Search results

I'm still amazed how much people fixate on Hennet. He's one character who doesn't even feature that often in the illustrations. Do you have similar problems with Redgar, Jozan, Vadania, Lidda, Devis, Tordek and the others? You have your Medieval Fantasy Role-Playing game; it's called Castles &...

Rules for social encounters; wizards' implements (I'm still hoping for them to get rid of most material components); new skill system based on SWSE. Those are the big ones for me.

I was expecting Wayne England, actually. Everything he draws looks like Warhammer, which is mostly good if he's illustrating things for GW, but mostly sucks like a dire stirge when it comes to D&D.

Thumbs up, based on what I've seen so far. I reserve the right to change my opinion when I get more information, and will give my final opinion only after seeing the finished game (and preferably testing it at least a couple of times).

Really? I agree that a RPG session or a campaign is not a story, not even a collaboratively told one; there is the game element, which leads (hopefully) to unexpected outcomes that will blow up any predetermined storyline. But if anticlimax is not a word you think should be applied to gaming...

Some of the best D&D sessions and campaigns I've had involved our characters being on the run from a hated enemy, trying desperately to reason their way through the world-breaking prophecy they had found themselves entangled in, and so on. The characters were having a terrible time; the players...

I think you're seeing things in this that aren't there (then again, so are we all in this thread...) I always thought the Aliens were phaliic symbols, anyway. Something about the shape of the head...

That's the way I'm going to do it, if I'm going to run a 4th edition FR game. 3.* fluff + 4E crunch = profit! (I hope.)

Even when knowing what to look for and where, it still looks like a jagged sword on a red swirly background fading into pink at the edges. Apparently, I'm either not perverted enough or too perverted to see it. :)

In my experience, incorporeal foes show up rarely enough that the players don't bother with ghost touch weapons, unless they happen to find them. As for defeating invisibility, it takes either some fairly low-level spells (Glitterdust, Detect Invisibility) or someone with high perception skill...

True Seeing does totally scrap any plots about polymorphed or shapeshifted creatures, and renders all illusions pointless.

Discern Location has no save or spell resistance, and gives you the exact location of the thing or person you are looking for. The problem, as others have said, is not that you can't protect against scry-buff-teleport attacks; it's that everybody must do so, or they're at the mercy of any...

Well, a lot of furry fans also play D&D... ;)

My female inquisitor-paladin of Tarastia wore a black armor (laquered until she could afford adamantine). Then again, she also had license to smite... :)

IIRC, it was because Tolkien didn't like the Celtic languages, whereas he was a fan of the Germanic ones. And Finnish, of course. :)

Wow! Where did you find that pic, if I may ask?

I voted "other"; I'd like the 4th edition to find and present its own look and tone, rather than try to look like the past editions. Of those past editions, though, I really prefer the 3.* artwork. There were inspiring and impressive pieces of art in the earlier editions as well, but the 3.*...

And do we know for sure that you don't need to do any of that in the 4th edition cosmology? I'm sure that, even if the Elemental Tempest is overall less instantly lethal (and uniformly boring) than the planes of Earth, Fire or Vacuum, there are plenty of places where traipsing around naked and...

In my experience, yes, they are. A race of family-oriented and comfort-liking, but also curious and itinerant small folk who make good rogues and adventurers is, for the purposes of D&D, preferable to Tolkien's hobbits (who are excellent in Middle-Earth, and stick badly out everywhere else)...

You know, I think it's perfectly simple to combine the "all fire, all the time" style Elemental planes with the Elemental Tempest. At the "edges" (however defined), you have vast expanses of the pure elements; thousands or millions of miles of nothing but solid earth, or bottomless ocean. Then...