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I have to say its very impressive how they've managed to build a class that effectively functions the way lurker monsters do, and have it actually work. Lurkers are a blast to use as a DM with prep, but very tricky without, and they always struck me as the one monster type for which there could...

Rangers. Boring and overpowered.

As an example of how utterly doable those dpr benchmarks really are, here's a dragonborn dark pact warlock someone (not me) on the WotC boards threw together that does 65 dpr by level 20 using eldritch blast. I repeat: a frikkin warlock could clear the dpr benchmark for level 30 by the time they...

Yes, that dpr includes missing (remember, most strikers will miss much less than 50% of the time), as well as crit damage (some avenger builds are built entirely around critting, either with huge crit ranges and tons of multi-attacks, or lots of additional attacks that trigger each time they...

Over on the WotC boards they suggest that ideally strikers should be doing 20 at-will dpr by 10th level, 40 at-will dpr by 20th level, and 60 at-will dpr by the 30th level. If your party has strikers who hit that benchmark, fights shouldn't drag too much unless the DM really loves brutes or...

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But our perceptions, and logical deductions based on those perceptions, are all we have. To claim that calling one side "good" and one side "evil" doesn't impose a value judgement on those sides strikes me as disingenuous in the extreme. Moreover, if I believe a certain viewpoint is correct, I...

But the very fact that we perceive it differently proves my point. You believe them to be objective, but your beliefs are no more objectively provable than my beliefs. In this world. However, in a system with alignment as a built in mechanic, then beliefs do become objectively provable. Except...

You really just need a 3rd party to design the dungeon. Its way too easy to comb the MM for monsters that if used improperly could easily result in unwinnable encounters, even when sticking to an XP budget. If you have that though, to ensure fair encounter, then the DM can totally play to win...

Rangers are the worst.

They can be described in whatever way you like. That doesn't make them objective--even hard, logic-driven philosophy (say, for example, utilitiarianism ala Peter Singer) relies to some degree on givens. Morality, as far as any of us can know, is subjective. It bothers me a lot, primarily...

Alignment was a clunky and often nonsensical behavioral straightjacket for players, and has therefore essentially been removed from the game in any mechanically meaningful sense. Which I'm grateful for. I don't have much use for the revised alignment chart either, but at least the game doesn't...

I've never played Dark Sun before in my life, and I couldn't possible be more excited for this to come out.

Die ranger die. You are as bland and devoid of interesting flavor/mechanics as any class in the game, you're boring to play, and the way you "make up" for all of this is by doing game-breaking quantities of damage.

Evil Campaigns are much, much harder to run successfully than good campaigns, and I’ve seen a whole lot of them turn from “campaigns” into unintentional one-shots after players attacked each other, committed crimes which made the adventure unplayable, etc. The generic D&D structure of a team of...

Hi, I'm a fairly experienced gamer who took up 4e a year ago with gusto, but my campaign recently disbanded and I'm looking for a new one. we were playing Eberron, which I love, but I'd be open to any setting. I live in Queens but have easy access to Manhattan and could possibly make it to the...

Fun challenge--definitely turns traditional 4e on its head in that single target dpr is irrelevant, and a bow ranger would be one of the worst possible classes. You'd probably want everyone either going controller, leader, or building a warlock with rods of corruption and reaving.