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
For all you happy Star Wars fans out there, Amazon now has listed another sourcebook for the Saga edition of the game: The Clone Wars Campaign Guide (Jan 2009) by Rodney Thompson and JeDi Wiker US$40, 224 pages. I guess by the time it comes out, the Aussie dollar may be above the US one, so the price will be close to what it actually … Continue reading Star Wars… Clone Wars…
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
(split out from original discussion) As we discovered last session, Use the Force has some problems when it gets used against PCs – especially with Move Object. (10+d6 damage? Ouch). What gets me is the weird scaling of these powers. Trained/Skill Focused UTF (which is what any decent Jedi should have) and a 16 Cha goes from +13 at 1st level to +23 at 20th … Continue reading Star Wars – Fixing Use the Force?
Our stop-start Star Wars campaign “Dawn of Defiance” continued last session with my character, Miles, demonstrating that his Persuasion and Deception skills are excellent, especially when backed-up with good roleplaying (woohoo! +15 toeach at 4th level), and Greg’s Jedi and an NPC Jedi demonstrating exactly how broken Use the Force is. It’s really a pity that all the balancing that has gone into 4e hasn’t … Continue reading Star Wars Blues
Our Savage Tide campaign got underway again last friday. It currently has the PCs exploring the City of Broken Idols on the Isle of Dread. We had two new players (Nate & Adam) replacing our departed-and-sorely -missed friend Rob, and our “I’ve got a job”-friend Craig. Bradford missed the session due to unspecified reasons, as is becoming unfortunately usual. Without Bradford, it’s a lot trickier … Continue reading Anzac Day D&D
John Farrell has added me to his page of Extended Stats from Boardgamegeek. It’s a really cool page that has a bunch of stuff, including “Games I should play soon”.Fun list. 🙂 There’s a couple of games there that I’ve actually played recently, but I hadn’t marked them down as played on BGG. Need to do so, I guess. More fun from BGG is the … Continue reading Gaming stuff
Josh, Rich and I gathered at Josh’s place for a little boardgaming last Saturday. I really should have been at ConVic with Randy, but I hadn’t properly scheduled my life. (Quite normal when it comes to conventions… it’s been years since I’ve been organised enough to attend one!) So, what games did we play? San Juan – Josh and I began with a game of … Continue reading Weekend boardgaming
Well, Randy’s back from Melbourne (and ConVic), and he’s brought back a few games I wanted as well with him. We did a comparison recently of the # of games we have – Randy has more actual games than me, although our numbers are comparable on BGG. I just have lots & lots of expansions. So, it shouldn’t really surprise anyone that I just picked up … Continue reading New Games!
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
