Recent content by Vadriar

I played an Eladrin Enchanter mage too. The answers are yes and yes. Hypnotism forces the target to make an MBA against a creature you choose. Since you can target yourself with your attacks, you can have him hit himself. Since the target is then making an attack that did not include your...

The game is not balanced around that assumption, and it probably would need a lot of work to fix. Also, being missed is better than resisting all the damage, because the other effects (daze/stun/whatever) stilll apply if you resist the damage.

Have you tried Command-click, since you're on a Mac? It's a stretch, but it might work.

I used to do that. But it's not fun, in hindsight. The term math-fix really means fix. As in, repair something that does not work. Sending them on a quest to get elemental frost and fire for a set of rimefire plate is fine, but doing it every time for every player gets old fast, and they need...

Yeah, I'd rule of cool this too. The bladesinger pushes people around as part of their attacks. Let him enjoy that aspect of his character, the rest of it isn't too good to begin with.

This probably has been said, but 35 AC? Ok. Everyone disengages right now. Why? To know this, we have to figure out how defenders work: Defenders work in a peculiar way. They try to give the monster 2 bad choices: 1) Try to hit me (but it's hard, I have good AC) 2) Try to hit my Wizard buddy...

Get him to unban Dragon. I used to be like him. I banned dragon and didn't let my players buy items I hadn't vetted. Encounters went slow. However, Dragon is getting erratas and basically is a source of bug-fixes for the system. Some classes do not work as intended without Dragon powers...

A Slayer is technically a fighter, so he can keep true to his roots that way. Otherwise, he can make a great weapon fighter, which do solid DPR (but it's not striker level). A polearm is very nice at control as well. You can make a greatspear fighter that likes to knock people prone, and gets a...

Summer Rhymer is good. Bigger heals, solid powers. Cunning Prevaricator is also good, you can make people invisible. Try making a defender invisible, it's awesome. Especially if you have a Hospitaler Paladin, who can heal anyone who is attacked by something he has marked. For my Cunning Bard...

Your point is valid, but I think we will keep disagreeing on this. A rogue is already very accurate (especially with a dagger), and if he's Strength based, it'll be even less of an issue. The forced movement part of the power isn't mandatory, so a Rogue flanking the target will still have a...

Fair point. You could give an expertise feat for free. I hear lots of DMs do that, and it seems to work. As for race/class combinations that do not fit, you might also consider giving races a stat boost they normally wouldn't get, or refluff them. You could give the elven fighter a +2 str...

I strongly disagree on Staggering Note. With a Rogue and a Monk, Staggering Note is very nice. If he gets trapped in Melee (unlikely with at least 4 melee PC's in party), he can use Fade Away to become invisible. Or shift away and Staggering Note a guy into one of the 2 defenders he's rolling...

Bards get it for free, including two rituals at first level. As for your build, Keldoz: I played an Eladrin Cunning Bard from 1 to 5. It's a great deal of fun. I RP mine as a very charming (I have a lot of charm spells and a high Charisma), talking people into giving him what he wants kind of...

Also, that would mean that characters that are meant to be fragile (lets say a Rogue) would get access to a 16 starting Con. I mean, if you do this to dissuade charoppers, I don't think it'll be effective. They will just find another way to make the character better. A Dwarf Battlerager could...

I used to DM a group of 4. We've played for almost 3 years (minus a month), and got up to level 14. We average 2 encounters per 4 hour session (people show up a few minutes late, some social talk going on, a lot of fooling around at the table, unfamiliarity with rules, my sucking at DMing some...