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Truename's summary is very good. I would only add a little to this point: Also, feats are retooled quite a bit in HoFL. Basically, Heroic tier characters get a manageable number of feat choices that are all more straightforward and attractive than the majority of previous 4E feats. About half...

Well, first off, there's seven of them. Most aren't particularly optimized, only two of the seven are even vaguely optimizers and one of those is playing a bard, but there are some good stats in there. I'm actually disinclined to change things up much because, going into the second adventure...

I didn't mention speed factors because I did occasionally see those used, both to break initiative ties in 1E and for their more extensive intended use in 2E. Most people I know of first- or second-hand eventually decided they were unfair and/or too cumbersome and dropped them, but I've seen...

I don't think it's as clear-cut as all that. For example, no-one used the 1E initiative system as written; it's labyrinthine, much more complex than any comparable mechanic in 4E. A long time ago there was a whole big thread on it here and eventually a Word document several pages long was...

"Burning Sky" by Porcupine Tree is a must-include :-). Besides the appropriateness of the title, it's a long, atmospheric instrumental, which is just what the doctor ordered for this sort of thing. Also, it'll appeal to the metal fans without actually being metal in any way, shape or form...

PF PCs are noticeably more powerful than 3.5 ones, at least at low levels. Partly because of this (though a larger than usual group and my own fix for the one thing PF should have fixed and didn't - hit points - also contributed), I found the first adventure too easy when I ran it last summer...

My "tough minions" that I have occasionally used go like this (this has a few small but important differences from the earlier suggestions here) A tough minion is bloodied by any attack that hits; an unbloodied tough minion takes no damage from attacks that miss, unless one of the bullet points...

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Do you have a specific reason for thinking that all the WotC employees over the years who have, repeatedly and consistently, said Hasbro is extremely hands off are being untruthful? Because I'd just as soon not assume that people I respect are systematically lying without some kind of proof. (To...

Just want to note (bumping this very useful thread in the process) that this text flow issue still seems to exist. I'm printing out five characters for a playtest and one of them has this text flow issue (only in the Class Features section; his racial abilities and feats are fine). Guess what...

So 19 classes out of 25 fit this pattern: Controller: Low Striker, Leader: Medium Defender: High And of the six exceptions, four are accounted for by this rule (though it also arguably creates one new one): Primal power source: Raise to the next higher category (use Very High if necessary)...

The problem with that is that in recent years, they have shown consistently poor judgment in choosing partners. Exhibit A: Whoever is in charge of their forums now. Exhibit B: Infogrammes. (Umbran's point that videogames are a separate thing is not without merit, but I do think it's symptomatic...

I said Mentzer, but it was actually the Mentzer basic followed closely by the Cook expert. I think you can nail down when I started to within a few months based on that.

Have you looked at any of the FR products specifically dedicated to the deities? Faiths & Avatars and its two sequels (for 2E) in particular just seem obviously to be best-of-breed, at least to me. I can't imagine giving those a read and still calling FR deities "underdeveloped". (Especially...

The crunch, and even some of the stuff that's a mix of interdependent crunch and fluff (prime example: the 2E deity books), is general-purpose enough that I can import it into other settings with few problems. So I do own a number of FR books, such as the aforementioned 2E deity trilogy and the...

:o My bad.

I can search for particular users' posts, and I can search thread titles (though the latter takes a very long time). However, when I do a search for a keyword and don't choose to search thread titles only, or a tag search, I more often than not get the error: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of...

Unlike the OP, I have seen this and understand and accept search being limited to community supporters. However, it does raise the question of why search is so flaky for those of us who do pay for (among other things) access to that functionality. I can't remember the last time I had a search...

I explain the result as DMs feeling worse about killing characters than the players of those characters feel about losing them. In some cases, the DM sees how much work the player has put in while the player, while also conscious of that, has half a dozen other ideas s/he'd be equally interested...

I'm necroing this thread again to ask if anyone has current, working links to these columns. All the ones above just take me to the general novels page, which makes no mention of this column ever having existed, and an admittedly quick look through the (unforgivably, non-searchable) archives...