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Voted Dragonborn, they just don't fit with the other PCs and totally seem like fan service for the kids who want to play as a dragon or something. The thing I liked about the previous editions was that from looking at some art, it was obvious who the heroes and who the bad guys are. With...

That's pretty cool! Ruby's a good choice for this. Interested in seeing the rest of the simulations!

A tool for 4e fight simulations and statistical experimentation would be pretty cool, although take note that if you try to simulate everything that can happen in a fight, your program would have an exponential asymptotic time complexity. Also, you'd have to implement the whole 4e rule system...

Good point. So yeah, I'd welcome any kind of D&D CRPG, whether it's turn-based or real time (although I'd prefer the former). Let's just hope someone makes it and that the game is good.

Here's the thing though, if you're making a real time combat game, why use the D&D ruleset at all, given that it's turn-based. Why not just some other combat system that's made for real time computer simulated combat instead of shoehorning a turn-based system into a real time one.

Ah, I didn't consider that you have to just beat the other guys, yeah. Great analysis! Very cool stuff.

What about powers that let you shift before or after an attack? Choosing which foe to mark with every attack? Stuff like that. I'm not saying it couldn't be done, I'm just saying that 4e is harder to translate to a semi real time format. But I'd love to see a game with 4e rules, true turn based...

Yeah, but they allowed you to play them as you would a real-time game, which I'd say is what most people did, because it was the default option. The turns were concurrent. I don't think that 4th edition would translate well to such a system because it depends heavily on the turns taking place...

I doubt there ever will be a (mainstream) 4th edition CRPG. Licensing costs for D&D are very expensive (I read that on some Bioware developer's blog) and turn-based games don't sell very well. I think it would be near impossible to make a 4th edition CRPG that isn't turn-based.

Yeah both together are pretty good though, then the average roll is about 17.8. What are some other ways to bump initiative and is it worth it? What if you're a rogue?

With Improved Initiative, your average initiative roll is 14.5 + DEX modifier + half level, whereas with Danger Sense, your average initiative roll is 13.8 + DEX modifier + half level. Pretty weak considering Danger Sense is a paragon tier feat, they should probably have been switched around...

Haha, or literally go back in time and kill them when they were level 12.

Cool thing though, if you multiclass into Cleric and then take the Warpriest paragon path, you get Warpriest's Challenge at 16th level, which is kind of like Combat Challenge, only better, because you get to make an OA instead of a basic melee attack, so you get to add your WIS modifier. You...

Why do you want to kill your PCs?

Haha, I can't believe I missed that there. Thanks!