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Ummmm... you know, that's _really_ not helpful. Yes, if you were faced with the option of 4E without minis, you'd play a different game. But that's not what the OP asked. He asked If anyone does, and if they do, How is it done. If you've done it mini-less and had specific issues, then yeah...

Rather than retype it all out, here's what I've said before in a different thread: I don't actually print the strip out. Like I said, I've got a magnetic dry erase board that I use to keep track of initiative order and monster HP. It might seem a bit hard to wrap your head around how to...

*cough* Errr.. I don't think I actually said what I thought E6 was. :) Just that the way the game is structured, the expectations of many players, and the overall push of many adventures all expect that the game style changes in a particular way over time. IF people play/run the game in an...

And being the opinionated platypus I am, I gotta chime in too.... :D This limit is really more a function of "players can craft magic items", rather than something that has to apply to the entire gameworld. For example, there's a fantastic book done some time back called, "The Artificer's...

Ok, NOW I understand your point. I personally ran an E8 game, so I didn't bump up against this in the same way. Would it be a problem? Hmmmm. I actually do think that's something of a good question. Part of where the answer lies is in how the GM is dealing with magic items in their game (I...

Errr... You're wrong. BECMI (D&D) predated AD&D. AD&D came along years after D&D was already out there. While it took time for all of BECMI (and the eventual Rules Cyclopedia) to show up, they were 2 seperate game lines that were related. Essentials is going about that backwards. As well...

No, it's just that they acquire wealth as though they're just 6th level. Basically, yeah. Ok, _this_ on the other hand doesn't make sense to me. If you're running the game normally, then encounters are going to be just as difficult, and XP as well as wealth is going to flow at exactly the...

Oooooook... I guess I've gotta ask, what exactly is it you're trying to do? You seem to have several things going on here and I don't get it. You're probqbly not familiar with Upper_Krust and the work he did in figuring out a consistent approach to using the CR system. His work basically says...

So, is there any way to actually make it work? A while back, one of the ideas floated for dealinng with getting rid of Iterative attacks was to add a damage bonus based on level (or half level for the nervous folks). Does something like that help address the problem? What about exploding dice...

I won't argue it with you. Errrr.... Did you actually bother to check the posts I linked to? They kinda address the problem that this "fan site kit" (no policy) has. If you did and you feel the fan site kit addresses all the issues, then I guess that's groovy for you. I know I personally would...

I have a somewhat unusual background, in that I'm an adopted kid. Not that being adopted is particularly unusual, but that I was adopted twice. First time I was 6 years old and then I was put up for adoption again at age 9. When I first learned about the platypus all those years ago, I was...

Opinions vary. You're not alone, in that there were a bunch of people who basically said, "Suck it up and quit whining." The GSL debate was never about the difficulty of making adventures. It was about the ability to do _anything_ other than make adventures. If it was only about making...

Seriously. I can't stress this enough. People freaked when 3.0 first rolled out talking about how fast advancement was, etc. Of course the reason why it seemed so fast is because they'd been using the houserules for years of "gold is it's own reward and you don't get XP for it". Since that was...

Yeah, UA says it's 11+mods. However, a good point was made here for actually using 12+mods instead of 11: http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/147190-players-rolling-all-dice-variant-ua-anyone-used.html#post2555177 Plenty of folks have messed around with it over the years. You...

Personally, i simply use the Take 10 as the default check. If someone wants to roll, they can knock themselves out, but otherwise it's just a given that they perform at that level. The basic approach is, if it's an "unstressed" situation then they get 10 + skill + whatever. Combat is a...

Yeah, people have been going around on fixing iterative attacks for years now. You're probably going to be best off doing one of two things: 1. Search the forums. I know, this doesn't sound very helpful but people have been taking about this for years and there's been all sorts of stuff written...

While I'm not a fan of their Action Points approach, overall I really dig Trailblazer. It's more what I'd hoped Pathfinder would be.

*sigh* And I'm always baffled how people need to leap forward and declare that Essentials isn't 4.5. Let's face it, WotC already handed us lines about what 3.5 was/wasn't... The bolding in the quote above is mine, to emphasize the point WotC was making. Essentials is only 10 products...

Why does this bother you? Not everyone is going to be buying the Essentials line. I know I for example won't be. The idea of the Rules Compendium is nice I suppose, but I don't trust it. The Magic Item Compendium and the Rules Compendium done before for 3.5 weren't exactly "must have" products...

No, not really. Gamers expect their books to be consistent. Having page 84 of an electronic text be different than page 84 of the print text is not going to be something that's liked. How I think about content is not the issue/question. I'm working on getting a TidlyWiki version of the SRD...