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Hey Guys--looking for feedback on this first draft of a conversion of this swarm, originally found in the 3.5 splatbook Sandstorm Pardon the partially-removed XML, I had worked up the conversion while on the go in the excellent GameMaster 5 app on my iPad, then exported the data to my computer...

Howdy folks! I've flipped through the core books a few times in search of an answer, but can't seem to find any guidance, so I'm wondering how everyone else is ruling it at the table. Take a look at a monster like the Darkmantle (which I'm using as a base for the delightfully creepy Skin Kite...

I'm whipping up some encounters for my next session (so my players stay out!), and while I realize we've got some guidelines from the basic DM rules (and the very cool asmor online generator others have been linking of late-- http://asmor.com/5e/monsters/#/encounter-builder ), I'm curious to see...

Howdy folks! While I've tagged this as 4e, since the creatures made their debut in an issue of Dragon and have 4e stats, the thread is pretty universal in scope. One of the big enemies of my campaign so far have been fell taints--they're weird little creatures from the Far Realm that are the...

Apologies if this has been discussed before--I'm generally bad at looking for older threads on ENWorld, and my initial googling didn't turn anything up. I really enjoy how 4e handles diseases. I don't particularly care for my inability to make my PCs sweat about killing their own party after...

Howdy ENWorlders! I've been putzing around with character builder's most recent update and seem to have run into a bug, or haven't done something right. I've built a 7th level hybrid ardent/bard and picked the mantle power hybrid talent option to give me my mantle power (ardent alacrity). Is...

Hey ENWorlders, I’ve been mulling over a skill challenge for my group the past few days and I’m not entirely sure how I want to run it. Your help and input is greatly appreciated. If you play in my game, GTHO of this thread. ;) My last session ended with an almost-bungled plan by the PCs...

Hey all, i noticed in the last EN World Newsletter that there were some interesting improvements to DDI software in the most recent update that I'd much like to have. I see news about it when I load the character builder, but I see no link to update it. Should I just re-download the file from...

I've accepted the fact that I'll probably never see an OS X native version of the only good electronic product I've ever seen WotC put out, and run it in a virtual Windows machine. That said, I'd prefer, especially when on my laptop, to not have to run an entirely separate OS for the purpose of...

So this past EN Chicago gameday, I finally got a full-fledged introduction to fourth edition. I definitely enjoyed it, though I didn't feel the immediate "oh man, this is SO much better than last edition" that I got going from 2e to 3e. For the time being, I doubt my infrequently DMed game (a...

Hey folks, I'll begin with a little anecdote, but the real question is bolded below. I was just thumbing through the old Book of Challenges today, looking for something to toss at the group tomorrow, and I saw an encounter involving a maze filled with displacer beasts. This immediately made...

I've been itching to run a Dark*Matter game for years, and might actually have a chance to this summer. I'm confused as to what to do, however, especiallly after the recent thread on Alternity and OOP games, and reading through my original copy of Dark*Matter (Alternity rules). I suppose it's...

Howdy fellow ENWorlders! I've been picking up the new Dungeons Tiles that WotC has been putting out since drawing on battlemaps gets a bit old sometimes, and they're pretty nifty. However, now that I've been playing with them a bit (haven't gotten a chance to use them in game yet), I'm faced...

In the middle of combat last session I got somewhat stumped by a rules question. I can't remember what I ruled at the time being, but I'm interested in knowing what the actual rules are. A fighter with the Cleave feat gets an attack of opportunity against a foe moving through her threatened...

Hey EN Worlders! Whenever I get a chance, I attempt to make my schoolwork slightly more tolerable, especially when it comes to essays. For my history classes, I usually wind up doing a paper on something that appeals to my geeky side. Last semester I did a paper on Nazi Occultism, and this...

While minatures are delightful things to have for D&D, I really don't have the time or patience to paint a ton of them, not to mention it gets a bit tough to store them. Thus, I've fallen into the practice of using counters for characters and monsters. Now that my counter collection is rather...

Happy New Year, my fellow EN Worlders! I'm having quite a bit of fun getting to run some stuff since I'm home from school for the holidays, and have in fact started up a new and fresh campaign in a world that I'm going to try and build from scratch. The latest adventure has the PCs in an...

Geetings, my fellow ENWorlders! It's been a long time and I never posted much to begin with, so most of you didn't notice my absence, but for those of you that did...hey hey! I haven't been around much simply because I'm a rather involved college student--you know, classes, marching band...

Fellow history buffs, I need your help! For honors credit in my Western Civ class, I'm writing a ten-twelve page research paper about the folklore and superstitions of medieval Europe. Do you know of any good historical sources that I could use in my essay? Primary and secondary sources are...

Greetings my fellow ENWorlders! I don't post over in this part of the board much, but I've had a lingering question in my mind for a while (and I'm not much in the mood for studying for this history exam...) Who here's seen Bulletproof Monk. I'm a huge fan of Seann William Scott, and it...