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    what do you like about Warlock MC?

    I'm also interested in the general answers that don't necessarily apply to the character I'm currently playing -- I have this character-building habit and the information will come in handy later, I'm sure. However, the character that got me asking the question is a human cleric, currently...
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    what do you like about Warlock MC?

    I've been playing a character that, for RP reasons, could reasonably go multiclass warlock. She doesn't have the stats to get Student of Malediction -- she's got the Cha but not the Con -- so I'd be using the Pact Initiate MC feat. Since this is for RP reasons, it's not a terrible thing for...
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    Shift as part of a power vs. Restrained

    Oh, *sure*, read the original post & address the actual original question instead of haring off after this straw-condition everybody else is discussion. No wonder you make so much sense. ;)
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    Shift as part of a power vs. Restrained

    Does it "break the condition" or are you then immobilized in your new space?
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    Places to buy cool props for your game that other people may not have thought of yet

    have you tried this? I've got several cutting mats I use for, well, cutting things, and the only ones I've seen are way too stiff to roll up. Pretty handy for when I'm cutting things to size for use on a battlemat, though. I painted a small sheet of mat board red & cut them into 1x1 squares...
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    Heist Campaign in Episodic Form

    I'm interested to hear how this all turns out -- "the perfect heist" is my favorite movie genre, but I've shied away from trying to run it as any kind of in-game scenario because I'm at a loss as to how to really get that feel in an RPG kind of situation. In a low-magic setting, would at least...
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    Question about teleportation

    Those arrows aren't free. Is ammunition like that expended? At lower levels, that sounds like a lot of gold. And at higher levels, spending your hands slot *and* an arrow for 1d10 damage: is that really that big of a deal? vs. other hands-slot items of similar level that give a +4 to damage...
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    D&D 4E Encounter Based 4E - Thoughts?

    This. Regarding the OP, I'm not sure what's WTF about "days," so I don't know whether changing it to "a six hour break that can only occur more than 12 hours since the last one" falls into the same trap.
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    Bull Rush into an IRON MAIDEN

    As a GM, this would be a tough call for me. RAW, I think, forcing you into the inside of the iron maiden is a squeeze, and the rules for forced movement specifically say that forced movement cannot force a target to squeeze. But the *cool* factor -- especially if the situation were reversed &...
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    Double Sword/Khopesh variant?

    I'd take a look at the existing weapons and pick something that's close. Use that for the stats, and then re-write the fluff to describe what you want. You might start with the Zulaat, from the Ebberon books.
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    Do you look at the bonus or the description?

    I look at keywords first, since I often have feats that provide synergies there and it's often where fluff and crunch collide, which makes me happy. Then I look at bonuses. If I'm still undecided after that I'll take a look at the description; while I *can* re-fluff things, I prefer not to do...
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    Keeping Track of Rules Updates

    You've never roadtripped (or hottubbed) with a rules-lawyer?
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    Keeping Track of Rules Updates

    I've played out in the middle of nowhere, before, where we hauled out our own generators for power & everybody was out of cell range. And I've known people who played during long drives.
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    How ubiquitous is the Superior Weapon feat?

    Well, yeah, until I saw Herschel say "the vast majority" of melee weapon users take it, the only characters I saw with the Superior Weapon Training feat were the ones who required the superior weapon for flavor purposes, or for barbarians with the goal of over-the-top weapon-damage. On the other...
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    Shardmind Bard

    what what if he gets attacked by a chair?
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    How ubiquitous is the Superior Weapon feat?

    um. can you unpack that? I'm not parsing your properly.
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    How ubiquitous is the Superior Weapon feat?

    Are you referring to the proficiency bonus? Both the military and superior weapon categories have weapons with both +2 and +3 proficiency bonuses; I don't see that as related. The post that spawned this question, for example, cited the longsword, which already has a +3 proficiency bonus. I'm...
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    Shardmind Bard

    Oh, sure, I was doing a *fine* job of resisting the lure of the character builder ... and then y'all go and say 'harmonic resonance' and 'Psychic Focus' and I was undone. This qualifies as "quick and dirty." With a dex of 8 I envision this character as a largely *stationary* harmonic...
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    How ubiquitous is the Superior Weapon feat?

    For a striker wielding a two-handed weapon, I can see the superior weapon feat being incredibly effective, though I'd honestly overlooked it at first. For other roles -- and particularly for one-handed weapons -- I'm less certain. I'm more likely to take weapon expertise for characters whose...
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