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So it's not a roll, but you determine (not roll, determine, it's important to make the difference) the max damage you would have done if you had rolled. Not a roll = no rerolling max dice since it's not even a roll (talking about vorpal here) but determining max dmg we could have rolled tells ya...

The last part is an example not a definition, hehe Edit : but yea, some dictionaries are better than others. But we all know what "rather than" means and what's it's used for. We don't really need a dictionary for that as it's a very common usage.

I don't get why many of you guys purposefully ignore that bit of text in the book while debating vorpal weapons criticals : It is a clear case of ppl ignoring a bit of text that goes against what they "think" is right even though they are trying to debate "RAW". So all arguments that are based...

Come off the horse and read the DDI news. This is an early alpha.

although the maths are interesting it's far from sticky material

I think that if both get separate set of actions because the mount is meaningful to this encounter, the rider gets his move action too (could be transformed into a minor action or to dismount or whatever a move action can do). It's just that he won't "move" with it.

Although the maths are interesting, nothing beats the experience itself. I am pretty sure that once I have a few challenge designs under my belt I will have no problem with them (and by that I mean using them mostly as described in the DMG and Keith's advices on what it all means). It was my...

That's a PC only rule. For NPC it's : 1) if you are counting the mount's XP in the encounter total, mount and rider each get their own set of actions. 2) if you are not counting the mount's xp (because it's so low lvl that it's irrelevant or because it has no attacks or special powers), give...

Thinking in 3Eisms will not help here. 4E has no hard rules for setting DCs, monster stats and anything else. Everything is just guidelines, so a particular author is very well encouraged to change a few things as he wish for his adventure to play as he wants it to. So teh skill challenge...

The dmg the MM monsters/NPC do are not related to the weapons they wield. He could have a dagger in his hands and still do the same dmg. Dmg is related to monster/NPC role, lvl, flavor, etc etc, not weapon in hand. Judging from everything seen and the guideline rules : equipment for basic...

Check the DMG's errata for some answers (specifically the giant and oni's dmg) about this. http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/updates

The pre-gens can also be a source of info to ya. But what character levels are you looking at? any?

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It's not in the PHB, but you can always use this : http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4ex/20080416a

I the this post's OP way better than the 1st one. I know I bitched about the other thread but it was too obvious it was missing some critical info to be worth it. This one is worth thinking over.

I guess your perception of maths and mine is different. For me the above is implied knowledge, not maths. To me 4*8 isn't maths it's basic stuff everybody knows. To me it's obvious that in an upward and simple scaling system as DnD, the numbers aren't maths, there are a scale of reference. Like...

So the argument here is that in the math thread ppl prove that complexity does affect the difficulty unlike what's stated in the DMG? I happen to be good in maths. Had 95 to 100% yearly averages all through high school and college (didn't go to university). Now there is two things about the...

* I guess my statement was a bit too strong. It comes from my personal dislike of seeing a group of persons usually trying to find what's wrong with something/anything instead of seeing what's right. My dislike of negativism makes my own personal self negative at times (a trait of mine which I...

This. The DMG clearly states that complexity isn't a measure of difficulty. It is a measure of significance to your adventure. Choose a complexity 1 challenge for barely significant (or something that should be resolved quickly as part of another challenge like combat) challenge. Choose a...

Because somebody like me, who stopped reading the stupid math thread because just reading the 1st page it was obvious to me the poster had forgotten to include all the various bonuses a PC can get from various sources and nobody seemed to notice, or care if somebody pointed it to them. And...