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I'm surprised that nobody has asked how the campaign went. How'd the campaign go? Did everyone understand and have fun with the rules? Was it mostly a hack and slash game, or was there a lot of roleplaying? I'm running a 4e Eberron game for 2 guys. I let them decide everything. They made their...

Exactly. Full of flavor uses, and it can give you a little bit of light around you when you really need it.

I usually like to choose something mechanically appealing and then create from that point. I also make sure that my characters are mechanically effective. I don't agree with the idea of the Barbarian Archer. I think that's doing something wrong with the system. I actually become annoyed with...

Holy Glow You make any part of your body glow with radiant light. At-Will, Divine Minor Action Effect: Any part of your body provides full illumination in a burst 1 until you decide to end the effect. (Stereotypical glowing hands and eyes for some divine guys.)

We have a message board for our "super group". Mine is one of the side games of the larger group. I have my own sub board for the Eberron game. We post there constantly. They post any ideas or questions they have. I also have two special threads. One is labeled "Current Events" and details what...

I once punched 3e in the face. That's right. You heard me.

I've played it a bit. It's just a campaign setting. There's almost nothing new mechanically. The idea is just to get to an area and kill stuff.

I generally don't plan stuff. I throw things out to my players and see what they're interested in. I have 2 players in an Eberron game. They decided to focus the game on the Changeling Bard, rather than the Elven Ranger. The Bard knew a forbidden dance, and she wanted to learn the other 6. That...

HAHA! Awesome!

I think a point got lost. Stormwind was on the WotC boards. When someone would call someone a rollplayer instead of a roleplayer, he would say that it isn't impossible to roleplay an optimized character. The idea that optimized characters can't be roleplayed became known as the Stormwind...

I give my players 5 Spiffy Points per session. They let them do those extra things that page 42 advocates. I had a player slash down a curtain to trip someone up, hook a guy's head after an attack and drop him prone, and use Lightning Lure to pull a character onto a Soarsled. In my game, Spiffy...

My parents just refer to any gaming as D&D. My ex-girlfriend texted me and asked if I was playing D&D one night. I told her that it was Adventure! She asked what the difference was. I took a picture of each of the character sheets and texted them to her. She laughed. I use to play in an...

I still don't understand how often people on this board use Logicspeak and Mathspeak. When you're pretending to be an Elf- which seems to be the most common stereotype- it seems strange to me that people would feel the need to "prove" anything. I optimize my characters. I roleplay. I get annoyed...

I think that they're just giving more examples of what's possible. I don't know that I would have thought to give a burst effect. The more things that can just be dropped into the game the better.

Person A: My fighter is optimized. I made sure that he can do his job effectively, and he doesn't suck. I'm working on his background and personality. Person B: I gave my Fighter a 16 Intelligence with no interest in doing anything mechanically with it. My character isn't very good at what he...

How's it going, Jeff? This is Mark, the teacher from last year's game with Sarge, Tom, and Eli. As much as I'd love to join you guys again, neither of those time works for me. I'm running an Eberron game for 2 friends on Tuesdays, and I go to karaoke on Thursdays. Has the gaming been going...

I bring a stack of books, but use a fraction. I only come up with some little interesting events/NPCs/monsters that I want them to encounter, everything else is driven by them. Most of last session involved the 2 PCs arriving in Sharn and going about the process of what sort of gimmick they were...

As much as I enjoy starting my PCs off in The Saucy Wench, my current game has been a bit different. I have 2 people playing an Eberron game, so I let them create their PCs and tie them together. They chose Valenar, so I had them arriving at a yearly Bazaar. They had already known each other. I...

I recommend making sure that they talk out and plan their characters together before the game. Having a disparate group thrown together can gradually lead to "Why are we together?" Syndome. If it's a pair of brothers and their childhood friends, it makes a lot more sense. It also gives the...

I call them Spiffy Points. They allow the person to; do something really interesting, such as swing from ropes on a ship and kick a guy in the face; use an effect without dealing damage, like using Lightning Lure to pull an ally to safety; do something extra, like hook a foe and drop him to the...