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    Designing a mega-dungeon - looking for ideas, products

    Jason Carl made the best use of stolen dungeon space in a game he ran for a group I played in. The maps he stole were from The Forge of Fury.
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    Planescape, 4e, and the problem of worlds without history

    Yes...there really are good reasons to redact and cut material. Yes...it was a good idea throw out the trash. The 4th edition cosmology is pretty much the perfect celestial space for Dungeons & Dragons players and the feeling of fantasy overall. Even if it were true that amazing material was...
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    Feywild/Shadowfell Campaign Settings

    Helll yes! I'd easily enjoy a campaign set entirely in the Feywild but it wouldn't be too different from a really fantastic campaign set in a Homebrew World. The fantastic locations of Forgotten Realms could confuse you as to were you in the World or the Feywild. But I'm in favor of full...
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    Separating Crunch and Fluff at Character Creation

    Character backgrounds don't write themself so it doesn't work to say that -3 Fort Save is "in character". It's a game mechanic which can just as easily be represented by the low Fort progression her class already has. There is no absolute standard for "how bad" her character's Fort Save needs...
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    Latest Hasbro Investor confrence call

    Actually no. Hasbro already paid for Wizards of the Coast. Hasbro reports profit according to accounting rules that treated Wizards of the Coast as if it cost $29 million each year through 2009. In fact there is no cash that goes out the door in 2009 towards that $29 million. Tax laws are a...
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    Why do you keep playing 4e?

    4th edition is fun! I like the Eladrin/Elf split. Since I've always had the realm of Faerie in my games it's nice to have support in the form of the Feywild. It's nice to have a party that has healing with only martial characters. D&D 4th edition feels more cinematic - I enjoy cinematic...
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    Latest Hasbro Investor confrence call

    It's accounting jargon, if you will. Hasbro reports profit numbers each year. Those profits are revenues minus expenses. On the day that cash went from Hasbro's coffers to Wizards of the Coast shareholders Hasbro did not reduce their profit by that cost. Instead Hasbro capitalized the...
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    Forked Thread: What should Darksun 4e include?

    I'd say, "Reset back to day one as presented in the very first Dark Sun supplement." I don't think my request is close to what Wizards of the Coast would do since they're invested in the fiction they've published for Dark Sun. So the next best option to complete reset would be advancing the...
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    Poll of Polls

    I'm not sure what the OP intended but it seems like a lot of posters haven't taken this poll seriously. I wish people would take this poll seriously because I think even unscientific polls provide useful insight in aggregate. Wizards of the Coast doesn't allow polls on their forums and I use...
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    How should I integrate "Primal" into my Warhammer D&D game?

    Many of the Warden's attacks feel like Battle Magic. You could treat this as a character with career paths in both Druidic Priest and melee professions (like Gamekeeper and Woodsman). The big difference between Primal classes in 4th edition and the feel of Druidic Priests in Warhammer is...
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    DMG2 blurb on Amazon. Attention Planescape fans!

    I'm willing to go out on a limb and say that if you make it to the Astral Dominions of Forgotten Realms then you can make it to Abeir-Toril. I intuited that a Spelljammer is how you do this: I'll admit that my intuition can be proven wrong by supplements from Wizards of the Coast. Logically...
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    Everyone, Tell us about your games, please!

    1.) How many players in your group? - 5 + the Dungeon Master 2.) Do you DM? - Not the current game but I have in the past 3.) Do other people in the group DM, and how many? - 3 of the five players DM (myself included) 4.) What's the Male/Female composition of the group? - One woman...
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    So What Are Your Favorite D&D Prepaints?

    One figure rules them all - Large Red Dragon It's Dungeons & Dragons after all.
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    DMG2 blurb on Amazon. Attention Planescape fans!

    Doesn't 4th edition explicitly state somewhere that other prime material planes (aka "World" or "Krynn", etc) are on the other side of the Astral Sea. Way out at sea as it were. But probably this side of the Far Realms.
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    How should I integrate "Primal" into my Warhammer D&D game?

    "Druids are not absolutely committed to becoming Druidic Priests; they are followers of the religion, and not all of them will aspire to, or achieve, Priesthood" - page 151, Druidic Priests, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, 1989 Druidic Priests form the priesthood of the Old Faith. "There is no...
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    Starting hit points?

    Seems like 4th edition rules are winning the poll.
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    Thinking about Warhammer?

    You start as a peasant, but you get to take cool careers with names like Witch-Hunter. The art in the 1989 Games Workshop Ltd version is really inspiring but the rules are overly complicated. The Warhammer Fantasy world is very flavorful with some overtones of Europe/Earth so it feels slightly...
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    Why the D&D Miniature Line Failed...

    I hate to disagree but in this case (D&D) they did reprint. Dragoneye was printed a second time with the higher $12.99 MSRP. The second print run was about 50% of the first printing of Dragoneye which is quite a lot. I believe the first print run of Dragoneye was stickered with the higher...
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    Why the D&D Miniature Line Failed...

    Mistakenly, Wizards of the Coast worked more to prop up the miniatures Game and collectible prices than supplying miniatures to D&D roleplaying games. Dragoneye and Harbinger were both selling quite well when they were taken out of print. So customers who wanted the iconic sculpts in those...
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    Using Class Templates

    This angel could report to any number of masters such as Lolth, Tiamat, Zehir, Vecna, the Raven Queen, Sehanine (trickery), or even Tharizdun. At third level this angel can run away to harry the party again later if he succeeds with blinding barrage to cover his escape. I didn't choose Stealth...
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