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Here: http://media.wizards.com/2014/downloads/dnd/MM_IntellectDevourer.pdf Awww... they're tiny! So cute. For some reason I had thought they were bigger. Anyway, now I have a contender for a replacement for the Cthulhu-Warlocks' familiar, at least.

A few people here seemed to like my One Thousand Pre-Generated Characters, so I went off and created One Thousand Pre-Generated Commoners. The party might roll up in strange town and decide to go visit ye olde local tavern (shockingly enough, I know.) Wouldn't hurt to decide what the barkeep...

Who rolls up a thousand Basic characters? This guy. Go ahead, take a look. Could be used for: - Actual pre-gens: get your players off to a quick start by rolling d1000 for a character. They'll want to roll low. - Hirelings and assorted NPCs: not a bad place to start if the party wants to...

Thinking about taking a more radical approach to healing: No one gets to heal anything while in-combat. Out of combat, sure, go nuts, stuff your guts back in. Haven't playtested this one yet though. So there might be some horrible problem with it that I just haven't thought of yet...

The rot grub has reappeared in 4e, and I like it a lot. But I feel like it's missing that iconic image of the guy covered in rot grubs and his friends poking him with torches. So here's my take on that: While you're taking ongoing damage from rot grubs, if you take fire damage, you can make...

Inspired by a thread over in House Rules: How often does Low-Light vision (particularly in PCs, but also among monsters) actually come up as a significant factor in your games? I've been playing 4E for a while now, and I can't think of a single time it's actually come up in play in my...

I've written up some instructions about how to edit the (XPS) character sheet file. They're a bit extensive for a forum post, but they're up on my blog: Stirges Suck: How to Edit the Character Builder XPS Character Sheet Hopefully some of you out there find that useful. Cheers, Roger

I'm trying to build a custom power and I have a feeling there might be something already existing that works in a similar way, but I haven't had much luck finding it. Basically, it'd be something like: +X vs Will: until the end of encounter, whenever you take damage, the target takes the same...

Could someone please contact me about why my account is Inactive. I want to still be a Community Supporter, honest. Cheers, Roger

So it seems obvious that the deities are not in the SRD. Except... except I was browsing through the SRD the other day and I noticed on page 3 that the two deity charts on page 62 of the PHB are part of the SRD, at least insofar as their "mechanical expressions." I'm not sure I understand what...

"Inn Peril" looks pretty good, and it's a free download. Might be worth downloading sooner rather than later. The download link for the pdf is at the bottom of the GTM page. Cheers, Roger

Forked from: Telling a story with 4th Edition I don't think I agree with you, but I'm not sure exactly what the issue is. Can you provide an example or two of what you mean? Cheers, Roger

Let us consider the humble owlbear, and how smart one is. As far as I can tell from the Monster Manual, there's two entirely different interpretations: 1. The owlbear has an Int of 2! They're dumb! Seriously, owls are not that smart, and bears are not all that smart, and together, they...

This is primarily a question for DMs. The deathlock wight has an encounter ability called Reanimate: a destroyed undead creature gets back up with 1/4 hit points. The boneshard skeleton has an ability called Boneshard Burst that happens when first bloodied and when reduced to 0 hit points...

This is sort of a random thought (I've been playing a lot of Spore lately) but I've been thinking lately about achievements. What I'm thinking of is that every adventure (or, more fundamentally, every major quest) would have associated with it an achievement that the PC would earn by...

Points of Conflict #3 -- The Roadside Keep -- presents an abandoned keep near a crossroads that has been taken over by bandits. It is available for free download from: http://roger.carbol.com/rpg/4e/poc/poc.htm Points of Conflict is a series of complete, self-contained, ready-to-run...

Points of Conflict is a series of complete, self-contained, ready-to-run encounters that a DM can drop into any adventure. They are designed to be easy to use as improvisational aids and random encounters. TWO encounters are now available for immediate free download. They are available from...

CORRECTION: This product will not be available until 7 July 2008. Cheers, Roger

So I DM'ed the Game Day adventure, and learned some useful things about 4E in the process. 1. The players should definitely be making a Monster Knowledge Check when entering an encounter. There's basically 4 ways to figure out what a monster will do when you enter combat with it: A. "Oh...

"Impact" is a measure of a party's ability to change people's lives. It is defined by the following function: Impact = 10 to the power of (party level divided by 3) 1st level: Impact equals about 2. The party could help out an old couple. 2nd level: Impact is about 4.5. The party could...