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Maybe a character gets the magic item bonus for any magic weapon or implement in the character’s possession, when using skills.

You know what else causes brain damage? Not playing D&D. So...it’s D&Damned if you do, D&Damned if you don’t. So, D&Do what you like.

I am pretty sure this topic has already been covered at some point in the ancient past, but how would one use the 4th edition skill challenge rules to mimic a dungeon crawl for a group of players? Does one use a map, or something more like a flow chart, and only bring the map out for fights...

The Essentials Monster Vault has updated monsters from the core Monster Manual, and it involves more than improved math. Dragons, for instance, get two turns in the first round; a dragon rolls initiative, then adds 10 to the result—that is its first turn, and it likely will act before anyone...

The DM kit has the advantage of including an adventure with maps. Still, I prefer the core DM Guide. It has rules for creating your own monsters; it has a wider variety of diseases and traps; it has rules for building a random dungeon and stock it with random encounters; it has two pages in the...

Actually managed to corral a small group of four to play the “Twisting Halls”. Four players, ages 19 down to 3. Warpriest, Knight, Mage, and Thief, from eldest to youngest. All humans. In the first turn, all the monsters won initiative. The hex hurler goblin stepped from the shadows and blinded...

I started listening to the Acqusitions, Inc. podcasts again. So many play videos and podcasts are boring; for some reason those are not. The end of Season 2, when Jerry rolls a “one”, followed by another “one”, is one of the funniest things in D&D podcast history, in my opinion.

I wish to start a 4e game with the tax deductions, but I am too busy at work. I do see that Matt Colville is running a 4e game and pasting the video of it on his YouTube channel.

My opinion is that beings in the D&D world that are “Law” aligned believe that life, the universe, and everything has an inherent structure and purpose, and act accordingly. Those who are “Chaos” aligned believe that LU&E have no purpose or design, and so anything goes, because everything’s a...

I wish I had a copy of the All New Easy To Master Dungeons & Dragons Game. [sad face emoji] They haven’t released the pdf of it, yet, on dndclassics They have released the three expansions for it, though. Some of the purchasers who reviewed one of them claimed that some of the expansion was...

Another (probable) error: it says that magic users must be 36th level and have a score of 18 in Wisdom to cast the “Wish” spell. This is the same wording as the cleric, with regard to the “Wish” spell, so I think it was copied and pasted. It ought to be an 18 in Intelligence for magic users. Right?

So, I discovered that a relatively important rule is missing from the RC: non-magical, non-skill-based healing. So, the party emerges from the dungeon pretty beat-up. The cleric is still level 1, so no healing spells. They don’t have enough gold to pay for healing, and the DM opted to not...

A couple of more observations: There is multiclassing, but it's very challenging and time-consuming (playing RAW). It is the Polymath Immortal Path, which the character pursues by getting to a certain level in the four human classes. After achieving that, all four classes unlock for the...

So, I am pleased as punch so far with my printed copy of the Rules Cyclopedia. A very few observations: 1. Magic Users get two first level spells at level one, keeping the Mentzer rule from his Basic Set. This is excellent, because "Read Magic" is required for any scrolls found while...

My 1st house rule is roll 2d6+6, in order, for Ability Scores when creating a character. #2 has been "for 2 handed melee weapons and crossbows, roll 2d6 and pick the higher number for damage". Since I recently purchased the Rules Cyclopedia, though, I want to implement the "Weapon Mastery"...

I like 4e Essentials; I really do. I like the classes; I like the updated monsters. Essentials dragons get two turns in the first round (they roll initiative, then add 10 to the roll for their first action, which means they have a good chance of acting first, even if they roll lower initiative...

So, the deal has been done. Money has changed hands, and the delivery elves should be dropping off my hardcover copy of...the RULES CYCLOPEDIA, in 3 or 4 weeks. Thanks to everyone for the input.

As it so happens, I have those rules in my possession, and had them printed out by Office Depot. I actually prefer the Mentzer rules--which I also have in printed form (Basic and Expert only, so far). Another optiin I am considering is to have the remaining three rulesets printed out--the CMI...

Is Dark Dungeons more of a retroclone of BECMI, or of the RC w/WotI?

I think Dark Dungeons includes rules for immortal level play, from the Wrath of the Immortals book. The RC doesn't go that high.