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The artificer could be any of the roles. It really just depends on how he builds his/her magic items and for what purpose. I think the flavor for the artificer is better if he is a defender or striker depending on the build. He could get abilities to improve defenses or improve offense by way...

So you didn't have any problems with drawing the keep corridors on a hex map? How did you adjudicate partial hexes? In regards to LFR, if you are running a home game, there shouldn't be a problem with using hexes since you're the senior judge. If you wanted to use hexes at a convention, you...

A burst 1 and 2 on a grid is 9 and 25 squares respectively. A 5 and 10 foot radius on a hex map (using the link I provided) will have 7 and 19 hexes respectively. That's about as close as you're going to get. They also are counted the same way. You pick a target square/hex and then count...

bigger creatures After looking at the SRD for UA, it does make a bit more sense to me. I was having trouble seeing Large as 3 hexes until now. If I'm reading it right, a burst 2 is the same as a 10 foot radius and a blast 6 is the same as the 30 foot cone, right? Derek

Yeah bigger monsters would be a problem. It's not too bad though. You would have to pick a hex as the primary and move it accordingly, but you have to be careful it doesn't occupy a PCs square. Maybe gridless is the way to go. I wonder how you implement AoE attacks in gridless though. For...

There are hex battle mats out there. In fact the one I use for my 3.5 game has hexes on one side and a grid on the other. Derek

I was going to house rule Pythagorean into 4E by renewing the cost of diagonal movement to 1.5 and new AoE templates. I never thought of changing to hexes and it would be a much cleaner solution. Kudos to you, Moticon, for suggesting it. Derek

By 'were' you mean past tense and cones are no longer in 4E? So the iconic Cone of Cold and Lightning bolt line are now sacred hamburger I take it. I don't think I'll miss them too much. Now fire cubes instead of fire balls does mess with my verisimilitude a bit. But as someone in another...

Lfr I want LFR and the FR novels to play nicely with each other and not step on each other toes. I plan on playing LFR and nothing would thrill me more then to read in a FR novel some oblique reference to an LFR module that my character participated in. Derek

Gotta love the Birthright reference. I definitely think BR blood abilities should be an extra choice of powers for scions. Sort of like how your race will open up racial feats and powers. Being blooded would allow you to take blood powers and feats with the initial cost of your first level...

Here is the crux of the issue. 4E will not let you make a useless character. 4E assumes you will be filling a role in the party. Is it possible to have a character concept that doesn't fit with those two 4E assetions? If so then not all characters can be transferred from 3E to 4E. I would...

I had a few thoughts on the swashbuckler. In 3.x the swashbuckler archetype was filled with the duelist PrC and then finally a base class to call it's own. Just because 3.x had a swash base class, doesn't mean it did it well. I've never seen swashes as defenders. They leap a top tables...

The Ranger should be using his at-will, Careful Attack, on his turn instead of his basic attack. It's a +10 vs AC and does the same damage as his basic attack. That means he only needs a 10 to hit the Hobgoblin. Derek

Racial Levels sucked for the same reasons multiclassing sucked. It was pointless for casters. What was the point of taking 3 to 5 levels of a racial class before starting a wizard? Completely suboptimal for casters. Now in 4E, every class gets the opportunity to pick up extra racial...

In one of the FR novels, Kelemvor creates an angel out of a soul that is a Cyric "false." He then regrets his decision and offers him back to Cyric who makes him a reluctant angel for his cause (after a quest of course). This idea of angels serving neutral or evil gods reluctantly or not was...

I believe the word you are looking for is arbitrary. As others have stated, 3E and 4E have seemingly arbitrary values for monsters to make the math come out right for the sweet spot. I would argue that it's not arbitrary since the reason is to have fun. If ACs at a certain value for a...

I've already decided to run my 4E campaigns in Birthright. It already feels like 4E. Shadow world - Check No Gnomes - Check Feywild - People were know to walk in to an elven forest and reappear decades later, so check PoL - BR has lots of mid to high level bad guys with their own domains...