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Or you can go straight into the Magnificent Seven. "It seemed to be a good idea at the time."

These play reports are always fun to read. It looks like your group is having a real good time.

Sounds Good! Look forward to seeing the details.

There are several symmetrical fixes to this that are so easily implemented that it's almost criminal that they were not done "officially". All fixes occur from the DM side so it does not impact at all the player side. The important part of all of these is that you want a variety of combat...

Very entertaining session report. It's interesting that you ran the chase using the movement rules. This is something I used to do with 3.x, but was never satisfying and created/posed many problems. With 4e I had started to do them as skill challenges and those were better but still not...

You should definitely do it. Take a look at this campaign for how it can turn out.

I agree. Minions just like any other monster in the game are simply a game construct to achieve an effect. They are not real creatures. They exist for effect and for effect only. Just like the special features of a monster exist for effect only. The minion effect is to present multitudes of...

Roll20 does have a fog of war module but is not part of the free app, it requires the subscription. MapTools does have a fog of war setting and is free but setup might be complicated, YMMV.

I disagree with this because I have a different perspective on it. I got a mechanical ruleset and just because of that I was going to tinker, just like I had been doing for years before with any other system. I think the huge encouragement for me was that 4e presented a base framework that was...

Good luck with that.

4e has several mechanisms within the base framework that can be used/modified to act like some of these desired effects. For example I've used the Disease Track to evoke the feel of short term and long term injuries. Something similar could be done to evoke the feel for a long term...

Good dream, never going to happen.

Pretty Neat, well done!

RAW I would say it provokes because it's ranged. However because of two things, I would make that a yes only if the perception check is successful. 1. it is a minor action and 2. it is meant to be hidden (trap). BTW that would have to be a passive perception check to notice the "trapsetting"...

I love this idea.

I would beware of higher defenses. This is one of the most challenging aspects of encounter/monster design and one of the main causes of pacing issues at any tier. I have become so aware of this issue that I purposely avoid using soldier type monsters, particularly higher level soldier types...

I think the Tier system really allows the DM to have a focused progression that helps with the organization of games. Epic is the most difficult because I really think that most players and DMs have too small of a scale of what is truly EPIC. Paragon was a lot of fun for me. I've had several...

I have four letters for you. C-H-I-L-L! 'I care little but, I could care less if you couldn't care less. :lol: True, people should make the game their own. Good luck with the rolling.

Or maybe instead of working great it has just been serviceable for decades, but not really great. Both options are really matters of opinion.

And sets in the west.... My statement presumed nothing. I'm addressing only one of the many mechanisms of 4e and could care less for what "a lot of people dislike". I'm not trying to convince you or them to "like" a system. You made the assertion that the changes were destructive. I...