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Well, we're darn near the most entertaining and brilliantly insightful D&D 4th Edition podcast in the entire history of gaming. But if that doesn't sell you... Aside from the normal trappings of keeping you up to date on the latest releases from Insider and Wizards of the Coast and in depth...

Umm... did you just sign me up for a cage match? Seriously, I'm a lover, not a fighter. Actually I'm an 11th level lover/rogue.

Well, if we assume that a more powerful necromancer (or natural magical affect; W&M implies the Shadowfell 'leaks' into the real world and can spontaneously animate dead) will produce more powerful forms of undead, their resistance to lower level enchantments would be modeled by their higher...

For an answer to the question of whether monsters "know" that PCs might not be dead just because they fall and whether they would take the time to kill a downed opponent, consider the Bugbear Headreaver's power: Reaver's Prize: Reaver's Prize (minor; recharge 6): When a melee attack reduces an...

Wow. Don't get me wrong, I love statistics and math as much as the next geek, but all of these calculations are happening in a vacuum. What is going on in the battle while the person is on the floor having X% chance of stabilizing, dying, or recovering? The party has lost 1/4 - 1/6 of its...

Add to this the fact that combats are supposed to be more mobile with a lot more moving around and that makes the room size even bigger. 3.5 killed off the idea of 10x10 rooms. I expect that, in 4E, we will find anything less than 5 squares across is a bit too restrictive. At the same time...

According to the most recent D&D Podcast (Episode 21), fighters gain a +1 bonus to all melee attacks. Kathra's basic attack bonuses follow this: Warhammer +6 = +3 Str + 2 Prof + 1 Fighter Melee Bonus That assumes the warhammer has the baseline accuracy of Prof 2. So, the dwarf weapon training...

In the podcast (Mailbag), it was stated that these adventures are a little different from your standard module. Each consists of a dungeon to explore that contains 30-40 encounters. So, they are just big super dungeons. Given that they contain 30-40 encounters and each one is expected to cover...

Hrmmm... this puts me in a difficult position. On the one hand, I personally agree that turning more video-gamey is not a terrible thing to happen to D&D (whether I agree that that is what is happening is another topic). On the other hand, I am forced to disagree with the OP's tactics. I really...

This is no different than in 3.5. Opportunity Attacks interrupt the action and 'pause the game' the moment they are triggered. I know I read this somewhere regarding 4E, but I may be having D&D/DDM crossover. The moment the enemy begins to move out of the adjacent square or the moment the enemy...

At first, I was a little nervous about marks, curses, and quarries. Colored rubber bands draped over the minis work just fine, though. I will give each player rubber bands of a specific color so that they can drop them on the minis as they use their powers. I will also be using them for...