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Help end Uwe Boll's career There is a petition to get Uwe Boll to retire. "Informed that the petition had already amassed 18,000 signatures, Boll retorted: "18,000 is not enough to convince me [to retire]." The director was then asked how many signatures that would take. "One million," he...

Man, after reading everyone's posts I might have to change my mind... or add to it. I forgot how much I loved The Factol's Manifesto and The Cage: guide to Sigil. I think I read both those books 3 times, and I never even DM'd anything there (though I wrote several campaigns) Encyclopedia...

Reading all this new stuff has got me thinking about D&D a lot lately. With all the mention of older editions I got to thinking about how I started playing and what it was like. My first edition was 2e and it's hard for me to remember a lot of stuff, but I remember our game changed (for the...

Man I am tired of these kind of people. Some people are naturally able to throw together 3e fights at a moments notice and do it well (or thier players just have low standards), some can't (me). The exploding terrain and whirlygigs happens to be not that hard for me, but I'm not going around...

This message is to LostintheMists: I am going to be running a 1 on 1 session or two and would like to know your advice on do's and dont's. A couple hints would suffice.

of course they need to playtest everything, so maybe they just gave everyone all the available powers. Maybe when people actually play they will only be able to choose one or two? I doubt it though

I keep looking at pregens and wodering: didn't the designers say 4e would be easier to manage? I haven't played yet but first level players getting this many powers to use sounds like a lot to choose from each round, and as they level they will undoubtedly get more. I want simpler, not for...

DS is definately PoL and could be great... but has anyone thought about a new version of "the Red Coast" setting of the Mystara world from 2e. It was too developed for 4e but it had a cool curse element that definatley lends itself to epic campaining. Best adventure i was ever in was ending...

thanks, that article helped to explain it. I'm not really a fan of playing a character that buffs, but I think a multiclass striker/controller will probably fill most of what I want quite well.

I should explain, part of the reason I like Jack's so much is that my group is small, usually 2 - 3 players. With that size of party you need characters that fill multiple roles. Also, while a jack may not focus in any one thing, a small party means characters that are higher level than the CR...

I guy who has class features from several other classes, but only one or two unique features. A guy who focuses on doing a lot of different things.

My favorite characters have always the jack-of-all-trades (joats) types. The bard was the first class of this type and, while I enjoyed the concept, I never liked playing one. His spells weren't useful enough and I hated the songs, both in practice and in feel. There were other classes that...

Well, in the worlds and monsters book it said that the feywild and shadowfell are like the brothers of the real world, and that many places/people/things had versions in each world. The shadar-kai once extended thier life by dealing with the Raven queen (i think). Maybe these eladrin made a...

Oh, and I forgot my one original creation for 4e (it's fluff) The main sport of the area is Chessaning, which is like a mix of polo and football. two teams on horse back (3 per team) have hooked sticks and try to hook a wicker spere and put it on a spike. You may use your hooked sticks to hit...

I'm planning on building my PoL aroudn the pregenerated towns in the DM guide and in "keep on the shadowfell". I might tweak them but I figured it would be easy to set these two towns in an area of 50 square miles or so and then add a large town/small city that is nearby/on the edge of the...

I whole-heartedly agree. My core 3.5 groug basically fell apart because we all took turns dming, we all made house rules. Eventually we spent more time (literally) making/discussing house rules than we did playing. Our groups only house rule for 4e: no house rules, play as is or don't

Ouch dude. We came up with the golden rule long ago: no girlfriends playing. As time went by and some girlfriends became spouse we broke the golden rule... much to our dismay. No mater how we played it spouses/girlfriends (or even boyfriends if its a female player) simply do not work. The way...

One word: Dragon Mountain. All the playtests for the "oakhust" talk about how fighting kobolds in 4e is actually fun and tactical and interesting. Can't wait to see out of the 20+ NPC's how many will make it to the end to fight the ancient red dragon. (my money is on evan)

I like to start off sessions of new games or environments by making the PC's wake up with no memories. I give them a few minutes to try and figure out what's going on and then I shake things up with a combat or some type of challenge. This works perfectly with pregens as it allows the Players...