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I'm not sure the comparison with Magic: The Gathering is valid. MtG is a game. D&D Fortune Cards is a prop / accessory. It goes without saying that you have to like the cards in order to like and play Magic. But you absolutely don't have to like the fortune cards in order to play D&D (on the...

The replies here just confirm what I suspected: That the fortune cards cannot be a success, that few players buy them (mostly DMs), that no one likes the rules for using them and that everyone dislikes the random packaging. That's why I was so surprised to learn that two more sets are in the...

I've only played 4 of these games, so I'll limit my ratings to these four (player / DM). D&D 4th: 6/6 Pathfinder: 6/8 Savage Worlds: 3/4 Castles & Crusades: 4/4

I ordered my set from Troll & Toad. They just restocked and currently have six complete sets for sale. If you're not willing to shell out ridiculous amounts of money for 80 flimsy cards (I'm an old Magic-player, so I'm used to that), you could instead order one of each common and maybe, if you...

I just ordered a complete set. I'll not be using them as per the RAW, instead I'm gonna use the following house rules: - The entire deck is a pool to be used for all players. - A player can draw 2 cards and choose to keep 1 when he/she does something cool, clever or imaginative in or out of...

New sets of fortune cards? I thought everyone agreed that they had failed miserably. Where did you find mentions of these sets, Fury of the Feywild and Glory of Neverwinter?

Yeah, not interested. What I want (I'm a DM, btw): - A character builder that rocks - A monster builder that rocks - Feywild boxed-set (companion to Heroes of the feywild) - Hell boxed-set - More Monster Vaults w/tokens (especially since Threats to the Nentir Vale looks excellent) - Rogue...

I have nothing against the despair deck. It's non-random, and the cards work quite well for players remembering what type of "despair" they are suffering from. Not like the fortune cards, which I didn't like and thought was a wasted opportunity (they were boring and expensive). But holy cow...

How much errata has there been to Heroes of the Fallen Lands and Heroes of the Forgotten Kingdoms? Since these essentials-products are supposed to be "evergreens", will Wizards make a reprint with errata included?

Wow, amazing picture!

Thanks. This was a bit disapointing. Do you know if they are going to improve the character builder's ability to disallow certain sources, and implement better house rule capabilities? Also, how much errata is there currently for the two essentials heroes-books? Will there be reprints with...

I've been toying with the idea of only allowing essentials stuff in my next campaign. Obviously, I have to run this by the players (if they don't want to, it's business as usual). Fact is, I really like essentials. Especially that it provides a few classes that are easy to play. Anyway, seeing...

The artwork is beautiful. Good presentation. I'll definately keep an eye out for this. The setting kinda reminds of the world in the Thief-series (computer games).

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I really like the new adventuring gear. Ghoul candle was cool. "Fashioned from fat rendered by a slain ghoul" = awesome. The fluff about golems in Gloomwrought was inspiring as well. One thing that I'm a bit concerned about when it comes to the new Monster Vault book, is that the new monsters...

So, there's been much noise about the fortune cards. The objections can be divided into roughly two categories: People who dislike the idea and people who like (or are indifferent) when it comes to the idea, but instead dislike the implementation. For the people that don't like the...

The blessed crossbow bolt-thing is kinda boring. I'm thinking more of "The poorest man in the land must give the rakshasa a kiss on the forehead, and if the rakshasa is killed by sinking a blessed dagger into its forehead no more than a day after, the fiend is permanently destroyed"

So, the players in my campaign recently captured a rakshasa. (Note that even though we play 4E, this thread can be useful to DMs in any edition of D&D.) In 4E, there is no such thing as a blessed crossbowbolt auto-slaying a rakshasa. In fact, the monster vault says nothing of how to permanently...

Does anyone else think that this content was originally intended for the Nentir Vale Gazetteer book that was removed from the product schedule? Looks like a great, flavourful article. Edit: Ninjaed by the forces of darkness

That's about 19-29 minutes more than I like. It usually only takes me about a minute to find a suitable creature to reskin into my NPC (if the NPC needs combat stats at all, most don't). Last session, Hrothgar, an enemy barbarian, was just a reskinned Orc warlord (or warchieftain, can't...