Recent content by Vempyre

Ouch Makes me wonder about how ''useful'' my 1st print PHB is, compared to teh online tools I frequently use. Not that much anymore.

The article suggests these are small benefits. They are in fact huge benefits. 2 additional skills and a bonus to boot? Worth 3 feats Reroll initiative? Worth at least a feat ... of the paragon tier One extra save vs death? Priceless if you have that maniac DM who always puts the party on...

The threshold rules aren't there to feel real. You certainly weren't around when we all discussed the simulationism gaming preferences that 4E certainly isn't there to give ground to. Here's a resume : 4E isn't built to be a realist simulation at all. It's built to a game where players all have...

:devil: Sigh, somebody give this robot a mirror?

Uhg, not that again. Every single article lately seems to trigger a "They are wrong, it should be this way" post while they really should be "here's my personal house rules to that article" posts. Even though many of those posts are good and interesting suggestions in modifying what's contained...

I prefer looting hugs n smiles from the ladies. There should be a system for that.

Yay

My thoughts exactly. Experience in how to play on each other's abilities will be what makes the difference in many fights in 4E.

exception based design anybody? If the specific rule says does something the general rule doesn't usually allow, the specific rule wins. So many ppl still think in rigid format about these.

Player skills in boosting each other and tactically helping each other makes a lot of difference in 4E. That's why you see so much difference from one group to another when it comes to defeat these encounters. As they gain experience with 4E your players should get better at it. Until then I...

Solo dragon modifications : If it suits your style (vampire dragons that is, for example) they are better covered as unique monsters (just like the dracoliches were treated) than trying to apply a template to the normal dragon. Templates : Trying to apply templates to everything you want to...

Considering 4E design's philosophy so far, I doubt we will ever see rules for PC templates. * As a DM if you want vampire and lich PCs players n such, for example, you will have to do it yourself (easy, just give the PCs the template's powers but not the HPs, saves n action points) knowing you...

I remember reading something about that in the DMG. That you could swap player powers to the monsters' normal powers to customize them without appliance of the "official" class templates which make the monsters elites. The DMG doesn't specify the lvl thing, but it's is a neat guideline to know...

But we're talkin' player stuff here, not NPC stuff :)

* Human Artificers - what to do with the extra at0will for the purpose of the playtest? * Artifice defenses - I think it derogates too much from the way normal defense is calculated. At lvl 1 nobody is ever gonna miss your artifice and at lvl 30 it's going to have defenses about equal to your...