Search results

We only had about 2.5 hours to play (the person with the module was an hour late and then left it at home so someone then brought it, very frustrating), and I feel that we only did so-so. We were heavy on melee. I was a Warforged Storm Warden, and there was a Minotaur Earth Warden and a...

We did it in about 18 two-hour sessions, but we were all newbies, though we all had previous RPG experience. We did exactly one encounter per session, but there were two or so extra encounters. I would often beef up the encounter to fill the time and because they were often too easy or...

My son and I are planning to play on Game Day in two weeks. My 9-year-old son is very interested in the collectible card aspect. How do the cards fit into the game? Namely, are they actions, equipment, mutations, etc.? I'm glad that it's 4e-like; that will make life simpler for all of our...

I agree with making them work for it in a house-by-house search, which they would soon tire of and just concentrate on the businesses. I would suspect that most of the money in your typical town would be in copper pieces, which quickly become not worth the bother due to their weight. I'm sure...

There's a decent one in the Free RPG Day 2010's _Bloodsand Arena_ Dark Sun adventure. That adventure also has two great arena battles which my players really enjoyed.

There's a few feats that are worded with "whenever you hit an enemy", and I want to know if that refers only to the target of an attack, or also those enemies who are hit by "splash damage". For example, I have the Mark of Storms feat with the feature "Whenever you hit an enemy with a thunder...

The Warden build options can certainly get you most of the way there for martial elemental classes. Earth Warden is already what you'd probably want. There are already some powers that would be useful for the other elements (such as Gale for air). So, come up with some new build options, add...

I recommend that you do not do so as a first-time DM. At least pick something short just to get you all used to the flow of things. For example, there are some short free downloads on the Wizards site, such as "Kyber's Harvest". You could also just run through some of the encounters (not the...

I found during the Red Box Game Day that Beguiling Strands and Fountain of Flame work very well together. Either doing as you did with using BS to bunch them up and them FF them, or by using FF in one spot and then use BS every turn to move them back into the flame for the 5 damage. The FF...

We played with only 4 PCs, but with experienced players, and had no one go down at all (not even unconscious). We had the dwarf fighter, cleric, mage, and halfling thief. We did all 5 encounters (the table next to us skipped the undead room), taking 5 hours. I played at the same table as Tony...

Yup, that's exactly what I've already done. Given that I'm not going to play Ravenloft, I prefer it working out this way, but it's still odd that the letter says there's a card enclosed and there wasn't. I still would have rather gotten something Gamma World-related, though... If I wasn't...

I'd start by saying that someone could not climb 15 feet across a ceiling without a climber's kit or a clever solution to the problem (throwing a small character with a rope to the other side, building some sort of bridge, etc.). Just looking at it from a real-world perspective, that's just not...

My son and I got our letters saying that the "Sea Hag" card was enclosed. But no card, just another copy of _Tomb of Horrors_. That makes 4 copies between us. :-( I find it odd that they'd have all those extra copies of _Tomb of Horrors_ lying around. They knew how many people they were...

The Free RPG Day Dark Sun adventure _Bloodsand Arena_ has 2 arena battles. In the first, whenever someone bull rushes or otherwise pushes someone into an obstacle that caused damage, they would get +1 speed and +1 to all defences. In the second, whenever someone did a critical hit or did...

It was the opposite for us. We had 8 for our first Game Day, but 24 for Encounters. Of the 8, 7 of them go to Encounters, and 7 of them frequently attend the normal Saturday D&D that I run (6 of them attend both). So, we didn't have anyone new.

Yes. I don't have the quote handy, but as I recall the characteristics were 3 or so: that you have permission to play there, that it's a "public" venue (namely, not someone's house or something like that), and that you won't turn away people (unless over the number of players).

I'm not too big on the DM Rewards program. I like the idea of it, but except the ship tiles, there hasn't been anything that I've wanted or used. The change I was really disappointed in was the dropping of the minis from the D&D Game Days. My then-7-year-old son and I got into D&D due to the...

I ran this yesterday and it worked out pretty well. I did the 3 encounters that I mentioned, and addressed people's suggestions. Everyone had a good time, though two people got pretty frustrated at parts. The first frustration was in the "Coins in the Coffer" arena battle where each team had...

Tomorrow is Dark Sun Game Day and we have 5 hours blocked out, but unfortunately, we'll have about 8-12 people showing up and I'm the only DM. DMs are a precious commodity around here. We also have mostly newer players, nearly all with just 5-20 sessions of D&D under their belt. Given that...

My son and wife made their own ugly dolls after seeing them for sale once and deciding that they were way overpriced. They made a dead cat's ghost (made with glow-in-the-dark material), a weird squid thing, and I forget what else. A friend of my wife's then made lots of them (~100) with a...