Recent content by Enoch

Did you miss the three non-combat at-wills that all wizards get (i.e. cantrips)? Powers are divided up into Attack Powers and Utility Powers. Attack powers are a lot more numerous, and you don't get a utility until level 2. But don't forget the rituals. They pretty much replace non-combat...

My fiancee works for Blockbuster and I asked her what happens if another company breaks the release date on DVDs. I realize we're talking about two very different mediums, but it was interested to glimpse into the world of release dates and the like. All the movies Blockbuster gets they get...

There was an official response from some WotC guy that the KotS rules for dying were incorrect. A natural 20 lets you use a healing surge (which of course means you are now at a quarter of your hitpoints since healing starts from 0). I went back 20 pages but couldn't find the thread I read...

My group had a TPK with this encounter too. I decided to go with the capture route because I thought the encounter was NASTY! They were handling the first part very well, but the appearance of Irontooth and the wyrmpriest did them in (I had 4 players at this point so cut the two...

Yeah, when I read about this months back it completely reversed my opinion on healing surges from meh, to n'awesome! Which in turn made me rethink my assumptions on 4E, which has reduced me to a raving fan boy. -Joshua

It's in KotS, just not explained in depth. Thankfully, there are charts! Cover -2 Superior Cover -5 Concealment -2 Can't find the effects of total concealment though, besides no line of sight. EDIT: Sorry they are penalties to hit, not bonuses to AC.

Yeah the only difference I can see with hand copying and a photocopier is the artwork. I don't see why one is ok and the other isn't. -Joshua

I've been hearing a lot about smearing with KotS, but I've been reading mine all day and not a smear to be found. Maybe it was a fluke during the printing process so only a few got the crappy inking. -Joshua

Yep I forgot about that. Still not enough to convince me that it's necessary though. But as I said before, I don't think it'll break anything and would have no problem with it as a player. -Joshua

I'm not sure minions will be making saves nearly as often as normal monsters. Most attacks that give a condition also do damage. Blam, gone. I think even sleep does psychic damage. You would really only see saves from effects that do something on a miss that isn't damage. In other words, I...

Well the reasons the city is there is because of trade, which requires travel. They make their way from city to city, the further away from their source the more money they make. Might as well lighten the load on the way. Passing through villages is sort of a requirement to get to a city. My...

My fellow DM has almost all of the D&D minis. So I went through and made this list. Some I was not sure of so they have more than one suggestion (mainly because I'm not sure about their description). I didn't finish quite a few of them. Edit: These are from all the sets. I tried to take...

From what I've read (mainly the description someone posted in another thread), the farmsteads are not isolated, but instead (relatively) close together around the walled section. To me its probably one of the more realistic villages in D&D. Probably a bit excessive in the number of households...

My thoughts on going beyond 30th: No more level bonus (i.e. no bonus to attacks, defenses, skills, etc. at level 32 and beyond). No new powers, but retraining powers is allowed. No new feats, but retraining feats is allowed. Any rules disallowing someone from having multiple powers/feats of the...

Our group is going to thin out soon, and we are looking for more players to keep the group alive. We are currently playing a 3.5 campaign, but will most likely upgrade to 4e. In any case when the Keep on the Shadowfell comes out I will be running it as a test to see if the group likes 4th...