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If this is what you're looking for in an RPG, you're playing the wrong game. Play Dogs in the Vineyard; it has the concept-focused flexibility that you want and none of the rules that you feel bog you down.

1) Yes. It's perfectly acceptable to be targeted multiple times by the same power. Just take a look at Twin Strike. 2) Also yes. The Fighter is no longer a target, while the Battlemind is.

The problem with this is you're implying that it's the game's fault that this has occurred, that the game is making you be less creative. This is obviously not the case; the DMG is very clear that you can do things outside the rules, providing guidelines that are important enough to have been...

That's because there isn't one. Essentials is a blatant attempt to draw older players away from Pathfinder, and this is just one more element of that plan.

You aren't paying attention. The trigger is "drops to 0 hp". At this point the attack has hit and the damage has been dealt. The only thing that can be invalidated is the state of the orc's hp, which can only be accomplished by healing. Killing the PC that hit him won't do a thing: the attack...

That's still fulfilling your defensive duties, you're just being more aggressive about it. Artillery generally deals more damage with greater accuracy, and Controllers deal moderate damage to multiple PCs. The point of a Defender is to prevent damage to the rest of the party, and dead monsters...

You do know that NPCs with classes are monsters with a class template applied and are not built like PCs, right?

The only uncertainty here is exactly when the interruption happens. If it happens in the middle of taking damage (is it possible to have an action occur while some but not all damage from an attack has been dealt?), right before being reduced to 0 hp, then even healing might not save it if the...

Page 7 of the Plane Below. Lets you reshape the the Elemental Chaos for 24 hours. You could also come up with some sort of ritual (probably mid-to-high Paragon tier) for a more permanent effect. Such rituals canonically exist but haven't been published.

Not if they're shift-charging, or if they've already used their move and minor action. Their turn is already over by the time the Reaction takes place.

No, there's also Warden's Fury, which is like the Fighter's Combat Challenge, but isn't triggered by a shift. Warden's Defending happens over two rounds: a Grasped enemy can't shift on their next turn, so they're staying adjacent to the Warden for a round, which means they'll be triggering...

First of all, the power is "No action", not Immediate Interrupt. Second, Interrupts only come before their trigger, not the entire action. The trigger for Savage Demise is "is reduced to 0 hp or less", not "is hit by an attack that would..." or "takes damage that would..." (powers that have...

I'm not going to discuss this with you any further. You have a disturbing obsession with arbitrary labels (Class Compendium not being Essentials? Don't be ridiculous, it clearly is no matter what subtitle they slap on the box) and avoiding being seen as "house ruling". I think getting you to see...

...yet. Character Compendium is almost certain to include them. Also, some of those products are dungeon tile sets; does this mean you aren't playing Essentials if you use non-Essentials dungeon tiles? And what about settings; are you not playing Essentials if you're playing in the Forgotten...

In a word, yes. Saying "no, you can't use that" is creating a rule that applies specifically to your game. In common parlance this is called a "house rule". There's nothing wrong with good house rules, but that's what you're making when you restrict access to material.

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He means that a DM restricting players to a specific set of source books is a house rule (it being a rule of the house) because nothing says that you can only play with a subset of the material.

I think it's an error in the database entry. Monster Manual errata doesn't list any change.

Like I said before, if he takes any more damage you resolve any effects of taking damage, which includes but is not limited to killing him for being at 0 hp or less. If Savage Demise wasn't an Encounter power he would get an additional action but die before getting to finish resolving the first one.

It depends on the wording of the power. If it's "takes damage that would drop to 0 hp" then yes, the orc would still have whatever hp it had before getting hit, but the damage would still happen after the action is resolved. If the wording is "dropped to 0 hp" then the orc is in the strange...