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It's not that hard! Follow the wording of the rules and it works just fine. People are trying to make it more complicated than it needs to be. Let's do a simple scenario: A party enters a clearing in the woods, finding some hobgoblins around a fire. For unspecified reasons, the party...

People are making too much of rules that are meant to be abstractions, I think. If D&D was a world as clean as our grid mats, then of course people should have a good idea where a character was hiding at all times; it would be like trying to hide behind an ikea chair in an all-white...

I would amend that a rogue with a racial weapon proficiency can use that weapon with their sneak attacks/powers. It's a bit on the stupid side to say, "Okay, you're an elf, trained from birth in the art of archery. You are one with your bow...buuuuut you can't use it for any of your class's...

Mage Hand would clearly be too weak to yank the bow out of someone's hands. But it would not be too weak to yank the arrow out of the bow. Arrows aren't being held with any particular force by an archer; any slap or grab could easily pluck the arrow away. Unfortunately for the wizard in this...

Nothing's going to happen to buy.com. Do you really think Hasbro would anger a major online retailer by trying to get a fine out of them? That would be idiotic; it would only hurt Hasbro if buy.com stopped carrying their books. All that's going to happen is that someone from buy.com will...

Ochre, It's considered a grab according to the MM entry. Escaping is a move action that is either an acrobatics check vs. the grabber's reflex, or an athletics check vs. the grabber's fortitude. If you succeed in the escape, you may take a shift as part of the same action.

Even if it did exist, the PCs in KotS don't have any means of doing so anyhow, so it's a moot point in that regard.

Yep, Sunrod's 20. Also, this bit might be important for parties with a Sleep spell, or rogues who hate fair fights: Coup de Grace You have to be adjacent to the target. You can use ANY attack power. Coup de Grace via Meteor Swarm! You have to hit the target with a normal attack roll, but...

Delaying is pretty much the same as 3e: you wait until something happens, and your initiative is reset to that action's number-1. The 4e tricks are this: Any buffs that end on your action end the moment you start delaying; you can't keep a buff running longer by delaying. You can't maintain a...

These are things that DMs will need to know for the module, but were left out from the rules in the module. Immediate Reactions (for the Kobold Dragonshields) Reaction: An immediate reaction lets you act in response to a trigger. The triggering action, event, or condition occurs and is...

PHB confirms: Reaction: An immediate reaction lets you act in response to a trigger. The triggering action, event, or condition occurs and is completely resolved before you take your reaction, except that you can interrupt a creature’s movement. If a creature triggers your immediate reaction...

So... they left the sentence about movement reactions out... IN THE RULE TEXT FOR A MODULE WHERE THINGS HAVE MOVEMENT REACTIONS.

I really don't see how there can be confusion here; the wording on immediate reactions is crystal-clear: they happen after the action that provoked them. If the kobold could shoot away the instant the character approached them, that would be an interrupt, not a reaction. The triggering action...

Obviously the QS rules don't contain the entire meat of the rulebooks; what I'm asking is whether the rules that they DO contain are accurate. [Edit: i.e., the lack of disarm rules are fine, as none of the PCs have the ability. But if the rules for, say, charging and ranged attacks are...

Can anyone with access to the core books chime in about whether KotS's rules are properly 4e, or if they're stripped-down to simplify gameplay? I recall the introductory adventure box set for 3e, and some of the monsters and rules were very bare-bones. My gaming group's going to be using KotS...

I've had a nagging discontent in the back of my mind with the new Star Wars game, and with the things that I'd read about 4E, and I never could put my finger on just what was bothering me... until recently. Suddenly things snapped into perfect clarity: 4E is a game. "Well, DUH," you're...

I must thank you, sir, for providing me with much-needed laughter. The thought of someone doing dungeon-crawling 'business as usual' in a city full of innocent people is something I can all too easily imagine in D&D.

Claiming that the big iron bands wrapping someone up just makes them immobile is a silly argument. Under that definition, someone trapped in metal bands can be swinging a greatsword around no problem. That's absurd, the item's description clearly states that the target gets covered in metal...

Considering that they printed each and every copy sold, no, it's not very understandable that they didn't have the server capacity to go with those copies. It's not as if those 600,000 boxes suddenly materialized on store shelves by themselves, after all. Vivendi printed each disk that went...

The motivation behind the wings wasn't a swashbuckler, it was a gunship: hovering over the battlefield and dispersing Searing Lights and Flamestrikes while remaining untouchable by melee and out of range of area of effect spells trying to catch the entire party in a set radius. Landing as...