Recent content by reanjr

I was curious if WotC has dropped any information on whether they will be bringing back PDFs of their books. I completely stopped purchasing from WotC after they abandoned digital distribution. I don't understand how someone in this business can be so ignorant as to think stopping digital...

Wanted to add, I do really like the idea of a failed death saving throw having some other affect than "nothing happens - yet". I might add that as a cause of injury.

Conceptually I like having the daze in there as well so that there is an immediate tradeoff (the healing surge I see as more of a longer term disadvantage than a tactical encounter disadvantage). I wonder if daze might go a bit too far though, dis-incentivizing the option. Maybe prone or...

The injuries approach is much more self contained as the rule only comes into affect in play when spending healing surges to regain hit points and when taking a rest. Those are two specific triggering game events and then the rule can be forgotten until the next one. D&D has enough bonuses and...

If this is in fact the approach they taking, this model is probably the reason I no longer give any of my money to WotC. It's absolutely and completely backwards from what I actually want as a consumer. Electronic rules are unwieldy. Requiring an active internet connection makes it almost...

Interesting you mention Dark Sun, cause the campaign I created this rule for is a Dark Sun campaign. I like the idea of the PCs stumbling back out of the wilderness battered and bruised after a long, arduous trek through the desert. It also gives the players a compelling reason to return to...

If you're running encounters as the game expects, according to the guidelines in the DMG, then this system may cause some issues. But I feel the game currently railroads the DM into a very specific encounter pacing that gets extremely boring. So, yes, I think this adds to the fun in many...

I've created a tweak to represent injuries. Comments are welcome. The injuries option imposes limits to how many healing surges can be regained simply by taking an extended rest. The Problem From a narrative perspective, the game does not support any way for injuries to last beyond a single...

The Analysis The myth is a composite of historical fact, political propaganda, metaphor, and natural science. It is probably too muddled in it’s details with too much narrative to identify truths within it alone, but experiences or knowledge may reveal truths within the myth. First of all...

I've fleshed out the myth of the Oba of Gulg. I present it here as a myth and then an analysis on it's passages. I'm looking for ways to make it more polished if anyone has any ideas. Athas was not always dying. There was a period long ago called the Green Age, when a small, comforting...

I've been trying to piece together all the info about Rajaat's champions and I've come up with an alternate history that tries to take into account the conflicting information coming from the boxed sets, Rise and Fall of a Dragon King, and the timeline. The postulate is basically that the...

Middle Earth by I.C.E. Blood Wars from TSR <- awesome game

Getting together If you are interested in this sort of thing, please check out: http://www.enworld.org/forum/blogs/reanjr/1006-4e-data-exchange-standards-discussion.html where I am trying to get together a large group to work on 4e D&D XML standards.

For most major credit card companies, it's a contractual obligation to not charge until you ship for items that are not in stock.

I'm in the same boat. At least for me, Amazon has a terrible record of shipping on time. Especially on a pre-order. Especially on something steeply discounted.