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I feel your pain, but there's a simple solution: ignore the updates. 4e D&D, without any updates, is more balanced than previous versions of the game. I don't think anyone in the Edition Wars (TM) is denying that. There are no save-or-die spells, wizards don't automatically rule after 6th...

Gambling tends to come up a fair bit in my games, and we've generally settled on three ways of dealing with it, depending on how much time is available: 1) Short Method. Single roll using Bluff or Streetwise. Pick a DC level based on the difficulty of the opposition (e.g. typical players might...

It'd work much like air travel in our own world. A long list of items that you cannot carry; some of which are completely inexplicable. For example, you can't carry a lantern... because it's fueled by lamp oil... which resembles alchemist's fire... which is sometimes used for arson or combat...

Agreed. I've been really impressed by every other preview so far; enough so that Nentir Vale is an auto-buy for me. But this particular monster has three problems: 1) the Bound by Blood mechanic is misworded (simple enough to correct - the flavor text makes the intent very clear); 2) the...

There's also Skull Watch, a 4e ritual from Open Grave. Enchant a skull... it watches for intruders (using caster's Perception, with a +5 bonus)... alerts the caster (within 1 mile) if it detects an intrusion, and the caster can look through the skull's eyes to see what it is seeing. Quite a...

Well, let's at least include the Ed Greenwood quote that (I assume) started this. The source is Part 2 of his classic Nine Hells articles, in Dragon #76. The quote is taken from his description of Nessus, the lowest layer of Hell: "It is said that the nycadaemon Daerith once appeared...

Ugh. Yeah. I thoroughly enjoyed 3e as a system when it came out, but the treatment of the daemons/yugoloths was pretty horrible. The first few 'loths released were dreadfully underpowered. And then... things just went to heck. Battleloths? Voors? Whaaa....? I also liked hyena-headed...

I'll second the posters who went with archon, deva and lamia. Those three have clearly seen some massive change. I'd say the eladrin have seen less change. Even in 2e, there were strong similarities between them and "grey elves". However, I'll also offer another creature that has seen...

I don't know of a free one that you could embed within your site, but you could always link to the WotC dice roller. It's a java app that creates a nifty little pop-up... Dungeons & Dragons Dice Roller

I've played two bards (Half-Elf / Virtue of Valor, Human / Virtue of Cunning), and they're probably one of my favorite character classes. Here are my personal experiences... Virtue of Valor Despite going with good Con, and taking Scale Armor Proficiency feat, I elected to focus on implement...

In two bunk beds at a friend's place, when I was about 14. At night. With flashlights. I was DM'ing from the lower bed in one bunk. The two players (brothers) were on upper beds in the other two bunks. It was wayyy past our "bed time / curfew" and we weren't supposed to still be gaming. Nobody...

Wow. Firstly, good choice of adventures. Those are some classic modules. Secondly, if Fire of Dis is a "smaller adventure" in your lexicon, I'd be fascinated to hear about some the longer ones. Even at a good clip, it took my group a solid month to get through Fires - and that's with regular...

I've been running the same "campaign world" since the beginning of BECMI D&D, 20+ years ago. Time passes in the campaign world; some 200 years of it. Adventures that our group was playing 20 years ago (real-time) are now either barely remembered by the general populace, or have passed into...

Going by version... BECMI D&D B4 Lost City: The stuff of which campaigns are made. I like the fact that it starts out very basic (lost in the desert, some random encounters in a half-buried ziggurat) and sort of spirals from there. You meet one or more rival factions and choose whether to...

B4 is my favorite module of all time. However, for the purposes of the Original Poster [OP], I'd recommend I1. Here's why... The main focus (80%) of B4 is on the Great Ziggurat, rather than the Lost City below it. It's a pyramid-based adventure, not a city-based adventure. The isometric city...

The easy answer is: heavy cover. Lots of trees in the swamp... or perhaps the brain is floating around in some old ruins. Lots of pillars and crumbling stonework. Heavy cover grants +5 defense bonus, which should be fairly prohibitive given that a lvl 9 creature will already have very high...

The upcoming Conquest of Nerath boardgame sounds like it might be useful at some stage for this campaign. It's not specifically Bael Turath vs Arkhosia, but it appears to be the same sort of "prehistory of the Nentir Vale" concept. Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page -...

Similar experience. To elaborate on some of the points made above... The encounters prior to reaching the mountain are fairly random. They're not really in the same theme of the mountain itself. This is both good and bad. The variety is welcome given how "same-y" the mountain is going to get...

Context: I've played every Bioware CRPG game to completion, multiple times. I love the company, and I love their games. I only play PC CRPGs; I don't own a console. Dragon Age: A traditional "western" CRPG in the mold of Baldur's Gate. Elves, Dwarves, Dragons, etc. A large world to explore...

One comment on Zuggtmoy: I think her Constitution may be an intentional nod to her original 1e stats. She was a demon lord (lady) of only middling power - the fluff text for Demogorgon and Orcus clearly made them the "big boys" of the demon princes... and even Graz'zt quickly gained a reputation...