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Sometimes players refuse a plot the referee is significantly invested in. I've seen this happen many times over my years in the hobby both as a GM and a player. The referee comes up with a plot that excites her or him and is invested in presenting it to the players and running them through it...

Let's say a player is highly enthusiastic about a new campaign and has come up with a character with an ambitious bunch of goals that seem perfectly viable, and might be in another campaign. The player is analytical and goal oriented and likes being successful in the game. Unfortunately, the DM...

One of the major issues I liked about 4e was the move away from static doorway fights. In 3e and before the only way of holding a battle line was bottlenecks such as doorways and corridors, especially for front-line types. Fighting in an open space was close to suicide for everyone as the...

I have seen a lot of hostility to the idea of combat roles in 4e, and I have a theory that at least some of this is about the competing ideals of the individual PC vs the group in D&D. In previous editions of D&D, while teamwork amongst the PCs was typical, there was also room for competition...

A fighter's Combat Superiority means he can stop movement on a successful Opportunity Attack (OA). My question is, in what square does the target of the OA stop? The options are in the original square adjacent to the fighter they were leaving to trigger the OA, OR the square they were entering...