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I've been thinking about the pros and cons of accumulating experience versus being awarded levels, and I am having a hard time thinking up very many pros for the former. To be clear, I simply tell my players to level up when the story makes sense for them to level up and do not deal with...

Power Cards are pretty worthless to me. I can easily memorize all the powers that my character has and never worry about forgetting my modifiers. However, because I only use a given monster a half dozen times per campaign I tend to have poor retention of monster abilities. I am wondering if...

I'm having a horrible chain reaction in my group where I put a talking portrait in front of the players and they just stuffed it into their bag of holding the moment it started talking to them. To make up for that I set up an interesting plot piece where a naga was imprisoned by narcotic...

I feel like spicing up my 4th edition game and decided to implement an amusing idea. After a player makes an attack roll, they may choose to gain a +3 To Hit or to a Skill Check in exchange for drawing from the Jar of Doom! I plan for the Jar of Doom to contain about 40 interesting 'special...

I could have sworn I remember reading a rule that states a player knows everything about any powers that are currently effecting her. Did I just make that up in my head, or can someone give me an actual page number for this rule? Also of importance, does this mean the player knows what effects...

I just got a hold of the Dark Sun Campaign Setting and I see a lot of really excellent ideas that I wish had appeared much earlier in the lifespan of 4E. Themes: Yes it represents a little power creep, but it is a wonderful way to introduce mutually exclusive powers. Just adding more powers to...

I'm looking for public opinion on a minor issue I had with one of my players the other day. At the end of every game we have a quick discussion of our favorite and least favorite part of the game. I already knew what this player was going to say because her character had died twice in this...

I'm having a lot of trouble with this magic item. It's like Rope Trick on Steroids. The party is using the knife to easily retreat from any dangerous situation, and then potentially do any of the following: Get an extended rest, if time allows. Use a portal ritual to go someplace safe. Get the...

I currently run for a group of four players that started at 1st level when 4th Edition first came out. They are now 26th Level and have more options to bring to bear against any given encounter than I can sufficiently prepare for. The primary problem comes from escalation of healing. Every...

Adventurer's Vault has a magic item in it called Solar Armor. It grants you an At-Will Immediate Reaction that spends a healing surge upon yourself whenever you are struck by Radiant damage. If you are willing to take the -2 to Hit, a Strength based Paladin wearing this armor can Divinely...

I was taking a look at the Iron Vanguard paragon path as an option for the Warlock and the 16th level ability brought up a question. If you have a power that permits you to slide a target, and you perfectly obey the rules of pushing a target, does that Slide count as an effective Push?

I'm looking for a blank and preferrably editable version of the character sheets that were used in D&D Experience. I swear that I've seen it around here, but the last hour of google searching has turned up nada. Thank you ahead of time!

I was thinking about social combat, and while we all have to wait for the rules to actually come out, I wondered just what kind of impact it would have upon the game if Social Combat used a system of At-Will/Encounter/Daily based powers just like combat based powers. Quite literally, would it...

Browsing through the cover art we've seen for most of the books being released soon I have noticed a very awkward trend. There are a few minor exceptions, but almost without fail we see: 1) Character/Monster in pose of immediate action! 2a) If it's a monster, it's mouth is gaping open! 2b) If...

Based on the crunch we have seen so far, it appears that a few very nasty combinations can be made in combat for even early level characters. The very first one would be a multiclass Fighter1/Cleric1 that combines Passing Attack and Power of Amauntor to deal double damage to two different...