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Every time Gabe posts about his D&D campaign, I become wildly jealous of his players. The dude runs 4e the way I want it to be run in my dreams--cinematic, exciting, and very much in the "big damn heroes" vein. Well, he's done it again. Part 1 (scroll down a bit to the post on the elemental...

I play and DM a lot of D&D, mostly 4e these days, but I've played pretty much every edition from 1st onward. Regardless, this isn't an edition specific complaint. I would say that the most common type of player I play with is one primarily interested in acting out some sort of heroic fantasy...

Note: Since I know thread about ill-defined gamingterminology can easily devolve into semantic argument, for my own purposes and the purposes of this thread I'm going to define "railroading" as :"A process in which the gamemaster of a tabletop RPG has a predefined story for a session, adventure...

In one of my ongoing campaigns, I'll be building and playing an 11th level wizard. I've played one shots with low level wizards before, but this is the first time I've ever played a high level one, and its the first time I've ever actually sat down to build a controller of any kind. In...

Penny Arcade - OD&D Basically, he had a magic artifact send his 4th edition party back in time..to OD&D. Well, Swords and Wizardry tricked up to resemble OD&D in certain ways, with a little of the fantasy Vietnam syndrome toned down. I love this idea, and I'm ashamed to say I've never...

No, this is not a "very special" thread about coping with player depression. Rather, I'm interested to deal with a problem that, while far from ubiquitous, has shown up occasionally in essentially every edition of D&D I've played. Namely, what do you when a player is no longer invested in a...

4e has a reputation, even among its defenders, for being mechanically pretty kickass but somewhat weak on the flavor. I won't, for the most part, dispute that, especially for early books. Reading spell or monster lists in previous editions was often much more engaging and evocative than 4e's "2...

One of the stated goals of 4e was to minimize or do away with the magic item christmas tree (the idea that each pc should/will accumulate dozens and dozens of magic items) as well as the related concept of items being as crucial to a character's performance as the abilities of the character...

Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page (subscriber only link) So...basically one article just salvaged the Warlocks as strikers. They have their backstab feat. They have a brutal curse feat. They have a feat to get prime shot against cursed targets and a feat to make prime shot...

How do you handle it when characters who are untrained in intimidate threaten someone they could clearly destroy into doing what they want? For example, Johnny the Wizard is 8th level, with 8 charisma and no intimidate training. Statistically, he's a nebbishy geek who isn't even slightly...

I have a group of about 8 people that I play D&D with. That is, not that we all play at the same time (which would be hectic), but rather that I have about a half dozen friends and acquaintances who I know live in the area and play D&D, and so pretty much every time I play the players and DM are...

One request I constantly see on people's 4e wishlists is for a martial controller. I think this is not only because martial is the only powersource without a controller class, but because the limitations and possibilities of what is considered "martial" might force the designers to come up with...

Hi, I'm a fairly experienced gamer who took up 4e a year ago with gusto, but my campaign recently disbanded and I'm looking for a new one. we were playing Eberron, which I love, but I'd be open to any setting. I live in Queens but have easy access to Manhattan and could possibly make it to the...