Recent content by Lostdwarf

Hey there, I live in Gresham in the Greater Portland Oregon area. I saw your post on Enworld about putting a new group together. Are you still recruiting? I am a longtime gamer who is without a group currently. I would most ideally be looking for a skype or roll20 game. It may be possible...

I think making it a spell is rather brilliant. Making it a class feather is sort of like giving a fighter a class feature that only works against oozes. Brilliant if you are fighting and ooze, worthless if you are not. If you like to turn you can tuck it on your spell list, but if you don't...

I a going to try this here because my post on the Wizard's boards was deleted without comment. Basically, I would like to see Monty Cook thrown out of WoTC, ejected, kicked to the curb, shown the door, excommunicated, you get the point. He writes a regular column were he seems to dislike the...

First let me say that I have always seen essentials as an option, not a choice of PHB characters or essentials characters. You can mix and match at the same table with zero issues. Essentials takes nothing away from the existing player that PHB3 didn't take away from the existing character...

Completely agree. Not only are there a staggering number of classes at this point, the classes have "builds" that amount to sub-classes. Fighters are up to, what, six options for different mechanical builds? How much more do you need? Martial power 3? To continue with the previous design system...

This goes back to an issue that has been with Dnd since the very first days, namely, what the heck is a hit point? Hit points are very, very abstract. You can have a human with 80 hit points, a magical beast with 80 hit points, and a barrier with 80 hit points. In the case of the barrier...

My sarcasim detector is a bit spotty today. Is this serious or a shot at people who don't like the system? I honestly can't tell.

I don't know that you would have to slow advancement all that much. A level is usually 8-9 encounters in the games I have run, plus a quest bonus and/or a skill challenge. Ten levels of that is 80-90 encounters. Depending on how often you play, and how long your sessions are, that can be a...

I think at least part of this was probably issues with the player, not the class. A "hundreds of years old" vampire is at minimum Paragon tier, possibly even Epic. A level 5 vampire has been around the block a few times, but he is just starting to get into his grove. By the time the same...

Look at it this way, if you plunk down for a year at a time it only about 5 or 6 dollars a months. Basically two trips to starbucks. For that you get access to EVERYTHING. All the races, classes, feats, powers, monsters, all of it. You even get access to stuff that the guys who only buy the...

Question- Vampires regenerate, correct? (I don't have a copy of the book, Im asking) Doesn't that mean they never have to spend surges between combats to heal? By the time everyone else had taken a five minute break shouldn't their regeneration have patched them back together? While I do think...

I enjoy the online tools as they fill in the blanks in my physical collection of books. I don't own everything, but there it all is in the builder anyway. As for ease of character buidling, I think it depends on the game. If you are playing a straight Essentials game then the builder isn't...

He would have got +1 to all stats as he leveled up. (Don't remember if that happens at 10 or 11 without consulting my books, but I think it is one of the two).

Dwarves make excellent clerics, stat bonus to con and then your choice of Strength or Wisdom. The dwarven racial powers lets you use second wind as a minor actions, which lets you self heal once per encounter without needing to burn one of your healing worlds on yourself. The dwarven weapon...

Two main reasons: The economy sucks, I work in sales, and I am the only income in my household. We had to cut back across the board. No dnd insider, no mmorpg subscriptions, no netflix, etc. You can play the game just fine (which I do) without subscribing to anything. How oldschool of me...