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Other would almost always apply to monsters, and would frequently apply to anyone from foreign parts. Neither the guards or the driver would be Other. Letting the guards die can fall into Unaligned because it's an act of omission instead of comission, and because the party would face...

Not at all. You simply have to put aside the modern Western idea of humanitarian universalism, that everyone is part of one Community. Violence has always been generally acceptable directed toward that which is Other. Kin groups, tribal extended kin groups, your village, your nation, all...

Not normally, no. The requirement for Power Attack is that you make a melee attack. But as near as I can tell, you can still make a power attack, since melee is the referenced keyword. You can also get additional damage if using a two-handed weapon, but since the weapon is not being used to...

Which still somehow doesn't help those of us who actually play 9th level rather than starting in the paragon tier, since the power swap feat for daily powers has that annoying 10th-level prereq. Knowing that you're going to face a few sessions at the table with that deficit tends to encourage...

Understandable, but the RAW is ambiguous. Obryn is reading it a particular way, but that isn't the only reasonable way to read it. And if a DM in an official game has to rule on an ambiguous bit of RAW, and happens to have heard a designer express the Rules as Intended in a crystal-clear...

Same thing I've seen. My minotaur warlord intimidated a kobold into surrendering very early on in KotS, and the bugbear rogue shived the minion before I even got a chance to start asking questions. And when we came across Splug, my warlord just casually lopped off his head after we'd finished...

We can all come up with niche situations and specific examples where it can and should work out differently, but in general if you a player tries and succeeds at intimidating an enemy with the intent of making it surrender, and the DM keeps bringing the enemy back in, it's going to be at the...

I don't know how Pyramid of Shadows or later adventures turned out, but for KotS and Thunderspire, treasure distribution did NOT match the parcel system laid out in the DMG. In aggregate, items were less powerful and there was less of them.

I don't think that line is meant to be read as the DM decides what something's reaction is to being successfully intimidated. It's there because it is a social skill and the players can be trying to Intimidate a creature(s) into doing a number of different things. The response depends on what...

It defeats the enemy. And it is arguable *and will be argued, at many tables* whether "surrender" allows a creature to escape, find more friends, and come back at you with them, rather than meaning exactly what it says, surrender.

And by doing so, you're getting a result equivalent to dealing half the creature's hitpoints, taking it from just bloodied to zero. With an attack that you've made very hard to miss, and which you can repeat the next round. If the DM lets you use it as freely as you seem to want, you are going...

Robsen, the search function for these forums are limited to community supporters, i.e. those who have made a donation. As a consequence, you are going to have to either accept "recollection" as possessing at least limited validity, or limit yourself to only reading posters who have Community...

http://www.enworld.org/forum/d-d-4th-edition-rules/256256-entering-zone.html The other thread addressing this recently.

By RAW. the creature has to be moving, whether of its own voalition or by forced movement. There has been a ruling that a zone moving over a creature does not immediately cause damage, though the creature will, of course, subsequently have to deal with any "if you start your turn in the zone"...

I'm looking at Arcane Power right now, and I'm not seeing it. I see a Paragon feat that's already been mentioned that gives +1 feat bonus to all defenses at Paragon, but that's it.