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Thanks for a great review of a great game!

I'm going to make a declaration. DCC RPG is Dungeons and Dragons Next, but WotC hasn't figured that out yet. Every time I read one of Mike Mearls articles on design goals for DDN, I realize that the good folks at Goodman Games have come to the same conclusion, already addressed the issue...

WotC: "You see in our system all of the character levels go to 30. Look, right across the board 30, 30, 30 and.." DCC: "Oh, I see. And older systems just went up to 10." WotC: "Exactly." DCC: "Does that mean it's more epic? Is it any 'epic-ier'?" WotC: "Well, it's 20 more epic, isn't...

This is a fine review, but I do have to say that I'm sad to see that this is a direction that 3PP are moving with 4e. I was fine with the 'card' system presented in 4e. I thought it was just a new way for players to organize and track their abilities. But, when WotC started producing booster...

I just got my copy of Level Up!, the 4e magazine from Goodman Games. I thought it was great. I think they had the right of idea of using lower grade paper and black and white images only, because the magazine costs only $2. It reminds me of the Dungeon and Dragon magazines of the old days...

As far as I can tell, the garrote is the first weapon that doesn't belong to any weapon group. In it's listing, it just gets a '-'. Does this mean that garrotes can not be magical weapons? Rogues with the proper weapon mastery multiclass can use them as light blades for their powers. Would...

One of the things that I've been interested in is why some people seem to "blindly" agree with WotC actions even when those actions, if performed by another company, would gather huge customer uprising. How many times have you been on the forums of a MMORPG and seen people threatening class...

I was just wondering if anyone had their hands on the new FR adventure and what they thought of it? Also, would some one be nice enough to write a short synopsis of the adventure? I'm thinking of running it as a prelude to my FR campaign but I want to make sure it will fit in with what I'm...

Even after the update for the stealth rules, I'm still seeing a lot of threads of people trying to parse out what the rules mean and how they're supposed to work. Welcome to the Stealth rules, the new grapple. They're so poorly written and convoluted that my group has essentially decided that...

Here is the question and answer related to masterwork armor listed in the PHB: So, here's my question: What's the point of masterwork armor? I don't see any difference from the stats of regular hide armor or darkhide or elderhide. The check penalties and speed penalties are the same. I...

I don't know if anyone else has picked up on this: http://www.amazon.com/Open-Grave-Secrets-Undead-Supplement/dp/0786950692/ref=pd_sim_b_img_1 Perhaps the 4e version of Liber Mortis?

So we were playing the KotS last week and we were using the rogue pregen. We noticed that he was kind of weak and we realized that he rarely got to use his sneak attack. Part of the problem was that we were fighting kobolds in the inner Kobold Lair encounter. So, flanking them was difficult...

Let's say a creature marks a wizard. Because of the mark, the wizard gets a -2 to attacks that doesn't include the creature that marks it. If the wizard uses some kind of AoE, such as scorching blast, and the marking creature is in the area of effect, does the wizard get a -2 to any of the...

I've figured out something that the WotC developers don't want you to know: the true inspiration of dragonborn. Sure, they'll say that people have been wanting to play dragon-like races for years. They can probably even point to some old campaign setting that no one really remembers and say...

I'm wondering how illumination and vision works in 4e. They are both mentioned in KotS, but not really addressed. This may be more of a rules disclosure than what WotC wants to get into right now. But, let me explain what I'm seeing and see if someone from WotC will verify/correct/explain...

Reading through the KotS adventure, I see that there are a lot of events that can knock a creature prone. The pregen fighter has an encounter power that can knock a creature prone and falling from a height can knock a creature prone (along with dealing a lot of damage). And the quick start rules...

I've been looking through the demo copy of the H1 KotS at my game store. I was wondering if there will be an option to download pdfs of the characters in the adventure? It will make it easier for me to print out and pass out to my players rather than make photocopies. I remember hearing...

I've been looking through the demo copy of Keep on the Shadowfell and I had a question about party size. There are 5 pregen characters in the adventure. Is the adventure designed to have 5 characters or a standard party of 4? Also, if the design is for 5 characters, how can we scale down...