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Last Breath of Ashenport, a Dungeon adventure (from 156 I think) might fit. It's more Lovecraftian than Ravenloftian, but there ain't a lot of horror out there for 4e. Those guides on Fraternity of Shadows are excellent though. You could also check out Legends and Labyrinths for more...

I was at the next table over playing the excellent Legends & Labyrinths mod of 4e and could tell you guys were having fun. Long live the rules hack.

There's an easy partial solution to this: Give us preview content in Dragon! I want to see those themes from Champions of the Heroic Tier.

I'll join the chorus of anti-Red Box people. I wanted to like it, but here's the problem: The characters you build in the Red Box can't be carried forward into future games. They don't match the rules for any other part of the game. And the adventure inside (which we're almost done running) is...

This is a relatively minor goof. And I actually like it when they admit they screwed up, and quickly. Responsiveness to feedback is the surest way to improve the game.

So far it's possible that the hunter ranger is the most complicated, simply because he has both trick shots and stances to keep track of. Both of those affect basic attacks and overlay on top of each other.

Quick Shot gets +1d6 damage (+1d8 at 21st), so it's built in. And they benefit from Attack Finesse.

The recent online disasters are especially sad given how much I love the Essentials line (except for the Red Box... bleh). Essentials really revitalized my love of the game, and this is after being a full on 4e convert. I stopped playing about halfway through 3e and came back with 4e. After PHB...

They lost the 1d6 per tier on weapon attacks. Instead, they get: Deadly Strike, an at-will that does 1W + 1d8 (2W + 1d8 at 21st) which can be used as a melee basic. I suspect they rewrote it as a power to add the following condition: it can only be used with a one-handed melee weapon. At 11...

If the export function comes I'll be happy to stick with it. But I think a removal of the limit on characters is far more likely given WOTC's track record with actually rolling out new functionality. Changing one parameter in the code sounds more feasible than adding a new function. Both changes...

Roll away. Yes, I will eliminate my subscription just to send a signal. Because I think the signal will be effective at making them eliminate the limit down the line. I've already sent an email to customer service along these lines. I will not continue paying the same price for a lower quality...

I was all for the online CB as a Mac user. But then I found about the 20 character limit. So let me get this straight. The new CB won't let you: -Share your character with other users (except by printing the character sheet to pdf and emailing); -Export the data; or -Have more than 20...

Today's Cavalier article allows you to have a "Celestial Battle Tiger" mount. Very subtle, Mr. Baker. Someone needs to find a way to optimize the AC of a paladin in fur speedo.

You've completely ignored to-hit chances, as noted above. Let's assume first level and a 60% chance of hitting, with axes. I'm going to ignore crits but those will generally favor the core ranger (bigger weapon sizes, second chance at crit independent of needing to hit on the first attack...

I see absolutely nothing wrong with taking away characters' standard toys for a given encounter as long as there's some accessible way for them to still meaningfully contribute.

I believe this is the article to which you refer.

:confused: I understand nothing that's going on in this sentence, except that you're playing a warden. Staff fighting doesn't do anything offensively if you don't have a power that lets you attack twice. So as usual the only potential problem is half elf versatile mastery cheese, but even then...

I have it on good authority that the hunter will also have a retro red box-era vibe: The Hunter! [HQ]

If I were running a long term game, I might give a free expertise or defense-pumping feat for free at levels 5, 15, and 25. Or nothing, and outlaw large swaths of pre-Essentials feats (to reduce the search cost for the players and eliminate some of the fiddly feats that are time-consuming and...

They Slayer is only a problem when cheesed with stuff like Versatile Mastery and Twin Strike. Makes me wish the damage bonus only applied to melee basic attacks.