Recent content by Belbarid

I was playing around with building a warlock to introduce as an NPC in the game I run. I'd appreciate any comments or advice anyone here has. I use the Heroic Paths from Midnight, and although most NPCs don't get a path, this one did. If you're not familiar, the pertinent info on this one...

Two answers- one from each of my personalities. :) Lazy DM: Assume that the cone is perpendicular to the caster. Yes, this means that (likely) much of the cone will be wasted by going into the ground, but it's easy. From there some easy-to-Google geometry gives you the height, and whether or...

I'm not quite sure what you're driving at here. How does his weapon fit into the picture? And that's my big hangup with this. I can't think of anything in 4E (not that I'm an expert) that gives extra damage dice based on an attribute. In 3E it's not so much a problem- everyone has lots of...

Hadn't thought of making DR a Utility power- I like the idea. Thanks

I'm in the process of converting my 3e group to 4e. Mostly this has gone okay, but there are two abilities that I just don't know what to do with. First is for the dwarven Fighter/Barbarian. Due to the fact that I use Midnight's Heroic Paths (which tend to convert rather easily), and the fact...

Okay, I think this makes sense now. Thanks, all.

I made the Warlord exactly as if I was making a player character, and I'm starting to get the feeling that makes for a far tougher opponent than the encounter rules expects.18 So, would the more proper way of doing this be to use the Monster Design Steps on pg 184 of the DMG and then give him...

Just so I understand, if I add a class to a human enemy- either through a class template *or* by creating the enemy as I would a standard PC, that enemy becomes an Elite enemy. Then a second template makes the enemy a Solo, correct? Thanks, btw. I really like the new guidelines for building...

Keep in mind that this is all IMO, but I always go for "More Fun To Roleplay" To the point where I've been nicknamed "The Monkeywrench". :) Now that being said, don't intentionally gimp yourself to the point where you're a liability to your party, but interesting characters have always been a...

After playing it a bit, I drank the kool-aid and bought the 4th ed Player's Manual, DMG, and Monster Manual with the intention of converting my existing campaign to 4E. Toward that end, I created two encounters to run- one combat, one skills. As I was creating enemies for the combat encounter...

So would Mercedes Lackey, as she wrote it in "Wheels of Fire"- well, at least 12 years ago, as I've had the book for about that long.

An NPC in the game I run is a 4/4 Swordsage/Ninja, and is absolutely lethal when he gets the drop on you. Now, the campaign I run is very light on magic items and very heavy on personal abilities instead, so that may shift things a bit. For example, I use the Heroic Paths from Midnight...

Depends on the campaign, the players, the DM, and the expectations going in. In some campaigns I've been in, a better question would have been "Why *wouldn't* they?" In others, they wouldn't. As DM, though, Know Thy Players. If they aren't interested in running a heroic campaign, don't...

The Game: Shadowrun The Place: The Kingdom of Hawai'i The Dragon: Massive western dragon (the iconic D&D-style dragon, if you don't know SR) with "Don't Mess With Me" stamped on his forehead. I was running this game back in college, and one party member *refused* to accept the notion that he...

Huh... Did you go back in time 12 years to a game I witnessed in college? My 25th level lich was kind of the weak sister in the group. The *one* time I played. To each his own, but that ain't mine.