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Apparently Masterplan has an API to allow the development of extensions. It wouldn't surprise me if someone else wrote one for the next version to continue Compendium support.

One wonders if they had implemented Masterplan to require a current DDI subscription (via logon) each time they wanted to access compendium library files, we would have seen a C&D.

Turns out it *was* a C&D from Wizards. Apparently Masterplan will continue development, but without integration into the Compendium. I find it silly that Wizards is so short sighted that they would move against something that actively promotes subscriptions to D&D Insider.

I was hoping that Masterplan would move closer to something like MapTools, where I could use it for a digital game table (not a player/gm networked one, but one used at an actual in-person game on a touch surface projection table) to track things like line of sight, fog of war, lighting, and...

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Hi, I have a question involving progressive saves (where failing the first save applies new effects, etc) such as the one on the carrion crawler. Do alternative saves given to a player allow the progression to happen faster if you're given multiple saves? For example, would failing the Warden...

Focused Sound, a Bard encounter power allows the target to be crit-able on 18-20 until the end of your next turn. Forgot the level, but it's low (1-4).

Well, I imagine that the writer expected that the DM would rule per the grab rules in the PHB; if he decides that a push, pull or slide won't free a character, than this will naturally make the monster that much more difficult.

Just to step in here, against a stun-locked Orcus, this is easily achievable given an average Epic party of 5 characters. I would also guess that a party with an optimized Orb specialist Wizard is more likely to be more mechanically efficient than the average party.

This. The only time you might encounter something in a real fight is when you are under the effect of some kind of specific controller effect, which is pretty situational for an at-will.

I personally just rule that all the effects happen in the same "stack" and you dont' check for character status until all "beginning of the round" effects have resolved. It makes things simpler.

In my campaign: These are all different "effects", which is a grouping of mechanical rules which affect a character (perhaps not the best word, not to be confused with a status effect such as slowed). In your example, which are 3 different "effects" they all are different and would all stack...

Yes: This is generally how I apply saves in my game. Recently in a 1 shot delve, the characters were against a pair of Umber Hulks. If I had stacked their at-will (minor! blast!) daze against them, they would have never, ever gotten out of the daze effect. For my game, I use this system with...

This might sound like a stupid question, but does "storing" the power expend the power? Or does merely having the power on the character count as "storing" it (i.e., can you store an expended power)? I guess it's not clear to me what "store" means, in this example.

I like the Theurges. They're the first set of controllers I felt were really 'controllers'. I'm a fan of controllers having more power diversity than other monsters, so they can keep things interesting and give the players a real challenge.