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I am granting clerics and paladins in my game the Channel Divinity feat for their deity as a free feat. It doesn't give you any extra action in combats, just a new way to use the once/encounter Channel Divinity ability. I prefer to see divine characters that vary depending on who they worship...

Whether a warlord works well for your party does seem to come down to what kind of players you have. Tactical well-coordinated group: Warlord: Okay guys, we're going to focus on taking out that caster while the fighter keeps the big guy occupied. Rogue, you get around back and sneak attack...

We're not writing off the warlord as a class. The issues I have seen so far are with an inspiring warlord. My husband will be playing a taclord in our new game, and I have the feeling that he'll do well moving people around, and telling them how to get the most advantage out of the situation...

I don't believe that people are disappointed in the inspiring warlord because they want to deal damage like a striker, but rather that you often default to having no option other than a basic attack. Sure, you can use Wolf Pack Tactics or Furious Smash, but if you just can't maneuver so that...

The dragonborn inspiring warlord in our group has been frustrated by her character since she first created it. She thought she'd get in there and whack stuff along with everyone else, and be party support on top of that. More often she has complained that there was nothing she could do because...

There are some big differences in 4E that preclude handling it in quite the same way you were doing in 3.x, but thanks for your post. The wizard has low level area attacks that would *never* take out a normal creature at full health, but that are designed to pop minions. Cleave now just does...

How are you handling minions? Have people had the chance to try out some of the suggested modifications to the minion rules? I see some very good ideas in this and other threads, and was curious to know how they have been working for your groups. There is the damage threshold idea, with any...

Has anyone had a chance to play with the sword mage much? How do they feel compared to other defenders? Are they better or just different? If we're seeing power creep in action and the sword mage is superior to the paladin or fighter, then I may not allow them in my upcoming game. I'd like...

My only GURPS campaign It was 1989 and I was invited to join a new GURPS campaign. Although I hadn't played GURPS before, I was excited at the chance to do so, and agreed to play. I made a gish type character (my favorite) who used a rapier and fire magic. We had a sneaky stabby type, and a...

I'll be converting it to 4E, but haven't started yet. Things have been super busy and we haven't had a chance to finish up our 3.5 game yet. I'm hoping to start in a month or two.

Thanks. I agree that flickering torches or lanterns are more evocative, but the main reason is that sunrods were flat out better than everything else, and illuminated out to a crazy radius (20 squares). Oops, i just noticed that I said they were the same as torches in the first post. Maybe...

After an on-going 3.x campaign lasting over 6 years finally draws to a close (2-3 more sessions), I will be starting a 4E campaign. Currently I'm setting up the ground rules for the game and making decisions on which races and classes to allow, as well as which house rules I'll be starting out...

In my list of house rules for my upcoming 4E campaign, sunrods provide the same radius of illumination as lanterns - 10 squares. They cost more, and last a shorter time, so players can buy whatever they want. As for tying them to their armor, it's kind of funny-looking, but I guess they could...

My family game I'm running a 4E game for the family and one friend of ours (who is great with kids). My kids are 13 and 10. The 13 year-old is very bright and took over playing the high-level cleric in the 3.x game when the original player moved away. He's had no problems with it, but then...

I've been thinking about it for the genasi and sword mage. Hearing it may have more rituals and other useful stuff makes it very tempting - and this from someone who has no interest in FR as a campaign setting.

Not jealous (much). It figures GenCon would be the week immediately following the World Science Fiction Convention that we've been working on for nearly 4 years. My feet are happy that I won't be spending another week walking around on concrete tradeshow floors.

When 2E came out, it seemed on casual inspection to be largely the same as 1E, and we owned all the books (2 copies of most of them) from 1E already. Besides, we'd already picked up Rolemaster with the thought of using Arms Law in D&D, and decided to just play that instead. We were bored with...

Since I fit into the group described (women who play D&D voluntarily) it was offensive.

Annoying stereotype much? I've been a gamer for 25 years, and I'm not some 108 lb. gorgeous supermodel, but I don't think young children run screaming from me in the streets. I could make some snarky comment about gamer guys, bathing regularly and what a diet of cheetos and Mountain Dew...

There's a campaign opener contest over on the WotC forums Perhaps one of the campaign openers entered in 4E Expert Dungeon Master Competition - Open a Campaign! might give you some ideas. There are several interesting ideas there with enough variety that one of them should fit in with your...