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Me too. The last session I needed a small hideout in a city for a bad guy the PCs were chasing, so I used the 3 encounters from the 2nd Dungeon Delve adventure and swapped out the one bad guy at the end and it worked great and was easy to prep. I'd definitely do this again. I don't want to...

I hadn't thought about it in that light, but I suppose so. (And since my campaign is intended to involve time travel, perhaps it's a doubly appropriate comparison) But it was really intended to just be a quick change they can make between encounters, since we only get to play 1/month and...

To be a little different: Raise Dead is free, doesn't require anything, and can occur immediately between encounters if the player wants. The caveat is that death changes the character. At least one significant encounter or daily power must change to be from a different class or race or use...

Lolth-Zehir-Torog-RavenQueen, Erathis-Bane, Tiamat-Corellon-Melora vs. the PCs & time travel. Who wins?

The most frequent thing I've forgotten is the goblin shift-on-a-miss power. The Ranger was on top of a ledge 10' up from the PCs level, so avoided the Croc & Young attacks. But if the PCs had used a forced movement power to bring him down to their level, he would've been equally likely to be...

Voted for something different - I think the old cover suits a creature catalog. But the new cover drained away some of my anticipation for dark sun (although I still plan on buying it). If it has to be 2 adventurers, why couldn't it be a more evocative piece (DMG2 springs to mind).

Great ideas in this thread. This was my welcome back encounter after a 3 month break from playing. Scenario: Crocodiles in the Sewer XP Encounter Difficulty: Level 4 Brief summary: The PCs were pursuing a shadar-kai ranger through the sewers. He ambushed them as they came around the corner...

If you're looking for ideas... for an upcoming encounter I'm planning on reskinning Clay Scouts as some sort of trickster pixie.

Yes. This is exactly what I would buy (even if one adventure is something akin to "travel through the fire swamp and avoid its three dangers"). The caveat being that the encounters need to do something that I can't do quickly myself: mix interesting terrain with interesting monsters, and make...

Surge value's modified by one of the Dragonborn properties (up to 25% hp + Con modifier).

I've considered doing something like this myself, and I broke the races into a few groups (it's still in very rough form): Northmen - mechanically choose from human, goliath, half-orc, dwarf - description is large human, bearded, tough, hardy, sometimes savage ?? - mechanically choose from...

It seems like there's a lot more groups out there that are limited like my group than I thought. My group meets once / month for a 2.5 hour session. So that usually means 2-3 encounters in 4e. Like others have said, Dungeon Delve is a useful tool. Other things I do that seem to work: The...

Aside from having the time to play every week for many more hours... What I miss, mechanically speaking: From BECMI - ability score bonuses only going to +3 From 2e/3e - racial ability score penalties From 3e - skill focus only giving +3, less spread in skill bonuses among PCs (although even...

I've read about 1/3 of it so far, and this is a very cool adventure. There are several stand-out encounters that look like a lot of fun. Nice work! My once/month group probably won't be level 7 until late 2010, but I'm looking forward to running this whenever they get there.

I find that although it's really easy to come up with a good set of monsters, designing the map is the hardest part to push beyond the adequate stage now. I've designed maps that I thought would be really interesting, but the cool elements never came into play. This can be because: * the...

I do a bottom up approach. I've compiled a long list of both modern and ancient locations/terrain/stuff from watching movies, looking at art, reading, video games, etc. I initially write down just a few keywords, such as cable cars, steam pipes, sandstorm, murky swimming pool, chained...

My campaign world isn't fully defined, but what is defined so far is a hybrid of various settings and homebrewed locations. The party started off in "Brindol" (Scales of War), moved along the King's Road (Keep of the Shadowfell), through the Dragonwood (homebrew), and has been adventuring in...

In Calgary, check out the Sentry Box (Sentry Box Main Page). It's pretty big and centrally located. I know there are other stores, but I'm not familiar with them.

I like the idea of catastrophe dragons. They remind me of the Flame Dragons in my 3e homebrew that could radiate heat and create walls of fire (to toy with their prey rather than just incinerating it). The heat also created a blur effect and they could breath massive clouds of smoke, but I...