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Not to resurrect an older thread, but I just ran this encounter last night, and thought I would share the observations of this research. In the words of GLaDOS: "I'm making a note here, HUGE SUCCESS." This encounter hit that almost-TPK sweet-spot, and while there were slow rounds, there were...

I think that in Dark Sun it might be common for monks to go around with some equivalent of brass knuckles or something. Of course, that's assuming you see the monk's attacks are physical punches at all, rather than just a surge of ki energy that does the real punching.

The way I see it, when you roll a 1, the character spectacularly misses with their attack. The character can chose to do something crazy to make up for that, hence the second attack roll, but that something crazy is enough to break the weapon. I imagine a character swinging wide with a sword...

Right, but unless you're wielding a hammer 1-handed, and an implement in the other hand, your warlock powers won't have an implement to use (which isn't a problem until about level 3ish). I didn't catch if you were using inherent bonuses or not, but if you aren't using that system, then you'll...

Only if you plan on using a Pact Hammer for most of your career. Spending stat points in strength for MBAs is kind of moot since you'll have a high Con (except for chain armor proficiency). This is an average of 2 extra damage every battle, assuming you hit on the turn you use the quarry, and...

I've been playing a Starlock for almost two years, and here's what I've found: The class is harder to optimize, since it requires learning a lot of little tricks, and specializing. You can't just jump in and do top damage. That said, it's a fun class to play, since warlocks have some of the...

I haven't run a solo with multiple turns per round, but I have one coming up in a week or so, and this is what I'm doing to reduce the severity of stun/daze. Specifically, the power states: "Whenever [creature] is subject to a daze, stun or dominating effect that is not save ends, that effect...

One of the most awesome moments I've seen, aftering DMing a warlord for about two years, was the warlord and the monk going up against a dragon (downgraded to an elite) by themselves. The swordmage was off being killed by a second elite dragon. The warlord first uses Hammer and Anvil, which...

I've got a few magic items I handed out at level 11. These are pseudo artifacts that level up with the players, though they don't have concordance or anything. They were mostly there to give the players an item they could build their character with, rather than switching out items every 4 or 5...

Well a battlerager fighter will want to have a high strength and constitution, since the temp HP they get is almost always based on Con. I'd say if you want an arcane flavor (and don't mind the fluff), perhaps a warlock with the Pact Initiate feat to nab the infernal or vestige pact. You could...

Based on my group's battlerager fighter, I would say it's probably the toughest of the bunch. Lower defenses, sure, but hot damn can that dwarf crank out the damage. With a mordenkrad he can do roughly 25 damage with his melee basic attack, making it nearly never worth it to provoke the OA to go...

Here's a tempest fighter I made a while ago that I wanted to use. I originally used an elf for equal parts strength, dexterity and wisdom, but dragonborn would be fun since you have the dragon breath feats you can use. The big question will be whether your DM lets you use a weapon from the...

Adding to this, if the character in question was Immue to poison, then the slow wouldn't apply (from what I've read). If you are hit with a power that has a keyword to which you are immune, you don't take damage, and you aren't affected by anything from that attack.

The power says, word for word, "You must land at the end of this movement.", emphasis mine. "This" is referring to the previous sentence, which states you get to fly a number of squares equal to your speed. Thus, you can fly a number of squares equal to your speed, but at the end of "this"...

I recently got a monk to join my campaign at level 12, so I can't say how heroic tier works, but for the 3 or 4 combats he's been in so far I'll say that the monk, when built with some forethought is pretty dang beefy. Maybe not the best damage output, but he's got the highest AC in the group...

The power explicitly states that you must land at the end of the movement. That specific case beats the general rules for double moving. Double movement says that you must use the same move action twice in a row. If you used the Dragon Wings power to move twice in a row, you'd still have to...

Dundjinni is usually the first place I stop for homemade maps. Here's a link to a search for "tavern" in the maps forum: Dundjinni Mapping Software - Forums Search Results: tavern There are quite a few good ones in that list, I'll link some of my favorites. Some of them have grids, but that's...

Being the DM of a Scion of Arkhosia I've dealt with these questions, and I've found a few things. First, the paragon path is pretty weak compared to other paths. It's not often the stat for the attack roll and the stat for the damage roll are your primary and secondary stat (unless you're a...

Haven't had a beast companion ranger in the group in months, but from what I remember, you and your beast each get a movement action, but only one attack. Even so, a lot of the companion based powers give you and your companion attack, or let one of the two shift into position for flanking or...

Oh, well don't worry about it if you don't have it set up. I was only asking because it sounds a lot like what I'm doing with mine, and I'm fairly non-discriminatory when I steal ideas for my own campaign. :p