Recent content by circadianwolf

New Cap City was just a television device (after all, how does such a game make money? why wouldn't people play the presumably myriad other games available? and I refuse to believe that in the game as depicted any more than a few people could survive for years, as several characters are...

Yes, in order for this to be of any use you need better unarmed attacks, both in base weapon (e.g. like the monk's unarmed attack) and enhancement bonus (e.g. like the brawler's unarmed attack). If you make it a +3 prof/1d8 damage off-hand weapon with integrated scaling enhancement bonus that...

Well.. masterwork is supposed to be built into magic heavy armor. If you weren't incorporating it before, you were falling behind in armor class. It's a confusing system, but it's necessary to accommodate for the increases light armor users get from increasing Dex/Int.

An early 4E Dragon issue (the one with the infamous gladiator player options) has an article for DMs running gladiator battles with basically everything you're looking for.

No it's not, the advantage of Twin Strike is being able to attack the same target twice (and stack static damage mods on twice). That's just a thunderwave that swaps the push for enemies only.. which is probably a fair trade.

Haha, thank you, that was exactly my thought on reading some of these posts. "I wasn't sure about 4E before. The design's pretty different from previous editions. It's much more complicated. So I think--wait, they renamed the rogue to the thief? And they added back a feature called 'backstab'...

Yes, fighter hybrids are very friendly to other defenders in this way.

I'm glad I've been through this :):):):) enough that I'm content to point and laugh at the sheer arrogance and willful ignorance of that last statement. The rest of it, as Gradine discusses pretty well, is classic colonialist :):):):):):):):). I wish I had the inclination to demonstrate it for...

IOW, you don't want them to actually be Aragorn and Gandalf, because you're admitting that in that story Gandalf is a lot more powerful than Aragorn, and so in said game their powers would have to be balanced, and therefore your example is still useful because...? You can either have a fighter...

Storm pillar says each enemy that "moves" into a square, not "enters". Force movement triggers "enters". It's a poor distinction (which is why a lot of powers say "willingly moves"), but it is a distinction established by the rules.

I have no idea what the original thread was about, but this is *hilarious*(/sad, pathetic, and disgusting). Male privilege at its finest.

Err, no, it leads to "fighters should stay at low power levels, while wizards are not so constrained". If your ideal RPG characters are Aragorn and Gandalf, who seriously wants to play Aragorn?

Well, rogues have 5 because like bards their legacy is as skill monkeys. The set number of skills with some classes having bonus ones would be just like hybrids, so it seems quite possible. I would like to see rogues that don't require training in Thievery.

Eh. The martial debate just leads back to "fighters should suck (at high levels, and conversely wizards should suck at low levels)", which is, from the perspective of *actually playing a game*, stupid. The guy playing the fighter doesn't care if it's more "realistic" that he sucks at higher...

It may also trigger a defender's mark punishment in certain situations and with certain defenders.