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Comment on Help him Rebrand Himself, Win a 4e Book by ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Fri, 16 May 2008 03:14:04 +0000

@Bob: I’m probably going to skip this one, I’ve been burning a little bit too much of the midnight oil lately and I need to step back and enjoy the outside world a bit.

Best of luck and I wish you more than 200 entries!

Comment on Help him Rebrand Himself, Win a 4e Book by Bob at DnDReviews

Bob at DnDReviews — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:29:31 +0000

@ Chatty - Thanks for the link! It’s going superbly! I don’t see your entries, yet, or did I miss them at first blush

@ Yax - Damn nice thing of you to say. Back atcha, bro.

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Comment on Chatty’s Review: D&D 4e’s Keep on the Shadowfell by Graham

Graham — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:42:05 +0000

@Griffinland -

The word is, there are two parts to digital content.

1) Books might/should be available in digital format. PDF or whatever. These are purchased separately from the physical books. The “code in the book” method was determined to be ineffective, or unwieldy, or something. But not to worry, see point 2.

2) D&D Insider. Aside from the online versions of Dragon and Dungeon magazines, DDI will also have the Rules Database, an online searchable rules index. If you aren’t subscribed to DDI, this will contain references to books and page numbers so you can look things up quickly. If, however, you are subscribed to DDI…

*ahem*

the Rules Database will contain every rule published for 4e by WotC, regardless of whether or not you own the book.

Searchable, of course.

I tell ya, the Rules Database is almost worth the price of DDI on its own for me. Dragon and Dungeon are just icing.

Comment on Chatty’s Review: D&D 4e’s Keep on the Shadowfell by ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:41:52 +0000

I just think that this product, being pre-launch, wasn’t part of the Digital initiative…

Let’s see with the Core books…

Comment on Chatty’s Review: D&D 4e’s Keep on the Shadowfell by Griffinland

Griffinland — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:16:10 +0000

Well that’s disheartening. Maybe the thought the risk of piracy was too high? Still, it would have been nice for those of us who play online to have to retype a lot of description.

Comment on Chatty’s Review: D&D 4e’s Keep on the Shadowfell by ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:05:45 +0000

@Griffinland: Nope none whatsoever.

Comment on Chatty’s Review: D&D 4e’s Keep on the Shadowfell by Griffinland

Griffinland — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:03:14 +0000

Chatty: Any online resources included/mentioned in the product? I remembering hearing a while ago that all 4E product would include a “key” to unlock the content online.

Comment on Chatty’s Review: D&D 4e’s Keep on the Shadowfell by Graham

Graham — Thu, 15 May 2008 21:57:06 +0000

Unfortunately, they weren’t able to give specific details, I don’t believe.

But they said they were about as problematic as AoOs and flanking are in 3e.

Aka, if you can handle AoOs and flanking without minis in 3e, you can handle the extra movement options in 4e. If you ignore AoOs and flanking when you don’t have minis in 3e, you’ll probably do the same with these in 4e.

Comment on Chatty’s Review: D&D 4e’s Keep on the Shadowfell by ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Thu, 15 May 2008 21:34:50 +0000

@Graham: I’m just curious as to how tactical characters like the the rogue be played in such cases… all these slide powers and combat advantage?

Comment on Chatty’s Review: D&D 4e’s Keep on the Shadowfell by Dave T. Game

Dave T. Game — Thu, 15 May 2008 21:30:03 +0000

“I think that D&D has always been an exception based system. It’s just taken the designers a few editions to admit it.”

I agree with this, though they’ve gone out of their way to move many of the exceptions from the core rules to the exceptional powers, which is the way to do it. In fact, they probably won’t go far enough for me.

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