Recent content by xjermx

Sorry if this is a dumb or inappropriate answer, but I could not be 100% sure, by your post. You're a player, right? And maybe a DM? Like, you're not new to RPGs and such, right?

My question is: Who laid down the curse, and why? Your comments are helpful, thanks. I'm looking for a story that goes something like this: About 1,000 years ago, the land was home to a vast and advanced civilization. Feats of magic and science were produced that had never been seen or...

I'm asking for a little help in the form of ideas. A hundred brains are better than one, right? I have a little homebrew points-of-light style gameworld. Without giving you the boring details about it, one element is that a great civilization rose and was then destroyed. It is almost 1,000...

Sorry, the power was just made up off the top of my head. It was just to serve as an example. Thanks for all of the feedback.

Forgive me, this is a tad long, and not completely well organized. I tend to ramble. So I had a conversation with one of my players related to our recent sessions of D&D4. I'll try to be concise. It had to do with the DM altering the behavior of the bad guys in an encounter based on the...

I do not have the book in front of me, and hence cannot directly refer to the text, but we had some debate over the power selection for multiclass characters. When you multiclass, and choose one of that classes at-will powers, can you choose their "class powers", like Mage Hand?

A friend sent me an editable PDF character sheet that looks identical to the official character sheet. The math on a couple of the boxes is wrong though, and I'm trying to find where it came from to see if there is a fixed/updated one. Anyone know where the editable PDFs are?

Two things: I have kicked off my 4e game, and have a good party mix of 7 players. The next encounter on my wicked DM chart is going to pit them against a huge number of level 1 minions. 20 of them, to be exact. Plus a level 3 soldier. My concern is this: Despite that this is a balanced in...

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ohhh Nice!

I wonder if anyone has considered reimagining the class roles. I could easily see a campaign featuring a Defender style fighter along with a Striker fighter, and a controller rogue! Certainly not all of the classes make easy transitions to other roles, and I'm not proposing doing it "willy...

Bracers of MIghty Striking and Bracers of the Perfect Shot on p 244 give +2 to damage when you hit with a melee or ranged basic attack, respectively. Where can I find the reference to "close" keyword not provoking?

Two questions: Some magic items add bonuses to a melee or ranged "basic attack". Does this count only on the actual literal basic attack, as in, when one does opportunity attacks? So it does not work for at-will powers that use a melee or ranged attack? You can take an opportunity attack...

If you want to do minions, but want them to be "tougher", but still do not want to have to keep up with paperwork, give them a d20 range that will drop them. Every time someone hits one of them, roll a d20, if its in x through y range, the minion is done. Otherwise, its still up. example...

The way I understand it, you achieve a "milestone" for every two combat encounters you go through between extended rests. If this is correct, I wonder at the economics of it. While I can see a party raiding a Drow prison as meeting this economy, I can also think of tons of situations in which...