Recent content by Burr

OP, you've accidentally hidden one answer within the code for another. Look inside the answer to the question, "If I am playing a cleric and I use Channel Divinity: Divine Fortune in an encounter, can I use Channel Divinity: Turn Undead in the same encounter?"

Given the billionty people who said they were going to switch to hexes, I figure many have tried it by now. I'm hoping for a comparative response from someone who has given both squares and hexes a fair shot while actually playing 4e. Does the new tactical game remain as hale and hearty when...

'I' - Illusionist 'T' - Theurge 'W' - Wombat Master

And if I try to walk to a point in space, I'll never get there because I have to cover half the distance first, and then half the remaining distance, and then half the remaining distance... We can always interpret a miss if we break a power apart during the analysis. However, the right...

How much Aid Another bonus are you adding in your simulation, Stalker0? If it's the full +8, then that may easily be polarizing; but what if in actual play it averages out to a moderate +4? From an optimization standpoint, it does make sense for the whole party to aid one person all the time...

I got a smudge in the first 5 minutes of having the PHB open (but only one and none since). Far worse, pages 129-160 of my Monster Manual (from an FLGS gift set) are double-printed. It's like trying to read with my eyes crossed. I can't find my receipt anywhere, so hopefully when I go back to...

C / MC C \ The above should give only the opposite characters flanking. Look at them as two groups of two. I've added diagonal sight lines to show how the monster shifts his gaze between those two groups. When the monster is looking northeast, only the southern character is out of sight...

While Saitou's suggestion make sense to me, a pure-fluff solution is to say that cubes are very springy, so it's movements cause a brief wave of emptiness at the edges that can be moved through if the tactically-minded warlord is expecting it. A more oozy option is to say when moving, the cube...

More important than any of Endurance's detailed uses, I think, is that it allows high-Con character to do physical stuff in a Skill Challenge.

From that perspective, the following strategy would also make a lot of sense, as it prepares you for two tertiary stat feat prereqs (one each tier) and one epic feat prereq (27 stat or higher, I believe). Level 1: 17 14 13 12 10 8 Level 4: 18 14 14 12 10 8 Level 8: 19 15 14 12 10 8 Level 11...

That I did. Fixed. And I mean the highest average sum of the weighted modifiers over a grouping of levels. (The weights I used are listed in the previous reply. YMMV.) For levels 1-3, it's just the sum of the weighted modifiers. But the stat bonuses don't come linearly, so for levels 1-7...

16 16 12 12 10 8 looks especially worthwhile, if we weight the primary modifier with 2, the secondary modifier with 1.33333, the next two modifiers with 1 each, the last two modifiers with 0. Scoring it that way, 16 16 12 12 10 8 wins levels 1-3 by a little, levels 1-7 by landslide, and sticks...

Facing with hexes and 4e rules I'm considering a houserule for facing with hexes: 1) Whichever direction you face, you get to add one more hex to your threatened area/range. 2) Changing your facing can be done as a minor action or as part of a move or shift action. This brings it more in line...

They may have forgotten to add in the racial stat bonuses. That would make starting stats of 17, 15, 12, 10, 10, 8 a likely possibility (though still fairly wild, as assumptions go). If so, then along the other known characters, that could well make the 25-point buy something like this*: 8 9...

As elementals, perhaps they could be mostly invisible/infused in the mundane world, but more likely to assume a 'creature' form in the Feywild (unless called out in the mundane world by magic/shamanism).