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I, for one, love these. They're fun alternatives to the class utility powers. A number of them give off nice flair and interesting little effects. Color me happy... or magenta... Not sure crayola's patented happy, yet.

It's new, but definitely impressing me with play; Sundered Skies, by Triple-Ace Games (it's a Savage World's Campaign Setting) This is a great ultra-fantasy setting, full of magic and weird, with one heck of a backstory. I'm using it as a 4e campaign setting right now, since it's relatively...

This picture, above all else, got me into roleplaying. Back in the early 90's, during the card collecting boom, there was a set of fantasy art cards my dad picked up for me. As a 9 year old kid, I spent hours imagining what this story was all about. I built lego scenes depicting it, and...

Yeah, I've never heard it used here until now. I always took it to mean you don't have to build a crappy combat/optimized character (i.e. profession skills in lieu of stealth) to have a good RP character, and you're not a bad character for RP if you're purely optimized; in the end, it's all...

I always allow a rule to be looked up if it comes into question. With the compendium, rulebooks, and DM screen all at the table, we can usually get the answer very quickly. HOWEVER (yes, this required caps), probably the biggest pet-peeve of mine when DMing is when a player just cracks open a...

I've played a wizard, rogue, avenger, fighter, and paladin thus far. I see no sameness in the classes. Each plays out distinctly different, does different things, uses different styles, weapons, and effects. I agree with all the above posters that the game is not homogeneous if you look...

I have to agree with Klaus. While this wasn't a bad article, it should have been a bestiary-esque article, allowing for a better god-related one.

I'm pleased; the color scheme is better than it's been in a while. Also, I can set the "remember me" option again. Much prefered to the two weeks crap of gleemax.

Yep, started playing after I bought Baldur's Gate. There was an add for the 2nd ed Core Rules CD, so I gathered my friends and we taught ourselves how to play (more correctly, I learned how to play and taught them). My current group, ten years later, consists of one original member (who...

I've seen Chaladin, Earth Warden, Guardian fighter, assault Swordmage, shielding swordmage, and battlerager fighter. The guardian fighter out-paced them all. Each were pretty decent, but the guardian was nigh-unstoppable, marked and harried so effectively, and almost never missed that it wins...

Specialized encounters - anything where 1 or 2 players have X skills (thievery, athletics), and the the other players sideline themselves. I always try to keep situations open for interpretation, but it's very easy to get sucked into a spot where stealth is what's needed. Other than that, I...

Ehh...better than Dragonlance. I never really cared for the books or setting, so this is good, I guess.. Though, I'll probably skip it unless it's got some good stuff for mining.

Incidentally, I've got $20 for anyone who doesn't want their ship tiles.

Ampersand said there'd be clues in the posts. So far, they have shown Draconians, mentioned Minotaurs in PH3, put Raistlin in as a demo character on the Character Builder, and this is the 25th anniversary of Dragonlance. While it could be bait'n'switch, that seems pretty unlikely, to me.

I've cracked Logan's code!!!

I guess I haven't gamed long enough to determine what old school means. I'm happy with the way the game is presented and the way my group plays right now. So, yeah, I guess from my point of view, old school would be overrated. But, if old school is what a group enjoys, more power to them...

I wish. Unfortunately, we do not run any RPGA stuff, so I didn't stand much of a chance at scoring those. I would kill for tiles like those.

I generally start with were the PC's left off. What are the likely decisions they'll make next? There's rarely more than 2-3 options in any given scenario, so I anticipate the most likely decisions and build challenges/combats around those, then I anticipate likely outcomes and directions from...

Knowing that he's running the game FOR you. I don't know how many DM's I've played with that missed that fact. They'd have their 300+ page campaign outline with every NPC, plot, and decision mapped out ahead of time. Then, when the players missed something, or did something out of context...

Hadn't considered doing it as a hazard.. That would probably work substantially better. Great idea!