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Can someone explain to me why the xp values can't just be simpler? I mean, I know I can use simple arithmetic for xp budgets and players leveling, etc, but why can't a Level 1 creature reward 100 xp, and a Level 2 creature reward 200 xp and a Level 3 creature reward 300 xp? Elite would be...

My concern for magic items is more rooted in the economy of the world. But first, I will say that I am not in favor of +X to items, but if they must exist then I don't believe they should have additional properties. It should be one or the other. Accuracy is its own reward. The economy is...

That's a lot of bookkeeping. Ten or twenty orcs, fine, but higher levels that's just silly. I gave up on tallying xp a long time ago, but I feel it is iconic to D&D so they will inevitably include it. If I were to tally, which I probably will for my upcoming playtest (just for old time's sake)...

Um, I'm incredibly excited. All the talk about uniting the editions will be put to the test, even with the most basic rules and pregen characters. I'm excited to play a revised version of the game, and I'm excited to give my feedback. Are you DMing or are you playing a PC? If you're playing a...

No one has brought up the whole "extending the range of explosive alchemical mixtures" question I see, with the dejada. I play an artificer in my group's game and the DM dropped one of these dejadas in a parcel thinking it might be useful to load in some alchemical items that I'm also focused...

This might be a stupid question, but I was wondering if, when a character uses an alchemical item, you add in half your level like a regular attack? If I'm 4th level and I throw a level 1 Alchemist's Acid at a target, the item says it has a +4 bonus to attack vs. Reflex. It doesn't have any...

I have an issue with this "article" behind the paywall, but not because I expect material and the work they put into it to be free—I expect new and important content to be to be DDI content, and this is not new or important content. This list is accomplishing three things for wotc: 1/ bring up...

This may be only tangential, and possibly in a better thread, but I constantly struggle with the Free Action of variable resistance that many demons have. It is unclear because the trigger is that they "take" damage of a certain type, but the effect is that they "gain resist xx to the triggering...

Also, I know it's agreed that uncommon and rare items cannot be crafted with the EMI ritual…as per Mike Mearls in the recent Dragon Mag, right? When they provided the rules updates for Essentials, why did they not clarify this? (again, I may have overlooked it, but it does not seem to be...

I think the essentials item rarity is moving in the right direction to preserve more excitement over extraordinary things found. I'm curious about a few things though: 1/ if you can't make items other than common ones with Enchant Magic Item, what is all your gold for? Making more common...

This has confounded me since 4e came out. If you use the idea that the trigger is in a square, and the player detects it with passive perception, but doesn't know what it does, every player will avoid that square. Now, it could be a set of squares, but in 4e, it's not so hard to get to other...

Wow, thank you so much for all the great responses. These are great suggestions all. Yeah, I've played through a few campaigns with portals opening, and really it does have to come down to some form of breach or summoning ritual in order to get those threats to the Natural World (at least...

Great suggestions! The target devil I've laid out for them to come face to face with is Mephistopheles. I've given him the secondary name of Lord of the Frozen Heart, and I like a lot of stuff they wrote in the Fiendish Codex in 3.5, am interested in bringing the "hell fire" and his eternal...

So i'm running a campaign where the focus is gravitating towards infernal forces. I like that. But it's mostly a game anchored in the Natural World. Right now we're midway through the paragon tier, and if things continue I'm thinking I might take the little hopeless heroes to hell. The nine...

I am toying with the idea of having an "area" near my PC's hometown grant the ability to make one daily power of theirs reliable...but only until that power is finally expended. 1. It doesn't seem to unbalance too much. 2. more importantly, at least for my campaign, it entices the PCs to come...