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So I'm running the Scales of War adventure path and my players are just about to hit level 21. Based on previous experience with epic tier and WotC modules, I'm going to be completely redoing the adventures. However DM's block has struck and I'm completely devoid of any good ideas for a specific...

(Lots of text, sorry in advanced) Epic tier is hard. I'm running a game with six level 26 characters, and have found out that epic tier, while fun, is challenging, to say the least. In fact, to avoid the "grind to the finish" syndrome that my group seemed to be suffering from, I sped up...

My players will be heading to Celestia, home of Bahamut, Kord and Moradin, soon. Specifically they'll be in Bahamut's mountain-top home, and I'm working on mapping out the place, but it keeps coming out as too human; too much like a human designed it (of course a human is designing it [me], but...

Warning: Lots of text incoming. So my players have a chance to train and lead a small group of troops to defend some ruins against a massive army of undead. For this scenario, I'm trying to create a mass combat system that feels more like a tabletop wargame (Like Warhammer and the like) than...

So I've got a game in a day, and I'm running on fumes for coming up with ideas. ENworlders have never lacked for creativity, so I'm hoping maybe I can get a mental jump-start. The situation the players are in looks something like this: The players, searching for a past NPC villain, San, who...

First, a preface: My campaign suffers from two systemic issues that really irk me. 1) My players tend to get locked into what they can or can't do based on their trained skills and powers, and fail to think outside of the box. 2) Rituals get very little love, and so situations tend to devolve...

So my players just got to Pandemonium for the first time, hoping to trail some bad guys back to their hideout. Having never used this plane before, I had fun with some altered gravity antics, and decided to do a thoroughly complex encounter based on altering gravity. The idea is that the...

A week from now I'll be running the 4thCore adventure Revenge of the Iron Lich at a convention. I'm wondering if anyone here has run or played that adventure, and if there's any tips, tricks or traps I should watch out for while running the game. Particularly anyone who's played this before, any...

Got a question that came up recently: A sorcerer player wants to take light shield proficiency. The issue is that he also has Dual Implement Spellcaster. Player stated that he could still hold an implement in his light shield hand and gain the bonus from DiS. Now I remember a rule about not...

I was wondering if anyone has used any siege weaponry that's more exotic and "out there" than your normal catapult or ballista. I'm talking things that might be used to attack the City of Brass or Celestia or some other hyper-powerful realm.

I'm trying to design a unique encounter for my players, and am having a bit of trouble fleshing it out and really making it creative. The basic idea is that the players are trying to rescue a gold dragon that's been driven insane from torture during its imprisonment. Its captor? A very cruel and...

So last session the fighter in my group decides he doesn't like fighting beasties that can fly. So he went out and bought a Drakkensteed with some leftover cash that hadn't been spent. Now I'm not against this, in fact I thought it was an awesome idea and would be fun to try out. Well the...

Another combat design thread, so I hope no one is getting tired of those yet. Here's the scene: Players break out of their prison and are running through the tower trying to catch the villain, all the while being chased by the guards that they run by. When they finally catch up with the...

My apologies if this is in AV2, but I have yet to find it in there. Two players in my group have one piece of a group item set, which meets the requirements of the 2-piece benefit. My question is... Who gets the benefit? It's a group item set, so does the whole group benefit if only a few...

I'm setting up an encounter for my group that I would like to be a truly solo encounter. I know that solo monsters are not intended to be used alone, but I'm pretty sure I can solve this problem. The group is made of 6 players, and is pretty damage heavy. So far they've made quick work of nearly...

Note to my players of At World's End, if you want to be surprised, turn back now. EDIT: To clarify, I put this in the house rules section because this combat is using a mostly customized format. I wasn't sure which forum to put it in, so I went with this one; hope i made the right choice. I'm...

I have a Swordmage in my campaign that multiclassed Wizard to get the Blood Mage paragon path. In theory this works really well since he's got a ton of teleport/pull powers. However, I have been pondering changing the paragon path to play a little nicer with multiclassing. Right now...

I'm wondering if bonuses that add to your next attack occur on all targets of a multi-target power, or just the first creature you target. Specifically I'm looking at the Blood Mages AP feature "Blood Action": If you were to use an action point to make an attack that targeted more than one...

I DM a 4e group that is on the brink of reaching Paragon status. So far, they haven't done any planar adventures and I and looking to rectify that. I'm planning on having my players thrown (quite literally) into Sigil, and then have to struggle to get back to the Material Plane, where all the...

My players (a group of six level 9 PCs) are searching for a McGuffin, and their search takes them to the lair of a brown dragon. They've recently fought and defeated a few dragons, so I want this encounter to be more unique than a fight to the death. After reading over brown dragons in the...