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This thread has given me some ideas. I have a player who refuses to ever participate in skill challenges. If there is social interaction they just want to start fighting there way out of everything. It's annoying because I've been trying the Stalker0 Obsidian system but if only the other...

I always let my PC's know if a monster is almost dead <=10 hp or so. This makes these powers really good because just hitting to finish off the monster is more important than the extra damage, which is irrelevant when the monster is below 0. It's kind of "extra bloodied" info that I give out...

Make it a monster, add an at-will power and make sure it has a recharge power. give it experience and level it up like a PC if it lives that long. Worked in my game - but its not getting dailys, it gets lower level encounter powers with a recharge on it instead.

Standard experience for encounters was probably calculated on the assumption that PC's start with a 16 in their best stat, as per the suggested array after taking a race you like the look of that doesn't boost your awesome powers. I play with a girl who always does this (always an elf...

I hope you have given them part of a level 20 treasure parcel for that superlative effort. Is it Possible that they chose not to run due to not caring as much about their characters who have no treasure worth losing? My Pc's recently attacked a boat of 15 dwarven soldiers by themselves. There...

how many PC's? My GF started off playing solo. Riposte strike was the best! Bad guys had to attack her every round, so she got off two attacks every turn. The more allies that can give you CA, the less useful it becomes - then it is all about sneak attack as often as poss.

At first I liked Plane Sailings hit point based idea, but I just realised that would encourage the 15 minute adventuring day - you would never take on a medusa with less than full hit points if you could possibly help it. If you built up a critical mass of effects like this across different...

The illumination rules bug me - bright light so many squares then DARKNESS. How does that work with low light vision? The rules don't tell me... I know what they are trying to do making the game faster and all, but telling my eladrin and elf players that they get no extra benefit to see...

Wow I thought the bracers that added +2 or +4 or +6 extra damage to all melee or ranged attacks made wizards sad sad puppies. Until I read through the whole book and saw Staff of Ruin lvl 3 +1 up to lvl 28 +6 enhancement to attack and damage rolls critical +1d10 per plus Property: In...

I've avoided grinding by giving level appropriate challenges or those level -1 or -2. Nothing turns a fight into a grind like introducing a party level + 3 soldier. Yawn! It goes on for ages. My players like to feel awesome. Then when they start to get confident they have a real level +1 or...

This is why the game has a DM - an arbitrator to make special exceptions for when the rules don't make any sense. Ask your DM what they believe - that becomes the right answer for your game. Re - sleeping in armour, there is an entire thread on that subject alone, up to and including a youtube...

That cover and LOS stuff had me totally confused for a while too because I read the extra rules in the DMG that are so much more anal than the simple rule in the PHB. And another thread has people talking about dungeon rooms being very bad for wizards to cooperate with other players, as they...

Thanks guys. I just checked it with the demo character builder and it picked up on it too! it listed +6 sources of damage, but put [doesn't stack] next to the second occurance of weapon focus. It also resolved that "does weapon focus - staff" count towards damage done through staves used as...

Just statted out a NPC hireling properly for the first time (he has been playing with the PC's for weeks and still isn't dead so its time to upgrade him from reskinned monster to member of the party) I am basing him on a cross between a mike mearls goblin piker and a human fighter. I am...

That was a good post Mal. Pays to remember context rather than simplifying things to easy math. I think the assumption that wizards were deliberately "nerfed" is wrong. I remember the preview implements article where they stated different implements would really change a wizards abilities...

Wizards do need to be patched. They do have great at wills, but they care too much about damage and less about changing the rules of the battlefield. Their at wills should make up for the fact that they are constantly squishy when they are hit, making them more vulnerable than other PC's when...

There are so many minor inconsistencies in the rules that reading them letter by letter tends to cause more confusion than it solves. DracoSuave, You can quote the stuff on page 273, but also note that it also says "you can see a goblin standing at teh edge of a fog cloud, but the fog makes...

Sheesh, don't get me started on the picture. I laughed so hard when I saw it.

thanks two those two servicemen that contributed their real world experience to this thread. I can now show this thread to the player in my group who keeps asking about why 4e lets him sleep in armour. So no probs each night, as long as they take it all off when they finally reach the holiday...

No, the double sword does make perfect sense that way because of how you fight with it. You will tend to slash with the hand that you write with, as this gives you the chance to turn a slash into a parry. When you bring the sword around your arms are in a different configuration, usually...