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Anyone who has access to both the scales of war adventures and the published modules (keep on the shadowfell, etc..) care to offer a comparison? Which seems to have the better storyline? Which feels the least railroaded? Which offers up the most interesting encounters? Which do you think seems...

So my group has a warlord. The group clearly needs a leader, and with a rogue and a paladin in the party the warlord seems like a solid choice. The group is still learning to stay close enough to benefit from his abilities, but he has still been frustrated with how much of a support character he...

I'm trying to make sense of this... You can effectively throw daggers, axes, and hammers with your off hand... but you can't throw shuriken? Am I missing something? I'm seriously considering saying the off-hand property only applies to melee. Realistically it's much harder to hit something at...

This would've been a blog post, but I think my chances of getting a response are still higher here in the forums for now. That or I just don't write very compelling blog posts. :) I may be overthinking things a bit, but I'm working out a rough outline for my first full 4e campaign. I'm trying...

So I may be losing a player from my game that meets every other week. To accommodate for everyone's schedules we meet in both PA and VA on alternating sessions, so chances of finding new blood that is willing to deal with the odd schedule is unlikely. (note: this is not the same game I am...

Hey all... I drive up to PA twice a month to run a game for my hometown friends, but I'm really hoping to get into the new edition much more heavily. I'd love to get 3 or 4 players together for a regular game. We can discuss schedules: I have Friday night, Saturday night or every other...

I'm not going to go into strict detail or a drawn out review. There isn't much chance that I'm going to scoop anything that you haven't already heard. This is more about giving what I feel is a quick, but fair, review of my 4E experience. I'll note before I start that I've generally liked, or at...

This seems to be coming up in multiple threads, so I thought I'd make a dedicated one as to how it all works from what I saw. Every character gets a number of healing surges per day (no idea how the number is derived) and a set number of hit points each surge is worth (once again I don't know...

Class granularity refers to how few, or how many, classes are available in the game. More classes equal more granularity. So, in the past couple of years, we seem to have seen both extremes of this issue. Extremely low granularity systems with only one real character class were typically not...

I'm thinking of running a Star Wars game. Yeah, even after I said I wouldn't until they start releasing books again. Anyway, I have the original rulebook but not the revised. I can get the revised book by the time I start playing, but my players want to draw up characters now. Has anything...

Okay, I'm trying to make a decision and I thought I would come to the experts... or at least I hope some of the experts see this and can offer some insight. I have a small site hosted by a hosting company, but the host isn't willing to run the versions of PHP and MySQL that I need for certain...

The Combat Expertise feat's notes make it seem like it is an upgrade/replacement to defensive fighting. Is that the case? It does basically the same thing, but at a lower penalty to the character. If it doesn't replace it, then the two could be used together since dodge bonuses stack. My...

I'm far from an expert on the d20 Modern (Future) ruleset, but for an upcoming campaign of mine I wanted to flesh out a "Hacker" Advanced Class and maybe a couple of specialized prestige classes to go along with it ... this (in my current opinion) means I need a more robust hacking mechanic with...

Okay, the game I am looking to put together isn't exactly cyberpunk, but I'm looking for cybernetics to be about as prolific as they are in games like Shadowrun. I kind of like the general feel of the cyber rules from D20:F. There isn't any connection/penalty to magic use, nor do you become...

I've got it in my head to do up a near future fantasy homebrew, and I was hoping people might brainstorm with me or weigh in on how they feel about such a setting. I was always a huge fan of Shadowrun, and have run some pretty successful campaigns under the 3rd edition rules for that game. The...

Not sure if another forum would be better or not for this. So I've been gaming for like 14 years. I think about games and gaming every day (when I'm not dedicating whole days to the subject). I'm a gamer... And I've never been to a convention of any sort. I'm almost ashamed of that. But...

I was hoping to get a little help/brainstorming. The homebrew I'm working on focuses more heavily on the Law/Chaos axis than the Good/Evil one. The primary deity (technically the only one) embodies order. Before leaving the mortal world he gave his followers some guidelines to basically live an...

I know their are similar threads and comments throughout the forums. I lurk more than I post so I've seen a bunch of them. Still, I've been wanting to ask this for a while now (partially out of curiosity, but also as a poorly veiled bit of marketing research). So here goes... How 'different'...

I'm quite new to the electronic book phenomenon (only have a couple of purchases under my belt at this point), but I've already seen enough to know that some folks are putting out some really well developed and interesting stuff. But reading it on the PC feels a little strange at times and I...

I'm working on a little project and, while I am months away from having anything close to a product, I thought I should make some decisions pretty early. My primary concern right now is on art. I know I want to include some, but I'm not sure what the best format would be... I generally prefer...