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You can still insert story into an otherwise featureless Dungeon Crawl. The PCs can come across bodies wearing the same outfit/insignia, indicating a group or army. They can come across a note indicating reports of a large monstrous horde building nearby. They can stumble upon the remains...

Bear with me, this might get long. Sometimes, you just have to tell the players: "No killing each other or stealing from each other in this game (anymore)." That alone is usually enough to get players to stop fighting, because if they fight each other then you just stop the session and don't...

I usually end up with option 3, but sometimes use option 2, usually at the beginning of a fight (sort of like they are feeling the enemy out). My players love "Ah hah!" moments where they "get one over" on the monster by raising their AC at the last moment.

I'm not sure what the problem was with name "Aasimar." I heard one theory that people couldn't help but spell it "Assimar" on message boards, but I think a misspelling of Deva to "Diva" would be much, much worse.

Might be "Deep Gnome" :P

Spotting a trap isn't the same as overcoming it. Sometimes a trap can be unavoidable, or must be disabled with Thievery, or just smashed to pieces. You might see the control box, but it's on the other side of the room (through all the traps). Even if you disable at trap doesn't meant it is...

If you and the other players (and the DM) agree that leveling up is taking too long for whatever reason, the DM can increase XP awarded. He can arbitrarily award for various story reasons, or multiply all experience by a certain amount, or just flat out state when you gain levels -- all sorts...

Have you.... told the Ranger your concerns?

It depends on your DM more than anything. If your DM is a hardass and says "You have to interrupt me before I tell you what the damage is," then that is what you have to do. If your DM is more lenient, he will probably let you interrupt any time before it's the next monster/player's action...

Using a two handed weapon does more damage than a one handed weapon because the weapon is bigger and requires two hands at the same time. If you use a one handed weapon that has the versatile property with both hands, that adds +1 damage, which is the average increase you would get by just...

If additional load time can be accounted for even using a Crossbow (load minor), I think the intent was it would work for daggers too (draw minor). This doesn't have to make any kind of sense, it's a Daily Power. Physics can be broken.

It says any attack, and it is called an opportunity attack... Unless the marked creature is taking the OA against the Fighter, it is an attack which does not include the fighter.

Hey, I said it was a weak argument :p

In the implied setting, following the MM info, they are almost certainly not acceptable as anything but gladiators. First sentence of MM entry: "Minotaurs are fierce, bull-headed monsters that worship demons and enslave and plunder weaker creatures." So, yeah.

Fighter's OA basic is pretty darn good; it stops enemy movement :P

Without actual "updates" there's really no way to tell whether the changes are intentional though. EDIT: I actually believe they simply added only the values from the DMG. I believe the PHB ones which are different are different on purpose, because they govern different situations. "Ignore...

I treat "dumb" things as generally aware of the marks and such, but that would still fall within not really "understanding" the full effects. A spider would get the idea the Fighter who marked him is causing him problems attacking the other PCs, but it may not be able to truly understand what...

Based on my understanding of the creature in question and its goals. Frequently I also play animals and low-int monsters as "stupid" and sometimes not really understanding the full ramifications of powers or effects (or they get distracted easily and forget). Players seem to like it; it makes...

You are probably thinking of the "Critical Success and Failure" Houserule on page 189 of the DMG.

I believe any instituted effort for adventure writers to make pregenerated characters is pretty doomed to failure. Just check the link in my signature for one example. I think that if you contact your friends and ask them to make up their own level X characters it will probably work out...