There will be no Darkwylde game in the month of February. I'd like to schedule our next event for Sunday, March 11, 10:30 am to 5:30 pm. We seemed to have a quorum that earlier on Sunday's works better for everyone. Eat breakfast and bring yourself. Susan can you please organize organize lunch and snacks. If 3 or more can't make 3/11, we'll push out to 3/18, assuming less than 3 must miss that date. Otherwise, I'll just go ahead and run on March 11 with a smaller group.
I plan to run Darkwylde until the end of the module, then take a break. Ideally, Mac or someone else would pick up the DMing for a bit, as we previously planned. We can discuss playing once a month instead of once per two weeks, but I'd like a better commit to the game from those who want to keep playing.
I am interested in this. I can't imagine how a system could create balance between 3e style of character based on alternate/chosen abilities and customization and a 1e style no customization character such that they could play at the same table. The best sign, from my point of view, is that Monte Cooke is a lead designer in this. My impression has been that he brought everything I liked best to 3/3.5E, and that his prior departure from WotC had everything to do with the coming of 4E and the ways in which it greatly departed from the D&D standards.
I am interested in this. I can't imagine how a system could create balance between 3e style of character based on alternate/chosen abilities and customization and a 1e style no customization character such that they could play at the same table. The best sign, from my point of view, is that Monte Cooke is a lead designer in this. My impression has been that he brought everything I liked best to 3/3.5E, and that his prior departure from WotC had everything to do with the coming of 4E and the ways in which it greatly departed from the D&D standards.
I have long lamented the lack of a Character Builder-like tool for Pathfinder. D&D character creation is greatly aided by this on-line tool that combines the contents of all of the character generation content from every book and magazine WotC has published. Until recently, there was no such alternative for Pathfinder. Most of us scraped by with a very good spreadsheet, but suffered with the limitations of that media, especially the need to transfer the character to a blank new version any time we wanted to take advantage of an update to the character sheet. Some of us just did the work by hand.
Recently, Mel turned me on to a PC based character generation tool called Hero Lab. It's $50 for the tool, one game content license (Pathfinder in this case), and the content from both optional books. Licenses for Call of Cthulhu and other games are also available, and there is a way to download the Compendium and Character Builder data into the tool so it can be used for 4th Edition as well. I haven't tried that last process yet.
This has been around quite a bit so most of you probably already saw it but just in case you missed it here is a link to video of one of the MS surface tables running a D&D pen and paper game. Cool stuff.
EDIT: I have decided to run a D&D game set in the rather sketchy world hinted at in the PHB and supported in most modules. Please see Documents->Darkwylde in the navigation menu for rules and guidelines.
As I inch closer toward running my first 4th Ed. D&D campaign (just D&D, hereafter), I've been giving a lot of thought to the source material. My strength as a GM is in roleplaying NPCs and world building, or so I flatter myself. This has led me to run primarily my own worlds. Over the last several years I've drifted away from that and run Arcana Evolved and Forgotten Realms, using their worlds with original content of my own devising. Now I'm at the point where I want to write a fantasy novel, possibly with a D&D tie-in, and making my own world for that effort has a lot of good synergies.
Use this thread to post your thoughts on 4th edition D&D.
A kind WotC fairy (I never would have believed there was such a thing) came into my house late last night and stealthily left a set of the three new D&D rulebooks. They're really slick looking, the prose is well written, and most of the actual rules are compacted into a small section of the book, with powers and abilities making up much of the rest, each breaking those rules in small or large fashion. The artwork is excellent. Binding quality appears to be solid as well, though time will tell. Overall, I give the presentation a 9/10.
I have long lamented the lack of a Character Builder-like tool for Pathfinder. D&D character creation is greatly aided by this on-line tool that combines the contents of all of the character generation content from every book and magazine WotC has published. Until recently, there was no such alternative for Pathfinder. Most of us scraped by with a very good spreadsheet, but suffered with the limitations of that media, especially the need to transfer the character to a blank new version any time we wanted to take advantage of an update to the character sheet. Some of us just did the work by hand.
