Recent content by vaultdweller

No. No. A thousand times, no. I adamantly refuse to write an alignment on my character sheet, nor will I play in any game where there is any need to do so. Alignments are terrible at being descriptive. If you tell me your character's alignment, I still don't have any idea what type of...

Agreed, though by epic tier a character might be so rich as to consider it a reasonable value to have a fresh pint of water to wash each of his socks individually on laundry day.

If you're only interesting in keeping your party fed and hydrated, then there's no reason to get an Endless Canteen when Everlasting Provisions are available. However, the Provisions produce enough water for 5 people once per day. The Canteen produces 1 pint of water at-will, as frequently as...

The reason you consider combat-optimal feats to be pointless is the reason I consider them to be so rewarding. Combat-optimal feats are fun because they allow the DM to raise the difficulty level with more monsters and/or higher level monsters. Also, the assumption that the DM will always...

On the whole, I do like class-specific and race-specific feats. However, before assigning a pre-requisite to a feat, careful thought needs to be given to whether or not that feat is really something that needs to be unique to that race or class. Also, I think taking things to the point of...

I know this is nitpicking, but I just feel I have to take issue with a recurring example in this thread. The Greatbow is not the ranged Superior Weapon of choice for ranged Warlords from an optimization perspective. The Superior Crossbow is. Warlords don't care so much about a bigger damage...

If the player has no intention of using the background to oppose and "grief" the party, then I'm really failing to see what the problem is.

I use digital tools wherever possible. As a player, I use the Character Builder for character creation (though I use the offline one so I can have support for house-rules). I use iPlay4e and DiceTool to play the character (I have oodles of physical dice, but I never use them). During game...

Link. As of yesterday, it was still on the slate for today. However, they did change the release order for the Themes articles. This week will be Nature and Lore, instead of Tome and Temple.

Themes ahoy! I'm pumped for the content this month. Stoked, even. I had some passing interest in Heroes Of books last year, but I haven't been really eager to see any new content since Dark Sun. This is a good thing! Regarding Immediate Actions: I like them. Some of them are too convoluted...

I think the answer to that is yes. :P They'd probably just call them snacks.

Can someone remind me what Slavicsek's role in D&D is now? I remember reading about some position changes some time ago, but can't remember who ended up in charge of what.

The OP is referring to a specific power mechanic, which renders an enemy unconscious for one hour or until they take damage. It isn't a question of whether the target can be woken up by attacking it - it can, and that is spelled out in the power text. The question is when enemies should...

The OP should take a look at The White Mage - The Healic Guide for advice on this. I'm not a fan of such builds - I don't like to play them, I don't like to DM for them, and I don't like to be in a party with them - but if it's what the player wants, that's the best place he can look for advice...

Yes.