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The highest possible skill modifier for a 1st level character is +15 (+5 stat, +5 training, +3 skill focus, +2 race bonus). You can be about 5 points below that and still succeed on a "normal" DC with a roll of 10. That still makes it pretty tough to succeed on a skill challenge... especially...

Ah... but warlocks can take any warlock power, they just get a bonus for using the ones associated with their path.

Go wild. You could even wear full plate without training and just suck up the penalties, if you want to. :D

The rules in the DMG will be very useful if your players decide to do something the adventure designers didn't anticipate. The MM probably wouldn't help you.

I like the idea that the warlock is hazy and indistinct, as if seen through fog... but the rest of the battlefield is as clear and crisp as normal. Alternately, it could be like the grey men from the Wheel of Time series. The warlock is just as visible as ever, but your mind doesn't want to...

There is a rule that says you add the damage bonuses from feats etc. to damage rolls. It's not part of the [W] and it's not part of the +Str, it's a separate bonus. There is no rule that says you add the damage bonuses from feats etc. to damage that isn't rolled (such as the damage from...

Either you're missing Astral Fire from the INT list, or you have the secondary stat listed wrong in the CHA list.

If the player wants to, I will let them spend 6 months finding a buyer who will 100% of book value, confident that in the fact that by the time the transaction completes the party will be so much higher level that the amount they gained is now irrelevant. Keep in mind that the 20% figure is for...

It's even simpler to just use the same d20 for the attack roll and the roll to see if they survive. If the roll is 1-8, the minion stays up, if it's 9-20 the minion goes down. In other words, do it exactly like the RAW.

The actual rule is "make something up, then playtest". If you don't have time to playtest, the guidelines in the DMG are pre-playtested.

And if you do want to represent Artemis Entreri as a game construct in 4ed D&D, he isn't a ranger or a fighter. He's a monster. You can give him whatever abilities you need. :D

1e had rules for playing with no DM, too.

You mean I'll have to wait for my preordered books and then double check everything before I can run the adventure I've put together? Bah. I wanna play NOW! :( If this is true, the person who leaked them is clearly a douchebag for leaking the wrong version.

Where is the option for "Heroic douchebag"? Seriously. I'd pick it.

Are you suggesting that the kindly mayor of the village the players are staying in, who never recieved arcane training in his life, shouldn't be able to summon a demon using a blasphemous ritual contained in the bloodstained tome he found in the possessions of the robed traveller who died under...

What about skill challenges? There's also an entire section on how to handle player actions that aren't specifically covered by the rules. The example given is a character swinging on a chandelier to kick a bugbear into a burning brazier. Basically, all the rules which call for DM judgement...

Actually, the 4e system doesn't seem all that much different to me. The DMG does have a paragraph about how the DM's common sense can and should trump the rules as written. It also has quite a bit of material on how to "make stuff up" without breaking the game. The difference, if there is one...

I use my computer on the toilet all the time... I've got the books preordered, but I downloaded the PDF to give myself more time to build a good adventure that's ready to play once my players have their PHBs. (Although I suspect that most of them have gotten the PDF by now...)

Most people in the world are 1st level minions. NPCs who interact with the players have only the stats that matter for that NPC, at exactly the value that is dramatically convenient.

I wouldn't be so sure about it taking ten years... there are do-it-yourself versions of Surface that are quite reasonable price-wise, IIRC. They should only get cheaper with mass production. What would make Surface really cool would be using it with real minis with special tags on the bottom...