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    Attacking with torches

    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...
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    Attacking with torches

    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...
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    Attacking with torches

    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...
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    Expected wealth per level

    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...
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    Expected wealth per level

    Thanks! Wonder how I missed that.
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    Expected wealth per level

    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...
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    Monster Vault: Mages of Saruun

    I agree, the preview was fairly boring.
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    Heroes of the Feywild Speculation

    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...
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    Early look at Conquest of Nerath!

    I already own Runewars, which pretty much fills all my boardgaming needs when it comes to armies and adventuring in a fantasy-setting.
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    MM1, MM2 Solos Upgraded MM3 style?

    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...
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    D&D 4E The yet still complete list of official 4E D&D products: now with new format!

    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...
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    D&D 4E The yet still complete list of official 4E D&D products: now with new format!

    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).
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    Themes article up

    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...
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    Pre-Release Review of The Shadowfell: Gloomwrought and Beyond by WotC

    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...
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    Gay men or women who play D&D

    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...
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    Design Space - What are the biggest gaps in 4th Edition?

    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...
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    Unboxing of Gloomwrought and Beyond

    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...
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    Fortune Cards: you likey?

    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...
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    Random Encounter Tables in 4th

    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.
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    Fortune Cards: you likey?

    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.
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