This is a transcript of the 4e paladin from the adventure Keep on the Shadowfell, which we’ll be running in only a few weeks. It should also give a few pointers to how 4e will be. I’ll post transcripts of the other pregens over the next few days. My comments will be marked like this. DRAGONBORN PALADIN HP 27, Bloodied 13, Healing Surge 7, … Continue reading Meet the 4e Dragonborn Paladin
This is the list of the skills in 4e, along with their guiding attributes. From what I can gather, 4e Skills are like Star Wars Saga skills: you choose a small number of skills at 1st level to be your “trained” skills for the game, and rarely gain new skills after that. There are no skill points, instead you get +1/2 your level to all … Continue reading 4e Skills
Wizards have sent out preview copies of Keep on the Shadowfell to some stores, and Thalmin has been happily posting details of the pregens on EN World. Here’s a quick summary – and if Sarah, Greg, Adam, Nate and Josh want to start fighting over which characters they want to play, go for it! Dwarf Fighter: Maul (2-handed), dagger, Scale mailHalfling Rogue: Daggers, leatherHuman Wizard: … Continue reading D&D – Keep on the Shadowfell pregens
In 4e, if the DM wants to have a succubus have the king under her control and rule the kingdom through proxy, the DM can do so, without needing the monster’s statblock in the Monster Manual to back up that decision. From what I can see of 4e, this is a huge shift from earlier thinking of D&D (especially 3e), where every little ability of … Continue reading D&D 4e Monster usage philosophy
With the 4e D&D books at the printers, Wizards are finally giving us excerpts from the finished books. They start with one from the Monster Manual Cool! Continue reading Ooh… 4e previewy goodness!
The original PCs posted by Wizards for the D&D XP delve had a few errors in them. I’ve just gone and made a comparison… here are the changes that were made: Riardon – Eladrin Ranger 1 His “Careful Attack” power is now +10 vs AC, 1d10 damage. It was +10 vs AC, 1d10+4 damage. Skamos – Tiefling Wizard 1 Change of text describing Implement use; … Continue reading D&D 4e characters from D&D XP – changes
So, Paizo Publishing have decided to go with D&D “3.75” after all… that’s interesting. Unfortunately, it also means that I’ll not be getting back aboard the Paizo bandwagon for a while (although the Paizo/Necromancer bandwagon may be an interesting place to be). For the most part… no, I absolutely have enough 3.5e adventures to last me until the decade after the next one. Savage Tide … Continue reading Paizo, 4e and me
Ok, this is interesting… When you wear no or light armour, you gain the armour’s bonus to your Armour Class (AC), along with either your Dexterity or Intelligence modifier. So, a Wizard with no armour with a 20 Intelligence has a 15 AC to begin with. When you wear heavy armour, you gain the armour’s bonus to your Armour Class, but you get no ability … Continue reading AC in 4e
I’ve just finished punching out counters and other “some assembly required” actions for my new games. It’s funny; some people enjoy painting miniatures, I enjoy punching out wargame chits. The two wargames in question were, firstly, Combat Commander: Europe. GMT provided a bunch of small ziplock bags to put the counters in, but there weren’t quite enough. Off to my supermarket-bought ziplock bags. That took an hour … Continue reading Random thoughts on boardgames and D&D 4e
Well, the latest change to 4e is making the rounds of the message boards, and it’s one that will probably be really embraced by my players – especially Bradford. The change I’m talking about is the chance to the movement rules: diagonal squares count as 1 square, rather than the 1-2-1-2 scheme we used in 3.5e. Or rather, I used, for many of my friends … Continue reading Diagonals in D&D 4e
