Recent content by Dan'L

Maybe he isn't mad because he knows he has underlings who will "rectify" the situation for him. If he does get mad, it won't be at the thief who pulled off the robbery, it will be at the underlings who let it happen/go unchallenged. -Dan'L

Love how nobody's bothered mentioning the Druid. Looking at the party make-up, I'd lean towards a wizard build, since there's a distinct lack of the arcane power source, and it's nice to have someone in the party with a high Int training to do the researchy and knowledgey stuff. As far as...

I stopped buying when Borders closed, since that's where I bought my D&D books. I'm reliant on public transportation, and other outlets are harder to reach. I considered buying online, but the next product I had interest in was Mordenkainen's, and it just seemed like a lot of hassle. When...

Depending on what you want your end-product to look like, also consider going with full fighter with the Two-Blade Warrior multiclass feat. You won't get the free toughness feat, but you'll have fighter-level defenses and HP, and you can use the 1-handed weapon talent to gain some nice...

I think that as long as all your encounters are combat encounters, it should work fine. If you count skill challenges or similar as encounters towards milestones, then it might make it too elementary to regain dailies. -Dan'L

IMO the level 10 utility, Companion Form, should really be a daily, not an encounter. Perhaps this (i.e., as a theme) is the way beast companions should always have been handled, but I can't help but think that in the environment of a system where such a companion is equal to about half to...

Thanks for this; I missed this rules change somehow -- mainly because I don't have access to the rules compendium, and this update to the rules came in unheralded to the errata/updates*. The PDFs for the errata have been increasingly less useful. :/ (*This is based on my having a PC with the...

This is not entirely true. It may be your understanding for the intention of the feat, but the wording of the feat supports other interpretations: Even under the old rule for charging, this did more than simply allow stepping adjacent when you wielded a pole arm; it allowed you to charge to...

While the advice you've been given is pretty much spot-on, I thought I might point out an option you might give the player if he wants to be able to legally use this tactic in the future. It requires two feats, one of them at paragon tier, so it's not an immediate solution: one feat to MC as a...

In general, if you do not have a healing surge to spend, you do not get the healing. There is one exception to the rule, when you're dying: Some DMs might choose to extend this to all times when a surge must be spent, but is not available; i.e., regain 1 hp for drinking a healing surge while...

This is not correct; if you retrain out of AP: Scale, you will no longer meet the pre-requisite for AP: Plate, and so could not take AP: Plate. You would have to invest in two feat slots to train Plate. As for whether or not it is useful, the best recommendation I can give is to play the...

A little while back they gave errata on the aid another DCs. They are now 10+ 1/2 level of the person being aided. So at Paragon tier there is a minimum DC of 15 to aid another of your level, and it progresses up as the characters progress. Basically, the more progressed a character is, the...

I think I would suggest not physically switching character sheets. Possibly, I would even temporarily collect the sheets as the DM and feed them the numbers they need once they decide what to do. When a PC in a different body needs to do something, the player shouldn't be looking at the...

Depending on the situation, one way we've handled this situation is to have one PC be the "primary" roll (decided before any rolls are made), with all the others rolling to aid. If someone rolls low, it's a -1 to the group check, so it balances out. With something like Perception, it's easy...

I would think that the solution would be Two Weapon Defense, then. Of course, if he doesn't meet the Dex 13 pre-req, I suppose that would be out, too. -Dan'L