Recent content by Ashimaar Extorris

Thanks for reading the fine print... I swear, sometimes I feel like Sarcastro, master of the obvious should be my archnemesis....

re: rich baker's dark sun chat on 12/14 I wasn't able to catch it, is there any new info about dark sun that hasn't already posted in his blogs?

They're actually the third in 4e that I can think of... They've already published two in the FRPG: wood elves and wild elves; then there's the eladrin subraces of sun and moon elves, so I guess that sort of makes 4 others.

All the sorcerer-kings, being dragons, or partial dragons of Athas, and having numerous harems through their incredibly long lifespans may have inadvertantly spawned the dragonborn. Also, templars make pacts of allegiance with these powerful beings and are granted power in exchange. Perhaps a...

Metagaming aside, the mage had already used his two encounter powers, only had magic missile and quarterstaff for options; magic missile overall was more effective (to hit and damage wise). Since ranged attacks provoke opportunity attacks, he was shifting to avoid that. riposte strike was...

Issue came up with this power in a game last night: Riposte strike is a melee attack power, which states if you hit the target, and that target attacks you before your next turn, you get to attack the target as an immediate interrupt. It doesn't specify in the power description whether the...

My bad. My group hasn't made the the full transition to 4e yet, most of the games we've been playing have been either 3.5 or Pathfinder. Last time we played 4e was back in August or September. Thanks for the correction.

Only weapon damage dice, i.e. [W], are maxed. High crit effects, sneak attack, hunter's quarry, and similar effects are rolled and added on to the max [W] damage.

While I'm not sure how I'd stat it out, they'd probably be more appropriate as a minor trap or hazard with a really low expense. Just my two cents.

I think it's stated under the description for immediate interrupts that the target interrupted keeps the power if it's not used, though the action itself is wasted. I could be wrong though, the system is only a few days old.

Cool, thanks for the response.

can we get a listing of what they are and provide?

Do they miss the part where GURPS is probably one of the easiest systems to min/max? The last time I played it, over 10 years ago, I cherry picked a bunch of flaws with no actual penalties to net a bunch of extra perks, and don't even get me started on the buckets of d6's. Nothing against GURPS...

I was thinking about Leadership, another player's already got a Cohort, and myself a companion, I'm not sure I want to slow things down any more for everyone else (though the extra damage dealer would be nice; we've got a fighter/cleric in the party, but aside from that, we don't have any...

In terms of Improved Crit, i tend to prep Hunter's Mercy from Spell Compendium, which tends to do the job alot better (trading a standard action and a 1st level slot to prep for an attack that's an auto crit) costs me less in resources, and most of the other spells prepped are the Primal spells...