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This doesn't feel that hard to me: He starts crouched, not Prone. Give him a Minor at-will movement power which allows him to stand from crouched, removing the lid. Grab is his Standard action. Pull the target into the Trench, letting the lid fall back over the pit, is his Move. If he's an...

Well, the Young White Dragon is a Level 3 Solo Brute, right? Consider that to be about equivalent to four Level 3 monsters, in your planning. Consider the rage drake to be equivalent to a player character, assuming its the standard Level 5 monster, possibly ridden as a mount? I'd think three...

Hmmm, I'm not sure "Top down" and "Bottom up" are the only ways to approach things. I decided to create my story, and then shape the world according to it. So, for example, I tried to figure out who the Level 30 villain might be, and from that, who the Level 20 villains might be, and from...

Great advice from spunkrat here, well before he got to the bit about subverting the dragon-princess trope. I was doing a lot of fiction writing on the web, free and for fun, to the point where I started winning awards and getting a lot of user feedback suggesting that I "go pro". As soon as I...

We've got two games going. One DM has a "basic ambient" playlist, which I suspect the party are beginning to think of as "our theme songs" as they typically come out when we're resting, or moving the plot along through story rather than combat. Then he's got playlists set up for individual...

Thanks, K, sorry for misquoting-you-by-implication. Regarding the rest of the conversation, maybe we're right back around to this being a "How the DM is using it" issue. The DM could quite conceivably draw this up as: Secret Door: Not visible to Passive Perception if the party simply enter...

My comments below: I really like FireLance's structured idea. Our party had a similar running skill challenge: BBEG fleeing, party giving chase, other bad guys pursuing us. Our DM essentially called it a starting Delay of 2 or so for all characters, and made both the BBEG and his henchmen run...

I think the thing on Vertical movement stems from the original PHB wording in the section on Forced Movement. : and also I think, as you indicated, that that is intended to prevent me from pushing somebody two squares vertically and having him fall for an extra 1d10 damage. It does very...

No, the only definition for Ally I see is the one on PHB p57 defining Target in terms of powers. As for thinking of "why CAN I move through my ally's square?", I think that's approaching it backwards. a 5'x5' square is huge when you consider the width of a person; you could easily put four...

We've been using Awesome Points for this purpose. Our Awesome Points can be used to promote a Miss into a Hit, or a Hit into a Critical; to automatically make a Saving Throw or a Skill Check; to regain a Daily Power; or converted into an Action Point which doesn't count against the usual AP...

I suppose the thinking is, if you delete that, he can use the Daily, then swap it out for Encounters and use those for the rest of the day .. or vice versa, use the Encounters all day and then swap them to the Dailies when he knows a boss fight is coming. Keep in mind that he's got the ability...

Seriously, if you're the DM, and planning on running any sort of campaign with an extended undead presence, I'd suggest using Open Grave only for "crunch", and working through your own idea of the fluff.

I use Monster Maker, Asmor's Monster Maker, which exports to individual HTML files. Being fairly good with HTML, I drop those into some side-by-side tables, and print them out so that I tend to get 4 monsters on a single 8.5"x11", which I could print onto cardstock if I wanted, but instead...

Agreed, KarinsDad. After reading your argument, and Prism's earlier, I think I'm going to have to move back to the old "hidden Spot check behind the screen" method to see who notices, or doesn't. That's fine with me, it gets me out of some habits that may be making the game less fund for some...

Awesome stuff, weem. KUTGW!! (Keep Up The Good Work!)

We just print up our characters via CB, and place them in plastic sleeves inside 3-ring-binders. We use dry-erase markers to track hit points, power usages, etc. Works pretty well - though its a lot bigger than your booklet!!

My group is finding that we take 17 minutes per round: 4 players, 1 DM, paragon levels (13-14). So, a typical fight, 6 rounds, is taking us pretty much on 2 hours, and a long-lasting one can go 3 or more. The problem, the point where it feels like a "grind", occurs at that instant where the...

I really like the "I decree that none of my subjects shall experience pain and suffering" idea. There are so many hundreds of places that can go, even before getting to the "massive ritual that prevents it" level: 1. The Emperor is out for a walk. His minions are tasked with preventing any...

Well, as a GM I have killed a character who couldn't light a fire because he didn't have a flint and steel ... ... but to be fair, he'd jumped off a ship, alone, without his pack, in metal armor, into a barely-above-freezing river, in the middle of winter, in a desolate snow-covered area. He...

Not a problem; you were right that my post may have been confusing to new DM's.