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Honestly, I can't agree with you. The deletion of the Gather information skill and the simplification of the Diplomacy skill are alone, capable of shattering all respect I have for WoTC and 4th edition.

And in 4th edition's case, to me at least, simplifying DOES mean dumbing down.

Holy **** I ...

Sounds like a munchkin, a really bad munchkin at that. The best way to deal with him would be to ask your dungeonmaster (out-of-game of course) to do something about it, be helpful maybe suggest a random bolt of lightning or a powerful earthquake which causes a vast rift in the earth right where the ...

Wow this thread is *great*. I've learned a lot just reading through it.

One thing I like to do is leave everything very open. The PCs should be driving the campaign as much as you. I never really force the PCs back on the path. I can always reuse that dungeon in a future session anyhow, or even ...

I actually rather liked 4th edition. Yes it's simplified, but simplified doesn't mean dumbed-down necessarily. First though, I'm not a very experienced D&D player so you might want to take this review with a grain of salt. I wasn't even alive when AD&D 2nd Edition was having its golden age (i.e. 80s ...