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I really like the way the Astral Sea works in the 4e Manual of the Planes. It's honestly the first time I've ever truly been able to envision it, and it touches on several fantasy references I like without directly replicating any of them, namely: Elric- Sailor on the Seas of Fate The Adventures...

Character builder and potential other features. I occasionally read an article, but it's the software that's most important to me. The Compendium has proven to be a great resource. I hope it continues to get better.

Does anyone know if this armor follows the regular rules for action point expenditure? For example, since you can only spend one action point per encounter, does this mean you can either use an action point to take an extra action (the regular use of an action point) OR you can burn an action...

Same. Plot-driven: Steve's Gamer Blog: When Awesome Happens Character-driven: Steve's Gamer Blog: Musings on "Yes," Musings on Leveling And within a few sessions of each other. When writing adventures, I always try to throw one or two characters a bone, then alternate who gets the spotlight...

LOL. Nice.

Wisdom Penalty's experience is analogous to my own. @ Wulf: Near the end of my 3.5 days I did exactly what you suggest. I conducted an experiment outside my normal campaign where I ran a module and tried to play by ALL the rules exactly as written. If we didn't know something we looked it up...

The letter looks nice. Great work, guys. I don't know why I'm not writing this on Hordelings. Wait a minute, where am I? ...

Lots of nonfiction. Some of the fiction I recall reading over the past year: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Raymond Carver Watchmen, Alan Moore The Dead Fish Museum, Charles D'Ambrosio Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Phillip K. Dick The Winter Queen, Boris Akunin Daisy Miller...

Avoiding the pit trap in Cave A was awesome. Fireballing creatures for 1d6/level for the first time was awesome. Choosing a kit for my thief was awesome. Learning that guns in the hands of PCs were more dangerous than monsters in Masque of the Red Death... was frightening (and awesome)...

I would get together with the group and DM (or compose an e-mail, though meeting in person is far better so that nothing gets misconstrued electronically), and ask each person, including the DM, very generally what kind of game (or character) they're interested in playing right NOW. It's as...

Thanks, pukunui. I don't think I quite understood them the way they were written in the DMG, but having browsed through some of the latest issues of Dungeon, I've seen some interesting ways to use them. For instance, I've noticed that there was one adventure where the number of skill challenge...

If the chase occurred on foot, I would likely make a skill challenge. I'd use skills like Athletics, Streetwise, Perception, Insight, maybe even Stealth and Diplomacy ("Have you seen a tall man running by, blood on his hands?"). I'd set the DCs and complexity dependent on how much I cared...

Hi Merric. For me, it had to do with my evolution as a role-playing gamer. In the early days (Keep on the Borderlands, then BEMCI, and AD&D), my experience was the same as yours. We only ran away if we had one hp left, and sometimes not even then. But by the time I went to college, I was...

I'm fine with the errata'd version. I generally want the PCs to succeed so that the adventure can move forward; it's part of saying "yes." When they fail at a challenge, I have to think up a dynamic way for their failure to keep the adventure moving, albeit in a different direction. It's easier...

So far, I don't feel it's missing anything. Most of what I dislike occurs in small bits of flavor, which I find far easier to change than making up a new rule (for example, I strongly dislike the "glow" of the cleric flavor at early levels; however, in-game I have removed those glowy elements)...

This is great. I've spoken with my wallet, picked up Noble, Peasant House, and the bestiary.

I think what confuses me is the desire to make 4e feel like 1e. Because if I really wanted to get a 1e feel, I would pull those books off my shelf and run 1e. As stated in previous posts, "the 1e feel" is something very subjective. To me, the 1e feel is the idea that the world is a dark...

Are we sure this isn't the new non-random DDM starter coming out in the spring? I would bet that's what the announcement was referring to.

Will there be color art throughout, or is it b&w?

I gave up playing RPGs at cons long ago. However, DREAD was the single most fun experience of this year's Gen Con for me. From what I understand, our game didn't go near as well as the others did, and the GMs apologized for it. No apology necessary -- it was a blast, and reminded me what is...