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I'm going to disagree with the idea that it's taking longer than standard simply because I can think of a few very reasonable scenarios where a week's work would be required. Migration = quick Upgrade = hours Rebuild/re-organize = slow Upgrade + Rebuild + Migrate (and thus sort) = ?????! The...

Overland Flight Travel - 15th Level Cost - $$$ Market - $$$ Casting Time - 10 Duration - 6 hours, sustain Standard There you go.

Mix and match, depending. In Khorvak's Tomb I described Kobold minions as pathetic, shabby slaves, and in other fights they've just been the soldiers who die in one hit, otherwise indistinguishable from the rest.

So far everything we've seen has taken between 1/4 and 1/2 a column, so I don't think there's going to be very many going beyond that without justification or just a general "well, they're mindflayers so it's okay" from the audience. And, yeah, W&W page 80, the sidebar on Mindflayers talks...

Holy crap, did you see the size of the Mindflayer stat block? It's an entire column. Edit: and the Dinosaurs, yeah, but the names make a lot more sense if these are creatures that exist in the same world as you and try to eat/stomp/kill you instead of being extinct creatures you name after...

God, I hope so. :-D I'm a Helvetica, Verdana, Garamond fan myself.

And in this regard I will take minion rules over 3e's mob rules any day of the year. I don't at all see what's arbitrary about it. Your "low level goblins" example only works if the PCs are a high enough level that they can one-shot low level goblins and at that point your low level goblins...

4:1 ratio. 4 minions = 1 Regular.

Actually they're using three of the factors: their BAB, Defenses, and Damage output all scale, only their hit points don't. They could have written the HP calculation for Minions to be equal to the assumed base damage for PCs of a given level for an at-will attack and achieved the same effect...

Sounds about right. Level 3 PCs would have between +5 and +8 to hit, so a 17-18 AC sounds right. It'll still be on the higher side for level 1s, but all around less frustrating.

I canceled my pre-order today too. Amazon wasn't going to get them to me in time. From the sounds of your post I'm betting you have at least the PHB by the 12th. Thus is the fickle nature of indecision, love/hate, and impulse buying!

The thing I see lacking is that the preamble to the Orcs doesn't talk enough about their signature move; they talk about what bands them together thematically but not mechanically. Though it doesn't take long to see that the non-minions all have Warrior's Surge they're missing a great sell by...

I'm increasingly less convinced that Monk will ever show up again as a base class instead of a Fighter or Rogue Build Option + Paragon Path.

No spoilers, don't worry. H1 is an action/adventure movie, at least as it's written. The tone is "dark" in the same way that Indiana Jones Nazis are "evil." Not so much real evil as its more of a utilitarian kind of sinister. This isn't a bad thing, by any means, it's just a way of saying that...

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With the Flame Jets it's not a huge part of the XP budget, so if it were them alone I would expect the same level of "challenge" as steamrolling a single same-level kobold. Get the timing right and pass through. But what happens when you have enemy defenders using Tide of Iron to push you down...

I love how many people assume/insist that the affected creature will take the 8 damage round after round after round as though it had no other option.

This is probably a result of being Fighter(two-handed weapon) instead of Fighter(weapon and shield).

I don't really see how these kind of entrapment tactics are a bad thing. It highlights some incredible synergy between multiple Defender roles, and more than speaking to the power of the Paladin it speaks to the sheer and utter awesome that is the 4e sword-and-board Fighter. If it weren't for...