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Screencast video tutorials of all the rptools: http://www.rptoolstutorials.net/ and of Maptool specifically: http://www.rptoolstutorials.net/maptool.htm There's one quickstart video, around 12 'basic' tutorials and I think 8 advanced tutorials with more to come. Get through those and you'll...

In my group the players roll for the monsters. No clever defense-rolls or houserules for inverting the chances though - they just literally roll for the monsters. Usually the player that's being targetted rolls but it can be whoever wants to. They roll damage as well. They roll everything...

It is, which is yet another reason to follow Harr's 5-step Plan to Success :) Anyways, I didn't mean it as 'mean' snark, just a more playful way of saying 'don't ask for legal advice on forums'. Maybe a smiley face was in order, to take the edge off :)

Dude, let it go already. He's right. If you went into WoW with a monthly subscription, and before going into the game proper it told you 'oh wait, if you actually want your toon to show your choice of hair color, hairstyle and/or the armor and weapons it's wearing, you need to pay us $X.XX for...

Yep, it's easy, here's how: 1) Get off the online forums 2) Hire a lawyer & ask them 3) Do what your lawyer says 4) ??? 5) Profit!

More likely to happen I think is that Roy WILL be the bone golem. His consciousness will forced to power the bones and he'll effectively be raised... as a bone golem. Doesn't strictly follow D&D rules but Burlew's never really cared about that. Hear hear :)

Wow, you know your OP really hit home when it brings in a chain of "I am *definitely* not a nerd but I suspect you may be" type of posts. Seriously, some of this stuff is painful to read. The 'gamers coming forward to proclaim they aren't stereotypes but really normal successful people' movement...

Huh, I never thought of ti that way... By this logic, Wizards not only kept vancian spellcasting, but actually made the entire system vancian. Check it, you: - choose your powers way before you ever know if they're going to be the right choice - have a limited number of uses of powers per...

This hasn't been answered yet that i can see: Are the Print and Copy functions enabled on the PDFs or not? I've bought plenty of pdfs that turned out to be encrypted with owner-passwords with critical functions disabled for users. If the official 4e PDFs are open to copying and printing, such...

Hm, regardless of people's individual opinion of Psychic Robot either way.. you DO have to give him credit for predicting the exact derailment this thread was going to suffer. It's almost eerie. Kudos.

I'd like to know what level/what monsters you're playing at, since an even encounter at that party size strikes me as almost impossible to finish in three rounds, let alone 'usually', unless you're having monsters surrender as soon as they get to bloodied or something, or unless you're fighting...

Forrester: You're spot-on with your observations. I've DM'd around 15 5-6 hour sessions for my group so far and I can tell you from pure play experience that if you as a DM get off the ball even a little bit, the situation you describe is extremely common, ie the "combat that should have been...

What do you mean by "the delve format"? Which WotC adventure are you referring to and what do you mean by "a sensible layout"? If you're comparing Sleeper with KotS, then I agree KotS was much superior to it in layout (though it had its own glaring problems elsewhere, on top of being generic...

Having run 13 4e sessions for a party consisting of an Avenger Paladin, a Rogue, a Warlock and a Wizard, I can confirm with no doubt whatsoever that as long as the party has access to enough potions (2-3 per member per milestone, roughly) as party has no need of any kind of 'healer' type class...

The second thing that would happen is that you would all realise that Dungeons and Dragons is not the game you're all wanting to play. The third thing that would happen is that you would put all the D&D stuff away and start making up and playing Fantasy Shop Tycoon. And you'd have fun with it...

Loved the system in play. Used it in a physical challenge the other night: Scene: The party has been alerted to an undead menace coming from the village cemetery; they decide to go to the cemetery during daylight when the undead are asleep and deal with it easily. Problem: The cemetery is...

It doesn't look like it is. When one power references another power, it's not linked. It's just text. The text search is not a keyword or tag search but an actual simple text search (ie, as noted above, you can input 'e' and every page will come up since every page contains some word which has...

It's worked out perfectly for me. I do 80%, 90%, 100%, 110%, 120% and so on. It's put my players into the exact frame of mind I wanted them to be in (and that I know is fun for them, personally): engaged in the situation, planning their resource consumption, seriously weighing both the...

Wow, that's pretty interesting, so how did Mike Mearls end up as "the guy" with 4e? I mean I'm pretty sure if you ask your average D&D player-guy (who keeps up with updates and news somewhat but isn't hardcore-obsessive) to say who designed 4e, 9 times out of 10 they'll say Mike Mearls. Was...

Eh, I've tried doing this extensively, sounds great on paper but it never got the results I hoped for. You end up either spending (wasting) hours of play on "Teach 'em a lesson for trying to rest" fights that do nothing to advance the plot and aren't interesting, OR you end up with a "Oh well...