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http://www.wizards.com/dnd/files/UpdatePH2.pdf - PDF warning. Implement Expertise [Addition] Player’s Handbook 2, page 185 Add the following sentence to the end of the Benefits section: “Even if an implement qualifies for this bonus more than once, you can apply the bonus only once when using...

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Then we have orthogonal design space for investigative games. I believe that mechanical niche protection is not required in an investigative game (and have empirical evidence that with the players I have run games for to prove it in my case). You don't. So for me system doesn't matter, but for...

From that point of view, I've been "renting" software for year; both for my Antivirus software (where, again, I'm paying for database access - the updated files), and also for my ObjectDesktop subscription. (Well worth it, IMHO). In that model, I pay a fairly nominal cost per year, and I get...

I don't see the Character Builder as software in that sense. As I dais earlier, the software is free (the demo client). What I'm paying for is up-to-date access to the database; essentially a specialized interface to the Compendium. Looking at it like that, it doesn't bother me that I might lose...

Shadowrun got more than it's fair share of the good ones, though. Nigel Findley and Steve Kenson jusmp to mind, and even Tom Dowd wasn't bad

Mechanical niche protection is not required for this beyond making it prohibitive for every character to become good at everything, a job that 4E does at least as well as Shadowrun, IME. In fact, 4E has better niche protection in some ways than SR does, given that in SR your reach a point where...

I guess... But given that this style doesn't require mechanical support, I'd use the system that gives me the best mechanics for whatever I decide to do as secondary/background.

I've been reading a couple of threads on the subject (here is the respawned hopefully non-edition-wars one) which asks (among other things) what system would be best for: "1) An Investigative, Non-combat game (Murder mysteries, CSI, X-Files, etc.)" My answer would be, "it doesn't matter." In...

Yeah - it took me a bit to resolve namespace collision with I-Con

Likewsie - it's pretty obvious (to me anyway), and follows the 3.x magic item upgrade rules IIRC. Wonder if it was cut from the PHB for space?

I'm not bothered by the need to have an active subscription to re-install the CB, because it's an offline client to the Compendium, essentially. It isn't standalone software in the sense that MS Office is, for example. The software itself (as the demo) is free as in beer. The datasets are not...

4th tuesday is the official update time

Interestingly enough, mention of the Character visualizer seems to missing from the Compendium front page

If it's causing thrift stores to shut down, I think that the FLGS have a right to be worried. You can win a lawsuit and be devastated financially...

Hence the "myth and..." part of that statement - I've an amateur's interest in military history and am aware of the military uses of the sling, including the Persians and the Balearic Islanders. That doesn't stop it from ALSO being a peasant's weapon as well. The materials to make a sling are...

The majority of your previous post was about changing the existing weapon table, it appeared; I was suggesting you fork that part off. My comment about Load Standard was mainly aimed at 3E's heavy crossbow taking either a full-round or a standard action (I don't have the books handy and I never...

Angel, you probably should have forked that. It's obvious from the changes for ranged weapons from 3E to 4E that they were subjected to Fun > Realism. Load Standard is gone because of the action economy; crossbows are statistically inferior to conventional bows because crossbows are Simple...

Thanks for reminding me about Brutal; I'd forgotten - and this is an excellent place for it. I still don't want firearms of this type being reloaded in combat. I don't want PCs wasting actions in combat reloading - it sucks for the player AND the rest of the party when the gunner says "I...

4E is probably one of the easiest editions of D&D to have blackpowder firearms in. Let's see: Blackpowder pistol * Simple Ranged Weapon cost: 50 gp Damage: 1d8 Proficient: 0 (Special - if used with a power that targets AC that power instead targets Reflex) Range: 10/20 Properties: Load...