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So is anyone else playing Encounter on here? Anyone else finding said encounters mind blowingly, soul crushingly difficult? My group just wiped on the plant encounter (DM called it Wizard's Lab?) for the second time. And this is after another wipe to the weird far realm face hugger things, and...

Hello everyone! As the owner of a nice shiny Droid Eris, I was disappointed to find that the Compendium doesn't seem to work in any of the browsers I have available to me, nor is there an app to search it. So, possessing some programmatic muscles myself, I figured I'd go ahead and write an...

So, frex, look at something like the Mordant Weapon (DDI sub required) that has a property like this: Does this attack get the magical plus of the weapon added to it? It doesn't have the Weapon keyword ... but it seems strange to not get the bonus of the weapon when explicitly utilizing the...

I hope this question receives an easy answer, but I'm not so sure ... Since the Stealth errata my group has generally had a bit of a rough spot whenever the Blind condition turned up. Based on the interpretation we've been using, being Blind gave all enemies Total Concealment from you. That is...

The new Skill Challenge mechanic introduced in 4E is a great idea, IMO, but I've had some trouble translating it to the table during play. I've had some pretty dismal failures, and also some quite excellent successes in play. That said, my best Skill Challenges have involved investigations...

Hey everyone. Two questions came up for me while DMing my weekly game last night. I made a call on the fly, but want to see if I was right at the time. 1) When an Insubstantial creature takes damage it is also Vulnerable to, do you add the Vulnerable extra damage before or after halving it...

This will (hopefully) be a simple question. If an Immediate Interrupt power has a trigger saying "When hit with an attack" and the effect would effectively negate the attack, say, by teleporting you out of range of the attack, are you still damaged? That is, if our hypothetical Immediate...

So last Wednesday my group had a rough fight with a group of gargoyles and a harpy around a fairly deep 20' pit. Or so we thought; upon falling in one of the party's toughs realized he could just take a running leap and jump out with an Athletics check of 20, almost impossible to fail...

So with the addition of a new player to our weekly DnD group several months ago, my group gained a projector. Hanging it form the ceiling, we attached it to a laptop and projected a digital map onto our table that we used to play. Unfortunately, our player (and his projector) are moving away...

A few months back I saw a post (almost certainly on this board) re: the disparity between the starting wealth given to a new character and the amount of wealth a character grown "organically" from 1st would naturally have. If I recall, a starting character had a good bit more wealth (expressed...

I thought of adding this to my last thread re: skill challenges, but the topic is so different I decided to start a new thread instead. So the gist of my question is this: On the basis that a round of checks within a Skill Challenge can denote not just a few seconds, but minutes, hours, or days...

How does everyone handle the Aid Another action inside of Skill Challenges? Is it totally free form, with everyone essentially aiding everyone on every check? Does an aiding character lose the ability to make his own check during that "round" of the Skill Challenge? Are there any official rules...

So uh ... wasn't the May Update supposed to be yesterday? No update showing when I boot the Builder, and checking the calendar, I don't see one listed any more (I know! I saw one just last week when I looked :confused:). Was the update dropped for this month? :eek:

So last night our party's Wizard dropped down a Wall of Fog, eliciting the question: What does "blocks Line of Sight" really mean? I remember a pretty hefty discussion of this on these boards sometime ago, but my search-fu is weak. :( Essentially, this things seem clear to me (feel free to...

So my wife currently has a Tempest Fighter using a Doublesword in my game and was leveling up her character last night when we noticed a change in how the Builder was adding her bonuses. Previously, her Dual Strike At-Will was swinging twice for 1d8+2, since she is in Light Armor and wielding...

First off, a quick question. In 3E, I remember there were some details re: how much a caster would charge to cast a spell for the party, if they didn't have anyone who could do it themselves. Does 4E have similar guidelines for rituals? Or do you think just charging the price of a scroll is...

If anyone would be so willing, can you provide me a brief run down on the rules for enchanting a double weapon? I vaguely remember rules in AV re: the matter; something about only one end getting the enchantment or something? I'd look it up myself but my copy isn't available at the moment and...

Quick and easy Q for you guys. A Paladin has a Boneshard Skeleton (or some other monster that explodes upon death) marked. The creature attacks someone else when it has few enough hit points that the Paladins mark will kill it. Does it explode before or after its attack completes? That is, does...

Hello everyone. I'm back with another Beastmaster related question that I'm curious about (here is my last one). For the most part, a Beastmaster Ranger has to spend an action to get his beast to take an equivalent action. To make a basic attack, the master has to Standard Action. To move, a...

Two questions regarding just how much control a Wild Sorcerer can actually exercise. 1) The Wild variant Sorcerer receives an ability that reads: "When you roll a natural 1 on an attack roll for an arcane power, you must push each creature within 5 squares of you 1 square." I am almost...