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There is almost zero reason expanded setting-specific information, adventures, and short-form fiction should be published in a hard copy book. The whole, entire, complete reason Dungeon and Dragon were created is to publish this stuff in a format that is quicker to react to player feedback...

Having just given you general advice on running skill challenges, I've reread your scenario. So let me get more specific: Set very difficult DCs for those skills. Let them fail. Have NPCs suggest that no matter how diplomatic the Paladin tries to be, the timbers won't nail themselves to the...

Since reading David Mamet’s Master Class Memo to the Writers of The Unit I essentially run my games as a succession of skill challenges. (This, by the way, sums up why I ****ing hate "roleplaying" buying torches. Ugh. There should very rarely be drama involved in going to the grocery store.)...

If I may, let me recommend http://www.enworld.org/forum/4e-discussion/293768-tikkchik-fen-tikktikks-ultimate-editable-character-sheet.html! It looks like a four page character sheet, but the Essentials sheet is basically the same as the first page of mine. But whereas the Essentials sheet...

Thank you all very much for all the responses. The various recommended games and systems are interesting and I'll look into them when I have a chance. But I'd rather not spend any money if I can help it and I'd rather stick to something vaguely D&Dish since I'm familiar with rolling d20s...

My daughter is 4 years old. She is extremely interested in the game that friends come over to play on Monday nights after she goes to bed, and the game that allows me to spend every Wednesday evening at The Comic Book Store. She can't read yet, and she can't perform basic arithmetic. But damn...

I'm about half-way through my front-to back reading of the Rules Compendium. (I'm a dad with a career, these things take longer than they used to!) IMHO, everyone who plays D&D 4E should own the Rules Compendium. I'm very impressed with it. The organization, writing, quality of materials and...

You are blazing new trail with this unique adventure path. You won't get much advice on getting RP ties pulled together. This is why it is called the cutting edge: sometimes you bleed.

There were a few threads on running epic adventures this past summer, one started by me. In general, the E-series needs lots of work to be fun. The concept behind them is awesome, awesome, awesome. But as written they are a linear slash-fest. Also, the monsters are based on MM1 design so they...

Speak for yourself. I am not a schlub, I'm not anal-retentive. And I sure as the nine-hells never pretend to be an elf. I'd thank you to lay off the insults.

You are very wrong. A fellow student in a 400-level (4th or senior year) university statistics class did a paper on dice probabilities. He rolled several six-sided dice five hundred times each and analyzed the results for randomness. There is a reason casinos have very strict requirements on...

:):):):) like this is why gnomes are no longer a playable character race in Essentials, :):):):) like this: YouTube - Adventure Time - Gnomes

Of course! If you read most 4E traps, they have at least two Perception DCs. There's a lower one that is pretty general and brings attention to the area, then there's a higher one that is more specific about the nature of the trap. (Of course, to attempt the higher one you may have to risk...

Not exactly. Let me quote the DMG: So, as others in this thread have pointed out, keep in mind that: just because passive perception notices something amiss, it doesn't necessarily reveal the entire trap. active Perception checks can always role low. And just finding a well-placed and...

To toot my own horn, I just posted http://www.enworld.org/forum/4e-discussion/293768-tikkchik-fen-tikktikks-ultimate-editable-character-sheet.html It's very similar in layout to this new sheet, but you can actually edit it in Word, so you can actually read it instead of trying to decipher your...

After multiple requests here and more than half a decade of evolution (neverending!) I am happy to finally present Tikkchik Fen Tikktikk's Ultimate (Editable!) Character Sheet What is so "ultimate" about this sheet? Everything an experienced player needs to play the game is on one--the...