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Warlocks get three options for damaging cantrips: Chill Touch: 120 foot range, spell attack roll, deals necrotic damage starting at 1d8 and scaling up to 4d8. Target also can't heal for a round and undead get Disadvantage on attacks against you. Eldrich Blast: 120 foot range, spell attack roll...

I describe 4e as by far the best-balanced and interesting tactical battlemat RPG ever made. Nothing else I've tried can rival it, everyone always has interesting choices and different classes play differently. It came with several problems however. The skill challenges while they did encourage...

I think there is a feat to buff the advancement of a Cavalier mount at least to full character level rather than class level but I can't find it right now. Edit: Horse Master from Ultimate Combat. --Penn

Pretty much treat reach combat on a mount like reach combat dismounted except that you take up 4 squares and can thus reach correspondingly more area. If it works dismounted to increase your reach it'll probably work mounted. The one benefit you have is a one-handed reach weapon. Of course...

That would be a house rule if true anywhere. I was just pointing out that reach weapons can't attack opponents adjacent to the mount. --Penn

My understanding is no, you take on the space of your mount with your own reach, so you cannot attack anything that is adjacent to your mount and not Large+. You should always be able to attack anything bigger than Medium of course by attacking its back squares, and a creature cannot provide...

It could have been Superior Invisibility, yes? --Penn

It's not the story or plot or characters that determine whether a story gets made into a movie or TV show (at least not entirely), as I understand it it's the execution that matters. So, in this case, it's not that there's a cool story, it's that Piratecat has shown that he can write. Of course...

Oh, how I wish the answer to this question was 'The Middleman'. That would rock. --Penn

Could be interesting if he led an attempt at pacifying the Shadowfell, but his troops lost morale while there (being mortal and all) and he instead levelled it entirely, as he couldn't control it Thus, essentially, no structure (or person) in the Shadowfell is older than him, and most are much...

On the other hand, the door puzzle indicates that said 25th level Wizard favours the direct approach. On the gripping hand, it's probably not worth testing to see what happens, the risk is too great. --Penn

Have you considered teleporting out of the room? The wards might take a while to catch up if you go far enough. --Penn

I ran the BI both nights, and both tables succeeded at most of the encounters. There was some confusion regarding details of some of the encounters, which would account for some of the table variation seen in this thread. The skill challenge the second day was set up so that if you blocked all...

Far as I can tell, the reason that healing potions heal a flat amount rather than an amount based on your second wind is so that they don't scale to higher levels. At Paragon tier and up the cost of a healing potion is trivial, you could easily buy hundreds, so the system expects you to buy the...

The problem lies with Wizard/Swordmage multiclassing, both grant Arcana with no choice. Thus you get Arcana trained twice, and can't retrain either one. I'm not expecting to see many people take that (otherwise obvious) multiclass combination due to that quirk. --Penn

It appears that you can freely take a weapon-multiclass feat after taking a class-specific multiclass feat, but not the other way round (only you take a multiclass feat of any kind, you can no longer take class-specific multiclass feats for another class, and while weapon-multiclass aren't class...

I find that Brutal Scoundrels do slightly more damage and Artful Dodgers are slightly more maneuverable, but both can be built to emulate the other. If he built an Artful Dodger he has the only Rogue at-will that uses two stats to damage, he should be happy with that. It's more than anyone else...

What I see in play is mostly Feylocks. I'm interested to try all the types, but Darklocks seem too tough to actually make work effectively, and Inferlocks seem boring. Starlocks hold the most interest for me, because you can have any of three entirely different builds: Con/Int, Cha/Int, or...

I'd hold off at this point for the 1 month until the final version of the class comes out. The version available now is a playtest class only, and I'm pretty confident that changes have been made to it in the PHBII. For example, the barbarian as released has a terrible AC, such that chainmail...

There's one place where I've seen lots and lots of attempts at making skill challenges work well, by many authors: Living Forgotten Realms. Each mod has at least one skill challenge (usually more), and they span all types. I particularly like ones that are hidden from the players, but that's...