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1e DMG has it listed as the first of several alternate character generation methods.

Talisman is due out in October, iirc. But, imo, nostalgia is about all Talisman has going for it. My group bought Descent as an alternative to Talisman (2e), and we haven't gone back to Talisman since. The first few adventures in Descent are weighed toward the heroes, but after that, things get...

Yup, I was thinking of that too. It was set up as several individual encounters, but tactics were included such that those encounters would flow together into a single dynamic fight.

Ah, yes. There will be a lot fewer players experiencing my stuff, so I don't have quite the same concerns. But, agreed.

As you say, I don't think these will go away. I don't think Mike's schedule is free enough that he can stand behind each of us with a baseball bat while we're designing encounters. I am looking forward to this being the new standard. I've faced the same problem brought up at the start of the...

Original post: in Thread 4e Dungeon Design - New Article Reason: This thread beat mine to the punch (http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?p=3732993#post3732993) Couldn't find how to report my own thread, so can mine be closed or combined with this one? Assigned Moderators: (mods who got...

Design and Development Mearls posts on setting up dungeons and encounters covering wider areas, and challenges people to design multi-room encounters using the classic sample dungeon from the 1E and 3E DMG. eta- dang, scooped by 2 minutes.

Ari, if WotC doesn't hire you at some point, I hope they send plenty of freelance work your way, as I haven't seen you post anything in a 4E thread that I disagreed with. My own version: 3.5 is a great game, but it's not perfect. There have been changes made over the years to help patch the...

I've never read much on the WoW board game, but what I've heard hasn't been encouraging. For the Descent player limit (and the five players means 1 overlord and four heroes), there's no official increase. The only change in monster stats between 2,3, or 4 heroes is that each additional hero...

Thursday night, I ran a fight between 4 level 10 PCs and a CR 14 villain, a classed half-fiend. The half-fiend was pretty tough, and could dish out a lot of damage, but with four characters pounding on him, I think he was done in about 3 rounds. I couldn't really have him do anything cool, as...

I crossed over during the announcement. I'd had most of the day to think about it, consider how much I'd spent on 3E, did I really need a new edition? But, I'm a D&D player. Love or hate the new edition, I felt I should be at the announcement. The virtual table top and the character creator...

Actually, the Overlord has several Power cards he can play which enhance the powers of all monsters. As the heroes find the silver and gold treasures, they become very tough, but, aside from the first few quests (which are designed to favor the players), in my experience the heroes have been in...

My main problem with the WotC boards is the number of users- those threads get big fast. I've stayed out of the Doomsday thread- I'd rather read discussion and theories, not see pages of whining, ranting, and yelling. I don't know if such a thread keeps the negativity out of other threads, but...

I like to think there will be enough, with 2+ years of internal playtesting as well as this being a smaller shift than from 2e to 3e. Still, we might be getting more playtesting, past the point where the book is sent to the printers. With the Digital Inititive making it easier to distribute...

I decided to buy some on the last day of the con, and took the guy up on his offer of 3 for 50. I opened my first pack tonight, and managed to break the hinges off one wall later in the evening. The rest looked in good order and worked fine. Much more visually appealing than black marker on the...

Yup. On my way out, I grabbed a stack to pass out to my players; they weren't going to be used by the hotel after that, so I figured they made cheap (free) little mementos.

Being srhall79, a little more that I remember: Andy's view was that XP are a way of measuring how well you're doing; if these get lost, it screws things up. His example was you might have a 13th level fighter and a 12th level wizard, but the wizard is 12th because he spent XP making items- items...

Hotel keycards with a bunch of dice pictured, all showing "4", that made it pretty hard to stay in denial.

I think that was Steve running that one. He then hit my rogue with Tasha's Laughter, taking me out of that encounter. On the bright side, it meant you got to miss the fight with the red dragon and efreet. I had two more trips, only surviving the last one. Sadly, I gathered six keys, without a...

Congrats to the winners, and especially the 2008 panel of judges. I'd planned on attending, but ended up hanging out at the Ram with the Gleemax guys and the WizOs (Ultimate Gamer winners Scot Martin and Evan Davis for the curious)