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I played in an Encounters session using an Essentials warpriest. It was awesome. There was a mix of non-E and E classes, seven or eight of us, if I remember right. my character was all over the battlefield, throwing down the daily right off the bat (because it gave his companions a bonus to all...

The Rules Cyclopedia is missing a few bits of information. First is how non-magical, non-healing-skill healing takes place. The answer is all the way back in Moldvay Basic. 1d3 hit points are healed with each day of complete rest. I scribbled that into one of the blank pages in the back of my...

It isn’t enough to gather the raw materials. The PCs have to go to the Elemental Chaos and find an elder primordial and put it in a headlock until it reveals how matter is created/manipulated. Then, the PCs have to travel to the Astral Sea and cajole a few gods into revealing how matter is made...

Maybe literal world-building, as in, the PCs gather the materials and knowledge to build a fourth world during their epic tier adventures.

Hints and bits were the only thing really needed, because, as the DMG stated, “It’s your world”. A few ideas to get you started. That is all PoLand was supposed to be; it was all it needed to be. But those hints and bits are wholly awesome, in my point of view. Addendum: Matt Colville has a...

You know, as I am remembering it, the comparison he makes to Greyhawk is more along the lines of the piecemeal way both settings were published. Bits here and bits there in various books and magazines. Contradictory themes and elements. That sort of thing, rather than the underlying story worlds...

Player Brain Assault DM Attack 20 Daily * Primal, Psychic Standard Action Close Burst 5 Prerequisite: You must have a copy of any edition of D&D rules Target: Each creature in the burst Attack: INT vs Will Hit: 66d6 psychic damage, and the target is dazed and...

He specifically compares PoLand to Greyhawk, but I don’t know a whole lot about the latter. I took his argument as being that PoLand fit the idea of Law versus Chaos; civilization versus wilderness; order versus entropy.

How did I miss that very interesting and informative discussion? shakes head in confusion

There is a blog that asserts PoLand/Nentir Vale is as Old School as one can get with a setting. During the article, he says something like, “this setting is already part of your cultural consciousness.” Here is the post: 4th edition's implied setting is Old School as f*ck

It has numerous denominations and cults.

Wait...is that the same Ron Edwards who said that playing D&D causes brain damage?

The game starts in an inn; there is a little goblin jack in the box gambling game. A fight ensues with dwarf slavers. In the following videos, the PCs go searching for a person. Anything further is spoilers. Mr. Colville looks like he is a fun DM.

I don’t know. Someone mentions in the comments that several of Colville’s players don’t like to be recorded at all, so it may be that this group only agreed to be recorded as long as they weren’t being seen.

For anyone interested in seeing 4e in play, Matt Colville has posted videos of several play sessions on Youtube The unedited videos can be watched on twitch. He gives the link in the description box of his YouTube videos.

Monster Vault 2 sounds like a story now module.

The combat encounters would be minion only fights, or maybe minions and one brute, or something.

Excellent! Downloadable, even! The original (2e) is available on dmsguild, I see

I am currently semi-prepping an adventure that consists of a series of skill challenges. The PCs will need to get to the Witchlight Fens from Harkenwold. They can either take the King’s Road (the safer way) or ride a boat down the White River (the faster way). They may also have the option to...

Would you describe, maybe, a skirmish between the PCs and a small group of monsters, and deduct a healing surge or two from each character? What about bargaining with the players? “If each of you is willing to lose two more surges, then none of the monsters in the skirmish get away to warn the...