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Old ladies and preteen tomboys with various personalities have long been my favourite NPCs as a DM. One of the advantages of being a long term Vampire storyteller is that you get used to running powerful NPCs of both sexes and all ages, so you get more of a chance to practice "being" different...

Before the 4E announcement my strongest dislike in D&D was against how races were handled. They all felt bland and pointless, like humans from different cultures rather than distinct and different. People roleplayed stereotypes, because if you didn't do the stereotype there was no way to know...

I disliked the old system and I dislike the new system more. I always felt that the old system dumbed down character motivation and morals - and the new one does that more. What I do like with how 4E handles alignment is that it is now possible to ignore without any rules problems. I like the...

WotC really should make it standard practice to supply PDFs of every document that they say is free to photocopy. Seems like basic level of service these days.

I would say: Not aware. Simply because that feels like the interpretation that will be more fun in the game.

Don't get me wrong, I will most probably choose 4E over Pathfinder. I am still glad to see that Paizo is moving in their own direction and working at creating a strong team doing that. Even if I think Paizo has been hit and miss with their Pathfinder offerings, they have still created better...

I would only count arrows in adventures where I also feel reasons to count food rations and water. In most stories those things just end up feeling boring and pointless. If part of the challenge is to survive with limited resources, then I would probably count everything that the party is in...

Well... They have the Martial/Arcane/Divine Power type of books for that stuff, so I think there will be less need for that now. But you could very well be right.

224 pages in the PH2. Eight classes took 126 pages in PH1. Five races will probably take 12 pages. (2 pages intro plus 2 pages per race.) So... what do you think they will do with the rest? Feats, Rituals and Equipment seem like things they can expand upon. If they give those sections as much...

Bad deal. Just buying the three books from Bookdepository would cost you £40, with no reductions for buying all three. The UK is in general just about the cheapest country in Europe to buy books in, if you know where to shop.

Way back in the early 80s here in Sweden my experience is that roleplaying was mainly popular among middle class intellectual guys. Some were considered geeks, but far from all. Hey, half of my first gaming group were really popular jocks that at times had quite popular girls coming to visit...

I don't love the name "warlord" but I can live with it. After all, if I have accepted the concept of "paladins" at first level or "clerics" that are out adventuring, I think warlords are sort of ok by default. And... "warlord" is just a name of a class, not something that influences the game...

Retrain.

When writing and preparing for 4E adventures I have felt a problem that is almost the opposite. I am not worried that my players will want to take too many rests. The stories we play out tend to be paced so that we very seldom have several combat encounters in a row, but when they are the...

You are right, wasn't even realising it was Landscape of that silly Letter format. Thinking about it, portrait of Letter is no good for monitors, as you can't view two pages at a time in any good way. That explains why Landscape would be preferable to them. And of course A4 is better than...

I don't really care if 4E "should" be called D&D or not. It is called that. I have read the rules. I have tried playing it. I have tried writing for it. Did the crunch part of an adventure path from Level 1-5 in less time than I want to confess to. (So far the one thing where 4E shines the...

Other PDFs I read 2 pages at once on a wide screen monitor without scrolling. Works well from 17" and upwards. With the new format I only get one page at a time, which is a little bit annoying. As for printing - less info per page with this format, since it is not fully landscape. Still, if...

Martial Power is a probable, as is Manual of the Planes and Open Graves if they are up to standard. If the Draconomicon is good that could also be interesting. I have not been impressed with many of WotC's own adventures over the years, so those are less likely purchases.

For my monitor a standard A4 or letter format is better - looks nice with a 2 page spread up. Not a biggie, but I would wish they had a format that was more printer friendly than this.

What's with the pricklyness? I didn't even "counterattack". And I don't divide people into who is a 4E fan or not. That just gets stupid. I didn't suggest that you suggested what I wrote in my post. I even suggested that was a viable way of playing. All I did was say how I am going to use this...