Recent content by YuriPup

I would think that the vast majority of your "monsters" don't need NPC write ups and they will come to quick ends. And you don't want too many powers on the NPCs side, as it makes your job of running the combat that much harder.

Its funny my group--where there is time pressure--doesn't take extended rests, or even short rests--for love or money. Of course if you know the orcs are going to do bad things just 10 boxes away while you take a short breather, you may charge into battle even if the break is really needed...

As a DM I have been giving out XP for encounters but quest XP rewards give the DM a good place to drop enough XP to give a level when they want. Of course I find the quest rewards are significantly lower than I think they should be. For example, the start of my campaign had the PCs escorting a...

I think I would go for one weapon held in someone's hand within touch range of the cleric--though would have a really hard time arguing the strict interpretation is wrong. In general I would say that "Weapon of the Gods" is cola spilled on the battlemat mid fight.

I can think of at least places where you would want to feint (if its not 3): 1) If you need a 20 to hit, feinting triples to your chance to hit. 2) Setting up powers for the next round where you expect to do more than 1W damage. 3) Setting up powers that require CA and you don't have help...

Ok just to be clear. The longest range I have found so far is 20/40 on the long bow. I have started 3e encounters at 1000 yards--as it was on the relatively flat tundra of Everfrost (EQ). It worked well. If I was designing an encounter where I wanted to give my smart/experienced PCs a chance...

Happy to pick nits--it is indeed a Nit I a picking. Thank you for the errata. Here's what they should have done: <palyer name> mark. They are all based on being from the specific charter.

I am having problems buying that marks are different per class or character. The condition description of marked says nothing about ownership /or/ source of the mark and in fact gives no indication that PCs can mark too. The fighter block on Combat Challenge Implies to a strict reading that...

Minions were a good surprise for my group. It was one leader orc (obvious) and 15+ minions (no clue from me they weren't reguar orcs)--after they had run an encounter or 2 to get a feel for how powerful NPCs are. I had all their attention for the first couple of rounds of combat, before they...

Offically, yes. But as Tom Dowd would say about SR, "Their your rules, you bought them. Do with them what you like." If I find it breaks, well it can always be patched. I can't say the one reach weapon user in my group--human warlord--is exactally dishing out the damage. Neither is the paladin...

Your GM doesn't give you CA for poking someong from behind from 2 squares? You are engaged in combat with them, they are facing 2 targets... *runs off to get phb* Ok it does say you have to adjasent to the bugger for some reason, but I would say that within 10 feet is adjacent if you you...

Yes, but now we are getting a bit more exotic than just a break LOS and charge scanario. For the specific plan above, since the Barbarian can't see the NPC any more than the NPC can see the barbarian, he at least needs to make some sort of check before he can activate his held action. How many...

Yes, but we are not talking about ranged attacks (where I think it would still be hard to pull off) but a barbarian charging back at his target. CA is granted, generally, when the target is unable to give all his attention to an attack and the thresh hold is high on that scale too. Being...

Speaking as a GM, an not a rules lawyer, I would be extremely reluctant to allow a simple breaking of LOS to let you get back into stealth. Particularly if you reappear from the same place you disappeared from. You work in a break LOS and appear from somewhere else, I have no problems with...

Look I completely expect the GM to be using different rules than the players. All the time. Sitting at the table its 5 brains vs 1 brain (in my case). The other brains should be deeply knowledgeable about what they are able to do. I on the other hand will be no more than a generalist on 95%+...