Recent content by Lonely Tylenol

Yeah, it's fun when my defender can interrupt to prevent a critical hit on a spellcaster by stopping an enemy charging past. Love that Maptools framework too, btw.

QFT. Apparently you have the best players in the world. And they must have the best DM, to be inspired like that. Happy Birthday!

No, she left the body there to convey a message to the guild once they raise her. While it would probably be pleasing to eliminate that NPC entirely, Haley seems to be acting with the assumption that her death is temporary. I think it makes the moral ambiguity a lot less ambiguous, considering...

This and every other edition-war thread from the past year.

Well, what if the wizard just brought along a bunch of scrolls with spells like Knock, Detect Secret Doors, and Passwall--and some 1st-level Summon Monster scrolls for setting off traps. That seems to be the way it plays out in most games, in my experience.

Well, I think that class-specific feats (or paragon-path specific feats) are appropriate to fill that niche. Woodland Stride sounds like a perfectly reasonable feat for a ranger or druid. A spymaster should have access to feats that allow them to be sneaky in most situations. Of course...

Reminds me of that KotDT storyline in which the players scam an entire run of minis of the figure of the one character, who lost a leg...and the minis turn out to be missing the wrong leg.

And, with a dremel, some green stuff, and a pieces drawer, you can just brute-force the combination you want.

Well, one of my players works at the FLGS, so he gets discounts and first dibs on the boxes they open for singles. I guess the thing to do is to check out the minis he gets and decide whether I want to buy some too. I was hoping that the quality would be better, given the price. I don't have...

Does anyone know if WotC has quit showing pre-production hand-painted figures in the previews? I remember that I stopped paying attention to the previews a few sets back when it became clear that they were using design models that look much better than the final product. These minis don't look...

I'll point out that there's nothing stopping you from using the character generator to make your entire group's characters for them. Even if only one of you has a DDI subscription, there's nothing to stop you from using the tool any way you like, as long as you don't redistribute the software.

My definition of the term is fairly broad. A munchkin is someone who plays the game at the expense of the other players. That covers pretty much every behaviour I've seen described as "munchkinism". Rampant, game-breaking min-maxing...complete disregard for in-character motivations...the...

I tend to dislike the 4e fluff. However, I know it could have been a lot worse. I'm glad that we went through that whole Emerald Frost thing pre-release to let the developers know that we're not interested in having the default setting dominate every homebrew setting. I actually do like the...

It is a matter of fact. There is some objective number of PDF sales that were not completed because the potential purchaser got hold of a pirated PDF and subsequently decided not to purchase. That number might be 0, 12, or 350,000. But there is an actual number of losses. The number of...

It's not up to a judge to decide. It's an actual matter of fact. However, the people who have the best data are also the people who have an interest in artificially inflating the numbers of lost sales in order to secure larger awards in court. We may never find out what the effects of piracy...