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Mu. The question of "is X magical"? In 4e is really best answered like "Does a dog have a Buddha soul?" It can't be answered yes or no, because the distinction between "magical" and "non-magical" does not really exist in 4e anymore. You will never walk into an anti-magic field and find your...

Made some edits. Upped the damage and removed the ongoing on miss from Stack Smash, replaced with a daze much like Rib Kick. Also reduced the attack on Rib Kick. Next up, I'll create its boss: The Mad Chirurgeon, 17 Controller (Leader)

DMG, p. 65. Medium objects have 20 hp. Stone doubles that, and metal triples it. Now, the others brought up excellent points where it would make sense and be consistent if you gave them some sort of "resist all" to reduce the damage, because those hit point totals are insanely low and mean even...

Thanks for the feedback. I'll lower the attack bonus on Rib Kick. Makes more sense that way. Some justifications: I thought about making it Elite, but I'm trying to replicate its abilities from the anime. In the anime it was part of a 4-man encounter, where you could easily peg two of them as...

Based on a character from my favorite anime, One Piece: Created by an unusual necromantic process, Animus Zombies are rare among zombies in that they are intelligent and have strong personalities, but they are still completely under their master's control. Religion DC 10: The essence of...

The approach is interesting. I like the idea of using martial practices as a template for certain special actions like hacking. I don't like his wealth idea, though. Personally, I think the best way to handle wealth is to change it to "resources." GP become RP. Resources are a purely abstract...

Bloody 'ell, I signed into my other account again by accident? Any way to merge the two?

Hunter feels like more an expansion of the blue book than anything else. It is the game to go to for newbies who don't want to deal with a lot of supernatural power, or want to have it doled out in small increments. Also, most of the characters are still fundamentally human so it's not a big...

Anyone else here a fan of One Piece? The first thing I thought of reading this class was Baron Omatsuri from Movie 6, and that scared the crud out of me. Now I want to make a villain with this class. Very much potential.

Like any philosophy, it is easy to skim off it and miss the details. Someone who pays lip service to the Great Mother while not truly understanding her philosophy would be a rapacious bandit, simply taking whatever he wants and unable to work with anyone. Someone who really and truly grasps the...

Thing is, this isn't a preview. This won't be in a future PHB (perhaps a Dragon annual), but this and the three other articles are it. Look at this like an entry in the PHB.

This is funny, because I was actually trying to work out a way to make an interesting "super-solo" encounter, pitting two 5-man parties against a single, massive foe. Not inspired by WoW at all (though I do play it), it's actually inspired by the fights in One Piece with Oars and Pacifista #1...

I can help with this. It was already answered in one of the previews, but it's easy to miss. All the PHB2 classes will get class templates, but unfortunately there won't be one for the Artificer (AFAIK).

Considering that he's a leader, odds are you won't be meeting him alone either. Fortunately, there's little out there to pair him up with. For the moment. We'll see what Draconomicon 2 adds that Bahamut may want to pal around with.

Looks like i was wrong. I am a part of the DDI group. I really need to poke around the new site more.

How in the world did I double post 10 minutes apart?

You also have to join the particular group. I just logged on and found I'm not in the group despite being a DDI subscriber. Could be because I'm at work and behind a (poor) proxy, so I'll have to try to sign up for it when I get home.

At-will plane hopping doesn't really get started until the Paragon level, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist before then. It just mostly takes a quest to get there (or cosmicly bad luck, in the case of Ravenloft) instead of a ritual and some residuum. Note that one of the domains of dread...

I've spent the last few years in a foreign country. I've managed to pick up enough so that, if I really, really try I can make myself understood. I can personally attest that communicating with someone with whom you only share the universal language of "Broken" is a very taxing experience. Now...

I'm feeling especially dense, but where do the canaries come from?