Recent content by OSD

Maybe knock off a skeleton or 2. But I do have to say, your players don't take hints very well. Laying on thick doesn't seem to help. The party needs a strong leader (the PC, not player, remind them continuously if need be) if they ever hope to amount to any decent teamwork. It might not be...

Mate, the max difference between having a weapon and not isn't +6, it's +9. +11 if you're pushing the envelope. This is assuming you don't carry a backup weapon, if at an epic level and a PC doesn't do that, well, tough there. Like I said, classical - medieval - modern era, anyone that's...

Does Ettin's lore or anything relating to its behaviour say it will disarm or do something similar? Is disarming even within the creature's thinking process, from your example, I should be more afraid of the constructs, but again, is it within their thinking process? Your implications seems to...

Grab and Wrestle? Acrobatic Stunt (immediate reaction could also work, seen in movies, hero gets disarm, does a kick off the villain and grab the sword on its way back down)? Do a disarm yourself? Or one can just simply drop to hit bonuses and only use the strength/dexterity modifier in the...

Here's my house rule on disarming 1) You have to have one of these conditions met or it's Str/Dex -10 vs Fort/Reflex (whichever is higher) Target is prone You have combat advantage against the target (dazed, blinded, etc...) The target is bloodied The target is grabbed by you It's Str/Dex -5...

You climb up a cliff, falling prone on the edge. You suffer -2 to range attack, but your enemies suffer -7 since you have superior cover (they are below you) and because you are prone. Sounds like something I would do :3

This have gone from "what would you have done?" to "what's wrong with 4e" and from the sound of it, a mini-edition war (prepare to fire the gnomes at the unbelievers! xD) Back on topic, I think the question about "what would you have done?" to "what would you have done as DM?" since it seems...

Your DM must be throwing you cakewalks for encounters if you think Distracting Shield is useless. -2 to attack rolls might not seems like much, but let's stack them (they are from different sources) and then see what happens. Illusionary Ambush: -2 to attack if hit. Marks: -2 to attack if not...

My players would have easily gotten out of this, then again, they are a creative lot. First Ask for description of the Jelly (minor perception if the DM demands it) Nature check - for any potential information. (It's a large cube) A) Throw the gnome over cube (Athletic), OA B) Gnome run...

hm.... so in this case, the PC would still hit. 'The triggering action, event, or condition occurs and is completely resolved before you take your reaction, except that you can -interrupt- a creature’s movement." The "interrupt" part, when put in context means that the counter-charger would...

Good point, but here's the time. Even when you seperate move and attack from the charge. This is what happens. PC: Charge over the line -triggers the counter charge- but since the movement is not over until the PC is adjacent to the target, the PC's movement won't be interrupted since...

Unfortunately, a lot of rules are open to interpretation, otherwise we wouldn't be here xD If we go strictly by the book (no interpretation whatsoever), on page 268, An immediate reaction might interrupt other actions a combatant takes after its triggering action. For example, if a power lets...

A charge will always have an attack target, so you can't argue that the charger can change his target to the counter charger (it's right there in the Attack & Defenses section that talks about Attack). So then... what happens? How about moving both the charger and counter charger...

I have a glaive fighter and I'm loving it. He's using Heavy Blade Opportunist with Polearm Gamble. With a tank, we make a 3x5 wall of mobile hazard. Being able to Cleave or Reaping Strike on a OA makes the fight a lot faster since monsters die 2-3 round earlier. In term of damage output, I'm...

Well, design your encounter first. Do you want to use the monster as it, straight out of the book? Or do you want to add some personality to a given monster? If you are going to be using it straight out of the book, rely on it for tactics. Let's break it down in 5 general groups...