Editor-in-Chief | March 12, 2012
One of things I really came to hate in D&D 4E was the whole idea of magic item “wishlists”. While I don’t mind dropping a magic item into a game now and then that I know a player has been longing to see in the hands of their character, I disliked the idea that the [...]
Editor-in-Chief | January 17, 2012
Ever since I started DMing 4E, I’ve tried to champion the use of rituals in my D&D campaign. While I know that to some players, the use of rituals is not exactly top on their list of priorities as heroic adventurers, I have managed to prove over time that rituals can be a useful, and [...]
Editor-in-Chief | September 26, 2011
When I attended GenCon last month, one of the new products in the Neverwinter “blitz”, which WotC was running to promote the new setting, was the Neverwinter Boosters of the D&D Fortune Cards. I got a chance to try out a few of the Fortune Cards in the D&D Neverwinter Press Game, but I never [...]
Editor-in-Chief | September 16, 2011
Last Monday, I started a discussion about how infrequently player-characters were failing at Skill Challenges. In Skill Challenges: Impossible to Fail, I identified that a combination of low Skill Difficulty Classes, coupled with a bonanza of available skill bonuses, made it nearly impossible for a trained character to fail an Easy or Moderate skill check, [...]
Editor-in-Chief | September 12, 2011
I’ve noticed a rather startling trend over the past year in my two D&D 4E campaigns, and one that I think needs to be addressed: Skill Challenges never fail! I’ve run scores of skill challenges in my campaigns, usually Complexity 1 or 2, and I cannot recall any that the player-characters have failed to dominate [...]
