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There's actually nothing in the description of Sleep that says the Slowed condition ends with the Unconscious condition begins. So they could potentially fail the first save against slow, become unconscious, fail the second save against slow, make the save against unconscious, and wake up but...

Just got back from PAX, managed to get one of the cloth maps on the second day. Luckily at PAX they were only requiring 20 glory to get the map. We had a TPK in one of the tougher arenas. We only had four people for a six person encounter, and I was the only one with any glory rewards at that...

I actually used Fell Taints in my game recently. "The Fell Taint hits you with Tendril Caress!" They could not keep a straight face throughout the entire fight. It didn't help that I was also using a Cursechanged Beggar who kept spamming Awesome Blow and Fist Frenzy...

An Effect from a power is only contingent on hitting if A) the effect is part of the Hit line Hit: 1[W] and you shift two squares. B) the effect line is indented Hit: 1[W] __Secondary attack: Str. vs. AC __Hit: 2[W] and the target gets a rash. C) The effect specifically says it...

Which stats do thri-kreen get a boost to?

Whatever it is, I hope it's something new, and that it's as much of a departure from the norm as Dark Sun is (though not in the same way.) We've got enough Generic D&D In Funny Hats as it is.

Except that it says that necrotic resistance doesn't apply. Personally, I would allow it to be negated. There are plenty of instances where they specifically use the phrase "this cannot be reduced in any way", and I think if they meant Touch of Death to work that way, they'd have used that...

I like the idea of allowing solos to save vs. end of turn. I have so far been very disappointed by solos, most of the time they just get locked down and hammered. Dragons especially have been very underwhelming.