Recent content by charcoalninja

It would certainly be a great experiment. On Divine Intervention: The ability says: IF your deity intervenes, you can't use this feature again for 7 days otherwise you can use it again after you finish a long rest. So each day the party gets up, goes over their strike plans, and readies their...

If we're talking about level 20 PCs, there's nothing stopping the cleric just Divine interventioning the entire party adjacent to the big guy the moment they discover through whatever means where his lair is or where he's at. Boom surprise round, boom 405 hp cut down by more than half. Unless...

I'm not saying he won't have a powerful undead escort, I'm just saying that the moment the party sees his squishy carcass they're going to focus fire the big guy, ignoring the minions until big O is put down (which won't take long). At some point in the combat, and I argue it'll be really...

I'll be the first to admit when I misspeak and so I'll admit it now. I read far too quickly when I took stock of his offensive capabilities. He has a lot of punch, and his offensive routines are quite impressive. Dropping a Necrotic vulnerability as a legendary action in response to the...

I get that he's a big bad, and that he'll have an army of undead around him, and that narratively you'll have to get through the entire army in order to face off with him at all. That is all true, and all very noteworthy and great, but that doesn't change the fact that the moment the party can...

Resistance doesn't work that way. It's half damage received, it doesn't miraculously change you into taking no damage. You need evasion for that. As for his other abilities, they won't matter if he doesn't get more than one turn. He has a piddly 400ish HP, PCs will be able to Alpha strike...

What I've done is take the wonderful example from E6 and applied that to create my epic tier. This Epic 20 allows characters to gain a feat anytime they would normally have gained a level, or after a certain amount of exp. This doesn't mess around with the game's math and lets all of the epic...

True but it works MUCH better from a Warlock as your starting class since you can curse the target, Divine Challenge it then smack it with Eyebite every round forcing it to take the extra damage each turn or negating it's ability to attack altogether. Since paladin as a base class only gets...

If your paladin was trained and skilled at using all levels of armour he'd have the relevant ability scores to reflect this IE you wouldn't dump dex or Int. He's trained in all armours sure, but he's not good at fighting in them unless the mechanics reflect this. I can play a ranger with 8...

Considering that in the last few editions every melee class was reduced to: Basic attack every round, while all the casters did the fun stuff, arguing that the edition that finally has Fighters, Paladins, Rangers and Rogues doing as much cool stuff as the pure casters contains "much less...

Personally I'd make the Cure Disease ritual work on these injuries. Cure disease becomes the catch all surgery ritual to fix up busted stuff. The players do need a way to be able to mend broken bones and other serious injuries after all.

Of course by the same token so do the guys. Gaming in general certainly doesn't encourage a very healthy lifestyle and appeals to a certain demographic that we all see time and time again at conventions, and any place where gamers/nerds/geeks gather. The stereotypical smelly socially inept...

Well with the drow you have to remember that all their lore paints them as fearsome warriors that are the badasses of the underdark. That are constantly fighting themselves to the point where they rarely launch any large scale attacks. They kind of thin out themselves and make enemies with...

For the campaign I'm designing for 4E gnolls feature extremely prominantly as main antagonists. This article about Yeenogu just cemented their place in my world. You're right, the beasital gnolls do seem lacking on their own, so what I decided to do is combine gnoll and goblin society into...

nothing I have yet to see a single thing 4E cannot do, or a game type 4E will not work for. I realise there is an amount of jest in this thread, so I'm not going to talk about the missing druid, monk, etc. But I don't understand how people can claim 4E restricts you to archtype. You want to...