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If you took the concept of fox as trickster, crossed it with the western werewolf myth, took out the parts that are specifically connected with wolves (like attacking people or being dependent on the moon)... you'd have something pretty close to kitsune, I think. There is the issue of whether...

According to the Ecology of the Fire Archon article, archons reproduce by capturing other elementals and transforming them into archons, essentially destroying the elemental's previous soul. That alone could justify assigning them evil alignment.

The legion devil stats make it really easy to interpolate a level-appropriate minion for whatever level you want. I like.

To me, chaotic good means someone who respects life and others but puts himself - and only himself - solidly first. He'll provide help to someone else if there's no great cost or risk, and his morals won't let him cheat or steal (except from those who really deserve it), but he really is looking...

If you really want to divide the loot fairly, it's simple: Divide the gold evenly. Auction the magic items among the players. Set a reserve price of 20% of book. Divide the auction proceeds evenly.

I already run an online campaign. We use MapTool. It's pretty unlikely that all of my players will choose to shell out for DDI. From the info so far, using the DDI tabletop will require my players to either pay a subscription or a per-game fee of some sort - so unless the virtual tabletop is a...

"The simplest answer is usually the correct answer." --Occam's Razor :D

Minions don't have hit points. They have spares. In other words, the "dead in one hit" effect doesn't matter for minions because you fight them in groups - getting lucky against a few doesn't end the fight. Instead of grinding down a monster's HP, you grind down the number of monsters.

In other words, this is the same as the warlord making a melee attack, except that he gets to borrow the attack bonus, damage, and class abilities of an ally who is adjacent to the same monster. Oh, and that ally gets to roll the actual die.

A successful Bluff check means that you have come up with a relevant lie and convinced the target of its truth. A bluff check could be used to make an angry ogre believe that you have a dozen strong knights waiting to aid you in the next room. If you wanted to use the threat of those knights to...

I'd like to see two of my favorite (underappreciated) 3.x monsters: Mad Slasher and Summoning Ooze.

Probably yes. Some early info talked about a dryad who could teleport to a square next to any large tree or treant. It seems unlikely they'd use that ability unless the treant is in the first MM.

I'd suggest averaging the resistances.

I'd guess that legionnaire is a template which takes a lower-level creature and produces a higher-level minion.

My pet rat would like it to be known that rats are highly social animals and most definitely not cannibals. He would also like to point out that he does not eat his own weight in a week, let alone a day.

You forgot to take your medication again, didn't you.

The Endurance skill probably lets you do anything which the Endurance feat would have granted a bonus on the check for in 3.5e. In other words, the Endurance skill in 4e lets them get rid of the Endurance feat from 3.5 by turning it into just another use of Skill Focus.

I believe you've hit the nail on the head. You can find a creature's type line by asking three questions: Where (which plane) did this type of monster originate? If it's from the normal world, it's natural. If it's from somewhere else, it's the appropriate origin, even if the creature was born...

The succubus would be way too powerful if her charm ability did more than what is written. Imagine that she manages to get off her charm on the party fighter, and in addition to what's written he is compelled to stand next to her. Now there is no way to kill the succubus until the fighter is...

A level 8 or 9 monster will certainly wipe the floor with one PC. Comparing a single monster against a whole party isn't a good comparison unless it's a solo monster.