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I think this is the key point that I missed. Thanks for the help. I'm just wondering if I should house rule that you can make the check untrained.

I had some archers on the roof of a 10' building in a recent encounter. The PCs wanted to jump off after they dispatched with the archer. I read through the rules and it seems that if you jump 10' you take falling dmg, and you are automatically prone. This is true even if you voluntarily...

Ah yes I didn't notice that it is a Skirmisher that does make things slightly better. I assumed Lurker because it can burrow and what-not. I have a couple more questions: you say to reduce skills and initiative? Why is that? DMG p.174 doesn't mention dropping skills or ability scores as far...

Hello. I'm trying to adjust a monsters level for the first time. I want to use a Bulette in an encounter. My 6 PCs are 4th level so I thought I'd bring the Bulette down to 6th or 7th level. So I am looking at pages 184-185 of the DMG to try and figure out the right numbers. But the current...

Thanks that clears that up. :-)

I'm using the character builder and when I ask it to use level appropriate gold for an 8th level character it is giving 2600 gold. Where in the rulebooks is this amount coming from? The only thing I could think to do is add up the treasure parcel amounts of levels 1-7 and divide by 5 but it...

Ah. I was missing this. Thanks this makes me feel a bit better. I guess I won't house rule it for now. ~ Justin

Why is this the case? From what I understand I could have neither Arcana nor Religion training, purchase the Ritual Caster feat, and cast anything I want. Am I missing something? ~ Justin

I think at the very least I am going to house rule that you have to be *trained* in the skill that a ritual is based on in order to use it. That way you can just have a warrior with no Arcana training doing a scrying ritual. That just doesn't seem right to me. Thanks for the discussion. I...

So if I'm reading the rules correctly, for 680g any level character can get a scroll of Raise Dead, and can cast it without any skill check. This just seems too easy to me. Not sure how to tweak it though, as I in general like the rituals system and don't want to tear it apart completely... ~...

A couple things bother me about the way rituals are laid out in the PHB. The fact that seemingly anyone can cast a ritual from a scroll without meeting any prerequisites, and the fact that you don't seem to have to be *trained* in the skill that a ritual uses. Am I reading the rules right, or...

This all makes sense. I think in general I will follow the same idea of conveying it through the in-game narrative describing the encounter. However, for the current group I'm running, all of the PCs are fairly inexperienced, especially with 4e concepts, so I may just come out and tell them...

Not sure if there is a rule on this or if it is just up to DM discretion, but I'm curious to hear how people hand this. If you have minions in an encounter, do you let the PCs know that they are minions? I haven't been, but because of this, the PCs don't necessarily go for them first, and they...

Hello. I was looking the other day to figure out what the rules were for firing a ranged weapon, such as a bow, into melee. From what I can tell there are no penalties. This assumes you are firing at an enemy with only allies between you and the enemy. Allies do not grant cover to enemies...