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Because it's too blatant an attempt to manipulate the power's dumping of the worse attack roll. If you want to be able to take the highest roll, you're going to have to designate two targets which are NOT bags of rats.

::nods:: This is the most common cause for running into two encounters in my experience, aside from the DM just designing a two-encounter fight. The characters are the ones doing the running, for whatever reason, and they're running in a bad direction.

Various ways. Attack: Str vs. AC, two attacks Hit: 1W +Str mod Weapon: Blah blah, per attack, make a secondary attack would be one, though some people might end up confused by it. WotC partly hampers themselves by refusing to take the additional ink/page space to use Primary Attack in place...

They can, but most people don't, most of the time. Most people's actions tend toward an internal consistency, which may or may not change over time. Most frameworks for analysing behavior utilize two-dimensional snapshots. They're simplistic but functional enough. How much complexity is...

Actually, up until the clarification from Logan indicating exactly what the power was supposed to do, I read the power the same way C_M did, and I still think the RAW text can be read that way. For me, the key was that the power lacked any sort of "per attack" statement, something you see in...

2 and 3 when I ran it. The party ambushed group 1 and only one of the goblins managed to get away. He ran and got the boss, who managed to get encounters 2 and 3 together into the main hall when the PC's busted down that door. Vicious fight.

I miss them, and apply a designation from the old nine-point array in addition to the LG, Good, Unaligned thing from 4E. I think the others at my tables have done so as well.

When I DM, I have little problem with having monsters run when it's obvious they're overmatched. Sometimes the people they run to will move to engage the PCs *if they think they're strong enough* sometimes they will themselves try and hook up with stronger forces, and sometimes they will just...

Oh? Minions seem like a great way to implement PC hirelings.

Perhaps. Or possibly because AFAIK it is the only non-area power with multiple primary attacks in the PHB which does not include some variety of "per attack" statement on either the Attack or Hit lines.

Why would anyone even want to release the target and grab it again on the same round? The damage is done with the sustain. All the Standard action does it make an attack roll to grab the target.

Over 11th level, or with at least one milestone under their belt. You can only use one action point during an encounter, but it was pointed out to me that there's nothing indicating you can only make one item daily use in an encounter, providing you have more than one available. I personally...

The recommendation in the DMG under the flying combat rules is to choose a plane of reference *the ground if only some things are flying, any arbitrary plane otherwise* and then stick an appriopriate die next to the creatures whose number indicates how many squares above or below the plane they...

In my group, three of us are DMing, and we've been trading the task off at the end of each module. I noticed, as a player, that magic was light at the end of KotS and the DM made an adjustment to bring us closer with our quest reward from Lord Padraig. I've been running Thunderspire and redid...

There is no rule that they can't pierce the water, but a DM might want to liberally interpret the Aquatic Combat rules in the DMG pg 45 to include arrows shot into water, which would provide a -2 attack roll penalty.

Hardly fair. There are numerous ways to do it, and you'd even mentioned a few yourself. You didn't like any of them because you decided to treat some other arbitrary rule as inviolate and you couldn't get the results you wanted treating them that way. You also made it quite clear that one of...

Not so much a change, just a different emphasis. The grindspace threads acknowledge that some mobs are easier, some are harder, depending on what the party is composed of, and that you can do things besides play with monster types or levels to make things challenging. It's primarily interested...

True but they don't save against effects they don't have and the effect never even shows up until the warlock has sustained it. There is no Effect line, it's totally unlike the effect listed on the Hit line. Things that you have to save against are actually supposed to have at least one turn's...

An argument about the precise effect of Shadowfell gloves erupted at the table last night. I made a temporary ruling, but am now seeking further information. Wizard used the Shadowfell Gloves and his Staff of the Warmage on his Stinking Cloud at the start of the fight against the BBEG in the...

Hardly. That's a 1-in-5 chance. So if it lands the attack once on each PC in a five-man party. . . ;) *Yes, I realize the actual odds are still rather less than 100%. Please don't break out the slide-rule*