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Anyone still working on this? I wonder if the "themes" announced for the Dark Sun book later this year would be of help in reconstructing 2e kits for Al-Qadim as well. Guess we'll have to wait to find out more about those. Meanwhile, has anything else been done? The PHB3 classes seem to be a...

I am pondering how to "fluff" a runepriest character for Eberron. (I'm the GM and one of my players wants to introduce one.) My initial thought is to equate "runes" with the various dragonmarks scattered throughout the world, but I thought I'd ask in case there are better ideas out there. I...

Oh. Well, don't I look uneducated. :o Not sure about the "&quot"s. I posted from my phone, and had to edit a few times to add spacing between paragraphs. I tried to change those codes back to quotation marks, and it looked as though it had worked in the preview, but apparently not. Thanks...

Ari or Joe, Not a nitpick, just a matter of amused curiosity: Any idea what was the nature of the search-and-replace that transformed every mention of "lava" in the nature priest's Burning Lava power into "lahar"? I've been trying to work out the sort of change that would accidentally transform...

Huh, yeah, the double sword is weird. I was thinking that the primary end counts as a heavy blade and the secondary end counts as a light blade, so that you couldn't actually use Heavy Blade Opportunist and rogue powers at the same time. Upon checking again, the book doesn't actually say...

You can interrupt after any square of movement. So if you have a melee weapon and a guy is charging at you, you interrupt between the last square of movement (the one that puts him adjacent to you) and his basic melee attack. Deadstop

Is this really a greater problem for 4e than for D&D in general, though? "D&Disms" have always made adaptation of literary or folkloric fantasy to D&D a tricky prospect. Even in the OGL era, when some companies felt free to pull and replace the "Vancian" magic system entirely, you had...

Don't forget that there's an explicit instruction to rework the flavor text on any power you like. That should go without saying, of course, but it means you might be able to get away with "look and feel" changes to some powers instead of making up new power sets wholesale. A fire-damage...

Hmm. That's a good one.I'd have to say that primary, secondary, and tertiary attacks are explicitly distinct attacks, so you'd take the challenge damage for each one not targeted at the paladin. Whereas a burst or blast attack would be a single attack that potentially includes the paladin, even...

Wouldn't this bit from the "Breaking Stealth" section of his rules take care of that problem? "If at any point you have no cover or concealment from a creature (other than the total concealment granted by being hidden), you cease being hidden to that creature." So as soon as you come out...

Well, he's got the Curse, which is his "add extra d6s" damage boost along the lines of the Rogue's Sneak Attack and the Ranger's Hunter's Quarry. He's the only one of the Strikers who can place that damage boost on multiple enemies at the same time (though I don't know how many area-effect...

Involuntary push/pull/slides do break physical immobilization, including grab. They move the person in spite of mental immobilization, but the immobilized condition remains. A push/pull/slide flavored as a charm is interesting, though, especially since you could use it to command an...

No. The power that lets you hit a shifting enemy involves an immediate interrupt, not an opportunity attack. Someone who tries to move and gets smacked with your OA can't keep moving (if he's your marked target), but someone who shifts away and takes the Combat Challenge attack is not so...

Saric, great job! I notice, though, that your bard offers multiple powers that inflict the "restrained" condition. Now, I prefer "restrained" to "immobilized" in most cases myself, but there aren't many other powers that inflict it. Even grappling/grabbing doesn't any more. Just thought that...

Currently, the Rogue and Ranger especially have some Utility powers that are aimed more at making them expert skill-users than at combat functionality. The Paladin also has a couple Utility prayers (Astral Speech, especially, and the telepathy one to a degree) that allow for fitting, flavorful...

Either way should work, as long as you don't accidentally combine the two. The initial example of the rogue who sneak attacks as an OA before his turn, then does it again on his own turn, works if "round" is defined as starting with one's own turn -- but only if the rogue did not use sneak...

4e does provide human statblocks (and an entire human PC-creation system) as well as the werewolf hybrid statblock. I believe the wolf may be one of the few normal animals with a statblock, too; if not, it's not unreasonable to use dire wolf or worg stats for a wolf-form werewolf. Of course...

Resist and Vulnerability, specifically, do not stack but overlap (you use the highest value). The same is true of temporary hit points (which are kind of like an ablative Resist All). Deadstop

There may well also be a "minion template," or at least a procedure for turning a non-minion statblock into a minion one, even if it's not classed as a template. We know of such a procedure for turning a non-elite monster elite, for example. That aside, though ... okay, you could take the...

Ah, forgive me then. I took your earlier post as suggesting that all the merchants were supposed to be was magic item speculators, who had no reason to be risking themselves for profit unless there happened to be loot-heavy adventurers at their destination. As for PoL, I like it myself and I...