Jun 30
Here’s another good one from Enworld by ambulacetus that could come into play in a low level encounter where the party has come across a deserted little hamlet at dusk and all that remains is empty hovels and a corn field. Perhaps they pass the cornfield on the way in and the scarecrow is described …
Jun 30
Found another take on Sorcerer that doesn’t sound to bad although it only goes up to level 3 powers. I have to agree though with Wizards that the true feel of the 3.x sorcerer is impossible to recreate, the cast spells at will kind of thing so really all any 4th edition sorcerer is, is …
Jun 30
You can find a fencer class over here on Enworld by Khaalis. It should be a fairly balanced class as it’s a hybrid between the Fighter and Ranger and for the most part just re-uses their powers at each level although there’s quite a bit of new powers listed to help differentiate it a bit. …
Jun 30
Some additional tools for your viewing pleasure. Some form fillable power cards such that you can easily just print the ones you need and they come in two sizes, CCG and index. My problem with the index size is it would be better to rotate it 90 degrees. Most of the text of a power …
Jun 30
Found an interesting little critter over on Enworld by Tehnai and thought while the concept isn’t exactly original after playing certain games that won’t be named here to try and keep the purchase in game coinage of a shiny yellow color ads down to a dull roar, I thought it was interesting enough to just …
Jun 30
Well yet again I’ve ran into a sheet that looks great on screen but doesn’t necessarily print all that great. Some are just way too elaborate to even be considered, others like the one I linked a few posts down below are minimalistic to a certain degree, and for me that’s a good thing but …
Jun 29
malcom_n over on Enworld has posted a complete Druid for your trials and tribulations. If you try it and you’re so inclined then post your opinion on how it’s working for you. I’ve always been iffy on Druids personally. Buncha tree huggin’ heal bots if you ask me. But that’s beside the point, if you …
Jun 29
We had another little test encounter last night. Laura and Scott made a Warlord and a Paladin, Tiefling and Dragonborn respectively. I also found out my wife is a serious min/maxing munchkin. We forced her to take non-optimal things. She was raised by wolves apparently or something like that in her Pen and Paper formative …
Jun 29
Found a link to one of the first 4th Edition modules from Dungeon magazine or e-zine or whatever it is these days. Seems to be some folks think it’s a little not good. Others are okay with it. I didn’t see anyone saying it’s great. The biggest problem seems to be implementation and rationale behind …
Jun 28
For you’re bemusement and amusement here’s some Skeletal Archer’s I found in the official forums. Excellent job I think by ZakArntson. Makes me want to take some time out to just sit and design monsters. Anyway these are obviously Artillery as they call them in 4th Edition and also obviously undead. These have some rather …
Jun 28
I like this one the most so far. The cards are kinda generic after looking at some of the other folks works but the sheet itself is very usable in my opinion. I especially like the light gray parts. The ‘official’ character sheet in the Players Handbook is extremely dark in my opinion. It ‘works’ …
Jun 27
Original monster idea credit: GrandNagusEli at this thread on the 4th edition forums. Some ideas and modifications based on responses by posters AdventChild, LFK and fauxgami. For my own preferences I’ve made some modifications in the Attack VS types to things that make more sense to me but my logic could always be flawed and …
Jun 27
As you may or may not know the Skill Challenge system Rules As Written are horribly broken. Several people have done the math and trust me the SC system is fubarred. To give you an example that you might understand, on average in a skill challenge each roll is roughly a 50/50 shot. Half the …
Jun 26
Found some playing aids that might be of interest to folks. Some character sheets, a complete set of power cards for the classes, an ‘effects’ tracker and some other things. A lot of folks are making their own power cards, I’ve got a friend who started a couple of weeks ago and who’s got a …
Jun 24
I’ve very quickly updated the Bard write up by going through and making sure that most of the Daily powers had either a Miss effect or a were Reliable. For those that didn’t know Daily powers can be used once a day and thus if you miss that kinda sucks because they’re your money shot …
Jun 23
Okay so I promised a more in depth of the first play test. Essentially I had two players for my first character building / play test. A far cry from the eight at one time I had back in my ‘heyday’. Â I actually prefer four players and one DM. But that’s neither here nor there …
Jun 22
Ironfist hefted the great maul in one calloused hand eyeing the steps leadiing to the second floor of the old Byagan watch tower. It had been decades since it had seen any maintenance and it pained the dwarf to see such good stonework falling into disrepair. He stepped gingerly onto the wooden bridge that joined …
Jun 22
Well we had our first little playtest of 4th Edition. Temple and I went through the process of building a couple of characters using the standard method of stats of 16,14,13,12,11,10. The first character he built was a Dwarvish Fighter that followed the path of the Great Weapon, in this case a Maul. He carried …
Jun 20
Well here it is the first version of the 4th edition Bard. It’s based in very large part on Saric’s post on the 4th edition forums which are constantly broken so I can’t get the direct link now but there’s a link in the pdf that goes to him and from there you could look …
Jun 17
I’ve started doing some more indepth looking at the numbers for the classes with a primary eye toward balancing the Bard class I mentioned earlier. I’ve run some preliminary numbers on the official classes and just flat out there can be about a 10-15% difference in the number of total powers. For instance one class …
