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What are the Eberron paragon paths and epic destinies? From looking at the table of contents and skimming the Eberron Player's Guide, did anything jump out at you as surprising?

I'm banking on the upcoming campaign tools to produce a more usable encounter builder that actually includes the stat blocks, nicely formatted. I can already see myself browsing through the compendium, adding monsters to my "shopping cart" (and feeling briefly sorry for my PCs when I overshoot...

Well, I don't know if it would count as official, but the recent article D&D Alumni: Demogorgon suggests applying the following formula (in the context of reconfiguring Orcus for a deathmatch against Demogorgon): "give him 20% fewer hit points, -2 defenses, but also increase his damage output by...

Here's an idea I would try if I were running a game at the moment: instinctive actions for PCs. Once a player's turn begins, he must immediately state what standard-action power he intends to use, otherwise he must use one of his PC's at-will powers (or a basic attack or some non-attack...

I actually just got home from Dragon's Lair; I live only a few miles away. I'll be sure to check out the signing. I regretted missing the last one, but I couldn't justify picking up Draconomicon. The Eberron Player's Guide, however, is a must-buy for me!

I noted more than once while reading that Diederic's actions weren't particularly heroic. I think the only reason I didn't see the ending coming was a lack of familiarity with the Ravenloft concept of dark lords (or maybe I'm just dumb like that). I definitely don't think his sins were too...

I too had fun reading this story. I don't have much time for reading these days, but each installment seemed just the right weekly dose of adventure. It was my first experience with Ravenloft in any form, so I enjoyed seeing a different take on fantasy. I'll also just say that at least once...

I believe the campaign guide includes a page summarizing all the adventures. It's available for free at the WotBS site.

Hmm, the 3E ECS didn't make this association between the Sovereign Host and civilization versus the Dark Six and wilderness. Did this association appear in later books, or is it new to 4E Eberron? I'm finding it an interesting take on the role of the pantheon.

I started my career as a DM with 3.5, or at least I tried to. I didn't find any sort of comfort zone until 4E, when I found I didn't even need to crack a rulebook during a session.

I agree with you on this point: the OP is really unlucky (as opposed to the victim of negligence or fraud). Chances are there are n distinct cases, where n is significantly larger than 2 and much smaller than 12870. If there are 50 different cases, then one in every 2500 people who buy three...

Null hypothesis: the set of eight rares in a given case are chosen uniformly at random from one of the 16 choose 8 = 12870 possible size-8 subsets of a set of 16. The likelihood of having two cases with the same set of eight rares is 1/12870 = 0.0000777. The likelihood of having three...

For both skill challenges, I think the key is to avoid a boring succession of Diplomacy checks. Applying some of the advice from Mike Mearls's column on skill challenges, I suggest giving the players multiple concrete obstacles to overcome within each challenge. For the first challenge, the...

Arcane Towers is the new set of Dungeon Tiles coming out next month.

There's a difference between encouraging people to give RPGs a try because they might like them and trying to change the nature of RPGs so that more people will like them (after they try them). I don't think it's defeatist to say that the product (D&D for example) is fine but perhaps could use...

Yeah, I no longer let my wife (Master's degree in English) tell me what she thinks will happen next when we watch TV. Ah, ignorance is bliss!

Absent evidence that your players are on the same page as you, I think it's critical that you communicate to the players that retreat is a realistic option. In particular, you need to differentiate between "this enemy will kill you if you don't run" and "this enemy will kill you if you don't...

I think this material belongs in Dungeon, but I hope it doesn't come at the expense of bringing the amount of prepared adventure material back up. I'd love to see three adventures in every issue or at least two adventures and multiple "lairs" (like those in Draconomicon or Open Grave) or other...

I voted the same way, but the game store I consider excellent (Dragon's Lair) does carry role-playing products. I also consider Rogue's Gallery excellent, but technically they're up in Round Rock.

Unfortunately, I don't think 4E has found its killer AP yet. The series beginning with Keep on the Shadowfell is best suited to groups that enjoy dungeon crawls. They provide some opportunities for role-playing, such as the assorted NPCs in Winterhaven, but the modules don't provide much...