Search results

I had no idea that the D20 had such a long history. I bet their version of D&D was really brutal. ;-)

A lot of time... or "just one more turn"?

I kind of felt the same way. I associate board games like Agricola, Catan, and Carcassonne more closely with card games like Race for the Galaxy more than I'd associate them with Monopoly and Chess. Though I'm a big fan of Euro-style games these days... however I did enjoy Battlestar Galactica...

Are you familiar Aspects from the Fate RPG system (used in games like The Dresden Files and Spirit of the Century)? If I can get my 4E campaign going again, I'm planning on implementing Aspects into my game. The nice thing is that they can work out quite well for flaws, virtues, advantages...

Taste isn't universal. It's fine if a certain race or class doesn't appeal to you, though criticizing or questioning their need to exist doesn't accomplish much. Frankly, most of the races didn't appeal to me that much either in the PHB3. However, actually after reading some of the entries...

Actually the swag factor has tempted me a few times to volunteer to run games at promo events in the past. At some of the past Gameday events, DMs were often allowed to keep monster minis, and often let players have the PC minis. Volunteers often use it as an opportunity to find new gamers...

First of all, I did catch from my call that it was not a store employee that was running the game, so the argument of this being an employee costing the store money while being on the clock is moot. Secondly, it's my understanding that Encounters events are not 4 to 6 hours, but significantly...

But then you'd have a cup of overpriced coffee. I've never been to a coffee shop that charged you to just sit inside, even if I didn't buy anything. As i said in my earlier post, there were a few items I wanted to buy. I was planning on buying them in this store. But if I have to pay $5 to...

Wait a minute. since Combat Challenge is very rarely a monster ability, are you suggesting that you've experienced a DM having a monster use this tactic against a player!? Though I believe it's technically legal, it seems a really cheesy thing to do to your players. As a DM, I'd never use...

But the trigger is "When you drop to 0 hit points or fewer", and interrupts are resolved before the condition that allowed them, so therefor the interrupt action occurs and is resolved before you "drop to 0 hit points or fewer", right? Am I missing something here?

See, I think this is a tougher question, and not really answered by the CSR. On one hand, if you think of it as taking damage that would reduce you to 0 HP, then I'd say temp hit points would most certainly potentially prevent you from going to 0 or below. On the other hand, if you read it as...

Who from WotC would I contact about this?

I feel exactly the same way. I bought my original 4E PHB, MM, and DMG set from the FLGS in the town I used to live in, at a substantially higher price from the Amazon cost, to help support them and for thanks for letting me play in their store. Being charged admission to a store gives me far...

There's no official rule on the affect of railing. The default saving throw for being thrown off a ledge or something is just DC 10. However, I've seen adventures (such as in LFR) where they did mention giving a bonus to the save for having a railing around the ledge. I'd say anywhere between...

But if you gain THP from an interrupt, then the THP would be eaten before your real hit points, and *might* prevent you from going down.

But it doesn't happen before the action that triggered, but the condition that triggered it. If that condition happens to be an action, and the interrupt invalidates the action, then yes the action can be invalidated. However, since the *condition* is dropping to 0 or below hit points, not the...

This is exactly how I read it as well. It seems clear to me that they specifically chose the condition was that you drop to 0 hit points, not that you are hit by an attack that reduces you to 0 hit points. There are many other interrupt actions where it clearly is triggered off the attack, and...

Meanwhile, that character who is down won't get any actions at all if his turn if his is before yours, has a chance of failing a Dying Saving Throw (which accumulate up until you rest, and at 3 you die), and even after he's healed he's still on the ground prone and has to spend a Move to get up...

Can you explain what you mean by "gamist" vs "narrativist". The use of these terms seems to be muddled in usage so I don't know if I'm interpreting what you are saying correctly. Maybe there's a conflict in what you want in a game and what the players want. If you are trying to push them in a...

Well, I was tempted to go, but in the end I was put off by the $5 price to play. There weren't actually sign ups in advance, only 1 table playing, and it is a 20 or 30 minute drive to get there. All in all, driving about a half hour, not knowing for sure if I'd get to play, for a small...