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What I do with the treasure parcels is not actually assign them to any encounter. I have the list of parcels separate from the encounters, and then just pick and choose what feels appropriate for any given encounter. If the PCs had a really easy time of it, I probably won't include any treasure...

Thank you for the compliments. As for the reasons I didn't make this a shadow-sourced class, as stated we don't really know what it does yet and I wanted my necromancer to stand out a bit. The necromancers of previous editions, while always depicted as somewhat different, still had to follow the...

Polearm Gambit, Combat Superiority and Antipathy gloves are an excellent and viable combination. However it doesn't help any against certain things. If you want to give your players a challenge, throw an encounter of just enemy artillery at them and give the monsters a well-defended position...

I'm afraid I don't remember where I read this, but what I'd been doing is dividing damage in half when it has multiple keywords and applying the damage to each keyword that way. So in this case if you used lance of faith and it inflicted 6 damage, it'd do 3 radiant (+5 vulnerable for a total of...

The anti-undead clause is both flavour and a safe guard so that you cannot gain an infinite number of surges via your Shadow Summoning. Theoretically you could summon the shadow, lose a few HPs, steal surges from it and then regain the HPs, then wash-rinse-repeat. At least one of the paragon...

Sure thing, feel free to use and modify some of what I've created here. Eventually there'll be more levels worth of it, once I've got some more free time to write.

I think there should be something resembling an on/off mode with these items - perhaps have the enhancement bonuses only count when the weapon is dealing its damage type, and have the ability to deal the damage type be a minor action that lasts until the end of the encounter or until the user no...

I say handled poorly because the things people were promised haven't been forthcoming, and having my credit card info openly floating around the 'net isn't something that makes me feel safe and secured. Would you consider a business to be handling things poorly if they left your personal...

Wow. Well, I was kind of excited about DDI for awhile, but this info has pretty much ended that. Now please don't get me wrong, I do really like 4th edition, however I think that this entire process of the "digital initiative" has been handled poorly, has been sloppy and has been of a quality...

One suggestion I would make which I've yet to see offered would be to closely examine the roles your PCs have and select monster roles to match. Have a lot of leaders? Throw an encounter with all skirmishers at the party, so that the fewer defenders can't tie them up properly and they reach the...

It's definitely my plan to do so. Woefully real world needs have taken precedence but the class is still cooking and I'll be updating it for Paragon level at some point and then for Epic. Thank you for the interest though!

I'm a bit wary of the new Fighter ability, as it seems a bit too strong for my tastes. It looks like, if I'm reading it correctly, that the fighter cannot be killed by low level minions if he's got a very high con. If my understanding of the ability is correct, you gain temp. hit points equal to...

So I'd been intrigued by the Dark path for Warlocks featured in the Forgotten Realms' Player's Handbook, but felt it didn't quite go far enough in hurting players now for benefits later. While I understand its somewhat antithetical to 4e's design philosophy, it was a mechanic I'd always thought...

I'm afraid I don't really follow you here. My main issue was the book keeping going on. Also at higher levels, it becomes almost moot to add an additional 1d6 hit points when the healing surge itself is recovering so many more. Whiel it can certainly make a difference at the earlier levels...

I am afraid I must disagree with your assessment of the out of combat healing. If the players were using second winds, then they would be able to spend one healing surge per short rest. After that, they would then need another short rest (since out of combat, it requires 5 minutes or resting to...

To quote the Order of the Stick webcomic, which has an excellent page on this very issue (back in 3.5 admittedly, but still applicable): Haley: Hey, wait a minute. Aren't dark elves evil? Nale: Oh, my, no. Not since they became a player race. Now the whole species consists of nothing but...

I also didn't really enjoy this option, and for me I felt as though it slowed down the time at the table. It became, at least when I saw it, a book keeping exercise during which the cleric had to get everyone's hit point totals so he could heal the lowest hit points first, and then debate with...

They did include a smattering of the FR Gods, but there's some surprisingly major players missing from the whole business. Amuantor, previously a deceased God in my familiarity, is mysteriously alive and well, and has an entire paragon path dedicated to his service. Asmodeus has wandered over...

I did my best to read the books with an open mind, and the setting changes are just not my cup of tea. I was never big on the Forgotten Realms but I felt the settings main strength was in its history; when people played the forgotten realms it was because they liked the setting and how much...

Shouldn't the Daily power be gained at level 20?