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I think this is one of the reasons the new system is there. While not everyone will agree, from my perspective (both as a player and a DM) the original system left the players too much freedom in selecting magic items. Typically, characters I created (beyond those at first level, of course)...

There are a lot of really good suggestions here. Don't rule out the potential for a good skill challenge here in place of the combat, or even a combat intermixed with a skill challenge. You could, for instance, have the WWs when first encountered be protected by a powerful ritual--maybe one...

Now that they're going to be fixing all the stuff we were so mad about on Monday, what are we going to be mad about this weekend?

It's a small thing in most cases, but worth noting that the fighter's attack is an interrupt rather than a reaction. That means a fighter can conceivably kill an attacker before he deals damage to the fighter's ally. In other words, it's not cut and dry that Mind Spike flat-out better than a...

There's no denying that the CB has lost some functionality. If that lost functionality causes the subscription to lose all value to you, then you absolutely should not pay for it. It is a shame, for example, that you personally can no longer use the CB as a living character sheet. In my case...

I do understand a lot of the negativity, but (and I say this with all respect) are all of your dollar bills worth more than mine are? My monthly DDI subscription costs less than one movie ticket. I have a hard time accepting that the value I get out of DDI (even now) is less than what I got out...

Although my group, too, was disappointed by the new CB's lack of house-rule support, we quickly discovered that as long as we took the feats that made a mechanical difference to the character sheet, we could just type the other ones in another place (campaign notes, for example). We know what...

What really boggles the mind is that some of the same folks who previously complained about the lack of a VTT (specifically that its absence is proof that WotC is dishonest and incompetent) are now arguing passionately that, sight unseen, the announced VTT is proof that WotC is incompetent and...

I respect your opinion, but just to clarify, you're saying that as a DM you'd rather everyone have a bad time than ask the players to help you out? And you're saying that if you're playing and your DM asked you, as a friend, to help him out of a bind that you'd instead actively try to do the...

This reminds me a bit of one of the LFR adventures presented at GenCon this year. The characters are on a ship that is attacked by pirates (so far so good). We beat the pirates and find a captured nobleman, who we save. He has lots of (boring) background information and we're told that he seems...

I realize that this response won't be popular with everyone, but I would say the answer to that question is: Never. (Of course, that assumes the players aren't willfully and actively trying to ignore your plot hooks just to get your goat, but it doesn't sound like that's the case here.) Some...

My group has always run things like Xeterog's. To us, it seems more in the spirit of the rule since with a power that allows a creature to make multiple attacks, the attacks are ostensibly all happening at (or very nearly at) the same time. By the RAW, each hydra head might have to target the...

First let me say to the OP that I appreciate that you actually tried the game despite your misgivings and found things about it that you like. Like the OP, I have played D&D for years. I started with Redbox, had my hiatus during 2E, and came back for 3.5 and 4E. However, unlike the OP, I don't...

I too started with Redbox and played many editions up to and including 4E. I enjoyed them all, but am a particular fan of the current system. As some others have said, it feels very much like "old school" D&D to me because simulationism and rules always took a backseat to "cool" in the games I...

It still does plenty. It lets you charge to any adjacent square you can attack from. This might mean charging into flanks, charging around behind a medium or large creature (so long as each square of the charge brings you closer to your destination square), or even charging THROUGH a huge or...

While that particular combat may, indeed, have averaged 3 minutes per turn, in at least one round 3 of the characters were each taking the equivalent of 3 standard turns. We could use your logic and just take that one round, extrapolate that it must have taken 33 minutes, and then say that a...

I apologize that this is getting the thread a bit off track, but I feel I have to stand up for the honor of my DM. KD, you make a pretty big assumption in saying that if you were the DM this wouldn't have happened. I'm sure my DM didn't envision the fight going this way either. The problem is...

While I wouldn't say my group is super-optimized, it is a party of epic level characters. Two of us were stunned in round 1. That sucked, but on round 2 my bard dropped Fragment of the Song (which is part of his epic destiny) and allows anyone who spends an action point to gain 2 extra standard...

Do you actually, in practice, only hit what you're "swinging" at in your 4E games about 50% of the time? Is it really, on average, taking 5+ hits to drop any given opponent? If so, then I really do feel your pain. That really would make every combat a grind. In practice though, you ought to...

Rather than explain our "system of bookkeeping," which is really just colored magnets/condition flags like many other people use, I'll speak to what makes it easy and relatively fast. Again, let me emphasize that much of the reason it's easy and fast is because our group has played 4E together...