Recent content by MonkeyMage

Bwuh huh? WTF? Good luck, I think I'd have walked. Honestly DMs really don't even need to be remotely familiar with what is in the player books, just with the powers the PCs actually take. I never understood the habit of DMs to restrict what books players use to build their characters. As long...

I guess here is where we differ, I haven't experienced this problem. My group is, if anything, overly cautious about using their Dailies too early and not having them later when they really need them.

The big issue I ran into was our leader only has 8 surges and our two defenders have 12/13. So by the 3rd-4th fight, the leader is out of surges and drops. Now by the rules, there is literally no way of bringing her back. Every method of revival depends on having a HS to spend. I was thinking...

What do people think about allowing Potions of Healing (etc) to grant their effects without expending healing surges?

See and I think that you shouldn't need a mechanical reason to not stop and take a nap after every fight. Logic and the story should encourage you to continue on. I'm not necessarily opposed to adding a small mechanical bonus as well, but I don't think its needed, per say. Also, I wanted to add...

I like the idea that the drow aren't behind it. I think I will have them find a drow city in a similar state of ruin. But what I don't think I made clear was that this is the PC's home town that they have been to only a few weeks earlier. So it having been destroyed decades ago means some kind...

So last week, half of my group didn't show up so we decided to start a new (4th Level) game. So pulling the first idea out of my *ahem*, I tell them they are on their way back to their home town, an elven forest city. But as they approach they see their home in ruins. After a brief ambush by...

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I love this and can't wait to see more!

Ok, so you multiple the individual monster's XP by 2/3, not the total budget amount, which is what I thought you meant. Now, unless my math is off, you could just mutiply the total budget by 1.5 and get the same results without having to do the math for each individual creature.

I'm not sure what you mean here. When you say "keep the same Encounter Budget" do you mean same as if it was a 5 person party? Using my rules of a single PC with a template and a NPC cohort, but only 1.5 set of actions, do you think 2 x level budget make sense, or should it be more/less?

Here are the rules my wife and I use. Solo Player Rules Ability Scores: 18,16,16,14,12,12 Feats: Pick 1 feat per level. Template: May take either a Functional or Class Template. - Hit Points: Do not add Constitution Score a second time. - Action Points: Do not add bonus Action...

I have found that tweaking the flavor is my biggest tool in 4e. It works for monsters, PCs, powers, etc.

My wife prefers staff wizards, shield spell and the Staff of Ultimate Defense. (Add enhancement bonus to AC boost)

I like your ideas about the "healing" potions, I'm going to have to implement something like this in my game. An idea I use and you may like for minions is have them take one successful hit per tier to kill, so paragon minions need to be hit twice to be killed, epic three.