Recent content by Inigo Carmine

I think its a bad idea for reasons already mentioned higher in the thread. However, here's my two-cents if you're that determined: Don't flat-out deny arcane magic. Make it more difficult to use, or have some cost associated with it. For example: using a daily power requires you to make a...

That's it, thank you. Yes, that's where I got it from. Thank you!

I seem to recall somewhere that Invokers qualified for taking any of the divine feats*, but when perusing the PHB2 last night I could not find that. Was I just mis-remembering the passage about them being devoted to one god, but having a healthy respect for all gods? *I can't remember what...

I can't recall the details of 4th edition rules (away from books), but this is the way it worked in 3rd ed. Assumptions mentioned. 1) "Taking 20" doesn't really work with hiding. Taking 20 is not for receiving a mechanical benefit, it's for saving player time for a task they will accomplish...

I haven't used lurkers as much as I'd like to either, but they are great for challenging the party and forcing them to make choices. The first round or two of most battles is chaotic, but after that, things usually settle into place; the defender is out in front pinning down the biggest...

I myself wouldn't say there were official "Battle" sounds until either an attack has been made, or enemies were in melee with eachother. Charging into the camp would probably be a stealth check-based DC (at appropriate penalty for their movement rate). Not really. I can imagine sleeping...

It's a copy and paste from 3.0. Remember in 3.0 you couldn't do a standard action and a move action in the same round. A standard action took up your entire round, but you were allowed a move (or move equivalent) action for free as part of this standard action, either before or after it. So...

Just curious. To all who allow an AoO on the weapon: Do you also allow sunder/disarm attempts on a weapon anytime someone uses a ranged weapon against you? Afterall, it is a ranged attack (provokes an AoO) and the weapon (be it arrow, bolt or javalin, etc) passes through your threatened area...

Remember that favored class only ever matters if you multi-class. The gnome that goes straight illusionist has lost nothing by this change...and it's generally not a great idea to multiclass wizard anyways. multiclassing a bard, on the other hand, can only be a good thing, because bards are...

My group house ruled that ranger counts as druid level -2 for purposes of an animal companion. Otherwise, animal companions start to become useless around level 9 or so because their contribution to combat is almost negligible and most things will kill them in one hit (or a stray AoE) by that...

I've always taken this to mean that you declare this at the beginning of your turn, and for that turn, you have cover. But, during that turn, you cannot make any attacks or cast any spells. It's basically a form of total defense on horseback, but apparently doesn't cause you to lose your...

I don't think you can do what you're trying to do. If you 5-ft stepped into a creature's square, you would be effectively ending your movement there (and you can't move further if you've taken a 5-ft step this round).

Not necessarily. Taking 10 takes as long as a normal skill check. For instance, Disabling a trap takes 2d4 rounds. The thing is, realistically, doing things like that don't really help or make you better. What you're describing is, for the most part, procrastination. Admittedly, if I was...

Yes, that is the case. There is no way around it that I know of. One of the splat books probably has a feat to negate it, but I don't use those much.

It's a little lengthy, but I'll try... There are two ways at looking at %s. One is the easy way. One is the insane difficult aneurism-inducing way. They way you're doing it isn't the easy way. It can be done that way, but it's much much more difficult. In fact, I might not even be able to...