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I'd been using an "all players in the lead element roll, any trailing players automatically succeed" mechanic. So if the dwarf in plate mail hangs out behind the three sneaky players, the three sneaky players in the lead are the only ones who break out dice. Then, I wasn't using Passive...

Hmm, I read that as, if you see the Orc Chieftan on the side of the road, just give him a hug! He's obviously just misunderstood!

We've gone with a bit of a cartoon-esque mechanic: Free-fall is a free action which happens automatically at the end of your turn if you haven't had physical support at any point during your turn. Basically, fall on your turn, its generally because of a failed skill check during an action, so...

This thread makes me very sad because my campaign is paragon and we let the bad guys steal our airship. Just reading these ideas makes me want it back all the more!! I think the "Net" idea works really well with the dragons grappling the ship, for example. What else might an airship have...

Hmm, I guess that's what I was going for with the "reload Standard" idea, giving our non-cannon characters a good "something to do" .. but you're right, its not an awesome something to do. What if the battle almost faces two directions at once: the dragons are coming, but pounding the ship from...

Yeah, our experience is, by about 5th level, "money" becomes pretty immaterial as a resource, and by Paragon all the more so. "Ahh, the dragon's hoard .. 57,000gp! Let's go to the inn and celebrate! ... okay, everybody spend 5sp buying drinks .." So, much as others indicated, there's little...

Lmao!

Right - this is certainly an area that requires some thought. Is the Shield of Silver Light an item which you want to imbue with some sort of divine power-against-darkness and a history which perhaps indicates that it is a Shield of Legend .. or is it just a cool little...

Wow, Samir, that text makes infinitely more sense than the PHB1 text that tries to accomplish the same thing. Thanks for the post, I'm going to use that as the "Official" wording for Divine Challenge in my campaign next week.

Yeah, absolutely agree with mneme - this feels like one which you'll want to toss the official rules out the window, and write your own "house rule" for. I'd suggest you give it a bit more flexibility than "highest level", or "one square of bright" .. you might get a lot of mileage out of "2...

Oh. Man. One of my favorite meta-D&D moments, from wayyy back when we were kids: One of the worst DM's ever ruled that if you decided to disbelieve an illusion, that wasn't an illusion, you would cause yourself to be unable to see the not-illusion you were disbelieving. When called on it, he...

Yeah, what Ryujin said: dramatic tension and hidden information. I don't want my DM to write the monster's AC down on the white board so that I know what it takes to hit ... and I don't want to know whether the monster just hit my tank fighter twice because it rolled an 18 and a 19, or because...

Love. It !!! Do enjoy that you keep posting your airship ideas, and I hope my DM is reading them. :D You've got six players but your cannons do a metric boatload of damage, more than a typical Daily, which might be 3[W]+10 at that level. Do you want to try consuming a bit more of their...

Exactly. I think this is the sort of issue that didn't need Errata, so much as it needed a "Allow the DM to use his or her judgement in those cases." I mean, as a DM, I want the flexibility to run the following encounter: Fighter, Warlord, and Bard vs: Dominating Controller, Soldier w/ Aura...

That, I think, is the key point - as long as a.) The characters are able to get "appropriate" equipment fairly early on in their career, and b.) Pre-equipment encounters are scaled down in difficulty to account for the weakened state of the party, It isn't going to matter if you give them...

It depends on the situation and the game, I think. We've got one game where the DM follows the 'Players Roll The Dice' rule, so if a monster attacks my character, I roll the d20 against myself to see if it hits. Same DM also asks us to roll our own skill checks, out in the open, and goes so far...

Yeah. We've begun using the phrase "its a keyword" in rules discussions at our gaming table - it really helps, actually. Though our definition of "keyword" doesn't match the "official" list of keywords, we use it to describe any action, check, attribute, property, type, etc, which has a formal...

Oooh, interesting read, Nytmare, thanks for the link! We already use a variant of "The Players Roll All The Dice", and the "Death Flag" has a bit of appeal to me. Good stuff to think about! Well .. we played the first session in a kind of unique way which took pains to define the character's...

You're welcome - an example of the community at its best, I hope, to counter some of your other experiences? No shame needed re: the defender. Its actually a problem with the RAW, too. Basically, dishing out a critical hit is fun, but taking a critical hit isn't. Sure, the game needs to be...

:D Yeah, I just about lost it at the table - I'd taken pains to outline the mysterious chest under the bed, etc .. but no, she had no interest in stopping to explore. You could almost hear her think to herself, "What? I'll just take the sword from the first one I kill." (Veteran player, btw...