New Posts For Thread: How do you play D&D4E?http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29514627/How_do_you_play_DD4EAfter This years playing 4E do you play 100% RAW? you discovered some house rules, or subtle modifications that you think suit your game style better? I was reading comments on Inherent bonuses and Rituals in the other thread and I got curious to knoOh, another thing I've found myself doing sometimes. I'll put in what I call "retroactive skill challenges". This is where if the party spends a significant chunk of time on some RP, and more than one or two skills end up getting rolled, even if Ihttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29514627/How_do_you_play_DD4E?post_id=526806399#526806399Oh, another thing I've found myself doing sometimes. I'll put in what I call "retroactive skill challenges". This is where if the party spends a significant chunk of time on some RP, and more than one or two skills end up getting rolled, even if ITue, 11 Dec 2012 21:33:03 -0600I'm going to make a possibly controversial statement here:If you are playing any version of D&D 100% RAW, and I mean EXACTLY by the rules, no house rules whatsoever, not one dice-fudge or hand-wave, then you are playing it wrong.The best rule you canhttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29514627/How_do_you_play_DD4E?post_id=526802247#526802247I'm going to make a possibly controversial statement here:If you are playing any version of D&D 100% RAW, and I mean EXACTLY by the rules, no house rules whatsoever, not one dice-fudge or hand-wave, then you are playing it wrong.The best rule you canTue, 11 Dec 2012 17:04:46 -0600I've never used any house rules per-se in 4e. You can simply play anything that is in CB and it all works like the book says. OTOH I think you'd find that HOW the rules get used may vary a lot from what I've seen in other games. Usually when PCs takehttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29514627/How_do_you_play_DD4E?post_id=526802135#526802135I've never used any house rules per-se in 4e. You can simply play anything that is in CB and it all works like the book says. OTOH I think you'd find that HOW the rules get used may vary a lot from what I've seen in other games. Usually when PCs takeTue, 11 Dec 2012 17:00:33 -0600That sounds good, that´s like the way we have being handling it so far. I like to play with the idea that bringing some one from the dead is extremely rare, and might cause odd consequences, like personality deviations, strange behaviours and shttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29514627/How_do_you_play_DD4E?post_id=526801983#526801983That sounds good, that´s like the way we have being handling it so far. I like to play with the idea that bringing some one from the dead is extremely rare, and might cause odd consequences, like personality deviations, strange behaviours and sTue, 11 Dec 2012 16:54:30 -0600That sounds good, that´s like the way we have being handling it so far. I like to play with the idea that bringing some one from the dead is extremely rare, and might cause odd consequences, like personality deviations, strange behaviours and shttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29514627/How_do_you_play_DD4E?post_id=526798351#526798351That sounds good, that´s like the way we have being handling it so far. I like to play with the idea that bringing some one from the dead is extremely rare, and might cause odd consequences, like personality deviations, strange behaviours and sTue, 11 Dec 2012 15:10:50 -0600