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  1. Alabast

    Has anyone statted a mimic?

    I seem to remember a Dark-Sun monster that takes the cake for arbitrary DM sadism. It was some kind of scarab beetle, that, upon winning initiative, immediately attempts to burrow under the skin of a PC's arm, then make their way to the brain, instantly killing the PC. I think the PC received...
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    Has anyone statted a mimic?

    I agree with Khime. Mimics were never really used as combat encounters, they were just stupid monsters-traps meant to do some hit point damage to PCs whose players were silly enough to have not read the MM from front to back. If you want to use a shape-shifting monster that tricks the PCs, use...
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    Two-Weapon Fighting Rules?

    Don't get hung up on class labels. Third edition has more flexibility concerning individual classes, but fourth edition makes the classes better by giving them niches that the other classes don't tread upon. Creating the build you want in fourth edition means figuring out what you want that...
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    D&D 4E What's the typo/errata situation in the 4e books?

    I'm thinking about picking up the 4E books today, and I was wondering if Wizards was able to avoid some of the typo/errata ugliness that has plagued it in the past. Do you guys that have the books get the feeling that they were careful in the printing? Or is it another errata mess like the Star...
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