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My first thoughts went to page 42. In the new DM screen, there are no "low damage" entries, only "Single target" or "two and more targets". Under 7th level, single target, it reads: "2d8+6". I said that to the group, also suggesting it should be fire damage. One player protested against making...

How would you adjucate that? A minour action to throw the flask of oil (maybe a minor to retrieve it from the backup as well), but much damage? Does the flask of oil automatically hit the chosen square? Maybe if it's adjacent to the character, but how about a distance of four squares? Ongoing...

This might be an easy question to answer, but I found myself having a bit of difficulty with this during the last session. The heroes were fighting rot grubs, and one player, being frustrated with his lack of attack powers that could deal full damage to the rot grubs, asked if he could attack...

I used to play Warhammer 40 roleplaying, maybe that's where the grimdark inspiration comes from. Actually, this devil isn't even the BBEG in the campaign, although it might be the most unsettling one. The campaign takes place in an island called Thule. This place was a prison-island for...

Thanks! Wonder how I missed that.

We are doing something special for the next session. Instead of continuing the sage of our regular adventuring group (lvl 16), we are going to zoom in on their henchmen (lvl 7). The city has just been ravaged by the Lord of the Unborn, a devil noble whose portfolio includes abortions, stillborns...

I agree, the preview was fairly boring.

I just feel completely flabbergasted when I read stuff like this. Granted, I'm a DM, so the changes in Essentials haven't really affected me, but when I read for example the druid subclass (sentinal) in Heroes of the Forgotten Kingdoms, it just feels so much richer thematically. When I opened...

I already own Runewars, which pretty much fills all my boardgaming needs when it comes to armies and adventuring in a fantasy-setting.

Wizards don't tend to rewrite earlier stuff, as far as I know. Instead of updating Orcus, the Demon Prince, and letting you download the update, they make Orcus, the Awesome Demon Prince and publish him in a new book. They also don't tend to include errata in new printings of books, nor do they...

Collecting D&D minis is expensive? Tell me about. First I only ordered minis that were cheap, useful and adequately good-looking. (When I started collecting D&D minis, there were still a few minis around that were all those things.) Then the plastic crack got to me. Hey, Lord Soth, cool mini...

I think it's very unlikely that one of the minis is huge (instead of just large), and I think it's extremelyunlikely that all the minis are huge. Although that would be awesome (but not for me, as I shelled out 60$ just to get the huge red from Giants of Legends).

Great article. I'm not sure how useful Beast master is. I certainly know that I would never get a theme that is so relient on a minion animal companion, that goesn't get better defences, and is so likely to be taken out early in the combat. Sure it's great that it "hangs out in the back", except...

I read in another review that the tokens are different than those in the Monster Vault, in the sense that they are not glossy, but rather in a matte finish. Is this true? I actually don't think I'm a huge fan that the name of the creatures appears on the bloodied side. This is because...

When I started reading this thread, I didn't notice that it was so old. Until I saw a post by Angelsboi. I've been with ENWorld since the begining (lurking since 1999), and I recall Angelsboi as one of the regular posters. Although I didn't have any connections to him, beyond simply lurking and...

The disease track. It could be used for lots of other stuff, permanent injuries, etc, or just get more interesting diseases in the game. Cursed items, or magical items in general (it's time to get cracking on making special items, we all know that 4E can accomadate them, just write a sidebar...

Check it out here. I'm looking forward to this boxed set. I also really like that they first publish a player's option book focused on the shadow power source and follow with a boxed set for DMs. There is a focus on the thematic in the new direction for 4E, something that I felt was missing...

Most likely Fortune Cards was an experiment by WoTC. As far as I understand, it has failed, as I have hardly seen any positive reviews of the cards anywhere on the web. Most loathe them, some are neutral and a very few like them. What I'm wondering, is why they are comming out with two new sets...

Random encounters is a complete no-go in 4E as far as I'm concerned. Combat is so time consuming that I can't get players to dedicate 1-2 hours to a combat that has nothing to do with advancing the story.

It could work if they released the variant rules as a free article on their website, emphasising that these rules are optional and only apply to home games, not "official" games at D&D encounters, lair assault, etc. No reason they should lose customers then.