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Very cool article. It's funny, my impression is something like "oh, it would be really cool to take these powers and wield a dynamic weapon, and that would be a fun character to play" and then I think "...and I bet someone in character optimization has already figured out a way to take one of...

I remember there being a whole cloak-fighting style of fighting in GURPS (with skills to match, of course).

Familiar looks awesome- there's been a lot of 4e software releases lately but I'm impressed that yours can import character builder files and monsters from the Compendium. Definitely give it a try. But like the above poster, can't wait for a Mac version. Much easier than having to dual-boot to...

My sense is that it's a books squarely aimed at the Penny Arcade audience who probably have come to 4e through Gabe talking about it on PA, the podcasts, etc. and (more speculation) come from video game backgrounds. A "strategy guide" to 4e if you will, which is why it makes sense to use his...

My working theory is that players tend to get one "go-to" at will and one situational at will. A third at will (currently for humans only) tends to be even more situational, so I would imagine it would make humans a good deal worse. It would depend on class of course but that may be food for...

Love it, after 18 months finally feel like I've hit my stride with it (and the campaign story) and so have the players.

Heh, I'm mostly familiar with him from him trying to throw me in the pool every year at Midwestcon. I was surprised to see his name on a DDI article, but then remembered his daughter writes novels for WotC.

I use Obsidian Portal. I was using Media Wiki for a while, and managed to keep it hidden so that not just anybody would come across it and make changes, but it wasn't ideal for RPG playing. (Plus, the server it was on got hit by several injection attacks, screwing up Media Wiki each time.) I'm...

This works for an air elemental too, right?

I'll be there, running some RPG and 4e seminars.

It just never happens. The implicit agreement in my games has been that I won't throw TPK situations at my players and they won't force themselves into TPK scenarios. It's even easier now in Paragon since they have enough contingencies for themselves that they can escape serious situations. PCs...

Wyatt's campaign setting is one of the most awesome ones I've ever read, AND it's totally free on his site. My campaign is "Dark Ages" style where disease, poverty, and ignorance run rampant in the wild lands, while major cities are protected by magic called "Etherium" that keeps out the worst...

Fascinating to hear how many TPKs have happened and how they caused new campaigns to be started. I would never do that in my game, so it's interesting to hear how often it's happened to others!

I read the title of this thread and thought it was an article on Halfling foot races, which take longer because of small legs.

Group I'm running just hit 14, been playing roughly bi-weekly (with some breaks) since the game came out. I had expected to roughly reboot the campaign at every tier, but my heroic tier plot ended up spilling out to encompass all of paragon too.

Ran a playtest of my 4e Modern game that I'm developing on my site for 5 of my regular D&D players, where they all worked at a biotech research firm who were trapped in their office during a zombie outbreak. On the minus side, 4 out of 5 of them died as they tried the brute force method to...

I've also had a lot of success with the published modules stripping it down to just a few fights/encounters while keeping the spirit and ideas of the module. I did this for Thunderspire and fit it into 4 sessions... my players were still sick of it by the end then but a lot better than if I had...

I know this is now, like, 9 hours away, but any recommendations on Metro vs. Driving (coming from up 270), and if the latter, recommendations on parking?

Put up my Preview: Critical Hits » Preview: “Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons” What is it that people want to know about Bahamut? He has a lot of the same god mechanics we've seen with Tiamat, Vecna, etc.

Ha! I was right! I guess it is a problem because it's RARE and CURSED....