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Ah, that's true. It's just a matter of triangulation. From WotC's Tiers excerpt, we know which levels you get advances at: So from the excerpt we can extrapolate at which levels the increases take place (no hedging bets with "about every 4th level"), and from thalmin's post we can determine...

He does: post number 17 in this very thread. ;) See here.

I'll be surprised if there are any class features after first level. I expect class features are all received at first level, and subsequent levels are taken care of solely by powers. I'd throw in a disclaimer that you might get new class features at the start of Paragon and Epic tiers, but on...

:bmelee: YES. Or at least not included all of every character's powers with the exception of the half-elf. The character sheet should not have said, "Choose a power" any more than the character sheet should have said "Pick a bonus feat" for the human. The should have simply picked a power and...

Well, we've got a clarification and correction on the Earth Titan web preview, but nothing on the half-elf pre-gen yet. Even if details aren't given, I hope we can at least get a statement along the lines of: :1: There is indeed an error in the Keep on the Shadowfell half-elf. :2: The KotS...

It does not. When I am cut by a knife in a bar fight, it slices the skin open, causing pain, blood loss ranging from minor to potentially fatal depending on which blood vessels are severed, risk of infection, and maybe injury to vital organs if it's a deep wound in the correct place. I don't...

For those who are having cognitive dissonance issues with the minions, please tell me if it helps to think of it like this. First, remember the golden rule: hit points are an abstraction. "Minions do not have hit points. Instead, a minion is incapacitated by any successful hit which does...

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And what for burst? (Incidentally, powers marked with "TM"s mean "'Tis Mince", while those with "TM"s mean "'Tain't Mince".) Also - Ondo's most recent dice images look fantastic, and I hope they are adopted quickly! Thanks for all these contributions, Ondo!

Just clarifying one of my answers - I said "Converting my current campaign to 4e," which is only true in a hypothetical sense. I intend to finish my current Age of Worms game in 3.5. I just can't stop myself from thinking, "Okay, so then the Binder becomes a Warlock, wonder when the Vestige Pact...

Just to point out: It's 3e action points that let you cheat your die rolls. 4e action points by default let you take an extra action on your turn. And as much as I'd love to participate in the basic question, I think I have to fall in with "Keep your chocolate out of my peanut butter!" I can't...

Wow. It's amazing the range of difference in perspectives. To me, first edition (and I cannot comment on OD&D, as AD&D 1st ed. is where I started) is more like the Model T Ford. It's hugely important, and pretty much invented the industry as it stands. I totally understand the appeal and the...

The Warlord class is built for Roy. I don't expect to see the strip switch over unless it's a final joke at the very end of the run. Yes, the first strip was about the edition change. There wasn't any plot back then to disrupt. Nowadays, getting into jokes regarding an edition switch would...

Can you give a reference for that? Because according to Chris Tulach, that guy who made the characters, See here and here for the references. That doesn't sound to me like "A couple of the stats are using the wrong number of points," but rather "Some of the calculated values are off deeper in...

One last important thing - that was a 4th level solo dragon that was facing a party of six 1st level PCs. A solo creature is intended to be a match for a party of 5 adventurers of its own level. Thus, that dragon should have been taking on a full party of 4th level characters. The fact that...

I see where you're getting that, but I disagree. My interpretation is that Skill Training lets you add another skill as a trained skill (in the Wizard's case, Stealth), and that the Tiefling has a +2 racial bonus to Stealth. Thus, +2 (Dex) +5 (Trained) +2 (racial) gives +9 total.

Started with AD&D 1e, skipped 2e entirely, got back in with 3e, and expect to go to 4e.

I get my thoughts together and see that in the meantime FrankTheDM has nailed it. Will I DM 3e again? Almost certainly not - once I finish running Age of Worms, which will likely run another year. Would I DM 3e again? I'm polling "no", but there is one last reason I'd do a 3e game - to run a...

Emphasis mine. At the risk of going off topic, this is an interesting point. There is an assumption out there post-Pit Fiend that attacks will be doing less damage per round in 4e. And yet the Design and Development article itself explicitly asserts the opposite: One obvious solution here is...

What I'm interested in seeing is whether the new "Roles" formulations loosens up party structure any more than the current edition. In our current party, the Cleric player wants to swap out his character with a Monk for a while. This is sending serious repercussions through the rest of the party...