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The latest troll from the Monster Vault clarifies the rule: "Whenever an attack that doesn’t deal acid or fire damage reduces the troll to 0 hit points, the troll does not die and instead falls unconscious until the start of its next turn, when it returns to life with 15 hit points. If an...

I'm going to echo dkyle and pyromantic here about the immediate actions: picking up a die and rolling a save is a really low form of player involvement. Immediate powers give players an incentive to focus on what's happening off their turn, and the tools to perform some really dramatic actions...

Excellent! I may well take you up on that.

Sure. As well as increasing threat, I'm also thinking the templates could be a simple way to codify encounter objectives. For example, a "defender" template that gives the group bonus powers for defending certain squares on a map, or an "assassin" template for use when the group is targeting a...

As we get further into paragon, I'm noticing that my monsters feel less and less effective. Nowadays an encounter that's two levels above the party feels about the same as an equal-levelled encounter back in heroic. And this is with me: Adding +10 damage to all pre-MM3 monsters Frequently...

Thanks, guys. It's how I've been playing it, but it does seem a bit weird at times. For example, we had a PC hit by a poison that slowed them and dealt ongoing damage simultaneously, with a worse effect on a first failed save. It caused some raised eyebrows when I said the ongoing damage was...

I'm slightly confused about the feat thing too, but I'm guessing (or rather, hoping) that the wizard gets access to x number of metamagic feats on top of some generic allocation. Perhaps all classes are the same? Extra martial feats for the fighter, stealth feats for the thief, etc. That's a...

If a power tells you to negate a condition (such as ongoing damage) does it also negate any other conditions associated with that effect (such as dazed)? The power that comes up at my table all the time is "Bahamut's Liberation". Platinum Warlord Utility 11; Encounter; Close burst 5; targets...

Here's his version of the Fighting Man :)

We had so much fun with "Grace Under Pressure". Whenever one of my players went out in a pressure suit, or a bunch of them went out in the Joey, I'd have them go upstairs and Skype my laptop from a darkened room. The rest of the players could just see their faces, lit up by the screen glow. It...

One of the first things I do once I've sorted the basics is prepare a newspaper. The sort of scroll you may expect to find in the possession of a town crier, or pinned up in the city square. I always include a few ads, reports of escaped convicts, and what have you. Headline stories are great...

For 4E, the Underdark book is particularly good. Of all their setting books, it's the one that made me want to drop everything and immediately run an Underdark campaign. In 3E, I particularly liked Frostburn and Sandstorm. Those books gave me some of the best campaigns I've even run. In...

Thanks for all the positive comments! Some of you may be interested to read the side-trek that I've written, which I've just published on my blog. It's set onboard Jaggerbad Skyhouse, and details a strange, dreamlike journey through the tavern's upper floor. One player runs their own PC, but all...

Sure, I'll post them here if he gets around to doing them. He's done a few pictures before for my blog (the warrior pic at the top of that post, for example).

My current group is called the Yellow Banner and some of them have taken to wearing yellow armbands at the table for good luck, or wrapping yellow ribbons around their dice boxes. Our wizard also has an actual book which he fills with his rituals. As a DM, one of my players brought me a...

Awesome, thanks guys.

Quick question: Can anyone tell me what weapons and armour the classes in Basic D&D could use - or, to be more specific, typically used. This is regarding the Holmes set, so just Fighting Men, Clerics and Magic-Users? A friend wants to draw some iconic character pics for B1: In Search of the...

Well, I just had my first article published in Dungeon magazine: Jaggerbad Skyhouse! It's about a tavern strapped to the back of a dragon. It's designed for paragon and epic campaigns, but my intention was to open it up for the heroic tier too (there's a suggested hook in there that an...

Some really good ideas here! "Unable to Use Surges" is an excellent condition that would utterly terrify my players. Hell, I'm going to use that next session.