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The paladin in my party would soak damage immensely well even if he weren't a shield-toting plate wearer. Lots of surges + lay on hands = more than enough hit points to keep up with the pace the rest of the party sets even if he was eating the majority of attacks against him. Doesn't hurt that...

Your third option is a non-starter, I think. A standard action isn't nearly enough of an opportunity cost to get even one daily back; plus, it means you'd have a full stack of dailies every encounter (since between encounters is plenty of time to take 5 standard actions...). *maybe* spend a...

I don't have the Manual of the Planes, yet, but as the original question was directed towards mathematicians, I'll answer it under the assumption that we're talking about the inside surface of a torus (tori are the collection of points only on the "surface" of a donut -- it is analogous to a...

Honestly, I think the questionable base DC is exacerbated by the fact that you've got grossly different skill levels between your enemies and party. The guard has a +14 perception skill mod (14+10 = the 24 passive), and the rogue has a +5!? DC 25, by itself, probably isn't ludicrous. It's...

Battleragers do have to do some minimal temp HP source tracking. Namely, they should track their invigorating temp HP (which stack with everything else) and their non-invigorating temp HP separately. Why? Because if you get 2 temp from non-stacking source A, 4 invigorating temp, and then you...

Ironically, I was going to be generating NPCs for an encounter with classed Eladrin that's too low in level to use the MM entry and/or templates. So, yes, I'm already doing something like this, but hadn't thought of doing it as "less than deadly encounters." Hmm...

I already had about 4 characters I want to play in 4th edition, but I'm stuck DMing for now, and can't convince my group to run a second D&D game (we're used to alternating between two games; but right now, we're on a Dark Heresy game that we're trying out after shelving our Saga game)... And...

Yeah, I figured this is what was wrong with the second Vista computer I installed it on. You know, it'd be really nice if people would, you know, program cleanly so this sort of thing doesn't happen. It's not like 64-bit OSes are a new thing.

Okay, our gnome warlock did something today that feels like it needs attention and a careful ruling. He got hit, faded away, and then misty stepped into position to provide two allies flanking on two enemies. I looked up invisibility, flanking, and combat advantage, and it looks like by the...

You've got 4 classes for 2 power sources. Hardly saturated. Compare to 4 classes of martial. I roughly expect to see 4 primal-sourced classes, one per role, and then 4 split between arcane and divine -- either 2 arcane, 2 divine, or 1 arcane (bard) and 3 divine. If classes introduced in...

It's pretty wet outside; storm came out of nowhere. It'd sure be nice to have an at-will umbrella.

Without my books handy, either the Eladrin power, or the teleportation keyword, specify that you cannot teleport to a square you couldn't normally end your move at. I don't typically allow my characters to "move" on squares that are not at ground level. So unless they're *also* flying, no...

This is also an interesting solution, and elegantly removes HQ from the equation (RAW twin strike allows MORE dependable HQ damage than careful strike).

Actually, it's a weird spiky shape. Also, Goblin Warriors carry 5 javelins, as another example.

Yup. If you make it too browseable, you invalidate book sales. Perhaps not a huge issue with core, but with the addition of other sourcebooks... I'm much more surprised to note that it's using javascript -- did we previously know that the compendium would be platform portable (well, I assume it...

What kind of rules would you prefer were placed in the PHB and MM to add roleplaying to them? Really? A system's job, when it comes to roleplaying, is to get out of the way. Roleplaying is *always* "in spite of the rules", because you don't make rules about the roleplaying (otherwise, it...

It's no more impossible to play without minis in 4e than it was to cast a fireball, or exchange bowshots with enemy archers mat-less in prior editions. You have to trust your DM to adjudicate the effects and relative positions of your allies and enemies fairly, without favoring one or the other...

Look at that quote again: Read that with the definition of area that refers to a location, rather than the mathematical reference to quantifying the size of a two-dimensional construct, and you get: A close blast power allows you to target creatures or objects within an adjacent broad...

I think he was referring to a small obstacle in an otherwise open area. Since you can move diagonally without losing "forward speed," you can veer around and back without losing any movement. Just changes what you have to consider an obstacle. Use more corners and half-high walls, and less pillars.

The rider is under the mount's encumberance limit, yes? So I'd say the same thing happens with the rider as happens with an eladrin's equipment. That said, I like the bit about non-fey being shaken by the experience that Rabbitbait came up with. As he said, it protects the coolness of the...