Search results

Fighter in my game got 8 with it the other day, but he took an opportunity attack from one mob getting in the right spot, and some help from the bard moving another around to get it perfect :-) Still was a sight to behold. They were lower-level mobs luckily enough, I wouldn't suggest pulling 8...

That was my first thought reading that post. Rats? And nothing else? In some random corridor probably? You need to engage your players, give them a reason to want to kill their adversaries. I also like to have logical and sensible explanations for why those creatures are attacking them. Are they...

What guessing? It was on my RSS feed this morning, and was certainly on the articles list on the DnD web site...

Here's how I do this kind of stuff as a DM. I work on the assumption that as they fight an enemy, their knowledge of the enemy improves. Also, as they increase in level, their knowledge of the world also increases. So the first time they encounter a type of creature, I'm very generic: "short...

Dude, you took the Windrise Port background, made a dwarf warden and say you didn't cheese your character? Seriously... As a DM I would have ignored your mark constantly, something I do already when the fighter in my game gets two many buffs.

WotC have published erratas, official corrections to the books and rules that fix a number of glaring issues with certain powers, feats, etc. These can be found on the Wizards web site: Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (Official D&D Updates) Look in the rules...

Except for the fact any minion or ally of the shackled creature can get him out easily? So the player wastes a standard action so that another creature loses a standard action? That's incredibly inefficient. It's pretty good against solos, I admit. But just keep some minion reserves to assist...

We did get some grind at some point in mid-heroic because the party was too defense/healing-heavy. Now we have a better balance with some better DPR (rogues just rip them out), and it goes better. I've learned to put more high-damage lower-defense enemies in there too, with less soldiers. My...

Get yourself some epic Gloves of Ice, should help with resistances.

Soldiers are very useful to block melee characters, help give their allies CA and keep defenders busy, but never have more than 2-3 in a fight. They only serve to make fights take way too long, as they do not offer enough DPR to put the characters into significant danger while their defences are...

Should be there. it has pre-requisites of: Fighter, Fighter Weapon Talent class feature, which means it's a fighter-only feat.

It's really not a huge lot, but I see no problem using after a fight to boost healing a little. That being said, while you are using it, you are considered being in an encounter and not resting, and thus cannot spend healing surges freely. You can use second wind and leader powers of course, but...

Actually as others have mentioned, most undead in 4e are imbued with the "animus", and not the soul. It can retain memories and physical abilities of the deceased, but it is not possession as such. Some undead contain dregs of soul, and a few actually imprison the soul, but those are mostly...

You can get it in heroic by selecting the (only) multiclass monk feat "Monastic Disciple", but it's an encounter power. I don't think there is any way to get it as an at-will at the moment without making an hybrid.

I know I'm replying to myself, but I just got home and checked out the PHB3. It would appear that there is a feat in PHB3 that appears twice in the compendium under two different names! The feat listed as Tower of Iron Will in the compendium actually has the same description as the feat named...

Except you made an error here, I think. According to the compendium, there's indeed a power named "Tower of Iron Will (Ardent Utility 10)", but there is ALSO a feat with the SAME NAME. I don't have my PHB3 at hand to check the text, but it's certainly not impossible. The compendium is...

Actually, I've been having fun drumming up the fact that the D&D world is a non-euclidean 3D space, as the pythagorean theorem doesn't hold up in it. i.e. the length of the hypothenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the two other sides, instead of the squared values like in the...

It's available on the compendium: D&DI - Compendium If you're not currently a ddi subscriber, you can only get a list and the location where it was published. If you are a subscriber, you can get all the details.

It was published in Dragon issue #384. It's listed in the compendium, but might not be in the Character Builder yet.

If you have the Dual Implement Spellcaster feat, definitely. If you don't, I would rule that properties of an implement in your off-hand are not triggered by use of your powers since you don't have the training to use such an implement.