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February is over and the Table of Contents for issue #188 is posted. "Beneath the Dust" the lone complete adeventure slated for issue #187 was never released. Is this the first month Dungeon has contained zero playable adventures?

The entries in the DDi Compendium for the Hunter and Hexblade classes seem to be imcomplete. Most powers are not described, making it impossible to create a character with the rules in the Compendium. For instance, the Hunter entry says: But no Aspects are provided. The Disruptive Shot power...

Is the Channel Divinity power Divine Rage an Implement power? Dragon #368 and the Character Builder include the Implement Keyword, but the Compendium entry does not include it (or the Divine keyword). Thanks!

One of the conclusions reached in the grindspace threads lately was that an encounter will become a grind when players miss with their encounter and daily powers. Effective 4e play involves stacking bonuses so that these powerful attacks hit as often as possible to eat through the monster HP...

While trying to pick a damage type for a new dragonborn PC's dragon I breath I calculated these statistics on the resistances and vulnerabilities of all the monsters in the 4e Monster Manual from level 1 to 33. Hopefully these are of interest for picking powers in general: # resistance to: %...

I saw Hellboy II at a free preview Wednesday night. I definitely enjoyed it. Selma Blair is still terrible and I missed David Hyde Pierce's voice as Abe but I'd rate it better than the first one, which (for me) ended weakly after a great first hour. This one has a nice mixture of action and...

Do the Archivists' various Dark Knowledge abilities all activate with one use/skill check/move action or do they need to be activated separately? e.g an 8th level Archivist has access to Dark Knowledge (tactics), (puissance), and (foe). She encounters a vampire and gets a 19 on her Knowledge...

I would like to provide the Swordsage with the rogue's Trapfinding ability and Search as a class skill. Would removing one (or both?) of the Swordsage's current first level special abilities be acceptable as a trade off? Is removing either 'Quick to act' of 'discipline focus' a good trade for...

A player of mine is about to start playing a warblade. Are there any problematic maneuvers I should be watching out for? If so, what have you done to make them manageable? thanks!

As per the title- the Marshall class seems kinda weak, but interesting. Would it be balanced with the Fighter BAB, some other change, or is it already balanced as is?

If a character with the Augment Healing feat casts a Mass Cure spell, is the extra healing from the feat applied to each target, or distributed among them? E.g. a level 17 druid cast Mass Cure Critical Wounds (level 9 spell), for 4d8+17 hp healed on 6 targets. With the Augment Healing feat...

Can spells be cast through a Wall of (Greater) Dispel Magic from Spell Compendium? If so, are they subject to the dispel chance of the wall? thanks!

After reading (and participating) in the recent LONG orbs vs. evocations thread, I decided to gather data to see if the anecdotes brought forth were valid. My results, I think, are interesting, and have caused me to reassess my position on the orb spells. This attached file is a spreadsheet...

Does anyone know how to get excel to return a formula result only within specified minimum and maximum values? That is, I want Excel to calculate a series of % to hit chances, based on reference cells for to hit bonus and AC; but the values returned should have a minimum of 0.05 and a maximum...

I am about to run the enounter with the hag covey in one of the SCAP adventures. According to the srd, hag coveys may use a number of spell-like abilities (such as bestow curse and forcecage) and "To use one of these abilities (which requires a full-round action), all three hags must be within...

I have a player running a Warlock PC in my game. I have found the class to be balanced, and useful, but a little boring as the player almost always uses eldritch bolt every round of combat. I am considering raising the eldritch bolt damage to d6/warlock level, but usable only every 1d4 rounds...

What would be an adequate, appropriate abilty to compensate Gnomes, if their Str penalty was increased to -4? In addition, I use WP/VPs and small characters get WPs = to 3/4 CON Do these two changes bring Gnomes to LA of -1? Perhaps I could give a free level in Gnome paragon (from UA) to bring...

In my campaign, favored class for elves is Sorcerer. I would like to create an ability for elven sorcerer equivalent to the "Elf Generalist" ability granted by the substitution level in Races of the Wild. (It gives an elven wizard an additional spell known at every new level, and an additional...

Gaming group of several 30 somethings meets in Upper West side Manhattan on Saturday afternoons. We are soon to start a new 'Shackled City' campaign. We welcome any like minded D&D players who would like to join us. If you're interested, send me an email, or post to this thread. Thanks!

I am intrigued by the Recharge Magic option presented in Unearthed Arcana- it seems like it would allow the players to use their abilities, without having to spend so much game time resource managing. In addition, I've always disliked the idea of the group resting in the middle of the adventure...