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Then obviously it needs to be communicated better. I think the concept is communicated--such as, in the quote from the DMG I provided--but it may be worth including elsewhere down the line. Oh, I don't disagree with you at all. However, the improvisation rules make that assumption because the...

Because it's a different lock. See, that's one thing that I think is commonly misunderstood about 4th Edition's "DCs that scale by level" system. Perhaps we've just not adequately explained the intent, in which case further explanation may be necessary. Essentially, the idea of DCs that scale...

I don't think I understand why that's a problem. If I can give a player a tool that is useful both in and out of combat, why is that worse than one that just works in one, or the other? To me, that sounds like the mentality that believes that to be good at combat, you have to sacrifice...

I feel as though your list ignores the following class-specific powers: Cleric ====== Divine Fortune Holy Lantern Astral Refuge Knights of Unyielding Valor Clarion Call of the Astral Sea Cloud Chariot Good Omens Paladin ========== Astral Speech One Heart, One Mind Ranger ========== Crucial...

I was just clarifying that it was all new. :) No harm in asking, just wanted to make sure everyone knew it wasn't preview content.

All of the powers in this article were specifically written for this article by Matt Sernett and developed by me. None of them appear in any upcoming product (at least, that we have planned) and are exclusive to Dragon Magazine.

First of all, this sounds like an awesome idea. I wish I had the skill to pull something like that off! Second, one thing I would advise is that you make it so that you can easily have two floors exposed on the table at once. When I ran the Shackled City campaign, during the fight through the...

That's...odd. When it left my desk, it was "you can use blood drain against a target that you have combat advantage against, even if you do not have that target grabbed." I'll see if it got changed on purpose, of if the editor just misunderstood the intent.

Bingo. When I was developing this article, that's sort of what I envisioned as the optimum strategy, though I also see this being effectively used against dazed/stunned opponents or opponents with sustain effects. Yes, it's not the easiest racial ability to pull off...but that's also why it's...

I also included a lot of gnolls in Den of the Destroyer.

That's pretty much my standing table rules. I did say that if the players thought I'd made a mistake, they could point it out if they could provide the page number of the rule I broke, so we could go to the text and head it off at the pass. If it wasn't immediately found in the book, the game...

I think there's definitely something there, but I think I personally prefer that as a part of the adventure itself, not a standard across planar adventuring. What I mean by that is, if you (as DM) want to give the players they Lewis and Clark feeling of planar adventuring, you should make it a...

To be fair, though, you did come in partway through the campaign. The other characters that went heavy on the backstory (the dwarf fighter and the warlock) both had (hopefully) satisfying resolutions to their character histories. The ranger kind of got dragged into some interesting backstory...

Arguably, the most effective character in my Age of Worms campaign was the ranger with Favored Enemy (Undead). Wouldn't hurt to have someone like that around to dish out a hefty sum of damage.

A while back a friend of mine, Brian Borgman, put out a soundtrack for Cybernet, the OGL cyberpunk game. It's specifically designed for a cyberpunk setting. Your tastes may vary, of course, but I like it. The Official Cybernet Soundtrack

I run a lunchtime Star Wars game at the office, but maybe my experiences can help you a bit. I typically plan on the game having one encounter per session (we play for an hour and a half). If I do a skill challenge, sometimes I will also include a small combat in the session, but usually one...

That's...odd. I was the developer on this month's Dragon, and I distinctly remember passing this along as having the scythejaw take damage at the end of each of its turns, not each creature's...but perhaps it got changed in editing, or something like that. You might consider trying to run it...

This is true (trust me, until I moved out here I lived in Chattanooga, and then Knoxville, my entire life). But as bad as things get in Tennessee, I think it is actually WORSE out here, for two reasons. One, even though we know it's coming, the DOT never salts/sands the roads in advance, whereas...

Giving: D&D Basic Game + all three 4th Edition core rulebooks to my girlfriend's little brother Scum & Villainy, Martial Power, Draconomicon, Manual of the Planes, and some Star Wars minis for my brother Asked for: Ticket to Ride: The Nordic Countries The Power Grid expansion boards Tsuro...

I think that's just a bit condescending, don't you? Game designs often use terms in new ways, because there may not be a concise word that perfectly sums up a game concept. It's not exclusive to game design, either; look how many technological terms we use today because someone used an existing...