Recent content by James Gasik

Really the "golf cart" of weapons was something that you could see in AD&D*. You had your sword +1, +3 vs. lycanthropes and shapechangers, your sword +1, +3 vs. regenerating creatures, your sword +1, +4 vs. reptiles, and so on. Further, you definitely wanted to carry around an enchanted...

Um, isn't that implying you can move a bigger creature at half your speed?

I like geriatric spy movies! Taken, Red, The Equalizer, and Nobody were all a lot of fun. Heck at this point, even John Wick is an old man (and probably dead, but who knows?)! Something something "age and treachery will win out against youth and exuberance".

Dragging someone through a zone without you yourself being in the zone is one of those technically legal things that would be very difficult to pull off, so if you don't like it, you could rule against it without invoking weight limits, lol. It's also worth noting if you're using something like...

This was touched upon before, I wish I could point to it, but if you think about this for a moment, you'll realize the rules for carrying and moving things are incompatible with grappling. For example, you can only grapple someone up to one size category larger than you yourself. Consider...

I'd like to bring up a point- corrupt priests. In a series of fantasy novels I've read, the protagonists belong to one of several knightly orders devoted to a large, organized church. They soon realize they are dealing with a conspiracy involving a corrupt church leader who has their eye on...

And that's how you get Ur-Priests.

I've often wondered, given the text, if the target should have to Dash or not.

If you got Feats more frequently, perhaps. But the fact is, waiting four levels to customize your character in any direction, when you only get so many such choices, is problematic. If a 5th level character finds that they really could use, say, expertise on a skill in order to have more to do...

This isn't a Fighter-only problem. While the Fighter does have a rather anemic skill list, Backgrounds exist that allow someone to gain any skill they care to. While knowledge skills are usually Int or Wis based, Fighters are far from the only classes that do not have a focus in Int or Wis...

Does having the knowledge make the game more fun and interesting? Does it offer the players a chance to learn more of the lore of the setting and become immersed with it? I remember a published adventure once that asked the players to make a difficult roll, and it was attached to a lengthy...

I'd play it!

Unless the final battle is underneath WG7!

I think we found the assassination protocol droid!

Just wanted to expand on this point. The issue wasn't that 4e didn't have outside combat resources- it totally did (Rituals, Martial Practices, Feats, Utility Powers). The problem came that, when you had a decision point for say, a new Feat or Utility Power that added out of combat utility...