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I don't have any issues with any of that. Thats kinda neutral. Thats the infantry going in front of the artillery. I just don't like it when a fighter is modelled as a tank, specifically. Especially a WoW tank no less, low damage high resistance, as if we had to deal with WoW damage per...

I never said that. If there's an open field then you can't properly tank, and neither should you be able to. If you're in an open field your tactics are going to have to change. We have had fights in open fields, fights in forests, all sorts, and they are of a different character completely...

Well, Antagonise is a particularly stupid brute force approach one, but there are various lures and goads and the like, penalties if you attack someone other than the fighter, that sort of thing. It adds up to the same philosophy, various encouragements to hit the defensive guy even though he...

They got worse because now the NPCs have no brain, all they do is process game mechanics, like "must hit fighter because he just taunted me, must ignore rogue who did 60 damage that round and hit the guy with shiny armour, because bbzzt bzzt robot brain says so". I kinda assume if you want a...

Well, yeah. Too bad? Thats teamwork, and a well balanced party in action. I think the OP is pretty much talking about that in fact, he doesn't have a balanced party it seems. There's two high ac melee types in our merry little band, one of them has Lunge just in case he has to swordwave over...

There were front line fighters protecting squishies long before a reliance on WoW-esque "tactics" like Taunt. In fact the turn to that sort of thing is precisely why I didn't like 4E at all and went for Pathfinder instead. You protect the others by appropriate positioning. If there's a...

I played a tanky paladin that seemed pretty successful? Full plate armour, light shield, dex 13, dodge feat, shield focus feat, combat expertise, Threatening Defender trait so you use expertise all the time, AC 24 (25 when you reach level 4 and expertise gets better) as soon as you have the...

It sounds as if the problem is largely with the GM then unfortunately, or the module design (but its not like a GM couldn't add in a few more not-so-immune-to-precision-damage baddies even if the module didn't have them). 1) is the equivalent of using dead magic or highly spell resistant...

How are you being thwarted exactly? I think the sniper rogue is pretty good, especially when you get the enhanced sniping advanced rogue ability at level 10. You can just sneak attack constantly with surprise attack, and still be almost impossible to spot. Especially with a cloak of...

Ah, thank you! I misread, and thought the dead 'un got the temp level. So the paladin takes the negative level. Okay, thats cool (and a bit more balanced).

We got an oracle in our party who uses selective channelling and has a massive charisma score. Who uses lifelink and heals herself, not sure how viable that would be in later levels but its certainly good at level 8. At lower levels she only healed herself, not other people, now she's having...

So the paladin feat, Ultimate Mercy, allows a paladin to duplicate a raise dead spell. The raised suffers 2 permanent negative levels, and 1 temporary negative level that automatically clears after 24 hours if the paladin chooses not to use the 5000gp material component. What happens if you...

Depends how harsh you are, after all FOB is just as if you had two weapon fighting. However, "For the purpose of these attacks, the monks base attack bonus is equal to his monk level.", which is normally a bonus for a single classed monk, implies it might not if you were feeling cruel.

I thought it was for witches, who do seem to very much be about stereotypical witches - crones with cauldrons. It is indeed on the witch spell list. So you can play a hideous old crone with green skin, one tooth and a nose wart (and thus get your int + wis + cha bonuses :p) yet still look...

I've had great fun with my paladin. The basic concept was to be really angelic and 'too good for this world', so edging towards NG rather than LG. Gets sad when other characters are somewhat disreputable but attempts to strive to be an example to others, and not an overbearing boor like the...