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What's up with this ghoststrike oil? Am I reading this right - it works for only a single hit? What the heck? Alchemical silver has a similar effect -- overcoming a rare but annoying defense -- but Silver works for a whole fight, not just one hit! Would it be totally broken to have GS Oil...

So, I have this big encounter set up. It's got everything; there's monsters and traps and a big set-piece battle to bust into an enemy fortress! The players are all ready to go, and then the warlock says those dreaded words.... "I'm gonna use Diplomacy." Oh god. He's level five, and he...

Okay, so, if I get a push effect with an area power, which direction can I push? For example, suppose I use Fire Burst ("Area burst 2 within 20 squares") and then activate my Orb of Insurmountable Force ("...you can push the target a number of squares equal to the enhancement bonus of the...

I've been trying to see if I'm using Combat Superiority (the fighter feature) correctly. Suppose I have an orc standing next to the fighter. The orc starts to move away. The fighter gets an OA on the orc, hits, and deals his damage. Now Combat Superiority comes into effect, and immediately...

I had a thread I started yesterday discussing whether or not 4th edition Cloudkill was balanced for its level. I had a half-dozen replies when I checked it yesterday afternoon... And today it's just gone. Not mod-locked, not unreplied... it's just gone! It's not on my subscribed list, it's...

I recently started planning some just-sub-epic stuff, and ... well, tell me if I'm totally off base here. Cloudkill is absolutely underwhelming. It duplicates Stinking Cloud to a ridiculous degree, and doesn't do anything that makes me want to take it compared to other spells of its level, nor...

I recently got the FRPG and was reading the Dark pact. Does cursebite seem abusive to anyone else? I mean, even if the obvious Rod of Corruption combo is ignored, it seems to me that this is a power that's dealing much more damage than any other striker lvl 1 encounter power. Even given INT...

I'm a DM who is pretty much creating an adventure for the first time. I've run modules since mid-3rd edition, but never really done it myself. So! Here's the deal. I have a puzzle-lock in mind, and I want to run it by some other people and see if it's too hard (or, for that matter, too...

Boy, THAT's a phrase that's never been spoken in D&D before... In an interview with Mike Mearls a while back, he discussed the possibility of MM PC races getting a full Dragon writeup like the Warforged did. In his comments, he said, "Maybe not all of them… Kobolds, for example, are too...

An interesting question came up today. Can you use improvised weapons other than "unarmed" with weapon powers? For example, I know I can Brute Strike with my fist -- but can I Brute Strike with a chair? PHB page 56 says, "Many [powers] can be used only if you’re wielding a weapon. (You can...

Do you suppose it would cause havoc to the system to change Aid Another? It seems weird to me that A) it's the same DC to aid on a very simple or a very complex task, and B) that high level characters can automatically provide aid on virtually any task. Back in 3.x, a static Aid DC made sense...

I think I'm pretty okay with the idea of having no "small" weapons. That is, from today's weapons preview, it sounds like there is no equivalency weapon for small characters. There's no weapon that a Halfling can pick up and have it operate like a Longsword does for a human. And I think I'm...

The other night, my group played a little preview 4e game, with the players using the DDXP pregens and me running the monsters I had data for (mostly kobolds and some human guards and bandits). I noticed something weird -- some monsters have a Reflex higher than their AC. How does that work...

I had a pair of questions about comments way-back-when in the podcast (and maybe elsewhere). Now that the book is at the printers', maybe we can get some answers about these! First, with reference to something Dave Noonan said in an old podcast about designing magic items... Did you end up...

I questioned WotC_Shoe on using an odd order-of-attributes in his blog post, and he replied with an interesting tidbit!

I just put together what's in the new Rogue article with something that one of the guys -- Mearles, I think? -- said in the podcast last month. He said something about how triggers were going to be more important to players as well as monsters, and as an example he mentioned Second Wind being...