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You're probably already aware of my solution, but in my Points of Light game, minor actions exist exclusively to fuel class role-features. Every class has an at-will role-feature -- including leaders! Woot, leaders can be leaders every turn! -- and every role-feature requires a minor action each...

I'm of mixed opinion about this too. In my Complete 4th Edition I eliminated racial stat bonuses altogether, in part because of Traxe's objection and in part because some of the stat bonuses just don't lend themselves to the classes/builds that a race clearly ought to be good at. The poster boy...

I'm a fan of point buy, but I get why others like randomization. So in my Points of Light game, I give players three options: a randomized array, an assigned array, or point buy. All three are equivalent numbers-wise, so it makes stat-gen a truly positive-sum game for everyone. My group loves...

Oh yeah, big brain fart on my part! Bull rush at the least needs an inherent bonus to the attack roll as well. :)

Not sure what the updated E armor rules are either, but in my own 4e games I dropped masterwork armors in lieu of an increasing inherent bonus which PCs get whenever they wear heavy armor. In my C4 Character Advancement doc, I call it the Heavy Bonus. Fabulously creative name, I know. ;) I...

Added a folder in 'PoL Player Whites' filled with small JPEGs that describe each condition. I figure players and GMs can throw a bunch of these JPEGs into a Word or Paint doc, depending on which conditions their PCs/monsters use, print & cut 'em out, and then hand them around during play as...

I have not. Let's consider, there are a couple of approaches to this idea I can think of: 1. Flanking grants an unnamed (or 'ally/flanking') bonus which scales with # of flankers, rather than advantage. This makes other means of gaining advantage a bit more valuable, but makes bennies gained by...

Gold can buy a whole lot of rations, but without easy extra-dimensional space, space to carry those rations are limited. I don’t have the details worked out, but the idea is that PCs with mounts and good equipment can make longer journeys, but space and rations are always a limited resource.

Glad you like my approach to hp! As to powers, Lesser = At-will Greater = Encounter True = Daily It’s a bit more in-universe-y, and it avoids the oddity of naming one sort of power after a narrative bit of time (encounter) and another sort of power after a defined bit of time (daily). Where...

This addition was prompted by the issue where properly specced characters (namely wizards), can impose a bunch of stacked attack or save penalties in order to effectively shut down a foe. I personally like resting to be defined as specific timeframes (5 minutes, 6 hours), rather than as...

As I playtest, yeah! I have a few ideas about my legendary and epic tiers, but not much solid. Legendary options (legendary prestiges) are about leadership, unique twists, and specialization (I'm using some of D&D's classic classes as inspiration). Epic options (epic ideals) are about a...

Finally learned how to create fillable PDFs, and then made a fillable character sheet, plus a few pregens! The only downside is that the background isn't cooperating, so I only have it with the brown background. :/

Incoming shameless self-promotion: My Points of Light game is now playable, and it is definitely a spiritual successor to 4e. It has lots of dice (d14s and d16s recommended, even!), it has 4e's great tactical aspect, and a few innovations of its own. It is admittedly not illustrated and not yet...

Thanks, I meant to add a comment about where to buy and die substitutions, but had forgotten in the excitement of getting this out! I'm somewhat quirky with dice -- we have every even-sided from d4 to d12...and then we jump to the d20. WHERE ARE THE MISSING THREE?! Like I said, I'm somewhat...

This weekend was session zero of my first PoL adventure, and I got some chargen feedback: There was some confusion about whether a particular martial artist attack (Reaping Blade Strike) requires a particular handedness, or a particular type of weapon. Will have to clarify that, maybe create a...

Always wanted to see Seattle...is it a cliche that I'm a fan of Frasier? ;)

Good luck with that, sounds like buckets of fun. :/ And stay warm!

After three years of work, my Points of Light game is...still not done. But! There's enough to start playtesting and to finally start experiencing this thing I've been creating. PoL is my love letter to 4e D&D -- a sort of "What might 4e look like, if taken to its ultimate conclusion?" I think...

Yep, all PoL attacks scale with tier. As a result, there are fewer power picks, no necessary power swaps, and no attack power levels -- an AED attack is an AED attack is an AED attack. (Utility powers effectively have levels, but I'm multi-purposing the ritual system for utility powers. Think...

I like to use thesaurus.com to find interesting alternate words. I don't know Portuguese, but I know how to use google translator...;) Mystical (místico)? Sorcery (feitiçaria)? Occult (oculto)? Esoteric (esotérico)? Erudite (erudito)? Sophic (sophic)?