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  1. captainspud

    arrow counting question

    I share the opinion of all the other posters-- tracking ammo is a waste of time. BUT. This was absolutely not the time and place to have that argument. One attempt at the start to dissuade you from using ammo was fine, but from the moment you said, "No, it's okay, I'd still rather do it,"...
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    Why CompoundWord Monsters Don't Bother Me

    I wasn't aware that this was a problem.
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    Heroes of Shadow

    1) Why did you give the Vampire so few choices to make? As people have pointed out, you get to choose two powers and a paragon path over the course of an entire playing career. Everything else is on rails. Was it a space constraint, or did you specifically want all Vampires to follow the...
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    Feat stacking

    Same-named game element = two copies of the same feat, or two copies of the same power. It doesn't mean "any two feats". For example, take the Warding Defense feat: If two adjacent allies popped Total Defense and had that feat, you'd only get the benefit from one of them.
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    Flail, Holy Symbol, Ki Focus, Totem expertise - what should they do?

    I started working on this a while back for my group's use-- wherever possible I tried to piggyback on existing expertise effects: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?hl=en&hl=en&key=0Ai4hvLYyP1kUdGlPUlBzdmtyNlpUc1lYdXpwT1psaHc&output=html Blue are new effects or new uses of an old effect.
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    Fortune Cards: you likey?

    I made up 8 10-card decks to suit character archetypes: Defender 1 Defender 2 Melee Striker Ranged Striker Controller Leader Misc Support (the "anybody can use these" deck) Chance (all the Gambler cards and Reckless cards) At my three groups (DMing LFR, DMing home game, playing home game)...
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    DDI Monster Builder

    This is totally useless. It's not a monster "builder", it's a monster "minor superficial adjuster". Ugh. EDIT: Wow, you can't even do anything with the stat blocks once they're built except print them-- can't copy the info to a Word document to print multiple blocks to a page. This thing is a...
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    Racial flex stats are up!

    That's actually not true at all. All software that isn't open-source comes with an EULA that you theoretically are agreeing to abide by, and the majority of which specifically forbid you from modifying the product in any way. It's not something that's enforced in most cases, but it would...
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    Racial flex stats are up!

    Deva: Wis, Int/Cha Genasi: Int, Str/Con Goliath: Str, Con/Wis Gnome: Int, Dex/Cha Kalashtar: Cha, Int/Wis Revenant: Dex, Cha/Con Shadar-Kai: Dex, Int/Wis Shifter: Wis, Str/Dex (no change) Warforged: Con, Str/Int Personally, I'm thrilled about the Warforged. That's exactly the stat split I...
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    The beast.

    The Grappling Fighter from MP2 is based on keeping a hand open for grabs... and there's nothing stopping you from keeping the other one open as well, if you want to.
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    Beast Forms that Lack the Keyword and Powers

    You're over-thinking it. Using one of these utilities simply adds some extra rules onto your existing Wild Shape power; with the exception of the specific differences they specify, your Wild Shape still functions exactly as it would normally, so you can still use whatever powers you normally...
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    D&D 4E D&D 4e for sale...great deals

    "Dude, you can't buy heroin here. This is a POLICE STATION." "Yeah, well, maybe if you guys didn't shut down all the heroin dealers, I wouldn't have to do it here!"
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    Deluxe DM Screen

    It's "Deluxe" compared to the thinner laminated one from the DM kit, not compared to the old (pretty much identical) heavy screen.
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    What do you think of the Deluxe DM Screen?

    The inside appears to be identical to the DM kit screen, but with the Cover and Concealment tables replaced with Skill Challenge Complexities and Charging. Everything else looks exactly the same. WAY better art, though. :D
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    Fortune Cards, we just received a preview

    Except that Wizards already owns thousands of pieces of art they can pull from at no cost. No art = just lazy.
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    Ampersand: 2011 releases officially gutted

    Speaking as someone who has precious few opportunities to actually play D&D (my groups are either long-term but sporadic, or short-lived and inevitably collapse), my enjoyment of this hobby comes largely through getting new materials to browse and theory-build with. I basically consume D&D...
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    Ampersand: 2011 releases officially gutted

    From today's Ampersand (emphasis mine) : So barring further announcements, the ONLY book releases this year are Heroes of Shadow (APR), Shadowfell (JUN), and the Monster Vault: TttNV (JUN). Adjectives fail me. :eek:
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    D&D 4E D&D 4ed Power Tracker

    Aye, you neglected to post the link. @_@
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    Harrowing halls

    I don't think they've ever reprinted a tile set. Ones that sell out are simply gone. Your choices are basically to order internationally, or pick it up on something like eBay.
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    A question about Dragon's Tail (Monk at-will)

    That's basically it. You end up in one of its squares, its ends up in one of your squares.
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