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I looked over the system. I'm not a fan. It seems similar to some of my preconceived notions of previous editions of D&D. Certain aspects seemed overly complex. You have 8 stats, and each of those has a laundry list of substats which seem to be like skills. The things that you do are based off...

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To RangerWickett: I would advocate adding some of that stuff into your game. None of that would really break the system, so I don't know that it specifically needs rules. Do you not reflavor everything? I know that I like the ideas you presented and would allow them in a game. My favorite Epic...

I'm a big fan of Eberron, so the idea of Dwarves and Orcs living together doesn't really make me freak out. This idea actually seems pretty cool.

There's a book for 4e called Metamorphosis Alpha that I'm keeping my eye on. It could conceivably do what you want.

I just do whatever I want and go from there. I also don't use XP. If you don't worry about XP, then you don't need to worry about whether or not a couple of enemies were worth their XP. You just level up when it's time. It's marvelous.

Go with the 4e stuff. The Player's Guide isn't bad. When it comes to the flavor and history, there's something that was talked about a few months ago called the Grand History of Eberron. It doesn't have many pictures, but it's basically all of the non-crunch information on Eberron. It's also...

Like I said, I know that that stuff can be added to them. Most of the modules that I've seen, though, are a basic railroad with preconceived notions of behavior and answers to possible questions. Can you take that stuff as a basic framework and turn it into something larger? Sure. But you're...

While I can understand the hesitation in letting some magic knock someone out, I also do a lot of abstraction, and 0 hit points doesn't just happen because someone is dead. Why not "shape" the fireball so that it's only blasting along the lower half of the body? The enemies then drop to 0, not...

Assume for a moment that I love the burgers that McDonald's makes, and they are the only burgers that I have ever eaten. When I then go into a good restaurant and get an awesome burger, I finally understand what I have been missing and what I now expect from a burger. If I go back to the burger...

The rules flat out state that you don't need to kill everything that hits 0 hit points. Can the DM occasionally say that the guy dies? Sure. Is it pretty crappy to do it every time? Yes, and it smells like a railroad. "If they question this guy, then they'll find out things I don't want them to...

Offer to run. 4e is a blast to run. I happen to be a lazy DM, but I use that to my advantage. It means that I don't really railroad at all. Everything that happens in the game comes from the players deciding where they're going to go and what they're going to do. Most of the biggest things in...

I like the Throwing Shield, too. There's a belt from a Bazaar of the Bizarre that lets you throw rocks at things for a decent amount of damage. I'm a fan of that.

Frost Sheath sounds absolutely awesome.

My group is going to be starting a new campaign soon, and we've brought a couple people into the fold. One guy decided to give the Monk a shot, so we made the character on Friday. There was a mock combat so that the DM could get back into the swing of things, and the new guys could try the...

I like the idea of it "tearing the veil" and "bringing something else back". I go with the idea that very few people can actually have it done. Personally, I would love to run a game where the enemy gets a hold of a PC's body as the rest are running off. The BBEG then resurrects the PC. The...

I like to swear. I have a group of friends who are predominantly Christian. Around them, I tone it back a lot. I ran some D&D for them a few years ago, and it went really well. I was running some Eberron modules, and I matched the game to what they expected. It was fun. As a player, though, in a...

Infinite Oregano? Honestly, I view this as the sort of thing that you just houserule to make sense. They can't possibly account for every possible action, so they hope that you'll change what you decide needs to be changed. If I'm running and that comes up, I'd just have the person fall prone...

I play 4e, so I don't understand this "outside of combat" of which you speak. Roleplay. A lot of roleplay. I'm running a game for 2 guys. There have been a couple of sessions without any combat. While I'm usually all in favor for combat as a player, these guys like to focus on the roleplay and...

In other words, pawsplay, you're saying that a second Wizard could have been better. I'm pretty sure that the true point here is that the spellcasting classes were always automatically better. That's why 4e stepped away from that. If Wizards were "neutered", it's only because they used to be the...