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One of my favorite innovations in 4E is the fact that, unlike previous iterations of the game, there are well defined formulas for combat ma...

A wizard casting an elemental protection spell on his allies. An skeleton shrugging off an assassin’s poisoned blade. A walking tree consu...

Like a kind of messier, deadlier game of basketball, the default combat scenario in a 4E encounter has 5 guys on each side running around an...

On my previous article , I dropped a ton of variant rules with very little in the way of comments or explanation (though the broad guideline...

Update (16/01/13): Added revision to opportunity attacks, tweaked effect of prone, added “cannot flank” to some conditions. After the disc...

You are lying on the ground. You can’t move. You can’t see. You have been turned to stone. Character conditions add a lot of variety to the ...

After the first batch of articles on game design and variant rules, I now have enough material for an initial playtest. At this stage, the g...