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In one of my games, the DM just said "Use as many healing surges as you want. Yeah, they'll be more effective if the priest does them." In the other game, the DM said, "Use one healing surge for each five minutes you rest. The priest can use two healing words for each five minutes." Unless...

This problem was easily cleared up by our DM. The key is the "otherwise indistinguishable" part. If the DM tells you that the minions look the same as the other kobolds, then I agree that there is something wrong. Ours was pretty straightforward about saying, "These guys over here, with the...

I had a nasty encounter with an acid-friendly enemy. He had two attacks that could put down 5 ongoing acid damage. Each attack didn't seem to stack with itself, but they did stack with each other, and you had to save separately to stop each effect.

Groups of one enemy type actually tend to be less effective than mixed groups. Consider, for example, a group of only ranged strikers. Will they do more damage? Yes, but like you said, they won't do enough damage to end the fight before a Fighter and a Paladin get up in their faces. Then...

That's an opinion based off an assumption of bias. Not a scientific assumption, just an assumption. Maybe high or low scores are related to between-subjects variables (person preferences, individual game experiences, etc.) And maybe, by ignoring reviews that don't fit your expectation of...

Yep! No standard positive or negative effects for being bloodied. Certain creatures have feats and powers that work better (or only work) when directed at bloodied enemies. Other feats and powers can only be used by a creature who is bloodied. I even saw a few powers that were automatically...

I like to have some variety inside the racial groups, so I'm not particularly concerned with consistency. It's more interesting to me to raid a kobold liar and fight monsters with different weapons, tactics, and weaknesses. If they're all vulnerable to fear, then fear has become the...

In both of the DDXP games I played, cleave damage killed minions outright. In one game, there were four minions around the Fighter. He cleaved and killed two, popped an Action Point, then cleaved again and killed the other two. Word around the watercooler was that minions at higher levels...

Careful shot helps them to hit a higher percentage of the targets that they attack, and they usually did more damage than other characters in my games, but it wasn't much more. Not enough to be overpowering, certainly. In terms of usefulness, they usually fell behind other characters because...

The GMs in my LFR preview games said that marks were only broken when the encounter ended, you used the same power to mark another creature, someone else marked the same creature, the creature died, or you died. Even going unconscious or near-death was not enough to undo a mark. Line of sight...

When I played today, combat did move along much faster than 3.5. It's just like people say; each combat took more rounds, but it didn't take more time. Mostly it was the small things, like not having to count movement more than once, not have to keep track of rounds left on effects, and not...

In essence, a blast is like a burst, but it is not centered on the caster. So a fireball would be a blast-style spell, and yes it would be square. I thought that would bother me, too, but it didn't at all. It saves time and doesn't detract from the "realism" of it. There seemed to be some...

Hey guys. This is my first post here! (Woo.) I just finished playing the two LFR preview games earlier today at DDXP. (The last session finished 90 minutes ago.) I played the Eladrin Ranger in one game, and the Dwarf fighter in the other. I thought I would share some of my impressions and...