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I heard one guy was working on a way to use the "disease track" to model specific injuries, like broken legs or a stab to the gut or something like that. You'd then have to give these "disease attacks" to specific monsters or situations - for instance falling damage. They might have survived...

Yeah, we've never asked that question before. :P

Your definition of "bardlike" no doubt differs from a lot of others. Bards were pretty worthless in 3e, with very little they could do better than others. In 2e, bards could cast fireball. A lot. I'd like to see a party with a bard as an actual useful, contributing member, rather than an...

Another vote for cleric here - the only reason I'd ever play one was because they were necessary for a party to work. But now we have warlords and I don't need to bother gods any more!

Well, I meant any vampire just using his slam attack. Two negative levels a hit is still pretty bad (if I remember rightly). Especially since it drains your best spells first.

They no longer drain all your levels by punching you in the face.

Well, GMs discretion of course :)

The way I visualise it is that hitpoints are your "defense points". Once you've battered someone's defenses down (be it with physical or mental damage - stuff like morale effects) you can then make your "killing blow", which can be a combination of blows if you want to describe it like that...

Whew, your notes are way more detailed than mine - yours read almost like a story. When I DM, I just get stats for things like monsters and skill challenges, and then ham up the descriptions :)

Heh, that's one of the reasons I love this forum. 90% of the time when something happens ingame that I think, "Bloody hell, that's totally overpowered!" but can't find a rule to disallow it, there's someone on ENworld who has an answer for it. Of course, the other 10% it's stuff like Rain of...

If you really wanted to, I suppose you could house rule that players can take as many multiclass feats as they like, or maybe a maximum of two (to give that second ed fighter/rogue/mage feel). I kinda like multiclassing as it is, but that's obviously a matter of opinion.

This is entirely unchanged from 3rd ed, just so you know. And 2nd ed. And the only reason they didn't have it before then was because they hadn't tied money to magic items yet.

Depends on the race of the guard. A human guard would be about level 3, while a drow guard would be more like level 11, since he's a centuries-old badass who happened to have drawn guard duty that day. But I agree with the others in the thread - the guards have to have something that's more...

Wait a minute, his temporary hitpoints were able to absorb entire attacks? He should only have a couple of temporary HP at any time. Are you letting him stack them, by any chance? Because that's against the rules.

http://www.enworld.org/forum/d-d-4th-edition-rules/241858-move-action-before-charge-attack.html That thread has the answers you seek.

You're comparing apples and oranges, chief. Martial Artist's a striker (unless I'm wrong in which case disregard this) and the Swordmage is a defender. Hand to hand strikers are always less tough than defenders, that's the point of a defender.

I can't be the only one who read the title as meaning "transsexual fantasy characters". :.-( Anyway, to contribute, I've seen lots of cross-gender PCs played, and none were offensive to anyone. The term I would probably use for them would be "lacklustre", for males playing female characters...

I'd certainly recommend to your fighter to take a shield and as many "hit something and get to spend a healing surge" powers as possible. Also, being a dwarf would probably help, for the "second wind as a minor action" racial ability. Aside from that, healing potions, and a good head for when...

Yep. Until they add some kind of penalty for being bloodied or something similar to that, you're ALWAYS better off killing one monster at a time, because two monsters at half hitpoints are two monsters worth of pain, and one monster at full hitpoints is only one monster worth of pain. I...

Well, to answer your first question, sure. If they assassinate the kobold alchemist as part of this plan, why on earth wouldn't you reward them for it? And the prime directive is, "Kill things and take their stuff". Not "kill things and then decide that their stuff can be bought in any town for...