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She seems a little... confident for Crystin. But perfect for Katrina. :)

Lack of context Oh, one more thing. SoGP provides me with lots of background and context. Check out the sidebars scattered liberally through the adventure. I've found this invaluable because it allows me to create new plot elements based on the PC's actions. This makes them feel like they're...

You've gotten a lot of responses, but I want to provide more specific examples. I DM'd the entire Scales of War heroic tier with my group. At the end, I was completely sick of it and switched to ENWorld's War of the Burning Sky. (Now I'm considering letting my DDI subscription lapse because I'm...

I have a player who loves system mastery. In our last campaign, Every. Single. Update. nerfed some item or power of his. For this campaign, I've told him, "You live by the cheese, you die by the cheese." He only gets one free nerf-retrain throughout his character's career. It put the burden for...

LOVE the new stat blocks. In the heat of combat, I have trouble remembering all the little extras monsters could do. I forget minor actions, and especially forget immediate and opportunity powers. This should be a big help. Wish I had it today.

I dislike the whole Chasm Gate section of the adventure--the plot, skill challenges, and characters all feel contrived to me. So I'm probably going to skip it and just have a brief encounter on the bridge. I saw hints that the Dianoem is important in Adventure 3, so I'm going to have Menash...

Session 5 Session 5 (Scenes 2-6, 2-6-2, 2-7, 2-8, 2-9, 3-1) This session had some pacing problems. It was all roleplaying, no combat. Some of the roleplaying dragged--I didn't get much sleep last night, and . I've noticed that a good night's sleep is the best predictor of how well a session...

I think it's Chaos Scar. It's not an Adventure Path, exactly, but it's a series of linked adventures and it looks like they have long-term plans for it.

When in March? I need my fix... :lol:

Three paths for just one class seems excessive. Maybe one for monks only, and the rest for a wider audience? Plus, my group doesn't have any monks. :D

Which one, and why did it stand out for you?

Session 4 (Scene 2-5, 3-2, 3-3) My players continue to surprise me. I was convinced we were on our way to a TPK last session, but the dice turned and they pulled out a narrow victory. By the end of the fight, four of the six players had been dying at some point. One of them rolled a 20 and...

I think Ari Marmell reported that he saw a more complete outline, so I wouldn't say they had no clue what would happen. But I agree, the paragon and epic tier descriptions are completely generic and have little to do with the actual adventures. Overall, the path was a big bundle of 'meh.'

I used to give them out as an alternative to monetary treasure, but my players didn't have very many as a result and they generally ignored them. Now I'm giving them out for "free" whenever it's thematically appropriate. Rituals are cool, and I don't see a lot of value in restricting their...

Champing. B-) (Normally I wouldn't do this, but it's an thread about writing, so.... :blush:)

It started in issue #156 and finished in #175. Not really. The heroic tier takes place in the same valley, but the home base city is new and off of the left hand edge of the RHoD map). The first adventure kicks off in Brindol and a later heroic tier adventure makes a brief stop in Brindol. A...

No session this week because I'm sick. I'll have to wait until next week to see how the PCs get out of this one... (I came up with some neat post-TPK stuff that I'm looking forward to trying... the PCs will be taken hostage; there will be some banter between the bad guys that will provide...

My players recently started a new campaign after progressing to the end of the heroic tier. They've gone from a well-tuned engine of destruction to a comedy of errors. We've only played about 12 hours so far in the new campaign, but there's definitely a learning curve associated with new...

I'm the one who mentioned using 1-inch washers, but I'm not actually using them for monsters yet--just for healing surges and magic item dailies. For monsters, I use chipboard which I cut to size. Chipboard is like the die-cut tokens you get in most board games, but even thicker and heavier...

There's two different consensus views depending on who you ask. Theorycrafters who are crunching the numbers say the expertise feats are necessary to fix a math error and are thus a feat tax. Actual play reports of mid-paragon and higher tend to complain the characters are too hard to kill and...