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here Ignore the part at the beginning where it says Invoker spells. They mean evoker. The Mystic Debris is a nice touch - I have a summoning wizard/shaman who could put that to good use. Very little damage, but man can he clog up a battlefield in a hurry. Definitely going to add that to...

Though I realize it's dangerous to be on the other side of an argument from Mouseferatu, I have to disagree. There are plenty of powers that target squares but hit creatures. If you're an artificer, sometimes you target an ally and then hit an enemy. I don't think the AC 10 makes a difference...

Does Jane even want to play? Has she played tabletop RPGs before? If it's just Jake dragging her along because he's crazy about her, this might all end without you having to do anything about it. If I were the GM and knew Jane was coming, I would talk to her myself, probably with Jake nearby...

Wait a sec.. so if the artificer can now use a crossbow as an implement, and the Artificer is Arcane, can the Bard now pick up Arcane Implement Proficiency and make Jinx Shot a reasonable choice?

I'm actually with the OP on this one. I don't like this tactic and I normally LOVE Swordmages for the whole kiss-and-tell schtick. Consider this a second for interwyrm's idea - if the Swordmage hits and then decides to leave the combat, I would rule 'end of the encounter' for the power. What...

Index of Wave-Borne RPGs Start there, friends.

First off, storytelling games are generally (not always, but generally) a subset of RPGs so I don't think it's one or the other. From my experience, 'storytelling game' is not so much a strict, technically defined term applied to RPGs as much as it is a sort of loose category. Games I usually...

I'm perfectly fine with some kind of automatic wealth/magic item system because magic items in 4E (and really 3E as well) don't interest me much. It's not to say that they're bad, just that their necessity makes them uninteresting. I don't get excited as a PC because I found my next meal, do...

I'm involved mostly with LFR games, on both sides of the screen, and as a DM, nothing irks me more than staring down the business end of a Warden (Dareus' Dwarf Warden Torman in particular). I can run two or three guys past a Fighter in a round and at least one will get through unhit. It may...

I like the Primal source not so much in and of itself, but the way it interplays with the 'factions' of the game. In some ways, I wonder if the promotion of Primal along with its opposite Shadow/Aberrant isn't the designers' (possibly subconscious) homage to the old nine-point alignment system...

I bet "Paint the Bull's Eye" is the power that was once previewed as "Feather Me Yon Oaf." I've been waiting for a ranged Commander's Strike for a while and I hope that's it. Also very happy to see the distinct possibility of a ranged warlord build and feats that modify encounter powers...

Korror - I understand where you're going with your post, but I stand by my position. See, for instance, the Warlord Utility 10, Tactical Shift (PHB 149): Immediate Interrupt, Ranged 10 Trigger: A creature hits your ally with a melee or ranged attack You couldn't possibly know whether the...

Thanks, Saeviomagy. FWIW - I actually know KZach fairly well as a gamer and DM - eh.. as well as you can know a guy across the international date line, I suppose - and despite some less than kosher comments in this thread, he's good people. Now to the point - Saeviomagy is correct. From...

There's two questions here - one is "when does the player announce the interrupt power?" and "when does the power occur" There's no disputing that the bonus to the attack has to occur mechanically prior to the roll being made so that it can add to the roll. So what we're really asking here is...

I was in the same game as Kzach. Despite the techincal issues, the DM did a very good job of writing a module with 2 Solo fights, neither of which were grindy and incorporated a ton of classic horror names. Good times.

Glad you liked it - feel free to steal. It's important to me though that the players create these little semi-feats instead of me handing them out. Of course I will probably review them, but they're intended to be flags for me as DM. If my player finds fighting off skeletons interesting...

I wonder if that d100 approach isn't too far the other direction - that is, each little gain is no longer meaningful because the increase is so infinitesimal. I like frequent gains too, but I like them to mean something. There's also the point where constant gains are no longer fun because "I...

The first and most important question here is "What are the consequences of all/some/none of the NPCs completing the journey?" So far all you've given are benefits or penalties from having the NPCs following along. If the result of getting all the refugees to the new place is "yay, we did it,"...

I like the idea of Druid hybrids quite a bit. In particular, an Avenger of Selune who has received the ability to take on a wolf form to better conceal his/her movements or a Beastmaster Ranger who polymorphs into another version of his/her animal companion.

I concur with most everyone here - it's an ingenious use of the skill, let him do it. If it were my player, I'd throw him a bonus token. In my games, a bonus token means 'you did something that seems like it should be helpful, but I'm not sure it makes sense right now.' Later on, players...