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Don't quote me or get your hopes up, but I heard a rumour from a fellow beta-tester Open Beta might be coming this week or next.

I am currently beta-testing the Wizards VT and I have to say, as a player, its pretty easy and intuitive to have a good game. The VT is still in beta, so some things need to be worked out, but Wizards has confirmed that you will be able to import characters from the CB and monsters from the MB...

Holy crap! You are right! It even works on the Character Sheet too! Yayy!!

I , too, thought this article was a big WIN. Keep it up!

Interesting discussion. I have definitely noticed a dichotomy between the PoL theme and the ruleset. A couple ideas for bringing them together: Skill Challenges to create a narrative for dangerous travel between PoL, with the occasional actually threatening combat encounter (but make it a...

Yup... out of my group, only me and the other DM buy books, and only I have a DDI subscription.

Correct :)

I have had the same problems on and off for the last week or so. One of things that seems to work for me is signing in on the D&D main page first. (My belief is that it is an Account wall thing-- saw the word "Shield" in the error message) Also, do you login into WOTC from 2 or more different...

And don't forget that if you use a power that attacks more than 1 target, you can mark them all! But be careful of this when you have few surges, low hps and/or no Leader in the party. Have fun!

Good points again, but I think only only a small subset of online VT users would graduate to Maptools. And its really an unavoidable consequence for WotC, and one with diminishing returns. I am sure we would all like the new E-tools to be the go-to method of gaming online, but we all know...

Good points. The only thing I would beg to differ on is that the existence of, and the ability/desire to use, a tool like Maptools is not very well known relative to customer base. People forget that those of us who read and post on these forums are a merely a vocal minority. I can't prove...

Wouldn't the ability to edit the character sheet be a plus, versus the CB PDF that you cannot edit? I know I would rather be able to make changes on my character sheet as I was playing.

I don't know if this is news, but I couldn't find anything in the site about it. Stumbled across this on Indigo.ca. chapters.indigo.ca: Dungeons & Dragons: Forgotten Realms Classics Volume 1: Jeff Grubb, Rags Morales: Books Dungeons & Dragons: Forgotten Realms Classics Volume 1 by Jeff Grubb...

I also thought the article was great! Quick and dirty rules for strongholds. And inspiration and ideas if you want more detail.

I also liked the article. Was intending to give the intro a quick skim and then move on, but after reading a bit, I got sucked into reading the entire thing! Now thats a good article!

Dunno if this is taking the thread too far off course but: The mentioning of the online aspect is really hitting home with me right now. I am struggling to keep together a RL group of players with different priorities, schedules and (I am now starting to see) not-so-compatible personalities...

Miniatures, as WotC has been doing them, just doesn't work. Have you ever wondered why other companies have not tried to produce relatively cheap, varied, decent plastic pre-painted miniatures? Because its not a viable business model... WotC tried many different ways to make it work... for...

Interesting question, and I won't take it in any way except the spirit it was intended. Short answer: No, a thousand times, no. I left D&D after trying 3.0 and then 3.5. After being weaned on B/E then BECMI, I dabbled in 1st and 2nd Edition AD&D. I just didn't have the time to DM 3.5 and the...

My suggestions for books to get for your group would be the Essentials line as well. The classes in the Heroes books are simpler yet compatible with the PHB classes. The Rules Compendium is just great and the Monster Vault with its counters, above average adventure and more evocative...

Others have answered your other concepts quite well, so I just wanted to point out that the Hexblade is exactly this. My Fey Pact Hexblade has a 10 Int and no training in Arcana. I could have made the Int 8 and not have it affect my build at all. Oh, and he's not a sub-optimal build... I...