Recent content by Doctor Proctor

Yeah, they can be pretty brutal. An example of one of their powers is Bash and Pinion, a level 1 Encounter power... As long as that enemy is grabbed, they move away from the Defender with anything short of a teleport or an escape attempt. I don't know if a Brawler would be the best primary...

This statement is a bit inconsistent. By changing the mechanics of the power source to be more chaotic and swingy, you are forcing people to play a swingier Wizard. If you just want to create a swingy Wizard that not everyone has to use, then that's a build. There are many builds that...

From my understanding, they would gain the resistance after taking that damage for the first time. A free action is not an interrupt, and the trigger is taking the damage, which I would interpret as taking it fully without resistance. This way, the first attack will be at full power, but the...

Honestly, there's no reason why you couldn't just go 18 STR, 16 DEX and then 13 INT (with the Genasi bonus). You don't have to eke out every little bit of mechanical bonus out of the racial stats. You'll be down just a bit in terms of AC and REF, but only by a single point. The 13 INT will...

Oh, wow...I must've missed that errata then. Some of our DM's must've too, because I know that they were enforcing it for the last Lair Assault (unless it's one per encounter or something now). That does change some things then...

You mean daily item power? You only get one use per tier, which is recharged at a milestone...which we won't be getting since it's only two encounters total. Honestly though, this sort of change was inevitable. A single encounter just makes encounter long effects way to powerful. I was using...

Yeah, this is a little like a guy saying "Lifetime Playstation gamer, never owned an XBox. But this is what MS really needs to do with the XBoxLive service..." If you play the game occassionally, then that's fine. But when you open up with how there's basically 0% chance of you ever buying...

Several previous Legends and Lore columns had generated threads in the 4e Discussion forum, and since I didn't see one active yet, I decided to open one up to discuss it. I never thought to check the General RPG to see if someone had set one up though. :) Yep, it's very easy to just...

Fine, it's one line...for OA's. What about a power that's ranged, immobilized, dazes and is save ends? Now you have a line for OA's, a line for explaining immobilize, a line for explaining daze, and a line explaining save ends. That's four lines now. And some powers are even more complicated...

So fine, we add to Magic Missile "Using Magic Missile while adjacent to an enemy gives him a free attack against you." What about Thunderwave? Well, that doesn't need it I guess, so we don't include it. But Scorching Burst? That provokes, so we have to add to that one "Using Thunderwave while...

Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (A Different Way to Slice the Pie) This seems like a bad idea... Sure, it sounds simple in practice "Oh, just put the rule where it's needed, and it leads to less rules in the rules section!", but the problem is that things like...

First off, just wanted to say that I think you hit the nail on the head when it comes to the Fighter. Out of the core classes (meaning: non-essentials, since they use radically different defender mechanics) I think they're most versatile and effective of the Defenders. The others have...

Not really. I'd just use my Standard to Healing Strike instead. Or you end up with the other problem that the player will always seek to maximize healing (kinda like how Rogues always go for CA, even to the point where one I played with wouldn't attack without CA because "It's not worth it")...

I'm not trying to be flipant or anything here, but then what's the point of the character sheet in the first place if RP always trumps it? Why not just resolve combat that way too? I mean, if IRL I actually know a lot of martial arts, and could properly disarm and kill an opponent, why not let...

The problem that I have with the Poetry Contest example is this: What happens the next time? Specifically in those cases where the Fighter's superior poetry skills (as explained by Fey Touched, Soul of a Dead Poet, etc...) create an auto-success. If you've opened the door that "Doesn't really...