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As for people complaining that players get too much info in the PH, and not enough is a mystery... I have run into groups playing AD&D 1E and 2E where the players aren't allowed to look at any rule books at all - including the PH. They tell the DM what kind of character they want, get a few...

Agreed. Also, I am spoilt with OOTS having more than one joke per page. This time, when I didn't enjoy the joke in there it the whole thing ends up ruined... like the clothes of people near Belkar.

The old cosmology was very hard to write good storylines for, IMO. The new one fit almost perfectly with stories I was already writing before they revealed it. The Feywild and the Shadowfell made it so much easier to fit my ideas to D&D, and the Astral Sea does every good thing that the Great...

Me and an old friend ran twin Vampire chronicles for much of the 90s. We let our groups base themselves in its own corner of a metropolis, and kept each other informed of timelines, happenings and NPCs which took a lot of time before we started to use emails. Some time into the chronicles we...

I will go to DDI primarily for the magazines and some of the other tools, but if the gametable seems good enough, I will try it. If I like it after trying, I will probably offer a campaign for old RP friends who have moved all around Europe - and might also try and find a new group to play with...

That is how I would do it for a complexity 5 challenge - where did you see it in the rules? The system I found is as follows: (p 74 of the DMG) "A skill challenge is worth the same XP as a number of monsters of its level equal to its complexity." Same thing said on p 121 with slightly different...

My problems with that sentence: :1: Does it mean that the closest enemy has to be 2 squares away, or can you use it if you are adjacent to one enemy and two squares away from another? :2: Does "end your movement" mean finish a move action, or end your movement for that round? The article is...

This is by the way another of the weird little things with skill challenge rules. Do skill challenges get easier with bigger parties? Meaning: Should a big party get less XP per member for succeeding in a skill challenge than a little party does? Challenges will be easier for bigger parties if...

As for "the real game" there is no problem. The 3.5 campaigns I am in were reaching an end anyway, so no discussion whether to convert or not. It seems to clear to everyone involved that the people who might start new D&D campaigns will want to do it in 4th edition, which is fine by the players...

To me, 4th Edition D&D is clearly different from the earlier editions, I agree on that. I like it as a game, and I suspect that it will have a lot more depth than it might seem from the start. If it is too much different to be called D&D? I would personally think it has the right to keep the...

It is a move action, but it isn't "leaving a square adjacent to you". So, no opportunity attack to be had.

Writing rules stuff is hard... Look at the following sentence: "When you end your movement 2 squares from an enemy, you can shift 1 square as a free action." Does "end your movement" mean finish a move action, or end your movement for the round? Does 2 squares from an enemy mean 2 squares from...

True, grappling was bad. The way they played upon it being bad - also bad. And then they kept using that trick...

Or... Just use some of this. And perhaps add a little thingy to tell people how they are keeping the cool stuff from back then while making it feel current and run smoother.

WotC are very good at marketing... Magic. So why not try some of their tricks? Examples: Weeks after the initial announcement they could have had polls up where fans get to vote to save their creature - that way getting a sneak peek at what will get into the MM, and also feel that the...

I am glad that breathing isn't a standard action for a PC. ;)

Once everybody has taken their initiative, there are no "relative positions in the initiative order" anymore. Everyone takes their turn according to a rolling schedule, until the encounter is over. If A does something to B during A's turn, B's next turn will always show up before A's next turn -...

Agreed about the Dragon situation - especially considering that it is online, and can even be fixed before the Dragon issue itself is finialized. I am not so sure about them fixing small mistakes like that though. The KotS characters were put up as PDFs on the site, without including all the...

Excel?

I am not American, not a lawyer and certainly not great at American contract law. But I am good at reading things from several perspectives. The sceptic anti-establishment me reads: 'They want to control all the 3rd party publishers - being able to revoke the license at any sign of...