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I hate this kind of armchair quarterbacking. Even if you're a professional web designer, you don't know their business (even if you know what you like to play) or what constraints they're operating under. In this case, thanks to the magic of cookies, you don't even know what newbies see. If...

If anybody else comes across this issue, uninstalling and reinstalling Silverlight fixed the problem. The instructions for uninstalling Silverlight are here: Get Silverlight | Microsoft Silverlight

Okay, thanks. I'll see what's borked on my end.

Is anyone else having trouble accessing the 4e Character Builder? I've tried with Firefox and Chrome, and in both browsers it just shows me a blank white screen after Silverlight finishes loading.

I'm pretty happy with 4e--my group just hit 17th level and we're planning on playing WotBS 4e all the way to the end of 30th level. I've found the combination of house rules I like, and I've particularly figured out how to play minor combats without the battle grid, which has helped a lot. That...

Just the opposite, I suspect. There was a lot of unconscious gender discrimination at the time the module was originally published (of the form you describe, actually--"it's just a woman"), and I wouldn't be surprised if the original B2 only used female warriors to be "surprising," if at all...

I was curious about whether there was a 4e-equivalent of Tarquin's iconic "snatch arrow out of air and stab enemy" move, so I searched the compendium for martial powers that were immediate interrupts that had the word "ranged" somewhere in the power description. Surprisingly, there aren't many...

Hmm... I'd guess that PAX is the beginning of the public playtest, myself. A big marketing splash at PAX, a short delay while they take care of errata, and then the same playtest materials come to us.

Here's a cheat sheet for WotBS #6. I've listed all the major episodes in the adventure (3e & 4e) with their combat encounters (3e & 4e), treasure (4e), and skill challenges (4e). Spoilers.

It's very easy: stop using a combat grid. This vastly speeds up combat, as players spend less time making decisions about positioning and effects. I can run an equal-level encounter in about 1/2 or 1/3 the time now. I describe my approach here...

Are you're sure they're actually overpowered? 4e combat looks easy to the DM and hard to the players. It has a great challenge curve, actually: the DM knows that the PCs were never in any real danger, but the players feel threatened and like they just barely squeaked by. If your players are...

I've been DM'ing 4e exclusively since it came out. I like it. But nothing's perfect. Here's my list: - Verisimilitude and player narration of powers. You did what again? Pulled him three squares and then when he makes a save, he takes damage? Okay, but what just happened in the game world? -...

I'm not familiar with the Blackguard, but it's a striker and strikers do a lot of damage. Over 25 at level 10 seems normal, even a bit low. Edit: 35... not so sure. Someone who knows the blackguard better than me will have to respond. Also, I can't find "devati" and "relocation blade" in the...

Exactly. 4e monster design is awesome. Monsters are surprising, interesting, and incredibly easy to DM. If I want all my goblins to feel similar, I just do it. And if I want to stat up the world's most powerful goblin mage (and I did; he's riding a worg named Fluffy and tagging along with my...

I really like the rarity system. As I see it, rarity works this way: Common: "math" items. Simple, easy to play, make the 4e math work. Kind of boring. Not needed if you use inherent bonuses. Uncommon: Interesting, useful, have some sort of special power. But easy to forget/ignore. Rare...

There was a solo adventure in one of the early 4e-era Dungeons as well. I don't remember which one, but I do remember that it was combat-focused, as the WotC adventures tended to be at that time.

She shows up in Adventure #7 (Act III) in the company of a competing Ragesian/Shahalesti adventuring party. The heroes learn of her treachery through visions before they have to face her in person, and they have the choice of fighting her or turning her to their side. That's the last time...

What do you base this on? Every reference I can find says that remainders are a normal part of publishing. ("Publishers predict sales as closely as they can, but they're never going to get their print runs exactly right and often end up over-printing. They'll then be unlikely to want copies of a...

Rather than ability score leading to class, what if class and ability score could be chosen separately? 4e approached this idea--for example, Str clerics and Wis clerics--but your prime attribute was so important everything had to be shoehorned to fit. So you got weapon-based attacks that used...

I'm not sure this means what everybody thinks it means. Most books have a short shelf-life. They're released, there's a surge of sales that drops off fairly quickly, then they're remaindered (put in the bargain bin to get rid of excess inventory). Books that aren't sold are returned to the...