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The idea of themes as presented in Dark Sun is a great one. Some good flavor, and nice ideas, and I'm hoping we'll see it extended into more generic themes for other worlds as well. Something I had thought of when reading over them, was that the concept of themes could also work very well...

These are two things that have come up for me in reading over the Essentials books I got for xmas. Great version of 4e, love it so far (it 'grabbed' me more than the original PHB did), but there are a couple small points that jumped out when I was plotting a game. First, do you think that an...

About 4 months after 4e started up, I gave up on it, not satisfied with it at the time. I've since developed a new appreciation for it, and received pretty much the full Essentials line as Xmas presents, and am planning on running an Essentials "only" game soon (only meaning I plan to pull in...

While I am quite pleased overall with Pathfinder, one thing I have noticed has been a bit...lacking. And that is the fighter. While it is a much more powerful class than it used to be, it still seems to be missing some "oomph", especially as they increase in levels. So, I am working on some...

One thing I found that slows down combat in 3.X games is the glut of attacks that start occurring at higher levels. Iterative attacks are one of the things that always annoyed me about 3.X, and the lack thereof are one of the few things I really liked about 4.0. Enough of 4.0 does not interest...

I have been brainstorming various things for 4e, in preparation for a game I would like to run. One thing that was missing, to me, was the summoning and undead creation spells from previous editions. I know that 4e has this obsession with 'economy of action' and not letting a PC have more...

Just curious if anyone is doing a setting in 4e, that is NOT necessarily PoL based. I have been tossing around a few ideas, summarized below (they are still "works in progress"), and am just curious if anyone else has been doing things outside the idea of a Point of Light. Tales of the Watch...

This is something I came up with after talking to an old player who was wanting some kind of quasi barbarian/berserker type to play in 4e. While not a barbarian per, se, if you took the right skills as trained skills, it can come somewhat close. The set up is designed to be used with most any...