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Here are a few microstories I have used. Most should last less than 1 session and could also be partially recurrent or resolved through several sessions as little filler bits. I also try and design them to avoid simple combat; 1) a forest clearing surrounded by a pallisade serves as a campsite...

I could disagree MORE than with the people who say travel is not important in a game. Travel sets the mood of the campaign and can be used to underline the themes of your game. If you want your game to be more than a complete railroad, you need to have microstories that keep the campaign alive...

My playtest, just playing the sample PCs from KoTS in the first few encounters, indicates that 15+ round combats are quite normal in 4E; they just don't take anywhere near as long as a 3.5E round would take but I still think that, on average, combat takes up more time in 4E because there are so...

I hope the GSL gets modified, to make it acceptable to 3PPs so that they go back into the safe harbour. The only way that can happen is for the 3PPs to show that they do have other options............. and it appears they are doing it. I just hope that once the genie is out of the bottle that...

Let's not get too carried away; for all we know these companies could be under special license. After all, both were included in the 3PP conference call that WoTC made in Jan. Or it could be they have decided to tell WoTC where to ram their GSL! Actually; thinking about it, maybe WoTc...

Fuzzlewump; I am not sure I am rejecting anything. I am just voicing an opinion. Something that certain people seem to feel very uncomfortable with. Your tone is unnecessarily aggressive, for no good reason that I can see. I think 4E feels like a wargame for a simple reason; 70% of the PHB is...

It looks like you could be right; Adamant games have also announced 4E adventures and this time in July!!!

Heselbine; I also notice that you are a little older than me (and probably had more money and were more mobile back in the early 80s). I was only about 14 at the time I am talking about. Strangely though, it was still the case until I moved to Birmingham in about 1989. Up here there seem to be...

The thing about 4E is that it is an encounter-based game; not a game trying to model the stories we all grew up reading about in Fantasy Novels. Earlier games are a bit ambivalent in that they pay lip service to Fantasy novels but actually turn out as encounter based games. Making characters...

Nightchilde; your assertion that "maths doesn't reflect reality" is very strange. I agree, that over a game session the numbers can seem very non-random but over the course of several hundred rolls statistics win EVERY time. Maths EXACTLY models reality, if you have got the maths right. As far...

Then perhaps what many of us feel is wrong with 4E is that the PCs have become SOLDIERS and are no longer WARRIORS/adventurers. There is a sense that tactics and teamwork have overshadowed the individual and his heroism. It is almost as if the party is now the focus, not the individual...

Cadfan; you too are entitled to your opinion. I think you are either misunderstanding or misreading the OP, but that is your perogative. I don't see any "wacky" parts but then this is just my opinion. I am not interested in changing your mind or "winning", just in asking you to be a little...

Thanks Storminator; your suggestion looks like a good fix for low level. Do you know if it scales with increasing complexity?

Aurance; no-one is saying that there should be no discussion, just that there are ways of saying things that are plain insulting. Like accusing someone of not believing what they are writing; i.e. that they are a troll. That implication seems pretty serious to me for what is a very mild OP. The...

Cadfan; Now you are just digging yourself deeper. The OP WAS expressing an opinion in a measured way. I don't agree with every facet of the OP but you were just plain wrong with the way you expressed yourself. I am not saying I disagree with you, I am just tired of the aggressive way you put...

How have you got around the problems of skill challenges Gundark? I have hesitated to run a game becuase my group really wants skill challenges and it appears that the maths for this section of the rules is broken.

I understand the OPs concerns, and it is annoying that 4E seems to be so much about combat at present. I can only hope that future expansions/splat books address these problems with rule expansions for those of us that don't want complete hackfest gaming. The good thing though, is that combat...

OR Cadfan, we could just say to ourselves that "everyone has a right to an opinion, even if we don't agree with it". The guy obviously DOES believe what he has written, and making fun of his way of expressing it is not really that nice! It is also fairly cowardly, since I doubt you would speak...

It might make the smell worse; rotting fish is an awful smell and most fishing ports I have been to really stink in the morning, after the fishing boats dump their rubbish. Also, you might want to consider that a city of 50,000 would have to have a very large fishing fleet to feed that many...

But JVigatis; they are starting to SELL their DCC modules BEFORE the embargo date! You can't do that under GSL (unless they have a special deal with WoTC).