Recent content by ravenight

I don't think the ROI has a concept of a persistent hidden state, merely a question of whether or not a particular enemy is aware that you are around and whether or not that enemy can see you. Stealth pretty explicitly says that it is only something you do as part of an action, so you can do...

doesn't the rule say to reroll if your total bonus is outside the acceptable range?

It isn't broken. At best, with a lot of sacrifices in your ability to do anything else, and assuming that making something sleep is an auto-kill, you will have a 3/4 chance to kill a solo once per day at 28th level. At 28th level, you are pretty much in god territory anyway, so being able to...

That the power has an "Effect" which deals damage does not make it "an attack that would normally deal damage on a miss". In fact, it normally does not deal damage on a miss, it simply leaves behind a zone (regardless of whether any attack rolls hit, miss, or are even rolled), which happens to...

Except you can actually take up to 4 attacks, assuming you hit with both initial attacks. see below. The "weapon" section of a power description modifies the immediately preceding "hit" "miss" or "effect" section (see silverstep for example). Therefore, the weapon section of Rain of Blows is a...

Yes, the image of Shaq hiding behind Dakota Fanning makes very little sense, but a) we are talking about a fully armored Dakota Fanning, wielding some sort of weapon and possibly a shield, and b) we aren't talking about Shaq disappearing completely from view, we are talking about him crouching...

Doesn't seem ambiguous to me. It says "any damage die" in the vorpal description. Just because another section referring to something else used the word "die" to mean "dice expression" doesn't mean that's how it's used in the vorpal description. Unless there's a definition of "damage die"...

Shields don't get enhancement bonuses to AC, afaik. I agree that there's no real reason for the shield and armor mastery feats not to stack. Likewise, I'd think that shield mastery should stack with lightning reflexes.

I don't see anything in the RAW that indicates you can use a wand of icy rays to make a fireball a cold spell - that only comes from a cust serv answer which is either misleading or wrong. The RAW says "Whenever you roll the maximum result on any damage die for this weapon" that means any of...

But then all those items would be unusable until the player put a healing surge into them. There isn't a balance problem there. If the DM wants to let the player spend a week charging up a massive array of healing surge items, lug them all with him on a cart and then go through them in combat I...

I'm thinking about making all powers within a power source available to classes of that source. While this certainly might become more problematic with later sources, it doesn't seem like it would actually break things too much with the current rules. Some things would still be restrictive, like...

I actually prefer not having characters gain all the features of two classes, but I agree that a) The multi-class feats need to be adjusted in cases where they don't grant access to paragon paths (like for the ranger), and b) Paragon multiclassing is weak, asking you to give up 3 paragon...

If you follow the loot-giving rules in the DMG, the PCs will rarely have more than 1-2 items of a higher level than them (after receiving all items at 5th level, but before reaching 6th, they will have 6/6/7/6/7/8/6/7/8/9, which is 2 items per PC, but 4 of those items become normal very soon)...

you don't get your full bloodied value - you get the full value of the healing. So unless you are getting to spend 2 surges, that is 1/2 your bloodied value.

Not sure they need to have a mental stat - str/dex/con seems reasonable to me. You want barbarians to have high strength, good reaction speed and high endurance, so I suspect it will be those three, with con playing into rage and dex into some of the utility stuff (plus I expect them to have...