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Partly it depends on the tactical situation. I ran one encounter where the party was fighting a couple of even-level demons around some hazardous terrain features, and the party had a terrible time grinding them down. A few encounters later they faced a larger number of those demons along with...

Not true. The quarry damage is additional damage rolled against a particular target. It keys off the target, not the power, and once you've applied it in a round, you can't do so again that round. The favorite example has traditionally been rogue sneak attack and blinding barrage. The...

Plenty of other good suggestions here. It sounds like you're trying to convert an older adventure and are trying to do it without too much redesigning. That's unfortunate. I've been working on a conversion myself to finish out a particular campaign and it's seemed to me that getting the same...

There are no random encounters in 4e? Tell that to the two random encounter tables in the Thunderspire. Or better yet, tell it to page 193 in the DMG. Random encounters are still in. In fact, WotC went a step further and threw in guidelines on how to design a spur-of-the-moment random...

So what is "definitively" a single object? I think the floor is definitively a single object, but you apparently disagree. At what size does a statue cease to definitively be a single object? The giant faces on Mount Rushmore are definitively single objects, while I could easily see...

Not completely accurate. You get more force with over-hand blows with a height advantage and they are harder to defend against for the other guy. It was an advantage mounted soldiers had over infantry, even after the shock-power of the charge had dissipated. And if you've got your shield up...

Correct, unless it was able to reach the water by crawling.

You don't say it, but it's what you're doing in practice. Ok, let me set up a couple of examples without the ground. You target a kobold with force orb. It hits the kobold and does splash damage to the eight squares around the kobold. Perfectly fine. You target an ogre. You hit the ogre...

Because you also have to decide what they're going to do. Where are they moving, what paths are they moving along *risking OAs or not, or triggering immediate actions. It all takes mental processing time and unless monsters are playing entirely scripted rather than reacting to what players do...

No one has been trying to deny you can't hit objects, whether using the power's target line or by referencing the DMG guideline. The question has always been whether "the ground" is an object. Draco tried to treat it as an object, came up with ridiculous results in doing so, and concluded it...

When targeting an object, it is a creature for all intents and purposes. It just may not be a creature you can materially effect with your ability. More accurately, once you've expanded the list of targets to include objects as per the DMG's recommendation of DM fiat being the controlling...

I'm not at all certain about this. In my experience, when initiatives end up in player and monster blocks, play slows down. The DM is effectively a player too, one who has to decide a lot more actions than any of the other players. With a block, he/she ends up having to work out the actions...

Yeah, you're on different wave-lengths. He's trying to treat the ground like a target-able object, you're trying to treat it like targeting a square with none of the penalties which are properly applied when doing so.

I don't think there's a rapid reload feat, but I think there's a paragon path *either rogue or ranger, can't remember which now* which has that effect as a feature. Even with a feat like that, I think the crossbow comes out behind the bow in damage. The only reason beyond concept *which is...

My proud nail *and first house-rule, implemented as soon as I reread the description* was for the Remove Disease and Affliction rituals. The only potential no-save death effects still in the game, and you do them to your own allies. Blech.

Ok, but with the level of parsing people are doing in here, the first statement doesn't mean you get your surge value+1d6. It just gives you 1d6. You can spend a healing surge to do a number of things, and WoTC didn't bother to write specific notes on all of them indicating you don't get your...

Well technically both are limits. :) The word limit is direction-agnostic. Both lower limits and upper limits are conceptually and linguistically sound. Similarly threshold can be used in a direction-agnostic fashion.

Nice unmarked quote, lifted verbatim from Wikipedia. Most historical plate armors were not that light. That's a floor from the lightest and most modern of historical plate armor styles. 15th century "White" and "Gothic" plate was heavier. And I'm well aware that it did not take pulleys to...

How do you end up dealing with the Daily Uses per day issue? Sure we only get 1/2/3 depending on tier and an additional one with each milestone, but there's also the restriction that each item can only be used once a day, regardless of how many total Daily Uses you have. Do you give a Use for...

Depends on your preferred flavor of verisilmitude vs gamism. No one would ever sleep in a full set of plate armor in the real world. Historically, if a knight got knocked onto his back in combat he was dead, because he wouldn't be able to get back up again. It would be a herculean task just...