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But what about the rumored martial controller in Essentials?

Whoa, whoa, whoa!!! You are presupposing anyone inside WotC talks to anyone else inside WotC they are not currently on a project team with!!! D&D guys have no idea what those wacky minis guys do with their free time or why they are still putting out men riding on horses, when clearly it's the...

Before you started your last campaign, how much talking did you do with other players before you chose your race and class? A somewhat related-to-my-interests question: Have you played an ongoing game in a party that was all or almost all one role (controller/defender/leader/striker)? How'd...

I'm thinking about 4E and its design. I'm thinking about the heroic-tier class/role system. And I realize all over again: There are no Martial Controllers in 4E. Herp derp derp. This topic hasn't been brought up--that I've seen--since at least Spring '09. So, on the precipice of Essentials...

Week 11 of D&D Encounters Dark Sun had a really brilliant encounter. The party is captured by halflings, gets out alive, but need to get their stuff. Without any equipment or gear, they have to get into a small outpost guarded by four halflings to get their stuff. If the halflings sound an...

How long until published adventures come in a box set, and that box set includes "DM cards", cards not for the DM, but replacing the DM. Sort of a choose your own adventure meets playing cards thing? WotC's published adventures are so linear and hack-n-slashy anyway, this might be an...

Apocryphal, but I've heard of games in my town where everyone is expected to have a DDI subscription during play and are required to use Character Builder and its character sheets. Players are actually discouraged from buying books so they don't fall behind with Rules Updates and cause conflict...

Instead of advice, I'm going to share blame: I blame your DM for letting you create such off-flavor characters in his game and for not being prepared (not reading the book front-to-back). I blame the mediocre adventure for not giving you a good idea of what Athas is really all about. And I...

No instant gratification though. That dilutes the impact and intent of Encounters, where the idea is you can show up whenever you have a couple free hours on a Wednesday evening. Having to build up "points" to a reward can actually be a dis-incentive. There needs to be something you can hand...

There's an obvious reason why WotC would want player's to have more control: there's more of them than there are DMs. At an average table, there's one DM, but 4-6 players. That means there's primarily one person buying products intended for DMs. But there are 4-6 players buying products...

tl;dr This is a terrible reward; D&D organized play needs a strong leader inside WotC Wednesday Night Encounters is long overdue in my opinion. The obvious parallel is the success of Friday Night Magic. Holding it in a public place at a regularly scheduled time has clear benefits. Everyone...

The residents of Athas are going to be very surprised when my players find and assemble the pieces of The Gate Wheel. For on that day the primal barrier barring the return of gnome-kind to their true home will be unlocked. On that day the fleet of gnomish spelljammers entering from the Astral...

The residents of Athas are going to be very surprised when my players find and assemble the pieces of The Gate Wheel. For on that day the primal barrier barring the return of gnome-kind to their true home will be unlocked. On that day the fleet of gnomish spelljammers entering from the Astral...

Final thought: Hairless male dwarves but hairy dwarven women, goliaths as half-giant stand-ins, feral evil hobbits... But no gnomes?! WotC needs to bring some gnome lovers in house and rectify this situation asap. Combined with the lack of gnomes in Essentials, they have finally gone too far...

Can a character use a power with the "implement" or "weapon" keyword if they don't have an implement or weapon on their person? I've been saying no for my games since 4E came out. But I was running a game for a new group last night when this question came up. And they pointed out that the new...

$40 MSRP, though. Dang. Plus $20 for the Creature Guide. That is a lot of money, IMO. Amazon has them discounted to about $40 combined, which helps my pocket book if not my FLGS. It amazes me that WotC lets anyone sell their brand new premier releases at a 33% discount the first week they are...

I've been coordinating and running a table for the D&D Encounters Dark Sun adventure. The Encounters format and this adventure in particular leave a lot to be desired. But in my opinion the new mechanics, the races and classes (and themes), and the setting descriptions have done a great job...

This might be a little late to be of use to anyone, but I'm sharing the D&D Encounters Dark Sun pregens on my preferred custom character sheet. DDE-DarkSun-Pregens.zip - 4shared.com - online file sharing and storage - download There are sheets for all six pregens for levels 1-3 in doc and pdf...

I run a lot of one- or two-session games with a variety of people. I rarely use monster stat-blocks, instead relying on knowing the system and the math. It's easier to run this way with the old table, or formulas as Jhaelen mentioned, than a 30 line table.

Too fiddly. I agree the DCs generally needed adjustment to be more level appropriate. But I can keep ~10 lines in my head, not 30. I have a similar criticism of the "rules updated" damage tables. Does that much about PCs really change from level 2 to level 3 that they both need their own line...