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Thanks for all the advice, everybody. Especially Rechan and Fallen Seraph. I think I'm starting to get them, now.

Why's everybody giving this guy such a hard time? He wants to give 4e another shot, let him give it another shot. It's his life. Simple as that. Now, as to his changes, they all sound perfectly reasonable to me. You can re-flavor martial as ki if you like. Re-skinning and re-flavoring things...

My question isn't so much 'how can I use them' as it is, 'how can I use them and make them feel different from ankhegs, owlbears, basilisks, lich, rakshasa, etc.' Slaad are a good example, actually. I almost kind of wish slaad were aberrations. They have that alien, otherworld feeling, they have...

I'm starting to really dig aberrations, and I want to use more of them. Maybe even have a solid campaign built around them as the 'ultimate evil'. I love the whole Lovecraftian angle of the Far Realms, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to use these creatures. They seem to primarily come in...

Heh, this makes me chuckle. I wonder if ten years from now I'll be writing screeds against 5e? "Man, they screwed up with 5e! They just don't get it... 4e was about imagination!" Anyway, thanks for sharing your opinion. One thing I take issue with (and this is not directed at the OP in...

Oh, good call. You can see V is carrying something whitish, but our line of sight is blocked by Xykon. And in the final panel one of O-Chul's hands is out of view... almost like he's winding up a big swing with a nasty weapon. Not sure what it could be, though. Maybe the hobgoblin cleric's...

Dungeon Delve is a book (series of books?) that contains a number of ready-to-use dungeon crawls. So Dungeon Delve contains many dungeon crawls. Asking 'how is a dungeon delve different from a dungeon crawl?' is kind of like asking 'how is a monster manual different from a monster?'

I like playing wizards, sorcerers and the like. Magical characters and spells are simply my favorite aspect of fantasy. Now, I will gladly play a game where magic doesn't exist in the setting, like a modern counter-terrorism game or a sci-fi game. I'll even play a game where magic exists, but...

I've noticed something interesting here: people who say they explicitly dislike or are on the fence about 4e say they like healing surges. While poeple that are fans of 4e (in my experience, anyway), generally dislike the healing surge mechanic. Their gripe is that the designers went through all...

Good, but a little too forgiving. Here's mine: roll 1d6 1. a copper piece 2. a twig 3. a bit of string 4. deadly poisonous scorpion 5. sphere of annihilation 6. Bag of Holding with Demogorgon inexplicably inside

Attempting to bring back the funny: I love how the 4e writers apparently believe that 'eldritch' is a synoym for 'magic'. Can anyone explain to me what's so eldritch about the eldritch giant? How about the eldritch blast?

Simplicity. 4e has just the level of complexity that I like. Not that 3.5e was too bad (it was mostly the endless scores of splat books and weird feat-chain-prerequisites that threw me off). But I've been trying to get into other games, such as Paranoia XP or All Flesh Must Be Eaten, and I'm...

Regicide's got it. There are at least a couple powers in Arcane Power that prevent a monster from taking standard actions. These powers say nothing about minor actions, however. It'd be a once in a blue moon kind of thing, but it's still nice.

Hmm, I guess. But I think it would still be funny to send a full party of Arcane Swords against Orcus, and watch him try to fight off five untargetable magic blades. Also, what about the Swordmage's mark? I'm guessing you wouldn't be allowed to use it in 'blade form'. The power says you can...

Ooo, good idea for a thread. I have a request. I want to use a classic shambling mound. The thing is, my players are very casual, and not familiar with many D&D icons. They won't recognize a shambling mound when they see one, so I need help flavoring it, describing it, and basically...

I'm not getting how a 24th level Swordmage with the Arcane Sword epic destiny can lose a fight. Once per day when you die, your sword fights on in your stead until the end of the encounter. What's more, the sword can't be the target of attacks. Now, since it's 'when you die' and not 'when...

Ah, see, I disagree entirely. Since most of the campaigns I DM or play in are based solely in heroic tier, I want more and more heroic tier monsters... especially those that give some sort of hint at a greater, world-threatening evil. They allow you to give hints about the coming epic-style...

That might have something to do with the fact that 3.5 has been in existence for about six years, while 4e has only been in existence for about 1. You have to let 4e have a lifetime before you compare lifetime sales.

It's a little hard to justify running out of the castle to go mano a mano with a dragon every week. In fact, most people would consider that a pretty insane thing for a king to do. I mean, Beowulf only got to do it once, and we all know how that worked out for him.

Another option worth considering is an online gametable, like Maptools. That's my fallback for when I really want to play, but don't know anybody to play with.