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If you rename the Warblade the fighter you are pretty much just trading 3rd for fourth, since that's what 4th did for all the classes. Fighters are iconic because they are the master of the feat, which means they're pretty much a blank class for you to customize for any combat style you choose...

Well the darkness thing has to do with overlapping radii of illumination effects synergizing with the Darklight Lantern, (noted for being overridden by magic lighting) to create a minimized zone of total darkness. A smaller darkness effect will nullify the center of a magical light, creating a...

Trying to make a cheap set up with these items, so three Wind Fans gets prohibitively expensive. Also, drowning is generally the term used when suffocation mechanics bypass the Constitution modded time to act normally without air, which is a little unrealistic. When we say drowning we mean...

Lovely barrage of suggestions for the darkness, I thank you. I'm sure I can find one that works with what I'm planning. The best I'd found was something not mentioned, called the darkberry. But I eschew minor consumables as unpractical. For the drowning though, I really need specifically...

It's loot shopping time in the campaign I play in. I've got a few ideas for some item synergies, but I can't seem to find the right items. I've been through every book I have, and a few I don't. I was wondering if some of you had seen something I haven't gotten to. So here goes: I'm looking for...

I am less curious about the energy drain and more about the inability to use Smite Foo being confirmed as impossible. Further I found the weapons I was thinking of. Poison Needle Ring from Dragon attacks as a touch attack with 1 damage, and there's a ghost arm graft that does the same for 1d6...

So, from what I understand of what you're saying, if a character had an energy drain attack, they would be able to inflict this both on a mere touch attack and on a successful standard melee attack. But, they could not use Smite Evil (or more fittingly Good, here) with the touch attack used to...

I think the general point here is that combat and noncombat need to mesh more. 4e was supposed to be 'newbie friendly' but someone seemed to feel that meant cutting out mechanics for much that wasn't killing things and taking their stuff. D&d is not a videogame. We can open every door and...

If a character is able to add a special effect to a melee attack, would they be able to inflict that special effect when hitting with a touch attack? It seems that the text for many class' special abilities reads 'a melee attack' which according to my understanding a melee touch attack, is. So...

That's actually the exact idea I was having. Of course I generalized it for other effects since the way the smoke follows players is a little wonky so I want a concrete rule that I can know the edges of.

Suppose I had a PC with a fire effect on them that causes them to damage anyone entering their square. If I were to succeed at a Tumble check and move through an enemy's square, would that count as they having entered mine for the purpose of triggering the effect? Logically, as the character's...

Yes, that's pretty much exactly what I am asking. As you can stack standard enhancements on an item, can you do so with specific ones?

Good answers. To put it more in perspective, I'm shopping to have items crafted for me, not do so myself. Here are a couple bonus follow up questions: If a specific item you possessed used a base item that was the same as a different specific item, could you merge the two? It can be done with...

Two related questions: I know on research that upgrading a magic item by the book costs the new item's cost minus the old's, in a nutshell. Would this also apply to creating a specific, named magic item if I knew it was constructed from a standard one, and provided that? What if the enhancement...

Ah. Interesting. But neither of those are SOD spells. We can zap an undead and have it turn to dust but I can't turn a golem back into a statue? I mean an inannimate statue.

Not that kind of card. Well... Burning Cinder Fury of Crimson Chaos Fire - This +1 Furious, Maiming, Flaming Burst Handaxe glows red with intense heat, shedding light as a torch. On a successful hit, it deals 5d4 fire damage and ignites the target on fire. (Reflex negates.) The Maiming...

I don't understand why people think Disintegrate is a Save or Die spell. It just does a lot of damage. A monster with loads of HP just calls it 'the bigger plink'. Nobody calls Empowered Fireball a SoD spell. Don't a lot of spells meant to target objects have specific caveats for constructs...

Flaming sword of fiery flame made me think of the likely answer to this question: If you use prices as a guideline, beyond single-bonus weapons you get into specific and then unique territory. That is to say, if you want a sword that does more than a single die of damage, it's going to have a...

Got another one. I was thinking about necromancers, and death magic, when I realized that it doesn't work on constructs or undead. Now undead are destroyed by turning and there are more spells to kill them than the living out there I'd wager. But what about constructs? What's the equivalent of...

While the tips for improving the core concept are alright, we still need to establish a means as to accomplish it, which we haven't. Two points about throw anything, firstly it seems it would require a quite cooperative DM to work, and secondly, it doesn't seem like it would allow one to damage...