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Did grammar get loose again? You know how she gets when she doesn't take her meds. :)

Oh, please! Not more "noun - noun" compound names!

If she did, it would just lead to even greater sin. :)

DM: You want to do WHAT with your Acrobatics Skill?

When it seemed that classes would be using talent trees, I speculated that power sources would play a role in multi-classing; specifically, that if you had two classes which shared a power source, you would gain some benefit such as advancing on a common talent tree while still picking up some...

I've pieced together an elite team of lapsed players and newcomers from my boardgaming group who are raring to try the new D&D. We'll start on June 17 with KotS with characters they design 'cause the 10th is our boardgaming night. I've even got a 10 year old kid coming who has never played --...

Well...yeah. I would expect players (and characters) to go with their strengths when solving problems. The trick is to find plausible ways to apply your strongest skills to the problem at hand -- putting on an acrobatics display when you're trying to convince Lord Piecemeal to go to war...

Gurney Halleck, Bard/Warlord

This raises some interesting questions: If a wizard is able to use a weapon as his implement, will it provide benefits to his spell-casting? Will different weapon/implements be associated with different benefits (attack, accuracy, damage bonus, etc)? I can completely envision a wizard...

One suggestion I would make for such a situation: if having three corrupt guards would be unlikely, then the DC should increase for each successive check. This might have the added benefit of discouraging "Me too!" checks from the players, giving them a reason to find their own solutions or to...

Exactly! I think we should use Skill Challenges to speed recovery: Athletics check: (Easy) Succeed -- get out of bed, convalesce one day less or Fail -- fall and twist your ankle, convalesce one week more. (Medium) Succeed -- make own breakfast, gain one extra healing surge or Fail -- burn...

THAT'S what 4e needs -- montage rules!

An excellent point! Though I notice that monsters don't have a "Basic Attack" stat. I'm wondering if they have the same limitation. As a guess, I'd would bet that the first attack listed is assumed to be its basic attack, though some of those are decidedly "powers". For example the Human...

So an Area attack is always at range? But if you have an Area attack, you still have to specify 1) the range (either Range X) and 2) the shape (Burst 5, Blast 3). I don't see that Area tells us anything that Range X Burst Y or Range Z Blast Y don't. Unless Area can describe other, more...

Thank you Mr. Bonner! I think I'd sussed most of it out -- it's really pretty straightforward, but it's nice to have confirmation from "The Source". My only real confusion was why the Area keyword -- it really doesn't seem necessary. Apparently it indicates that a spell provokes, but it reads...

Well, we also have Close, which starts with squares adjacent to you. But this is where I get confused: Area and Ranged provoke OA, Close does not. Scorching Burst is listed as "Area burst 1 within 10" and Targets each creatures in burst. So, if I target an opponent in an adjacent square, not...

Don't tell me -- the Head of Vecna!

Figures. Gamers collect figures. Your grandmother collects figurines.

Excellent! I was missing the cone effect and this is easy to use! Cthuulian Cones it is!

Again: I'm merely hypothesizing based on descriptions I've heard from DDXP. I've heard two rumors: Blasts are lines and Blasts are square areas. The descriptions of the dragon combats I've read, the blasts appear to be some sort of square area. With a little noodling around, I came up with...