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Please post a complete build so we can post a complete analysis. Thank you.

Could you please clarify how this is different from Gamma World? If I can't play a Yeti, I'll spare you some time.

What? Wizards of the Coast would hire cheap .Net devs to spit out a web product to meet an already late deadline just because no one ever got fired for buying Microsoft. Shutup. I haven't lived through trying to secure the fallout from such shortsighted decisions before... I'm not saying there...

I'm a huge fan of the Nentir Vale. That said, they've said as much about the Nentire Vale as they need to. I'm as busy a D&Der as they come with kids and career and other responsibilities. I run published adventures pretty much exclusively. But that doesn't mean I don't customize those...

To answer the authors question: yes, teaching chess to kids is saner than teaching D&D to kids. I've done both, I speak from experience. In chess the pieces and board are very much finite. While the finer points of tactics and strategy are complex, moving your pieces around and capturing...

That's a good point. Why write "+2 Charisma; +2 Constitution or +2 Intelligence" when "+2 to Charisma and +2 to Constitution or Intelligence" makes things so much clearer?

How I hate necro'd threads. If a thread hasn't had comments in more than a couple weeks, start a new conversation with a link back to the old thread. I wish the board admins would enforce this through software settings.

I'm trying to type carefully because I don't want to accidentally offend anyone or have anyone take anything personally. Actually I've just erased the entire comment box several times so I'll maybe just give up. I have a hard time believing these stories because they are so far outside my...

Anyone have links to good examples of skill challenges being used in play? Any videos, podcasts, etc.?

I wouldn't for the book. I'd weigh whether everything else in the box was worth it (adventure, poster maps, tokens, screen).

From the Dungeon Master Book (from the Dungeon Master's Kit): Traps and Hazards False-Floor Pit (Level 1 Trap) Rockslide (Level 1 Hazard) Spear Gauntlet (Level 2 Trap) Magic Crossbow Turret (Level 3 Trap) Pendulum Scythes (Level 4 Trap) Whirling Blades (Level 5 Trap) Poisoned Dart Wall (Level 6...

Heed the Jester! Epic-level characters are complicated. They have dozens of powers, feats, racial traits, and class/path/destiny/theme/background features. Don't forget their magical and wondrous equipment! You'll either need to have everyone come with their final character sheets, or set...

When I run games, my players are rolling skill checks all the time. Without telling them as much, they are constantly in recursive skill challenges where successes lend bonuses to other skill checks which add up to minor skill challenges the success or failure of which affect the overall...

Has Magic Online killed paper Magic? Has online poker killed paper poker? There is no way the core D&D products will ever be online exclusive. That's not to say there won't be online exclusives, as there are in Magic Online. Posted from my iPad

D&D will not be online only.

To be clear, I don't think a "5E" is necessary. Not only that, I don't think we'll ever see another release of D&D labeled with an edition. They've done a brilliant thing by taking the "4th Edition" off "Essentials". IMHO, the core of 4th Edition is damn near the apotheosis of D&D. With this...

Essentials is close to getting it right. A new DM Kit box comes out every year in early summer: New RC with all rules updates and editing fixes from the past year applied, New POL adventure with new rare and wondrous magic items, Poster maps for the adventure, DM aid (think the DM rewards...

Like it says on the tin: I want to start a new campaign with some long-distance buddies. Based on the first look at the DDI game table, should I wait until it comes out of beta? Or should I start with one of the current virtual table solutions out there? What's the community consensus best...

Right, the advantages of firearms should be modeled with improved accuracy (bonus on to-hit roll) rather than increasing the damage.

Weapon Breakage! On a 1 they blow up in your face. Area Burst 1 centered on user, user rolls for damage and takes full, other creatures in burst take half, weapon is destroyed.