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    How does this look for a companion character for a low-damage party?

    My dark sun group has always been a bit low on damage, this was made a lot worse when one of the strikers had to bow out due to personal issues. In order to balance that out a bit, I figured I'd give the PCs a companion PC. (We're running the campaign over maptools, so complexity isn't too much...
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    D&D 4E Complexity Dials and 4e

    I always feel weird posting massive walls of dense text directly to forums. (Getting yelled at for breaking the formatting and TL;DR trollmods do that.) So, I have a quick study on how one could turn the power system in 4e to one of those complexity dials on my ENWorld blog here. Overall, I'm...
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    Reality Check This Adventure Hook? [StupidAcronym]

    I'm kicking around an idea for a new adventure or two based on the new Shadowfell boxed set. Since my players are in the wrong universe for it, I figured I'd write something up in the style of published adventures and post it here. But first, I wanted to get a sanity-check from other DMs and...
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    How often do you tweak monsters?

    I rather like going off-book. It lets me mess with my DM-players (Which I always have at least one, it seems), and tweak things I don't like about whichever system I'm using. I also ascribe to saying yes to my players as much as possible, and try to kill them in combat. I'm also blessed with...
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    Raising encounter limits on healing.

    I've run into a slight problem in a Dark Sun 4e game I'm running. My players are running out of healing entirely too fast. I don't mean surges, I mean the leader's ability to heal, and second winds. The problem is, I run lethal, opportunistic monsters. So they go for CA, hit bloodied PCs to...
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