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Primary Goals: Defeat the Duchess of Cinders and end the volcanic threat to the city (nested SC). Secondary Optional Goal: Disrupt her ritual of undead apotheosis. * ILLUMINATION: Full. * MAGMA (FAR LEFT, Hindering Terrain): When a creature enters a square adjacent to Magma, it takes a 5...

The large, spectral-themed figure floats around her on the cavernous floor as it smoothly pulls from the ample folds of its cloak a piece of colored chalk and a sizable, steel-framed hourglass. Clearly they are bargaining. The Duchess scrutinizes the figure, taking in its offering. The...

Nope. I was there. I know exactly what was said and by whom. I know how their arguments were misshapen, misunderstood (of the game itself both text-wise and ethose-wise or of how actual phenomena work in the world) and corrected but they refused to operationalize the corrections because it...

Lol nice. Also: * Fighters are spellcasters in 4e (forget what the extreme differences in total build generates, how that references keyword tech, and what the actual play produces)! * Martial Mind Control is so unrealistic...nothing like that happens ever IRL! * Warlords shout hands back on...

I can't tell whether @Shardstone is fist-pumping his personal, and one of the historically better, Own Goal or if this is some crazy level 4D Chess Uno Double Reverse making a caricature of the 4e detractor not having actually read much of the books (or at least not sincerely...or at least not...

@darkbard , yup. You're on it (y) As you noted, it wasn't Primary Check Arcana (was Secondary). I've fixed with a strikethrough in the post above. Also, if you look at the lead post for this SC, the staged successes are 4, then 6 (for 10 total), then 2 (for 12 total). Given that we've been...

Correct. And Jaws is not for people who wanted Catching Up With the Kardashians. And American Football is not for people who wanted Golf. And a hamburger is not for people who wanted a salad. And The Pixies are not for people who wanted Taylor Swift. And a marathon is not for people who...

I appreciate your anecdote and I believe you that you've had good success at 5 PCs. I've seen others report the same (some I trust and know well and I know precisely what things have gone well for them; hyper-skillful and hyper-attentive players and GM...4e absolutely requires both of things...

I don't get the meaning of your quip here (at least how it engages with my, sincere, post)? Is it that @Retreater 's game is basically toast and he needs to come to terms with that and move on (imo, he needs to stop running games altogether...he reports back anecdotes of misery after misery...

There is so much help out there on this subject Retreater. You just need to do some keyword searches and you should get a cavalcade of help. Look at some of my PBPs on here. Those should help. Meanwhile: * 6 characters is far, far too many for any game (imo) and its basically a killshot for...

I've been involved in four donnybrook-equivalents in my life (to what should be no surprise, three came on the basketball court...which is one of the more dangerous places in the 1st world imo!...the other was a bench-clearing-brawl in baseball...which is almost exclusively just male peacocking...

The Fighter's suite of Defender mechanics (Combat Challenge and Combat Superiority - at bottom) are not mind control. Not in the way full-blown amygdala hijack (which is effectively "mind control") occurs as a matter of course in our own daily lives (we stumble over our words or say ridiculous...

My initial response to you was tackling a few particular concepts and attacking them discretely, indexing 4e specifically and D&D generally: * What makes up the who you are as a character? * What makes up the how you do D&D Fighter archetypical shtick? Your response to me above looks to (a)...

A suite of features that work in concert to generate a compelling game layer for a class archetype isn't "the reason you're a Fighter." Its not that way in 4e nor any other edition of the game. This is the how you're a Fighter (and more on that at the bottom). The reason (why) you're a...

There was zero percent chance this thread wasn't going to be an absolute train wreck. But here is a perfect example of why. ER is 100 % correct (and the analogy is the killshot for your efforts here). Kaiyanwang, your mental model for how athleticism translates to martial prowess is so...

"...should your prognostications bear true, time traveler...I will spare this mother and her child...and I will see you in the future to repay my debt...: The green dragon recedes into the gloomy bosom of its lair's verdant growth, its eyes like glittering yellow gems disappearing with it. The...

Can you not just talk to them straight-forward with something like: "Hey guys. Fun gameplay at the Moathouse. It seems like the breadcrumbs I put out there to get you to check out it didn't quite do the work I'd hoped. Maybe poke around and check it out? And if the breadcrumbs did work but...

Valak's righteous cause is cemented by steadfastness, piety, and prayer. Avandra's nimbus consumes the form of the corrupted Rakshasa, revealing the Deva that once was. In the radiant inferno, a placid, peaceful smile is found on the soul of what-once-was and shall-be-again...then it passes...