Adapting Expedition to Castle Ravenloft

feeds@yuku.com (Carthain) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:18:04 GMT

So, I'm looking at adapting the Expedition to Castle Ravenloft to use in 4E. I'll likely be lowering the level of stuff a bit.. but mostly I've got a few random ideas about it I thought I'd run past people here. I'll also run over a few details about it for those who don't know the adventure (and, for the record, I haven't finished reading it all yet ^_^)

So, at the start, the PCs find themselves in a town that is run over by a zombie infestation. The...

Dungeon 170 - Monument of the Ancients

feeds@yuku.com (Tzu Theory) — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:28:59 GMT

My first published adventure via Wizards of the Coast. It is a Forgotten Realms adventure based in the Moonsea North region. I am 100% for any and all feedback. I hope you guys check it out and enjoy it as much as I did writing it!

http://www.wizards.com/de....asp?x=dnd/duad/20090925

Assassin Class levels 1-10

feeds@yuku.com (theBlackJaw) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:55:35 GMT

http://www.wizards.com/de....asp?x=dnd/drfe/20090911 It's Insider only content apparently. It's also a Shadow Power Source Class. It has an interesting "Shadow Shroud" power where you layer shadows on a target and then strike them for extra damage depending on how many shrouds are on them (1-4). Each shroud is 1d6 damage on a hit. It also does damage on a miss (but one fewer shroud). A...

Skill Powers (PHB3 Preview)

feeds@yuku.com (theBlackJaw) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:51:14 GMT

The latest PHB 3 preview has Skill Powers. (Subscription needed)

Essentially it's a collection (they say half of the full book) of Utility powers based on the various skills. If you are trained in a skill, you have the option of taking one of the listed utility powers instead of a class power of the same or higher level. Some are daily, most are encounter, and a few are...

A Quick Favour Please!

feeds@yuku.com (durendal) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:35:43 GMT

Hey all,
I need a quick favour from someone else with a DDI subscription - when handing out loot these days, I like printing out a dummy character sheet from the character builder, with the items I want to give out. Most of my players use the builder to manage their characters too, so it fits in with the rest of their loot, and they'll just add it to their own ones later.

But my computer's on the fritz at the moment, and I'd rather work on my one-shot adventure...

D&D&Drugs

feeds@yuku.com (DerekDyer) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:56:01 GMT

*Work in progress*

Quickstart Level 1 Poison
When disturbed, silver tendrils swirl inside this bright blue liquid.
Poison 20gp
Attack: +2 vs Fortitude; Ongoing 3 poison damage and deafened (save ends both).
...

AV2 comments...

feeds@yuku.com (Tiburon Silverflame) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:37:06 GMT

Got mine last night. Initial thoughts, but first a question/comment:

What the heck does the enhancement bonus on the Swift-Step Boots apply to, if anything? It doesn't say, and normally boots don't *have* an enhancement bonus.

2 general impressions. First: they have created something of a problem. AV 2 goes all over the map, because it has to define magical items for, now, *so* many...

Darksun returns in 2010

feeds@yuku.com (theBlackJaw) — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:16:21 GMT

Wizard's plan to do 1 setting a year will result in the return of Darksun in 2010.

They are being tight lipped about any real details, but they are claiming to stay very close to the original setting. (IE: No spell plague.)

They are hinting about some sort of fighter mechanics to go with it.

Cover art:

Addiction

feeds@yuku.com (GrendleSparks63) — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:38:51 GMT

I'm looking for ideas and suggestions for a drug addiction for one of the characters in my campaign. I've got some rough thoughts on what I think might work, but balanced game mechanics isn't always my strong suit.

The general concept is a drug the character was slipped as an insurance policy, so to speak. As long as he's taken it he's fine, but when he can't dose up the penalties start kicking in. He's a halfling rogue with an emphasis on social skills...

Perception checks

feeds@yuku.com (notus) — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:20:33 GMT

I've been running a small rather simple campaign with a few friends for a while but I'm having a real ordeal with perception checks. One of the players has basically said that we're not using passive perception, and nobody else really cared so we don't play with that at all. But the problem is that they also don't want a line of sight (when using a perception check to see) to whatever they might detect, when they were in a long winding trapped corridor they argued...

Adventurer's Vault 2 Previews

feeds@yuku.com (theBlackJaw) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:41:12 GMT

Wizards has put up its first preview of AV2. They were nice enough to not only put up 1 preview, but to list the titles of other previews they will be running before it's release.

The preview now is an update of their old preview with the magic orbs containing tiny environments. Those magic orbs that had a daily power that transplanted the battle into a pocket dimension...

Ruling on Orbmaster's Incendiary Detonation?

feeds@yuku.com (lol) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:57:46 GMT

Pg. 102, Arcane Power
Orbmaster's Incendiary Detonation, Wizard Attack 1
Encounter * Arcane, Fire, Force, Implement, Zone
Standard Action
Area burst 1 within 10 squares
Target: Each creature in burst
Attack: Intelligence vs. Reflex
Hit: 1d6 + Intelligence modifier force damage, and you knock the target prone.
Effect: The burst creates a zone of licking...

Item level estimate?

feeds@yuku.com (Tiburon Silverflame) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:51:02 GMT

So, the idea I have, is to create the true Swordsman's Blade...that is, it has no 'magic' about it, other than its enhancement bonus, but is renowned for its killing ability. A vorpal blade is close...there's no electrical or fire damage, and the property can be justified completely non-magically. The daily power is somewhat more ambiguous, tho, since it is only once per day. I don't want this to have *any* limited-use power.

So, what I'm thinking: the...

Oddly balanced groups a possibility?

feeds@yuku.com (lol) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:13:45 GMT

About to start a game, and we seemed to have developed a very strange group composition. I had known that another one of the players wanted to play a Paladin in the next game, which is what I had intended to make, and since I didn't know if he'd still wanted to do that, I went ahead and rolled one up. Then I find out he still wants to play a paladin, and that's fine; I figure a team with both a front and backline defenders can operate fairly well (even if they're both...

Psion is out, and they don't get Encounter Powers

feeds@yuku.com (theBlackJaw) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:37:44 GMT

The PHB3 preview, all 30 levels (but not all builds) of Psion is posted. It even has a commentary system where the developers explain the why/etc of the class.

Big news: The class doesn't have encounter powers. Instead you get power points that can be used to enhance your at-will powers into encounter powers. You also get new at-will powers at a regular progression.

Stephen Schubert: Here's the gist of that...

Question: Disease Levels

feeds@yuku.com (PaRaLaX) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:38:12 GMT

How do the sample diseases presented in tht DMG correspond to character levels? Are they meant to be 1:1 meaning that you should incorporate diseases with levels equal or at least similar to your player's levels?

IMHO it's tough to see through the design part in order to create your own diseases.
Does anyone have some low-level diseases I could throw at people as soon as level 2-3?

Thanks

July Updates

feeds@yuku.com (Carthain) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:33:46 GMT

So has anyone here checked out or noticed the July Updates yet?

It seems that they've reworked the Battlerager Vigor - the largest change is that you gain the temp hp when you hit, not when you get hit; and Dual Strike requires you to attack two separate opponents.

I don't have anybody in the game I run, or the game I'm playing in using anything modified...

Eberron Out, My Artificier is going to need to be updated.

feeds@yuku.com (theBlackJaw) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:27:47 GMT

Last night my DM handed me a the Eberron Player's Guide, with the full Artificer class in it.

I've been playing the preview version of the class since it came out, but the final version is very very different from the preview in a lot of ways.
The strange Artifice mechanic has, thankfully, been replaced with the summoning system we all know.
Many of the powers have been changed drasticaly (burst become single targets, ranged weapon powers become implement powers,...

Skill Challenge

feeds@yuku.com (JediSoth) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:08:07 GMT

The last session of D&D I ran, I had two enemy forces attack the keep out of which the PCs were based. I ran the assault as a skill challenge. It went OK, but I think there's probably room for improvement.

What I did was create a grid showing key events, what skills I anticipated could be used to overcome that event, as well as what a success would do and what a failure would do (and sometimes, as is the case with war, success or failure was irrelevant, but I didn't tell...

warlord help

feeds@yuku.com (dndlocke) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 07:41:59 GMT

I'm building a 2nd level warlord, base races only, but any other books for feats, i chose tactical, my stats are 17, 17, 15, 13, 9, 8 So far I got an eldarin with str and int at 17 then dumped the rest really. Any suggestions on feats or equipment would be helpful, I get to choose a 1st lv and 3rd level item and start with 360gp

Those stats are pre racial bonus'

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