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Just because there isn't combat it doesn't mean there is no adrenalin. But assuming there isn't, for as long as the characters are focused on doing stuff -- looking for traps, talking with a villain, have their attention glued onto something, then it's an encounter. As soon as they can zone...

There isn't any. If you would, think of them as traps: they don't work every x minutes, but are sprung once and then need to be reset. When the encounter ends, the adrenalin ebbs, and the characters are able to reset those powers. So if the characters fight for two minutes and get a...

I think you just got your wish. Mortellan, meet the Warlord :cool:

I know some people who did, but downgraded back to XP. Regardless, I'm having a hard time imagining that the Game Table will have any amazing visual effects, considering it's basically a glorified battle mat. And even if they do, the Wine guys have some 8 months to catch up, so we're golden, I...

Actually, I think athas.org are doing an outstanding job with supporting Dark Sun, much better than any of the other settings' official sites. So I'd be loathe to undercut them with publishing Dark Sun material, unless that was just a print of the stuff they develop there, anyway. On the...

Well, I'm sure the 4e rules won't be perfect, but they have certainly benefitted from the Golden Age of RPG design -- designers often understand much better now what exactly they're doing when they create a ruleset than even when 3.0 first came out. It's a bit like writing compilers in the late...

From what the info reads, though, they probably threw the succubi, and started calling the Erinyes Succubi. So you probably get your way... Really, not wanting to sound insulting, but sounding anyway, this whole thread is such a tempest in a teacup... I like the Blood War, and if the...

In the Book of Tobit, Asmodeus had fallen in love with Sarah and murdered every man who she tried to marry. Since he is LE, though, perhaps Covetousness, rather than Lust or Murderous Passion. As for domains, I'm not even sure that'll remain a relevant concept...

The problem is, most people have a concept in mind when they start to create their characters. You're part of quite a small minority which picks up the numbers and creates the concept around them, rather than the other way around. Now, there's nothing wrong with doing that, and it is indeed...

Hmm. I think I'll houserule this in my campaign and see how it goes. I'll report back on the thread next week... :p

From what I understand, "First-level PCs are already Heroes" probably refers to the fact that they start with a maybe-impressive array of abilities (manoeuvres, at-will spells, and so forth) the town guardsmen don't, rather than just having more HP or Attack bonuses. This way, the townsfolk...

Remember, "Wine is not an emulator", but can do the job pretty well, I expect. In other words, DI is not as inaccessible as all that, I expect...

You're forgetting about the option to flee, aren't you? Personally, I expect my players to get a couple of good beatings, then learn. They're resourceful, so they should figure out at least a couple of ways to disengage and flee from most combats they get into... or at least not to get into a...

Yep, there's an ugly site right there. Well, working as I am on the whole Web-application development industry, I don't have any problems with a company being new or old -- most of those change names, split and merge all the time. I worry about there perhaps being an overabundance of...

" From what I've heard, the core books are shifting in prose style from "textbook" in 3e to "magazine" in 4e, apparently so that the text would seem less dry, or something. If that's the case, they will indeed need a default setting to base those magazine article texts from...

Never seen "collectable" before in my life. Collectibility it is, for me.

OTOH, there's no reason why the Cleric must imply medium BAB, full armour proficiencies and d8 for HD. 2nd Edition had Specialty Priests you could mix and match -- perhaps with a little effort they could put those proficiencies in the talent tree, for instance, even if the HD and the BAB are...

Except Bluto's speech isn't really out of character for him: he's a drunken frat boy, and dumb as a brick, but he could convince Flounder to bring a horse into the Dean's office and then shoot it, as well as steal the Omega president's girlfriend. He even makes it into the Senate after the...

It's far more likely that they'll fine-tune the power gain than adjust the rate of level increase. It looks like the new 30th level will look like the current 20th, in terms of raw options and powers. In fact, if they do attain the holy grail of making the maths work from 1st all the way...

Once again, I agree with you. And I will assume the player thinks it's interesting to watch his character stumble around like a bull in an enchanted china shop, as you put it. I will also assume that it was the reason he made the choices he made at character creation. That being the case, why...