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When PHB2 came out, I went through the wiki pages my player's wrote up about their players, picked four skills appropriate to their written backgrounds, and told the players what their Background Skills were. They then chose one of those skills to add to their trainable list or take a +2 in. In...

I suppose my "Precise Wands" thread from last night might qualify... :) When I was writing it, originally it was going to be about a speific spell I wanted to put on the wand, before I changed my mind and asked the generic question. If I'd posted with the original subject, it probably could...

Adventurers Guild has a single Precise Wand, that of Color Spray, at 10th level. Is it reasonable to assume that it can be used as a template for precise wands with other 3rd level encounter powers at the same level? Or is there something unique about Color Spray that would make this...

Ok, I understand the argument, but there's an analagous retrain which I've frequently seen quoted as perfectly legal: if I have the feats Skill Training Arcana and Ritual Caster, by your interpretation, I wouldn't be able to retrain my Skill Training Arcana to Arcane Initiate (which also grants...

Are there any printed guidelines anywhere for building NPCs using PHB2 classes, analagous to the rules on p188 of the DMG for the PHB classes? I'm building an NPC Invoker as an ally for my game's party, and I'll be letting the players take turns running her in combat for a few sessions, so I'd...

Wow, my read of the RAW is completely different from everyone else here. Am I completely out to lunch? The power swap feats all specify: "Prerequisites: Any class-specific multiclass feat". So when you retrain one MC feat to another, you're still meeting the prerequisite. Additionally, the...

I'm still confused, and I'm not actually sure I understand what you're trying to say here. If you're surprised, and you've been hit with an ongoing damage effect, do you take that ongoing damage and then save against it when your initiative comes up in the surprised round, even though you don't...

If you get hit by a monster with ongoing damage or other status effect during the surprise round, do you take the ongoing damage and make a save during that round? Or does it wait for the first real round? What if you're surprised and can't act in the surprise round? Does that change anything?

That's excellent, especially the terrain keywords. Thanks very much!

Does DDI include an index by type or locale? If I'm plotting an adventure in the Feywild, I have to search really hard through the MM to find all the Fey monsters. It's even harder if it's an adventure in the Underdark, since there's no unifying keyword for monsters likely to be found there -- I...

What about item powers? Does healer's lore apply to Healing keyword powers gained from items? And if so, how does it combine with Exalted Armor? Do you get the bonus twice, once on the original Healing power and again on the 1d10+cha bonus from the Exalted Armor?

It seems to me that a power like Hobgoblin Resilience would be a good thing for most solos to have.

That's true, but it really goes against a lot of history in most d&d games. I would only ever do this with a particularly sadistic/vicious enemy, and I'd give the players some kind of warning in advance. For example, the next big boss fight in my game will include two carnage demons, and at the...

I really think the big problem has been missed by a lot of posters here. The game is not, at it's core, stable; it's only meta-stable. If everyone's working together (DM and players) to keep things balanced and fun, it hums along pretty well. But if people don't keep that goal in mind, there's a...

Thanks for all the tips. I've already written up some dialog notes for the scenario that have an imp offering a PC basically whatever he wants: "A golden fiddle? Knowledge beyond your wildest dreams? Everlasting youth? Clockwork hands? Yes, anything." I'll leave it to the player to decide if he...

Yeah, but I am the DM, and I'm looking for some guidelines. :) What kind of stuff could low level devils offer?

All of the wish-granting powers that Devils had in 3.5e are missing in 4e. How are devils supposed to strike deals with mortals these days?

18, actually.

I've been using a houserule that allows multiple action points in a fight (but still one per round). So if you save up your action points for a few milestones, you can really go nova in that last fight of the day. It's definitely encouraged longer adventuring days in my game. In my last session...

Why can't a Gelatinous Cube use its Slam attack against a creature which is already Engulfed?