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Except in the hands of an Eladrin. Then it's nasty.

It's a suboptimal build. You can F over one save an encounter, and in return, you become a crap mage.

His point is the same fallacy that has led this thread to continue for eleven pages: namely, if D&D doesn't have rules for something, then you can't resolve it, and therefor you can't do it. It doesn't help that his example ignores the fact that the History skill covers that situation very...

That's not really D&D, is it? The books actually devote quite a bit to out of combat activities. Heck, the adventuring rules precede the combat rules in the PHB, and a discussion of character background, personality, and motivation precedes the rules for rolling race and class. What the...

The 4E PHB also happens to be the first to have exploration and travel rules precede combat rules.

Holy hyperbole, Batman! Also, if you want to roll for it, it's not like you can't. Have the dwarf make what you think is an appropriate ability check with an appropriate bonus against an appropriate difficulty.

I hope not. I like those things.

Why? It was pretty great when we ran KotS.

You know, Indy did drink from the Cup of Life. That can easily explain why he's able to survive atomic blasts. You can look at Last Crusade as the adventure that got him from heroic to paragon levels. We missed out on most of his paragon adventures, but we get to catch a glimpse at the end...

I'll run a BECMI campaign set in Grey Box FR, and I will remember why this crap is so frikking awesome.

In talking about the 4E FR campaign we're going to run, my roommate expressed interest in playing a warlord who is basically a jerky Shakespeare. He'll try and direct the party like actors to their greatest dramatic effect, and through an innate understanding of choreography and a zest for the...

It's an introduction to D&D, and it's an introduction to 4E. Let's not get into semantics, but let's also compare it to introductory adventures that have come before. Where are all the RP rules in Keep on the Borderlands or Village of Hommlet or Sunless Citadel? To pretend that KotS is a...

I wouldn't be so sure. The very first encounter calls out the climb DCs for the boulders and rocky outcropping. I ruled bluff v will in a similar situation, where the wizard wanted to use ghost sound to mimic the sound of a cavalry horn.

Probably because it's an idiotic impression formed from a combat heavy, hack & slash introductory module that's designed to showcase the major change to D&D: combat. The assertion that it's just advanced advanced Hero Quest is ridiculous. First of all, it ignores the simple fact that you...

I ran my group through it tonight. They were rolling terribly, so that was definitely a major factor. They made it to that encounter, and got slaughtered. They probably should have pulled back after clearing the outside. They were able to finish off the first group well enough, but when the...

Five steps of alignment= WHFRP

So, like in 99% of D&D fights? Note, I agree that one should be able to sneak attack with a sap.

Hah! Useful form of communication. Where are you from? Bizarro calm, polite, and reasonable world? OP: You're wrong and you're an idiot! :D Everyone else: that goes for you too! ;)

Me too. I hope they kept it. So far, the powers we've seen have had pretty solid and easily interpreted names which leads me to think that they have quietly edited away all that Iron Sigil and Singing Wyvern business partly because of the outpouring of nerd rage against it. To be fair, I was...

This! You nailed it on the head with this statement. Bards should be the investigative journalists of D&D (first 4E character concept: Anderson Cooper with a rapier). They should be knowledgeable and entertaining adventurers. Their combat abilities as a Leader should revolve around...