Recent content by Dirge

Not just no, but Hell NO!!! It's bad enough when everyone has to save every copper so that they can go down to MageMart and buy their next +1 upgrade (which I was hoping this next edition was moving past)...I certainly don't want to move from that to saving every copper so that I can buy actual...

Yup...When I typed master race, I couldn't help but break into song...

Giving Humans a +1 to everything and an additional +1 to one ability is way too much (if the other races are just getting a +1 to one ability score). If you want to represent Humans as generally good at anything/everything, then you can give them the +1 to all abilities but not the additional +1...

Well, the problem is that EVERYTHING in 4E has too many HPs (including the PCs). So, I suggest simply halving the HPs of every being in the entire 4E universe (including the PCs). This has the added effect of speeding up combat as a whole and making things in general a lot more interesting (in...

I want photorealistic chainmail bikinis (the perfect blend of fantasy and reality)... But seriously, just keep it mostly realistic with some fantastical elements (i.e., not anime/manga) and above all make the artwork grand and evocative (with some other nice adjectives thrown in for good...

I think all it would take to balance magic is making casting easily interruptible in combat (i.e., the Wizard takes damage and the spell fails) and making the more powerful spells take a full round (or multiple rounds) to cast (with no easy concentration check to negate this disadvantage)...

I think a 1st level Fighter should be able to take 2 to 3 hits (depending on the weapon used). Ideally, Hit Points would be determined something like: HP = Con score + class bonus per level (where class bonus was 1 for Wizard-types, 2 for Rogue-types, and 3 for Fighter-types) This would leave...

Any love for a ranged Ranger? At-wills? Heroic-Tiered Feats?