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And the first example blew 2 feats to get it, and an encounter power where he is using an out-of-build stat. Enh. It's a tad broken with Otherwind Stride. I would limit the feat to requiring an attack roll actually occur (as I would with any other power with a separate attack and effect), so no...

As far as powers (especially at-will powers) go, mechanics trump the flavor text IMC; with a very important caveat - you still have to come up with flavor text to apply the mechanic. In this case, what illusion can you apply that will cause a flying dragon to be immobilized and prone on a hit...

The designers were fairly clear in various sources that a) blanket immunities are gone and b) everything is in the stat block. Base rule is that everything works on everything, and each individual opponent will note if it has specific immunities.

Use the disease track mechanic.

I was about done with 3.5; despite *finally* having hit the sweet spot in play int he campaign I was a player in. I wasnt' running it any more because it was just too damn much work.

Which is why the Warlock should have targeted someone other than the adjacent minion :) Seriously, I have nailed a bunch of minions by drawing them into OAs while wielding the Pact Blade. The timing issues for the teleport still apply, though.

That's a good point - I expect to see more feats to patch this in the future. (Something like, say: Divine Recuperation Prerequisite: Divine Character, Wis 15 Benefit: Spend a Healing Surge and instead of the normal benefit recharge up to 2 expended encounter powers. This can only be done once...

Enh - I find that encounter powers miss too often for good fun. At-wills you can try again; and most dailies have something happen on a miss. Most encounter powers are an all-or-nothing deal.

You get a benefit out of an adjacent enemy triggering Aegis of Assault. Many times when teleporting adjacent to an enemy you can come out flanking wiht the ally that triggered the aegis... Remember, the point of a defender's mark (excluding the fighter, it seems) is to make sure the effect is...

Give the enemy a reason to move and the OA feats look much better. The swordmage is good for this - mark and run. Then the enemy has to make a choice between taking the penalty of the mark or suck up the OA. Or put the enemy in a position to either take an OA or continue to stand next to the...

Thanks.

:confused: Has this gotten anywhere in the past 3 months, or are we still confused?

I guess there isn't a point to continuing our side discussion, no. I thought I was going into depth on why 4E was doing it for me (but not in the Book of Erotic Fantasy sense, thanks :blush: - my keyboard is a little flaky apparently). I was playing off your comments. Game mechanics are a...

I gave up running my own material because of the difficulty of the mechanics; and fell back to running modules, usually with the serial numbers filed off and changes made to fit my campaign. I found it much easier to let someone else deal with the mechanics and change the story if necessary...

Which is what, exactly? I tried to do 3e on the fly; and it failed. Not because of lack of story (the point I'm making with SR is that I don't have a problem coming up with story), but because of mechanical issues. Combat would too easily end up in TPK or cakewalk, with no obvious reason why. It...

Fair enough. I never had that feel from 3E though (and to be fair, I don't yet have enough of a handle of 4e to be able to say I will be able to do it in 4E either.)

And in that case they wouldn't get any (or only incidentally earn any) XP for fights with the orcs. But they'd get a great whack of XP for achieving the story goal. In many ways, the per-encounter XP paradigm of D&D makes it harder to set up stories. I am debating experimenting with...

No, I mean I read the bit I'm expecting to run from H1 the day I'm expecting to run it. I still haven't read the whole thing. As close to 0-prep as I'm likely to get with a module in 4E. Next up, see if I can run a fulfilling adventure using p43, the generic monster stats from the DMG, some...

Each "appropriate" encounter should be within the guidelines for the encounter budget for an "appropriate" encounter. If the PCs encounter one critter worth 1/5 of a level-appropriate encounter budget, it's not an appropriate encounter. (I don't know off the top of my head what the lowest...

If I wasn't prepped, we didn't play. Game cancelled on account of "interference from life". I've never had to cancel my SR game because I wasn't ready to run. Long enough doing that, the game falls apart. As an experiment, I'm running H1 without having read the adventure until the day I'm...