer game! Sorry, couldn't resist ;)

Your house rule goes a long way towards making paragon multiclassing viable. If you allow PCs to take hybrid talent feats where a PP would normally grant features (levels 11 and 16) and massage those feats so that they actually work, you'd probably have a very workable multiclassing system.

As someone who's persisted with a Battle Cleric for over 2 years and had some hope that this article might offer something to smile about, I'm disappointed. I know it's errata and that there was nothing in the fighter and warlord articles to buoy my spirits, but the only bone offered to me in...

MIE is my terminology and isn't referenced in the rules. Nevertheless, it's easy to see it in the system. Normal party treasure per level (pre-essentials, which is probably showing my bias) is items of lvl+4, lvl+3, lvl+2 and lvl+1 and gp equivalent to two items of lvl+0. Four items and 2...

I've thought about this some more and I'm not sure how the inherent bonuses version is meant to work. The standard IB system is IIRC normal gp and 2 magic items (lvl+2 and lvl+3), for a total of 3 magic item equivalencies (MIE) per level. The excerpt seems to suggest that there'll be 1/4 gp but...

I like most of it. I'm especially glad to see support for inherent bonuses, because I'd already decided to use them to save myself treasure-planning time. Who knows, maybe when the full treasure system is known I won't have to worry at all! I'm not sure how i feel about the idea of prestige...

The conclusions you've reached are largely correct, the article was an entertaining and insightful read, and the comments you make about the value of systems from a design perspective are quite interesting. Just be careful about implying things you don't mean to :)