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Life of the Party (Satyr Racial Power) Daily Minor Action Effect: The satyr snaps his fingers. One nymph per party member (max 10) appears. Each nymph also carries a setting-appropriate alcoholic beverage, suitable for sharing with one party member, and a setting-appropriate party food...

Shoot. All of those are bipedal anthropoids, so the other four go into the trash can. Brad (who doesn't see the point in "too many races")

Ostriches can too fly! They just need pilots' licenses. :)

Depends. It depends a lot on what I think is new and shiney, or if there's a particular concept I want to try out. My minotaur battle cleric was meant to be a quasi-striker paired with a defender to serve as the core of the party, since the other party members tended to be, ahem, flakey. I...

One spec of healing priests already do this (Discipline priests heal at least partly by means of using damaging spells), and there've been many suggestions that a melee healer that heals by punching would be a good idea. Hell, I wanted to have my ret paladin heal by smacking things upside the...

Precisely. Most MC feats grant a skill in class, and a lot of class-specific feats and paragon paths/epic destinies are very tasty. And sometimes the granted abilities are just *handy*. My moo-cleric ticked off the DM by taking Battle Awareness, as the once/encounter special OA ruined some of...

Depending on state laws, shooting an intruder may well be okay in the eyes of the law. IF you report it. Not reporting it and hiding the body in the backyard? I do believe that's the legal definition of "not cool." Brad

Wow. I would not want to get on Malack's bad side. Which, of course, they eventually will have to. Brad

If we're expecting that bandaging a sword cut or a troll gore or a hill giant's tree-trunk-club bash is going to restore you to full hit points, then having a warlord use a nonmagical effect to do the same thing doesn't look really different. Also, having simply a debilitating injury from being...

Of course, it's required in 4e, especially now. You'd need to: a) Reduce monster damage; b) Reduce monster health; c) Increase PC defenses; d) Increase PC damage in some combination to make in-combat healing not required. Basically, you'd have to kill them before they killed you. Of...

B&N seems to be in better shape than Borders was. They went in on the ebook thing a lot faster, at least. What's amusing is that I was already on the B&N contact list, I believe. At least, I have their card. Brad

Most people don't fight. It's rather heavily discouraged in public circumstances, so people don't get used to engaging in any sort of personal combat, so they (a) don't know what to do and (b) aren't mentally prepared to engage in a fight. (b) is actually more important than (a), I think...

I'm mildly disappointed at nothing past level 10, at least in terms of utilities, etc. But it looks pretty decent. I am more amused than I should be at the rules on the Ninja-to Rush, and I like the Kusari-gama. Brad

Nope, armor is in the equipped slot. And I've got a longspear equipped, so no shield. Hrm, this is even weirder after experimentation. Nekkid, he should have an AC of 18, for 1/2 level and Int. Putting on +3 Braidmail or +3 Stonemail changes it to 19, which seems to indicate that it's...

One can easily handwave that away if one likes, since the Clone Wars were quite likely the largest series of military actions the galaxy had seen in millennia, so indirect fire artillery was probably not seen very often until the Clone Wars broke out, at which point the old designs got dusted...

Had a thought about action economy, that if a character had the ability to take a lot of Immediate action attacks, that would increase damage output considerably, since one could then use At-Wills or even basic attacks on one's standard actions to keep up the output. Looking around, the...

Hrm, Circus Maximus, maybe? Never been there, but hey. Brad

Ack. Dwarf chicks should NOT have beards. I mean, ugh. While I can understand different standards of beauty and all, I'm sorry, female dwarves with beards is really something that's just best left by the wayside. (shudder) Brad

I have to say, I heartily agree with the choice of Living Barrage. That's just a fun series of powers. Brad

I picked mine up at Compleat Strategist in Falls Church, VA. While DC has lost a lot of its FLGS while I've been here (an unnamed gaming store in Rosslyn, Fantasy Forum, the Woodbridge location of Games Parlor), we still have some choices. I can kind of see not wanting to make a special trip...