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I am more of the opinion that this shouldn't be the case. The minions don't know they're minions, so why should the players know? Two ogres are sitting side-by-side in a cave, one is a minion and the other is not. As far as they are concerned they are very much the same. When they go...

This is probably not true. Looking at the real world, do you think Jack the Ripper thought it was odd how everyone he attacked with a knife died when he first ran that knife across their windpipe? Do you think that John Wilkes Booth was surprised when a single bullet dropped Abraham Lincoln...

To answer the OP: I think the best way to handle minions is to not treat them any differently than non-minions. Example: The room contains 3 ogres and 4 ogre minions. To the ogres, they are 7 ogres - they cannot tell that some are minions and some are not. If one ogre starts a fight with an...

Maybe true, but I agree with the OP that, at least around here, it often seems that "general reception" goes something like "Ooooh, super dev so-and-so said it, even put it in writing in some blog somewhere, so it must now and forever more be Gospel." And as for "combined with playtesting" it...

Good post. My only quibble is that allowing active perception rolls should be more flexible than requiring a foe to use a minor action in their round. One, that burns an action. Clever groups will use this as a tactic. "Oh, look, we're fighting dwarves. They can use a minor action to take a...

Not mentioned yet, but it's worth noting that it's much easier to fire any crossbow when you're prone than it is to fire a sling. Also worth mentioning is that it's very very difficult to accurately fire slings at a downward angle, like when you're the castle defender up on the parapet...

Earth's real history hates them too. In fact, they're virtually invisible in any historical record. It seems that the technology of engineering a crossbow that small, with a decent, reliable trigger mechanism, that was still powerful enough to be worth using in a life-or-death situation...

Not entirely accurate. Sure, you only have roughly a 50/50 chance of rolling higher than your passive perception. But, for example, when a rogue with +9 Stealth tries to hide from a kobold with +1 Perception, that rogue only needs to roll a 3 to beat the kobold. Every time. 90% of the...

The flaw here is that you would allow everyone two chances to have stealth during an attack. Example: I move behind a tree. Roll for stealth. I then attack, hoping to have stealth for combat advantage. I can now roll for stealth on the attack. If you rule that my first roll for stealth...

Are we still talking in terms of whether or not your next action gains combat advantage? Because if that's all we're trying to determine here, then you don't roll stealth at all while you dash from the bushes to the tree. Once your dash (move action) is completed, you begin your attack...

This is hokey. No way a game would create stealth rules this ridiculous. I hope. And I'm quite certain that this is not even close to what D&D 4e is trying to do with stealth. Good. It seems we agree. This interpretation is a million times more practical. Now, please stop writing...

Sure, you could do that. Me, I do it another way. First, since a room full of kobolds would all have pretty much the samme passive perception value (since they are all similar kobolds), taking 10 (using passive perception) pretty much means every kolbold sees him (bad rogue stealth roll) or...

As to the question of adding a flat bonus amount to a regenerative power, given that the bonus applies to the regen (the specific case presented by the OP doesn't apply, but there are other casess where a flat bonus amount should apply to a regenerative power), the interpretation seems fairly...

Yes, this is in the RAW. But I don't feel it applies to every possible action that might occur in combat. If a power is used against a creature, I feel that the creature knows something happened. Even unintelligent creatures have awareness, and instinct, and a desire to survive. Usually that...

Don't we already have a term for "someone you cannot see at all"? Isn't that essentially the definition of Total Cover? Seems to me that if you know he's there, but cannot see him, he has total cover. So, why would hidden be the same thing? If it's the same, then we wouldn't use the terms...

But, the guy who doesn't multiclass also has 4 powers that can give him a significant advantage in combat. Unless we are to assume that there is a class in the PHB that has powers that do not synergize well with other powers of the same class? Certainly, at any level, you can pick something from...

I remain unconvinced; please convince me. At any given level you have access to powers of your class. By spending a feat, you gain access to some other powers you couldn't access before. But you can still only choose one power. Sure, your list is longer because of the extra powers you...

Wow, using more than one potion per encounter, on average? Yikes, that's a lot of potions. Are they finding all these potions? Is the adventure a raid on a giant pharmacy? Or are they buying them? Do you adjust the treasure packets to make them rich enough to afford them all?

Ahhh, it only took 13 posts to get the "A good DM can fix it" post. Someone always posts this. Whether it's a complaint about a broken rule, or an exploit, or just about how difficult something is to do, someone always posts "A good DM can fix that." That's circular reasoning. Basically...

And then they die when the person they're fleeing uses a run action to almost catch them, then a charge action to catch and attack them. Assuming two humans. One flees. He shifts 1 square, then runs 8 squares. He is only 9 squares away. The human chasing him can run then charge a total of 16...