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I just used the errata DCs for a lvl 13 challenge. They might be on the low side, but since failure does mean they waste a round AND likely lose a healing surge, I'm not sure I want to go too much higher. Great idea on dungeoneering boosting the checks. I completely forgot about doing that...

In my next game, I'm going to have a variant purple worm used in an attack against the Empress during coronation. The heroes will be there and must stop the creature. They are very tough with a metric ton of HP, and I don't want just a slug-fest. So, as an alternative, I've devised an...

Yeah, this was pretty much genius.

In my game we use the house-rule that at 3rd, 8th, 13th, 18th, 23rd, and 28th you get a "heroic bonus" to attack, damage, AC and defenses. This does not stack with magic item bonuses, but can be superceded by a higher-level magic item bonus. As such, my players have stuck with magic items they...

I would go so far as to say 4e's familiar system even rocks out 3e's version. It's elegant, simple, and even answers the "pop-in" "pop-out" of players forgetting their familiars, too! 3e, the BAB Saves system. It was the first time it was made universal and despite being a little bit of a...

Reaper Miniatures :: FigureFinder Reaper Miniatures :: FigureFinder Reaper Miniatures :: FigureFinder -just make it a woman and this is the most aweseome mini possible.

Insert broken record - Star Wars Saga, removing the Force/Jedi can work great as any sci-fi campaign. Specifically, the creators of the Saga system even ran a Star Trek Saga game (Rodney's blog talked about it) and said it worked wonders for his group. It's not official, but it can work...

I would say, from opinion, they are incosistent in that they don't work like any other system within the game. You combine level to your roll, rather than base attack, then base that against a table, rather than a save or AC, to see the necessary result. Nothing else in 3.x works that way...

Only 4e here. We're more of a one-game-at-a-time group. When we wrap up the game I'm running, we'll decide if we want to do another 4e game or one of our other staples: Saga Sorcerer Primetime Adventures

It's been said above, cute pdf writer works wonders. I've been using it for some time. It's very useful for making my campaign guides in .pdf format.

The poll says it best; those two-headed orange monkey demons do, in fact, rule.

I don't "create a world" so much as start running adventures surrounded by a theme. As the players explore, more and more exists, being built upon what they know. In my current game, most of the players started out as thieves and slaves and are now lords in the empire (due to their actions)...

I agree 100% with the OP and often just move on. There are many times when I've got a nice laid out response and I'm ready to hit reply when I think, "you know, the person won't agree with my point, anyway, and I don't want to get into a 10 page argument". I then just close up the page and...

Epic post of the week. Right here.

Somebody get a review of the Captain's game! I'd like to know if he's got the chops or not (And would definitely be there if I lived in Manhattan)

Nifty.. where does one get the old-school template?

I got my players to pitch in and we bought a ton of Alea Tools - Home of Stackable Magnetic Markers markers. The red work great for showing bloodied, while the other colors are plentiful enough for slowed, weakend, fire, cold, marked, blinded, necrotic, etc... With minions, I just try to...

No kidding... I'm glad my thoughts on something were available for your criticisms on how you THINK my game should be played. Anyway, what I mean is, why NOT telegraph that information? Why not show that the fire archon is beginning to well-up with flame from within, or that the sniper has...

I liked it. There were a few things I hadn't thought to do (like subtley explaining recharge. On dragons, everyone knows it's going to happen, but on a lot of creatures, the players don't know that ability X was a recharge and not a one-use... I hadn't considered passing that information on a...

2/5 here and they have leveled twice following the ph2 release.