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(QUOTING SOMEONE ELSES rules quote, so hope they got it right) "Page 100: "Melee [number]: The power can be used against a target that is within the specified number of squares of the power's origin square. For example, a melee power that has a range of 1 can normally be used against an...

As someone who ran 4e for the first time, this post had bits that scared me....not to start an edition war, but one of my favorite third edition parties i DMed was this: thief, thief, thief, fighter....oh,and a thief...it was a blast. I see some saying to not force all the roles to be filled...

I guess I would disagree with the idea that you need a way to stop a villain from coming back to do more harm...for more on this read about 70% of the fiction I enjoyed as a child. Good folk SHOULD, if they don't dispatch the evil, jail it or take some other action that shows they are merciful...

Where I think the confusiin might lie is in other editions and games, and effect would not be delivered if ALL damage was negated by some resistance. EXAMPLE: a creature negates up to five points from edged weapons. They are struck by a poison blade. In other rules, if a blade did less than...

Okay, these make sense, particularly the 'cannot double an attack that isn't specified', and I didn't think about the mouth being preoccupied - all that it looked like to me was two attacks that were identical in all aspects but damage output. Aside from the mouth preoccupation, though, it's...

I am still preparing to run my first foray into 4E (a 4A?)...and I'm finding that my forum search skills are lousy. I would think this is covered before, but here goes: Even monsters only get a Standard/Move/Minor set of actions, and possibly action points and Free actions, right? I think...

Pardon my intrusion, but I'm planning on running 4e once to give it a shot, and there's a question that's sort of on topic here. A bunch of powers grant a nearby ally or a target a saving throw, usually out of the normal sequence - - so the cleric does something and a nearby friend gets to...

KM - - you've got it...in terms of background, I started playing this game around 1978, and quickly moved from boxed set with light blue covered book to the 1E books. Back then, you would in the course of telling the story make a change to a character, and that would often give them a drawback...

and even more thanks are due! Again, the PLAN was to primarily use them as book-standard, but what I was looking for was the answer to a situation like: Character A, in line with the story, encounters a situation where he MIGHT reasonably expected to acquire something that is not typical for...

First off, thanks for all the replies and hopefully more will chime in. I don't think I ever saw it as a 'classless' game, where you just pick what you want. To me it would spring from a story element, and while it would be the player's choice to TAKE it, I would have to offer it, or would...

That's exactly right....in fact, it seems to happen with a lot of paladins in some groups. "I am a tireless champion of good, and so of course I just can't wait to find someone evil so I can completely eviscerate them!" - - I would say 90% of the paladins I've played with were completely...

I have not run/played 4E yet - still deciding if I will or not, but I had a question in reading the books. In 3.x, you couldn't be a 4th level Wizard and then when you hit 5th level just take the 5th level boosts from some other class - not just because it was silly, but because the...

Sorry to raise a dead thread, but I've just started looking at 4e and the alignment thing annoyed be, then I saw some of the posted rationales and discussions, and one of my old pain points came up. What don't people get about Chaotic Neutral that it's "a pain" or an excuse to act like a...

All stacking issues aside (and I haven't read through my entire copy of the PF book), but the 'bug' seems to be allowing an abyssal sorcerer to summon angelic creatures. As DM I'd resist that...assuming the player comes up with some answer like "My pure Eevil sorcerer is forcing him to serve...

It might make good business sense to lock it all down like that, but it means I'm giving it a pass as well...despite all the other conveniences of a pdf, the ONLY one I care about is being able to mark it up and play with it, so I don't have to mark up the physical book.

I should also note that I would never use any of these in my group...I can absolutely understand how someone might be disheartened/bored by misses, even a string of misses...but for us it becomes part of the fun - - how long can Sandy continue to roll no higher than a three....in narrative...

How about this if you really are upset about misses, or if you have a character who's having a string of bad luck; I don't so much like having ANY damage strike a target on a miss, but if you're looking for non-trivial game impact, so that those who miss still feel like they're helping, why not...

If it's not something that would cause piracy issues, I'd be interested as well. I've always thought that Dundjinni or someone should build an art pack for them, but it would be better if it was official, and actually tracked your inventory..so you don't accidentally use three of a piece you...

Delver - - I may be a noob here, but did you in fact use the FONT from those old modules in your post, or are my (ancient 1st edition) eyes fooling me. Back on topic - I have a TON of DF pieces...I don't set them up ahead of time, but I figure out which pieces will be needed and in what...

I am a subscriber - can't say whether or not it's doing well but there are definitely lots of people on the subscriber-only forums. For me the design stuff is intriguing, and I'm not sure if I will or won't run the mammoth dungeon, but it's absolutely worth it in terms of just rooms and...