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Going grey is a good idea. Remove alignments completely, and give the different actors real motivations. Rename the spheres of Destruction, Greed, Tyranny and Trickery to Expediency, Ambition, Power and Cunning, respectively. Make sure that supposedly "good" actors have evil facets and vice versa.

Two character concepts I've been enjoying recently: A deva who used to be the avatar of a god who is now dead. She's been hiding, reincarnating, and looking for allies and ways to get revenge on the killer. Built as a panther Shaman, summoning allies and giving out buffs. MCd to invoker for...

I have only a superficial familiarity with the assassin class, but Deadly Trickster, Demigod, and Eternal Seeker should all work. Destined Scion is probably the simplest one, and the one I'd recommend to someone who is best suited for a more straightforward ED. Same with Indomitable Champion...

Whenever I use line of sight on Maptools, it slows the software to a crawl, occasionally crashing for the users with weaker PCs. Maybe this happens only because the DMs have pretty complicated (or detailed) blocking lines. Have you had any problems of this kind?

I would also test, if at all possible, the image generated by linking the kickstarter on facebook. It would be nice if one of the more interesting images were to pop up as the default first choice (my choices would be the colossus or the tiefling on the cannon). This is the kind of thing that...

I'm a big fan of the War of the Burning Sky AP, and although I haven't played it, Zeitgeist seems very promising. I'm hopeful that it will be fully published soon, and I consider it one of the publications most likely to put me behind the DM's screen. To that end, I'm eager to see it fully...

The best bard build is the one you and the others have the most fun with. There's a lot of fiddly parts to PCs in 4e, and I'm looking forward to ending my almost epic-level wizard's career because there are too many such parts: I can't keep track of it all, and it's annoying. As far as the...

This really isn't a huge detail, and it shouldn't detract from the spectacular pics of your game. The bbcode that changes the font color is this one (spaces added to show code): It yields the result Lindeloef highlighted above.

Really impressive. An aside: when you change your font color to a dark color, you screw over those readers that have the default colors set to black. It's very hard for us to read your post.

What others have said above. One extra detail: the power lasts until the end of the encounter, but the regen only happens if you begin your turn bloodied. This means that, after you activate the power, if you heal up past bloodied, and then get damaged back into bloodied, the regen kicks in...

Be warned about that familiar, though. It can be abused, if you grant a lot of items.

None of the characters sound highly optimized, so you should be fine if you want to stick within the guidelines. 4e is hard to break, so don't worry too much about unbalancedness. Challenging enemies are at party level+2, or thereabouts, and don't go much above that: better to increase the...

Setting your font to black really screws the folks that have set their default background to dark colors. You can edit your post to change this.

This, verily.

We had to be a bunch or rules-lawyers, didn't we? ;)

I appreciate:The fact that you posted a follow up to the "news." The fact that you asked someone to murder your thread. The journey you took from breaking the news to dismissing it. All of these made the thread worthwhile to me. I hope you keep posting.

A blogger dug up and posted TSR's policies regarding publication. There's some fun stuff there, like a prohibition on describing satanic rituals in detail. http://jrients.blogspot.fi/2013/05/how-many-commandments-have-you-broken.html?m=1

Lawful evil has always been the difficult alignment to define, and it's no surprise that many alignment definitions break down at that corner. My old definition for the law-chaos axis is a measure of loyalty to large and formal institutions that are familiar to the character, be it the judicial...

I think static bonuses should come from important sources: level, class, feats, items, and other permanent sources that improve, to paraphrase Li Shenron, the range and limits of a character's potential. But most spells and circumstantial advantages I would prefer to be transformed in stacking...

Here are the real numbers, for the sake of precision: The average of 2d20 (take the highest) is 13.83, an increase of 3.33 over the average of 1d20. The odds of rolling one 20 on at least one of the dice is 9.75%, which is an increase of 4.75% over the odds when rolling 1d20. The average of...