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Read part of the first page the other day and part of this page (5) today. All I can say is that if you are routinely throwing enemies at a 15th level party that have +22 attacks against non-AC defenses, then you're doing something wrong. It's not the defenses that are the problem, it's the GM...

Reading this thread points out something about 4e that I really do not like. People have tried to tell me that 4e is somehow less dependent on magic items and I have strongly disagreed. Then I walk into a thread where everyone has all the exact special magic items piled up to fill a very...

Hopefully the Primal book will fill than hole.

Amazingly enough, one of the Avengers almost got killed in the first session due to being overly aggressive and the player was busy writing up a new DRUID for the several turns it took me to get around to healing him. Otherwise yeah, I like being able to do cool stuff and I don't want to turn...

Thanks for the input. In the game with the Cleric, I am a Bard. I wasn't too worried about his ability to do so much healing, I just didn't know where the numbers were coming from. Now it all adds up and I'm cool with it. In the new game, I'm a Panther Shaman on a team with 2 Avengers, 1...

I've been playing D&D since the very early days (starting with the white box set), but I'm a bit poor at the moment and don't have all the 4e books and errata at the moment. I have some questions about healing. Of the four Leader classes in the PHB and PHB2, three of them list 'Healing Surge +...

Did you miss the great big chart on page 29 of the PHB that has all of this stuff in one place?

Well, I've only played one session at 1st level, but my Panther Shaman (Leader/Striker) did more damage than anyone, provided all of the party's healing and showed that no enemy was out of his reach. The day after the session, my GM ran my character through the DDI just to be sure all the...

I use my friend, the Close Burst: All Enemies in Burst. Only four of us there last night (of 8). Three of us blinded at once. My Bard stepped forward one square, said "they were here, here and here a moment ago, so Close Blast 3." Got 'em all, too. GM opened his mouth when I moved forward...

A mistake that was made even bigger in 4e, and I recognize that I might be in the minority on this, is the extreme curve of Magic Item pricing. I thought it was horrible, illogical and uneconomic in 3e. I find it outright absurdly laughable in 4e. But then, many people writing for 3e had some...

We started a WotBS campaign about two years ago and I was asked to play a Bard for a number of reasons. I resigned myself to the fact that my character was next to worthless in combat and concentrated on feats to amp up my Bardic Music to ridiculous levels to help others, and my somewhat broken...

1> Ewoks. 2> There had been some unnatural glorification of a very minor character in the saga; Boba Fett, and some fanboys were very unhappy with the nature of his demise. 3> Silly Ghosts and Crappy Music at the end. I noted that they changed the music in that scene in the newer editions.

Economic systems that are so incredibly non-sensical that a +6 magic item costs SIX THOUSAND TIMES what a +2 item costs. No one in their right mind would see that this makes any economic sense. Well, I can pay $500 for this .357 revolver, or I can pay $3 million for a high capacity .308. Let...

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No idea on the official version, but our 'once a month' campaign just converted over with the last session. The conversion work was done by our GM and one of the players, however. We just arrived at the Monastary of the Two Winds (?) and did the initial battle as our baptism into 4e. Quite...

Example; My Bard makes a Charisma vs. Will attack. I'm 9th level, so that's +4 for levels. 18 Charisma is another +4. I have a +2 implement. Total = +10 "to hit", so I roll a d20 + 10, against the creature's Will Defense score. Just like James McMurray said, it's another defensive score like AC.

I imagine it's a big deal.

I seem to recall Kiera Knightly saying that she had no interest in doing another. But then, I'd read that she made scale for the first two and a big paycheck on the third, so if they wave enough money in her face... Orlando Bloom's star seems to have faded a bit and I see only one "rumored"...

Which...er...um....would be me. One of the things I worked for on this version was to ensure that there was a fair number of decent melee attacks, including some decent hitting ones at appropriate levels. We had originally talked about fewer ranged powers and more melee attacks, but when we...

But....but....they're made of meat! :)