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A party of adventures pushes deeper into a series of underground caves, their faces resolute but their movements tinged with trepidation. They've been here before and things did not end well: after facing a number of perils they stumbled upon a pair of orcs, one of them a warrior and the other a...

I'm not a fan of how marks, particularly the application and tracking of them, have been used to represent the "taunting" mechanic of defenders and have been thinking about some ways to change them. The problem with changing marking mechanics is that they are entwined with much of the power...

I've been looking at making a character for a 4E game; the group needs a defender. I already play a fighter in another game and I don't really want to play a paladin which leaves warden as the only choice and unfortunately the concept doesn't grab me - the game is core only so the swordmage is...

I thought about making something like the following ritual. Feedback is welcome. Charm Level: 1 Category: Binding Time: 1 minute Duration: Special Component Cost: 10 gp Market Price: 50 gp Key Skill: Arcana, Bluff, Diplomacy (see text) The target will view the caster in the best...

One problem with providing rules for something is that it can give people the idea that they need to keep their thinking inside the box and follow those rules. While the 4E section on skill challenges does cover the territory of describing what a skill challenge involves I think it should have...

Forked from: The Luke Skywalker Paradox Ktulu's thread got me thinking about how this would have played out at the game table. Luke's player was metagaming. He saw that the rest of the party was in trouble and wanted to be the hero and save the day instead of finishing his training - even...