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I prefer my races to be a little more alien. So, in my games, dragonborn don't have boobs. In fact, males and females are hard to tell apart to non-dragonborn. Same goes with kobolds and lizardfolk. A human can't really see any different between a naked male or female dragonborn. The same...

Character builder is not a rules reference.

Why not? Would you allow 2 fighters who both swing at the same target to hit? Or would you say that since identical characters are doing the same thing the second hit wouldn't count?

No. There are no rules for detecting magic items. The Arcana skill is detect magical EFFECTS in an area, but magical items are not effects. The game assumes you tell your players what items are magical, by their nature something is obvious that there's more then meets the eye. Then the game...

I am the GM in the OP's post. I did not factor the lowered DCs into account for the module, I forgot that came out before the errata, this would have changed the outcome of the hobogoblin interrogation. Had I used lower DCs, they never would have fought the cave bear. Thankfully the cave bear...

1) You just add the modifier. The half level thing only comes into play on checks, and whatever explicitly states that half the character level gets added in. 2) You can use encounter powers outside of encounters. The book explicitly uses Healing Word as an example. There's no limit to the...

That's fine, but this isn't a house rules forum. You're completely and utterly wrong according to the rule book. It explictly allows you to use encounter powers outside of combat.

Not to mention it's in the description for Dexterity and it's on the character sheet, as well. You really have to work hard to miss it.

On the other hand, then, it's entirely up to the DM to decide how tough a monster is, by weather or not they use their powers to attack players, thereby ignoring the rules and theme by just doing whatever.

You're not making an attack on the minion with cleave, so you can't roll a critical against them, so nothing that triggers on a crit happens to the minion. The extra damage from cleave is unrelated to the damage you do to your power's target.

That and it complicates minions, who were built to be 100% uncomplicated.

Had I replied to this in 2005, I would have likely said something along the lines of "I am very happy with 3.5, if it comes out before 2010 I'll be pissed. 3.5 runs great! I can run the game with all the supplements, I know the rules so well." Then I tried to run a game in 2006 that was going...

No one seems to have a problem with the fact neither eladrin or elves have a CHA bonus, yet everyone gets their panties into a wad over the CON bonus. Would you prefer they have a STR bonus instead? Because there's enough +DEX races as it is.

Oh yes. I'd love to be the 5th member of this party. I'd so play a wizard.

If the DM doesn't carefully, carefully tailor the encounters, this is going to be what happens. And then everyone overcompensates, and you end up 2 clerics, a warlord, and a paladin.