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Totally half-baked idea here... Ability mod is the only damage bonus that can “stack” within a single action. When present, it multiplies by the number of dice in the hit. Multiple attacks in the same action always add dice to a final pool that is rolled together. A crit on an individual...

One of the PCs in my game just acquired a Nightmare as a mount. It's stylistically fantastic for the character, but as I haven't had to mess with such things much before, it's introduced some new rules wrinkles for me. 1) The Nightmare has a teleport speed. There's text in the Mounted Combat...

I've had the opportunity to create new paragon tier characters a few times recently, and found that feats are a surprisingly scarce resource. There are so many fantastically powerful, everybody-wants-'em feats in the post-Essentials world that the choices that actually help differentiate...

I'm no fan of math-tax feats, so for most of my current campaign I've done the following: Disallow Expertise feats and Paragon Defenses Give characters a free +2 to their weakest NAD at 11th level Reduce monster defenses and non-AC attacks by 1/tier Now that the offending feats have been...

I recently built out a character using some third party content, and the whole exercise illustrated just how dependent I've become on the Character Builder. Putting somebody together by hand or with a form-fillable character sheet takes twice as long or more, with lots of opportunity for...

I'd like to make a new damage expressions table that meets the following goals: 1) Gives monsters a bit of a damage boost overall to make them more threatening. 4e characters have a lot of damage mitigation potential, which monsters as written can't really overcome; I'd like straight damage to...

(Something of a fork from http://www.enworld.org/forum/4e-fan-creations-house-rules/271730-purple-index-cards-fly-setting-plot-collaboration.html ) 4e is sometimes accused of having World of Warcraft or video game logic. Let's suppose we were to run with this all the way, and implement a set of...

I'm hunting for a flavorful benefit to give a swordmage PC in my game for training under a renowned master swordmage, and Corellon's Boon of Arcane Might looks like a lot of fun. I'm a little puzzled about how it's intended to work, though. 1) Is the encounter-power-as-daily supposed to be...

Abbreviated Version Want to spruce up your D&D4 game with rewards for players roleplaying, adding to the setting, introducing plot twists, and making dramatic descriptions of their actions? Do as follows! 1. Buy 150 index cards. 2. Download...

Looks like this is a dead forum, but it seems like it'd be the most appropriate place. If this goes unnoticed, I'll see if I can find a forum with more traffic. I just bought a bunch of Skeleton Key maps, and would like to use the tiles in Maptool (RPTools - MapTool). But when I copy any of the...

I could have sworn that powers with ongoing-effect keywords Stance and Rage ended when the user became unconscious. But the keywords as defined on PHB2 page 220 say only that they end at the end of the encounter or when you enter another stance/rage. Now, presumably if you're unconscious you...

When does a player have to choose whether or not to use Power Attack? Before they roll the d20? After they roll but before they're told whether or not they hit? Or anytime before dealing damage? (Which could lead to an odd "reverse Wand of Accuracy" situation, where I roll, hit, decide to...

Hey all, Quick point of confusion. If an item gives you an attack, such as the Sunblade's Strength+enhancement burst vs. Reflex, or an alchemical item's straight +X vs. defense X, do you add the character's level bonus to the attack roll as well? I already figured you don't get any proficiency...

I've seen a few discussions around here on whether or not D&D4's "milestones" are sufficient incentive to dissuade the heroes from taking an extended rest after every encounter. This idea just struck me as something that might be fun to encourage the party to forge on ahead. When you achieve a...

I'm making some NPCs using the guidelines in the DMG p. 186-188, and I notice that they have a chunk fewer hit points than equivalent monsters of their level and role. A level 2 Rogue NPC with 12 Constitution gets (8 * 2) + 12 HP; that's 28. If I were to build this opponent as a straight-up...

I've heard a lot of talk on the Rules board that Battlerager and Tempest fighters aren't balanced particularly well. The Rager is boredom-inducingly hard to damage in melee, and the Tempest does striker-caliber damage along with all his Defenderly features. Supposing those assessments are true...

Hey all, I'm playing a Rogue in a long-running campaign. It seems to me there's some cool things that can be done with the Stealth skill in combat encounters--getting Combat Advantage on "unaware" targets, most notably--but I haven't really used it because I don't have a firm grasp of how the...