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I don't mind the MMO references, but what "threat" are you giving up exactly to take DBR? +2 to hit and +1 to damage (assume -2 STR over another fighter and lack of great weapon feature)? That's not enough especially given that a fighter is more like a striker these days than a defender. The...

jh, I'm running a similar kind of group and I've found that having one person track initiative and call it out is huge (probably does the same thing as your cards). On conditions, there's one person who's responsible for tracking the different conditions on enemies and allies which has made a...

It looks like the character's stats wrong, given what we currently believe to be true about stat adjustment advancement. Supposedly, characters add +1 to two different stats at levels 4, 8, 14, 18, 24, and 28. At levels 11 and 21, the character adds 1 to all stats. So a 15th level character...

Except that Thalmin's post: +1 to each of two different stats at about every 4th level, but there are a few levels (I think 11 and 21) where every stat gets a +1 bonus. Could also mean 4th (+1 to two different scores), 8th (+1 to two different scores), 11th (+1 to all scores), 12th (+1 to two...

That's why healing surges are in the game. The idea is that all classes have similar hit point values, so a DM never has to worry that if the BBEG goes after the wizard he will destroy him in a few hits (since his damage is scaled to deal with the fighter's much higher hit point total)...

And not doing it screws with campaigns where you already have 30th level+ characters. I have been saying to my gaming group for a while that 4e has a very 2e feel about it so far, including a hard cap at 30th level. We got around that in '97 by introducing "salient" powers (based conceptually...

I also second asking how multiclassing will work. Also, are there plans for post-level 30 support, either informally via guidelines (possibly on DDI) or formally (a la 3e's Epic Level Handbook)?

What are you looking for the smart rogue to do? And in which previous editions do you feel that your concept of the smart rogue was given justice? I'm just curious as a basis for comparison. In 3e/3.5, smart rogues were just that. Smart. Smart rogues were skill-based characters. They had a...

I disagree. In my experience, they are equal factors in very long combat rounds. And the slowdown from the rules comes in two forms: 1) Rules promoting many different character actions/options combined with different, oft-increasing temporary numeric effects 2) Rules...

Well, I certainly agree with you, green slime. The only reason I asked is because Pyrex sounded very sure that this was erratad. I can't imagine why it would be changed either, and we would probably just ignore the change, but good to know that it hasn't been done and that we didn't miss...

Where (and when) was this in an errata? It's not in the newly released ELH errata list. Thanks, franzel

Actually, the rule as stated on page 172 of the 3.5 PHB is "If one abjuration spell is active within 10 feet of another for 24 hours or more, the magical fields interfere with each other and create barely visible energy fluctuations." So it wouldn't happen with armor or shields (since they are...

What WotC means by "fixed range" Hi Bob, What they mean when they use the term "fixed range" are spells which are personal spells, but which have a range in the spell description. All of the "Detect X" spells are like this, e.g. Detect Magic Divination Level: Brd 0, Clr 0, Drd 0, Sor/Wiz 0...