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About the max damage: My reason for adopting it is also the increase in speed. You are not only saving yourself the time to actually roll damage, you are saving yourself all those rounds that go "Woo I hit with a 19! roll damage... 1." Better luck next round. In theory it should half the time a...

Hm, yep probably because: What do we call 2e players? .... We call them.... 2e players. Wait wait wait, but then what do we call 4e players? Oh that's easy we call them... umm let me think.... we call them.... 4e players. See why the question might tend to annoy people? Not the way you asked...

I have the same issue in my games. I'm going with everybody does max damage and criticals are double damage, myself, but only because I've genuinely come to beleve that everything in 4e has at least twice as many hitpoints as it should (and solo monsters have about ten times as many). It may...

Yep, I've said before and I'll say it again... show me a person who thinks a 20% selling price is unrealistic in any way and I'll show you a person who's led a nice, comfy, sheltered life. Sorry, but that is what it is. Edit -> Not that 'realism' should have anything at all to do with it in the...

I like the rule simply because it means that I can throw in a lot more magic items into the treasure without worrying that the party will feel like they could become overnight millionaires if they decide to sell it all at once. Seriously that's pretty much all I've seen happen in the actual...

"Draw his last breath ever" is a line that is just begging for a prophecy-ish dubious workaround. If Rich hadn't meant for it to have one, the prophecy would have been something like "Will die, permanently, forever, no dubious workaround or twist in which he comes back ever" or something like...

You don't need to do any of that stuff. We've never had a healer in our party, we fight pretty much all of the time, we've never had a problem. Two words: Healing potions. Give the characters the possibility (and the money) to buy 2-5 potions each before going into combat. That's it :) Potions...

"This" why? Why in the world would you want to discourage players from doing what they consider to be the most fun or the best choice for them? Is there something morally superior about "more subtle" solutions? Where's the rule that says that a lock HAS to be picked, on pain of getting...

Very nice, very nice :) I agree about the action/item point thing, your way is much simpler, but my group in particular expressed an interest in stockpiling and managing their points so we're gonna see if it shakes out (we already use poker chips to represent each point, red for action and blue...

Quick question, didn't see it addressed in the FAQ: If I want to do away with the whole "Primary" skill thing... that is, I want the players to be rolling all their skills as they are, without any +2 encouragement to choose a particular one... should I change the DCs at all? Maybe substract 1...

Yes, I think that 'Drained' idea is even better, it is true that healing surges and how many a character has left is almost always a non-issue in the regular game, so making them do damage is a bit of overkill, and the Drained thing actually makes it more interesting.

This is AWESOME. These rules are the final little nudge that 4e needed to become a fully-fledged tactical RPG to the likes of Final Fantasy Tactics and Disgaea. My group being huge fans of these games took one look at the proposal and now we're all happier and more excited about 4e than ever :)...

Like anything and everything written about skill challenges from WotC to Keith Baker to Mike Mearls to whoever wrote this one article, it sounds really nice when you first read it, feels a bit iffy when you first try to put it into practice, and leaves you soundly disappointed and a bit annoyed...

When I wrote that post I was using Adobe Reader 7.5, since then I have updated to the latest on the Adobe website which is Adobe Reader 9.0.0, and I still get the exact same error. The error is "Adobe could not open (filename) because it is either not a supported file type or because it has...

The file download in the OP is corrupt, or at least my acrobat reports it as such, have tried to download it 3 times and nothing :(

Awesome, thank you :)

Hi, I apologize in advance since this will obviously be a 'duh' answer that's been staring me in the face all along, but for the life of me, I've looked in the WotC site, on this site, on Amazon, I've googled, and I've yet to find something like this, a COMPLETE list of WotC 4e books published...

Found it as funny and as offensive as the recent Jerry Seinfeld / Bill Gates commercial. Which is to say, 0 for both. Personally I think the pulsing fervor over how **HILARIOUS** the troll was amounts to a few peoples' secret little way of sticking it to those who've been troublesome on these...

Gotta give kudos to Celtavian for the calm, rational and even-handed way with which he has answered the snarkers and flamers and those who were trying to drag him or bait him into lashing out. I may or may not agree with all or part of what you wrote, but you sir are a class act, which is more...

Why would black make your eyes go funny, I don't get it? Anyways, voted black, of course. White would turn ENW into another one of the 1000000000 bright, shiny gradient-y web-2.0-ish forums that saturate the net. Black is Enworld's 'thing'.