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Imagine if the cat from Red Dwarf was a dragon. "That's mine. That's mine. And that. Oh, that's mine, too!"

The purple worm has the ability to reduce the power of attacks against it. Bite then swallow the wizard, cleric, or rogue, for instance - and much of their damage output is taken out (unless they teleport out or whatever) - and they may die (10 or 20 damage per round!). This can easily be the...

In the definition of Immediate Interrupts, it explicitly states: if the target is no longer able to perform the action, he loses it. So, yes, if you shield push someone as he attacks, and he is no longer in range, he loses the attack.

This. Have the dragon be over-protective of its new friends. During an audience with the powerful noble, the noble says something dismissive of one of the PCs, so the dragon eats him. The dragon is still a dragon - maybe it catches sight of the local temples golden statues, and decides that...

I agree that it's not the best option, but there are situations where it is worthwhile, such as when you want to do something on your action (like spending an AP to get an extra action and drag him to a pit), or to ensure a target can't use an interrupt action to move before his next turn (like...

I'm not really concerned with class balance. I'm thinking about adventure balance. How many encounters a team is allowed per extended rest directly impacts adventure difficulty. I was wondering what the game's default assumption is.

Do the rules - or designers - tell us how many encounters we should be having on average between Extended Rests?

It might be silly, but what harm does it do? Knowing a 3rd level item is coming doesn't tell you what that item will be: there are a decent number of 3rd level items, and will be even more with later sourcebooks. In any case, it may not work exactly like this. Let's say, the GM has designed a...

Ordinarily, I'd agree with you. But in this case, I know my mathematics. Having the damage of the critical is just slighty worse than using the printed rule, on average. But it's consistent. It can only deal a better result than the official rule, when the damage roll is under average..

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I could see it. Dazed: one action per turn, plus combat advantage. So the rest of your turn you are scrabbling around for your weapon, and when you get it back, you aren't dazed anymore.

Whether four kobold minions are more or less powerful than four kobold skirmishers, I can't say. However, 4 level 21 legion devils are definitely less powerful than 4 equivalent non-minion devils. At higher level, minions are much weaker than standard creatures - because those standard...

With multiple dice in the damage roll this is pretty unlikely. However, my tweak would be: the critical hit does half damage.

Well said, Aezoc.

When you replace a power, you replace that package of two spells (or three spells for enhanced spellbook). This is also clarified in the FAQ referred to above. Less clear: each level you can retrain one aspect of your character - swap out a skill for another, swap a feat for another, swap a...

One problem is that many of the monsters in the MM only have one attack, so if you disarm them, they have no attack left. Personally, I'd treat disarm as a tempoorary inconvenience: the monster is weakened or suffers combat advantage, something like that, maybe till it makes a saving throw, or...

I thought the OP's goal was to decide which class he wanted to play. Calculating DPR was just the way he chose to decide if it was worth it.

Great list. My favourite is number 10. (and also 18).

There's more to class balance and power than DPR, though.

Actually, the meaning of hit points hasn't changed. They have always been a mixture of health, luck, confidence, and all those other things. Lots of people have glossed over that right from the early days of D&D, but it's there in the rulebooks (at least it is in the 1e definition).