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I'm the XP tracker for our group, so this is something I look at quite a bit. To reach 2nd level: -3 sessions (varying length, average maybe 3 hours) -1 skill challenge -6 combats (2 of which were fought at once) -1 independent trap -0 quest rewards To reach 3rd level: -4 sessions -1 skill...

Agreed, depends on the class. Some classes (fighter, wizard) have a good selection, others (like Paladin, Cleric) have far too few. Every potential build should be able to get a useful 3rd at-will if they were human, at a bare minimum. Ideally, each build should have at least 4 different...

It was a decent action movie. You seriously have to turn your brain off while watching it though. Spoilers For instance, how on earth do the humans still have air force bases and aircraft, and helicopters? It's been ages since Judgment Day, and somehow the humans still have enough A-10s that...

We had our first daily crit last session against a necromancer and his undead minions. The cleric critted the cleric with Cascade of Light, and then used the daily on his Symbol of Battle to to add the d10 extra damage, which was maximized due to the crit. (Which is how the rules work, right...

We run a game with just 3 players, and we decided to just run a floating 4th character to fill in the missing holes. We rotate who controls him in combat, and the DM mostly role plays him outside of combat. For loot and experience, he's basically just another member of the party. It works...

This site: Medieval Demographics Made Easy Says that population density for towns and cities is about 61/acre. So 1,000 would correspond to about 16.5 acres. Of course a lot of people can't visualize how big an acre is, but it's slightly smaller than an American football field without the...

Fire beetles. Especially when the DM keeps rolling 6s. And when they make up most of the encounter. 3d6 damage on a level 1 monster is just mean.

:uhoh: I've got a bridge to sell you... There are a whole lot of high school/college students without a whole lot of disposable income and questionable respect for intellectual property who would disagree with you there. I think one of the problems I saw in 3e that encouraged piracy was the...

Heresy! Dice will never disappear from gaming while I live.

Nice idea (since I have 4 cats, I'd have 4 times the potential), but how do you keep the cat from scratching you when you place your PHB on top of it?

QFT. I think people are using a bit too much of their modern morality to judge this action, and that's also one reason some emotions are getting heated. There's a giant gaping chasm between saying "V's act wasn't evil" and "Hitler had the right idea." It seems like almost everyone who has...

I said it wasn't evil, but then again I view DnD reality has very far removed from real world morality. Such a spell would be extremely evil in the real world, but I just can't get that upset about killing Always Evil monsters in DnD. The way I see it, DnD is about killing people and taking...

That's exactly what my fighter is planning on doing, with the added bonus that he's a human with Action Surge going for Swordmaster (so an additional +3 to hit and +4 AC/Reflex when he whips out the action point). If you try, you can get quite a few Close Burst powers as a fighter that you can...

It seems to me that a lot of the "problems" with high level wizards are mostly theoretical. Almost all of the arguments for why they're overpowered seem to just fall apart in the face of real circumstances. I played a wizard from 5th level up to epic levels, and only at the very end did things...

Using Maptools, with 3 players running 4 characters, combats easily average less than an hour. I'd hazard a guess that the average is between 30-45 minutes.

HUGELY disagree. At least in my games, violations of marks are quite frequent (at least 1/encounter), and in a lot of cases you can waste an enemy's attack because his target is no longer in range. Or if an enemy is shifting, you can push him away from where he's trying to go (i.e. deny...

Why would the paladin need either feat? HBO is rather lackluster to begin with, and not worth pouring points into Str and/or Dex just to get it. If you can't get 15 Dex for shield spec, you have probably spent points getting 15 Con for Plate spec. Maybe you miss out on +1 Reflex, but it's...

Technically that's not true. Disenchant Magic Item has a component cost of 25gp, which doesn't sound like much, but starts to add up once you consider you're only getting 1/5 the value of the magic item. If you Disenchant a 5th level item, for instance, it's eating over 10% of your return...

As with all dual-ability classes, it's best to choose one ability and ignore the other. In reality, the Paladin has two distinct paths you can go down. There are several problems with this approach, like one path being significantly better than the other in marking. Secondly, there are...

In our group, our DM has delegated damage tracking to the players. Specifically, one of us has a spreadsheet open and keeps track of the damage on each enemy. After someone hits a creature, we might ask the DM for an update (i.e. "the orc chieftain is up to 78 damage, how's he look?) to which...