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I think I've solved it. My password manager was auto-filling my ENWorld password where it was asking for the KS backer PW, and so, it was bouncing me to the "No file for you!" page.

I logged out, and when I clicked the link, it wanted me to log in. I logged in, and it said I didn't have permission. Do I need to be an eNWorld Community Supporter, as well as a KS contributor?

Unable to access... I am a supporter of the KS, but when I click the link, I get "You do not have permission to access this page." Any thoughts?

Well, all of them... I'm thinking about restatting my Fringeworthy campaign...

I'd solve this by giving the king, or any similarly powerful NPC, a high enough "defense" that you need to be mythically good to pull it off. If a PC is, basically, Locke Lamora, not only does he sleep in the king's bed, he sleeps with the king's daughter (or son, or both) and he walks off with...

This is the kind of thing experienced DMs tend to handle intuitively -- high level characters can trivially intimidate/impress low level flunkies, usually because they're irrelevant. The goals, needs, and challenges facing high level characters won't be solved by bullying some poor slob walking...

From my reply on the actual WOTC board: This sounds good. I admit I wince every time I read the word "simplify", because that usually translates to "punt all the work to the DM" in WOTC-speak, but it seems you're using the term here to mean 'apply more structure so the rules start to work...

Like they say.... crits happen.

I think so, too, but I'd like to be sure before I re-stat everything I can summon with a non Summon XX spell...

Does this feat apply only to Summon XX spells, or does it apply to any arcane Conjuration (Summoning), such as Mad Monkeys?

Nice to hear. :) My goal in that was to write "The book I want to have with me for when it comes to improvise like mad."

In the game I am working on, I have just found a Viking Hat icon to use as a key symbol to call out advice to the DM.

Hmm. Too many Greek letters. Anyway... TLDR Version: Lizard is working on a "Mutants And Mayhem" game for 4e. You can get the alpha 1.1 rules here. Longer version: There's an odd genesis to this. I'd been thinking about How To Do This for a while, mostly as a mental exercise, working through...

Whoa, suddenly getting "reply to" alerts! Maybe ENWorld will be useful for me again?

Shrug. If you're going to interact with them, they need STATS, unless you're playing some commie hippie freeform Forge game. Which means there ought to be some mechanism by which you can determine stats. "Meh, it's AC 23 and has 20 hit points" works fine, of course, but it's nice to have a...

Well, it can be interpreted in many ways, and WOTC is confusing and contradictory about how things ought to be read. One way to read it, the stupidest possible way (but one which is, sadly, supported by some Primary Texts), is that if a 10th level character walks into a bar, the bar has a 10th...

Just wanted to say, one problem I see with "terrain powers" or whatever they're called is that they can lead to pixelbitching -- in effect, the players will "mouse over" every object in the fight to see if it is "active". Remember Zork? "You are in a magnificent cavern. Stalactites hang from...

Honestly, probably not without incorporating some sort of costing mechanism. Otherwise, the search for the "Sweet spot" (more potent than just doing a basic attack, not so potent it replaces an Encounter or Daily power) really becomes a pain. FATE uses fate points. FantasyCraft lets you spend...

Well, if you can do it whenever you want, then, in effect, training in Acrobatics gives the power "Standing is a minor action for you." This is one of the problems with stunting. The "sweet spot" between "not as good as a power you paid scarce resources for" and "not even worth bothering with"...

Let me save you some trouble. The players will ask "Is that an encounter power? What's the recharge on that? How did he do that, exactly?". They will (probably) not suddenly start "stunting"; they'll assume whatever the monster did, it did via good ol' Exception Based Design. ("Ah, that must be...