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A new keyword I thought of. Flavorwise, the setting it appears in would be a brand new plane where mana is still primordial and changing. Adapt X: When you place a spell with Adapt X on the stack, choose up to X colors. If you choose at least 1 color, the spell becomes the chosen color(s). If...

Well, I view this as a much more 'gamist' thing, and in that sense I like the idea of giving the players information and leaving it to judgment rather than guessing about when the best time to blow all their shinies is. It's also worth noting that, at least until you start unlocking magic...

Well, the base idea is from 4th edition and my implementation would be in 4th edition, but there's no reason you couldn't use the idea wholecloth with any system. The game system is really irrelevant, the meat of it is just a framework for presenting a traditional adventure in roughly hour-long...

I've been thinking about D&D Encounters, and how it could be improved. I could see running my own, non-sanctioned D&D Encounters events at e.g. weekly game clubs. Here are some goals I have. *There should be a combat every session. It needn't be the focus of the session, and if not the focus...

For the time being, things aren't actually going to be much different. He'll release 9.0. Compendium stuff will be disabled, but... ...8.8 is still out in the aether, easy enough to obtain if you don't have it. Further, there's no reason to think he'd get rid of the concept of libraries, and...

I'd recommend a MPTW, which is a particular flavor of tiddlywiki, which is a small, self-contained wiki. I made a post a while back about why it's so great and how to use it... Encounter-a-Day » Archive » Making kickass campaign sites with MPTW

Well, the 2002 figure I thought was when it was switched over from Eric Noah's site to ENWorld...

Wow, has it really been that long since the last time the boards had to be rolled back? Or was that not the last time they were rolled back? Definitely doesn't feel like it's been 7 years...

Just wanted to reiterate that it's clearly not a C&D issue, or else he wouldn't continue distribution. Also, in my limited experience, WotC isn't as litigious as certain companies (Hi, GW! *waves*) and they seem to have some common sense rules about who they go after. In particular, I don't...

Biweekly Saturdays. Start time is supposed to be 5:30 pm, but realistically we start around 6ish usually. Aim to end around 10 or 11.

Here's a question... What does the amount of green boxes next to our title/level indicate? It's non-obvious to me. There appears to be a correlation with higher levels having more green boxes, but it is non-linear. I also noted that one person had a grey box, a "level 1 kobold" who only had 7...

There's a place in Danvers called Toys N Things which runs D&D encounters. In fact, if you've been to any of the D&D Encounters events there we probably met. I'm Ian. I'm probably going to be starting a 4e game (or possible resurrecting a previous one) sometime this summer in Revere and may...

Err... I'm assuming there must have been a spammy reply here which I didn't see... I can't see how you'd confuse my post with spam. o_0

I was going to give Weem some exp on your behalf, but apparently I need to spread it around too. lol.

Certainly the highest XP earners are also the most prolific posters... But consider that, all other things aside, someone who posts twice as often will have twice as many "XP-worthy" posts. Of course, one could then question whether prolific posters are themselves more or less likely to have...

The emperor's new clothes.

I didn't award xp for a long time because, at first, it was just too damn slow. You'd click the button and wait...and wait...and wait... And so I just got in the habit of not clicking the button. It's a habit I'm starting to break out of.

Masterplan is a 4e-centric DM suite with support for keeping track of custom calendars and timelines. Storybook has some timeline stuff as well, I believe, and is more generic as it's targeted at novelists.

I've seen that picture before! In fact, I do believe that you're the person who inspired me to start collecting milk crates for my games and books in the first place! Kudos to you, sir.

I've been playing since the beginning, usually as the DM, but as a player 3 times (including the crazy TPK-fest that was this week's encounter). I can't speak for the first two times I played, because there were 8 or so PCs and it was incredibly annoying (the whole reason I started DMing, so we...