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I believe something has been said about a limit to how many times per day a character can be healed. This could be it. Say, a cleric might have at-will healing powers, but people can only be so artificially healed so many times. Lest clerics would take over the world by using their hit-and-heal...

I'm guessing the hand crossbow has a very short range and instead of saying you can only sneak attack up to a limited range, you can only sneak attack up to the already limited ranges of the weapon options. Furthermore, crossbows have been treated as more accurate weapons since 3e, as inferred...

IIRC, traditionally, D&D golems are earth-elemental spirits bound by magic to sculpted physical forms. Not sure if they are all earth and all arcane, but mostly are.

Actually, he was quite specific about them exploring the possibility of armor as DR and utterly rejecting the idea for several problems he mentioned: its hard to balance combat with four factors (hit, defense, damage and DR) and it adds yet another step to resolve in combat, to sum it up. About...

Yes, the DDM handbook lists Lightning damage and also Wound damage.

Don't forget the pit fiend has 2 roles: he is a Level 26 Elite Soldier (Leader). His leader role is probably secondary.

Can't actually read the whole topic anytime in the near future, so I'll drop some cents... I expect the +2 to come from being either an elite monster or an epic tier one: +0 for heroic, +1 for paragon, +2 for epic. With the action point, he takes 2 standard actions and 2 minor actions...

In 3.5, only half of a fire elemental's damage from blows is fire-typed. The other half, plus STR, is bludgeoning. That's how a greater elemental beats a lesser one: its form is consistent enough to break and be broken. Not by coincidence, that's how the PC's steel break them as well. No, the...

Thinking in 3.x terms I would agree with you. Since we don't see the whole picture of 4E yet, we might be wrong in this thinking. See, multiclassing is said to work a lot better in 4E and, by what I've heard, I think it's reasonable to assume that you can, if you will, multiclass your druid into...

Not really. While you can only be either trained or not, you may only be trained in class skills. If you are not trained, you are 5 points behind and can't do some restricted tasks, though you still get the +1 per 2 levels progression. Skill Focus also gives +5, but you'll only want this to...

Interesting point. I could totally see hp and Fort based on Strength. Then, base hp could be an universal progression, as long as the game somehow forced the standard hierarchy of hp: wizard, sorcerer < bard, rogue < cleric, druid, monk, ranger < fighter, paladin < barbarian. One way to enforce...

Yeah, and a prone stunned target should be easier to hit than a target that is just prone or just stunned. These should still stack.

It seems pretty obvious that is the case. It seems the guy from Hungary was right, and so was the spined devil stats: ability modifiers now are always (or mostly) used with +1/2 lvl added. This would include Defenses (plus 10), attack rolls (including "Charisma attacks"), damage rolls, skill...

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/drdd/20071005 http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/drdd/20071126 At this point, I'm starting to think "combat advantage" is a new game term with a very specific meaning. It could, of course, be a wildcard term for details they don't want to get into...

It's probably just HP damage (per round). Some official 4E article said how wierd it was that warforged DR was applying to poison damage. Weird, but could be simply the -5 penalty for being distracted. Spot must have been a typo. That probably just points out that it's a humanoid whose soul...

A tidbit more of heroism I've been thinking about using only base Ref bonus, never BAB, for Defense, but adding base Fort bonus to Soak. I like realism, but I think warriors could use a little touch of additional heroism. Anyhow, it could account for psycological damage tolerance as well. Also...

I'd suggest using 4 as an abstraction to justify 3.