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Interestingly, one of my better villains in an Ex-PC as well. The player is still part of the group and his character, being a Keeper of the Everflow and a Herald and Guardian of the World Tree now, may be one of the most important in the party. His first character though he designed to be a...

Excuse me for a moment. BWHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH-OHAHAHAHAHAHAHA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA-AAAAAAHHHHHAAAAAHHHHAAAAHHH-HAHAHahahAHAhahAHahahaha-HA! Now, as for your question: No. Not at all. Not even remotely. Before hand this was a decent option, along with some other tricks, to...

The problem is not that Strikers can outstrip non-strikers, its that monster HP balloons way faster than player damage can keep up without dipping into multi-attacks in some form or another. Consider the following. At level 5, a rogue is facing a sea kraken. It has about 420 HP. Your "big"...

Because then we spend a great number of rounds chewing through the gobs of HP monsters have, which is the other end of the spectrum. Without efficient strikers at hand, epic does become a grind. Now, this can be fixed by halving monster hit-points, but that point you've done everything I...

By reducing the ammount of damage, or more specifically, how much damage is done per hit and in what way, it speeds up the math and therefore turn resolution. As an example, lets say a ranger hits 4 times with Blade Cascade. First, he has his static damage modifier. Let's say 24. Then we have...

So, I’m not the most talkative member of this forum. Swooping in to give my opinion on a issue every now and again, but not often, and not much of starting anything new. Let alone posting house-rule stuff. That madness I have not tried since later 2008. But, times do change. I have mentioned...

Kord is a god of War and Skill. A suffciently high level warrior could easily draw his attention. Particularly if you go the rout of a plain Demigod who gets the story position of Exarch instead of the Chosen Destiny. Honestly, if the guy is a high-paragon warrior type, just have Kord come to...

They won't be a 4e Clone like Pathfinder because of two reasons: 1. There is no big name like Paizo to swoop in and save the fanbase. 2. There is not the kind of emotional momentum to fuel such an action or to make it profitable. Pathfinder was born in hatred. Paizo and Pathfinder may be the...

It was a pretty hefty chapter.

Not in 4e per se, but in Gamma World this weekend the PCs were trying to sneak up to an old off-shore oil drilling platform controlled by what were essentially Deep Ones. They got attacked by the Deep One's mutant giant octopus guard-dog and alerted the sentries with a mix of gunfire, screaming...

Wait, their letting Rich Baker go? What the flip?

I have not read the new books per-se. I have been following the material on DDI and reading preview material and, from the looks of things, the Heroes of the Feywild looks really good, and the Book of Vile Darkness... doesn't look eye-stabbingly terrible. I've not heard much about Gradmore...

None of these options are really game changing... but that paragon path is not bad at all, and the new runic mastery is pretty beastly.

Um, the reason there were "howls of nerdrage" was because the penalty was RETARDEDLY HARSH, while the benefit was nothing but. It was giving up half your turn to gain very limited access to a rogue class feature. The race trades any hope of an extended day to be really o.k at stealth. A pixie...

My current campaign which I've been running since spring of 08 is currently level 22. My friend's campaign which we started in winter '09 is level 25 now. To be fair to me, we did take a year hiatus after the comic shop I ran it at closed down. I image 3 years is a pretty good rate for a weekly...

I would be the biggest hypocrit alive if I told you sarcasm was bad, but what is bad is reacting to someone calling you on your poor argument with passive aggressive vitriol. If he's wrong, tell him why. He had enough courtesy to do so to you. If he's not, then bow down and bow out. - Over...

With just a pinch of fairy dust and happy thoughts, even you can fly...

Wow, a fantasy RPG where we can do away with magic gear and instead leave the real magic in dynamic, powerful, and arcane armaments with stories and challenges behind them. I'm so glad 4e developed Inherent Bonuses and Artifacts for this style of play, and there is no real need for a system...

Because heaven above if we like the way things were and want to keep seeing more of the same. How close-minded and foolish of us. Or, you know, we've tried spinach, mushrooms, ten breads, and thirty sauces and found them all to be varying degrees of less satisfying, or, far better in a...

Yeah, but your Pathfinder buddies aren't being paid to help design new content or be the voice of R&D. ... I'll assume the passive perception thing for now was him referencing the existing mechanic and not him being stupid, and, like, I said, give him a fair shake, but when your first act to...