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They are different. Blast is apparently replacing Cone. Unfortunately, my forum-fu is weak, so I can't provide you with a picture, but here's a description: Take a 2x2 square -- that's the dragon. Now place a 5x5 square so that any portion of the two squares are touching - sides or corners...

Based on the description of the 2nd post, that 12x12 sounds wrong; the area of effect should be only by 5x5 - with one of the sides of the square adjacent to the dragon. It really is the 1-1-1 equivalent of a cone (or really a chord, which is what the cone was really meant to simulate). The...

It's the 1-1-1 Cone! Oh, the NerdRage!

OK, how cool is an ability called "Gnaw"?

I have no doubt that you have played such a game, but it wasn't the D&D published by TSR or WotC. And I don't mean you weren't playing D&D -- you were. But it was a system that developed, probably organically between your DM and the other players. In an earlier post, you seemed to suggest...

They do: it's called Dungeons and Dragons Role Playing Game. OK I'm being facetious. Yes, people have expanded the role-playing options of D&D to resemble other more role-play intensive games; but, at it's heart, D&D has always been a role-playing game wrapped around a tactical combat system...

Anybody else just flash on Lady Heather from CSI?

Oh, great! Now the archmage is going to have to years of minor actions just to babysit the kobold! When's he ever going to take an extended rest?

You forgot the "I wasn't there and I don't vote in polls" option. ;-)

Add to that: it's an ENCOUNTER power. It's not like the eladrin will be popping in and out of melee the whole time -- he can only do it once every five minutes, at most. Seraph's image of the flirtatious eladrin is almost right: he can saddle up to his paramour, get cheeky and then when she...

My guess: it's NOT a typo. As you state, the procedure is probably: roll a single d6, the result tells you which of the abilities recharge, thus: Recharge 4,5,6 -- on a 4, 5 or 6; Recharge 4,6 -- on a 4 or 6. This allows a single die roll to determine if all, none or SOME of the creature's...

TerraDave: This is great stuff. Thanks for keeping all of us "geographically challenged" dreamers up-to-date. Question: in another thread, Insight mentioned the use of Death Tokens -- as in if you are bleeding out and fail your stablization save, you gain a Death Token. Three Death Tokens...

Great stuff, Insight! Thanks. Question: how long do you keep the Death Tokens? Do they disappear once you're back above 0 hp, after a rest or after an extended rest? Or is there some other effect that we haven't yet heard of?

"Play Fantasy Dungeon Craw-awll, 4E!"

And the lesson here is....Don't steal the warlock's kill!

More likely that's 16, 16, 12, 10, 12, 8 with +2 Racial bumps to Con and Wis for the dwarf. That means a 30 point buy.

Hmmm....that's a novel approach: "It's OK, it's not really videogamey, more anime." That'll stop the hate.

In the pod cast on the Monster Manual (October), near the end where James Wyatt is asked to create various level encounters on the fly, one of the encounters is "a third level party guarding a caravan". His answer: a young white dragon. I checked the time on that reference: it's right around...

No, no... don't you remember the lessons of William Wallace? Lightning Bolts from your eyes, Fireballs from your arse...

But a Fire Archon isn't JUST fire -- there are magical energies holding it together and those energies, while resistant to mundane fires, can be burned away by the overwhelming power of Great Wyrms or the Elemental Fire itself. Burn away that which binds and holds the elemental form together...