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I am intrigued by the Xsplit idea, since I don't actually like to game online because I have always found it clunky in the face to face communication aspect. However, I do see a real benefit in using VTT software as a platform for digital projection style setups for in-person groups. Either via...

The best way to speed up combat in my experience is to make sure your players know their characters and actually pay attention to what is going on. When their turn comes up, they should already know exactly what they want to do. If they are chit chatting or surfing the web and their turn comes...

I'll disagree with this on one point. :) ToB: Book of 9 Swords actually fixed the horribly underpowered martial characters in 3e. Was it a power boost for melee types? Yes, but only to bring them in line with the hideously overpowered casters which dominated before. Seriously, I don't know how...

Hmm, some of the math looks off. Can you break down how the fighter has a Fort of 32? And it seems like you are allowing fighters to stack marks which they shouldn't be able to do. Also, if you are running pre-MM3 monsters, give all your monsters +5 damage per attack per tier. So paragon...

Humans SHOULD be slightly better than every race, except for very specific niches that those other races excel in. Its always bothered me that in most campaign settings humans are described as being the dominant race, yet there was no mechanical reason why that would be so. It makes it seem...

Don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel. :D;) But yes, for some of the older content I think those are concerns. But WotC used to sell all their 3e stuff digitally before, so it would be easy to make it available again, and their 4e stuff should all be electronically created and easy to...

I'm sorry, but you are wrong on multiple levels. Dancey's rationale on the failure of TSR only applies to creating new print products that compete with each other for limited consumer dollars on the retail shelf. Here is a very basic example. Let's say TSR made three different campaign setting...

In the TSR era when you had two different print products sitting on the retail shelf for two different campaign settings, sure. Consumers who only care about a certain product line, only buy that one, but TSR still had to bear the cost of producing, warehousing, and distributing two separate...

I don't see any need for WotC to discontinue 4e DDI support. It would be one thing if the tools were free, then you could make a financial argument that its acting as a barrier preventing players from upgrading to 5e. But as long as they continue to generate revenue for WotC, hell they would be...

There is nothing wrong with getting rid of freely available items in 4e. But its important that your DM use the Inherent Bonus rules from DMG 2. That way, even if items are rare or non-existent, your characters expected power will still be appropriate for their level.

I think there are three combat issues that often get conflated but are different. The first is grind. The second is combat pacing taking too long. The third is lack of threat. The grind issue has to do with the combat reaching the point where the PC's victory has become a foregone conclusion...

You can absolutely make a villain in 4e using the PC creation rules. I did it. Though only once, because it was far easier for me in the long run to just use the monster rules. But you certainly can and it works fine. As far as XP goes, I don't see why they would be any different than a...

I disagree. I want to be cool at level 1. I want to be cool at level 10. I want to be cool at level 30. I don't want to have to "grind" through the lower levels just to get cool abilities. Its ironic that some people feel like 4e is more video-gamey. This grind through the lower levels...

Yes, the hobogoblins were doing the same thing back at us. It made chokepoints very valuably tactically. Our combats tended to cluster around doorways.

We didn't consider it a broken tactic. Just different than what we were used to. And if they hobgoblins had stopped it, the wizard would have felt a lot less useful in combat.

Our groups ranges in opinions on 4e and PF. I love 4e and like PF, but not as much as 4e. Our DM for the playtest loves PF and is meh on 4e. Here is his feedback:

The wizard and the rogue loved it (once the Rogue got advantage on flanking from our DM). They felt free and unfettered. And it really helped gridless combat play much more smoothly. However, there was no real way to tank at all aside from the cleric of moradins ability. The monsters had no...

No OA's and advantage is completely up to the DM. Combat felt like a game of Dodgeball with a lot of running up, hitting, and then backing off. :) The rogue felt useless, until the DM ruled that any flanking granted advantage and then the Rogue player started having a lot more fun. The wizard...

Our Rogue liked this element and no one in our group felt it was overpowered. But we focused more on combat and less on exploration. Our wizard never used this spell, and just spammed shocking grasp all the time. Since the hobgoblins had metal on their armor, the DM gave the wizard combat...

So lets hear how your game went! My Thursday group just ended the game on a TPK. We entered the goblin cave and fought the goblins, killing most of them. One of them fled and we gave chase and it led us into a hobgoblin mess hall. Our DM had half the hobgoblins leave to get reinforcements (but...