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Which is why one of the options was to politely talk to the player, and another one was to ignore it for the time being. If the player wasn't doing it maliciously, then it won't be a problem. No one said that it was. In fact, as I said, the question was only about malicious derailment...

You're leaving out the first part of the poll... Hey, DMs: Have you ever had a player maliciously [emphasis mine] derail your campaign? Yes. No. I dunno. Maybe. Considering that the first part is asking about a player maliciously (rather than inadvertantly) derailing a campaign, I believe...

No, you gave me one. The Warlock is perfectly viable in light armor, save for a very particular build that is not recommended. If we're going to get into nitty gritty arguments about particular builds then why can't I make my Roman Legionaire in Leather armor with STR/CON totally viable? This...

Which is the whole point. Either it's stupidly designed and useless, or monsters aren't supposed to know quite all of the effects. Perhaps the monster should just know that Defender's Gambit gives him a boost to his attack, but leaves him open to a free attack as an Immediate Reaction. Then...

So, Barbarian's get a boost to their AC and REF if they not using Heavy Armor and don't have DEX as a primary or main secondary stat. Even assuming 18/18/12 (STR/CHA/DEX) starting, then that's a 15 AC in Hide armor. Not good, I'll agree, but about as good as a Wizard. This can be corrected by a...

While I still don't entirely agree that such a rule is necessary, I think that your version is at least a bit more balanced. Although it reads a bit like a feat tax. Take the STR/WIS Fighter, for example. He can train in Endurance, but due to the split between STR and WIS, he won't have a very...

Again though, that's one of those corner cases that's unlikely to happen most of the time. Pulling up the Compendium I did a search for level 15 standard monsters with the keyword "immediate", and got 39 results. Sounds like a lot though, right? Well, there are 116 creatures total at that...

As an actual player of a Defender, I would say that you're half right. A DM should do a mix of respecting the mark, and disrespecting the mark, not one extreme or the other. If the DM always attacks the one who marked it, then the Defender's surges and hit points become the limiting factor in an...

Pretty much... The time one of my DM's didn't let my STR/CON Fighter sleep in heavy armor, we got ambushed. I had to blow my turn using a Standard to put on my shield just to get above an 11 AC! Even then, I was still 6 or so points of AC below the lowest party member (Our Staff Wizard with...

I play an Elf Scout in Encounters, so that I know that in order for that human to get a +10 he must've optimized for a 20 DEX (which, since he only gets one stat boost, means he's gonna have crappy FORT and WILL), took the option for wielding a light blade in the off-hand to get a +1 to attacks...

First off, there's the caveat that the DM always has the final word on stuff like this. I don't think that the rules are super clear on this, and I know that my old DM told me that it wouldn't count in our game. However, I would think that as long as you're wielding an implement in each hand...

This is probably pretty accurate. It's a Racial Power, not an Arcane Attack, and therefore doesn't have a level. Or even if it did, it would be level 0 (and no, that does not mean that sacrifice to Caiphon only does 0 damage...). Honestly, just be happy that you can do ridiculous things like...

Well, I said that they went through and rebalanced things...I didn't say they did it perfectly. :D

The cat? I say vote for Clatterby, the animated suit of armor. I mean, how the hell is an animated suit of armor, that apparently is really noisy (I mean, it would have to be for them to name it "Clatterby"), supposed to be an awesome story. That is a story I want to hear about!

Why? You don't like rebalanced classes that actually function in their role now (Warlock), or the removal/fixing of completely broken cheese (Cleric)? ;) Honestly though, all they did as part of this was just look at a lot of the PHB1 classes and go through to rebalance them. And that...

Pretty much. Another interesting combo that a friend and I did was Sorcerer and Warlock. They're both Arcane Striker classes, but the Sorcerer is more blasty, and the Warlock is more controllery. My Dragonborn Sorcerer used Dragonfear as well as some other powers (the lower level ones that...

As others have said, themes are what you make of them. If you have a Fighter that picks the Templar theme, but you say he's not really a Templar, that's fine. Just like if you pick some background like Dragonbound Arcanist but don't really explain any of the flavor of that background in your...

Mengu - Great explanation of how a Paragon turn can wind up taking a lot longer. I played a Paragon level campaign using a Dragonborn Sorcerer with the Dragonfear option. I also went with a lot of blasty powers, since most of the rest of the party was single target or used Burst 1 attacks...

Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (The Next Wave in Digital Offerings) Well, looks like everyone who was going to cancel their subscription until they announced something should be re-upping now... ;)

So in other words, when Toyota says "Hey, we're releasing a new model in 2012" they should have a full spec sheet, photos, test driveable vehicles, exact sticker price and street delivery date all in hand at that very moment? I'm sorry, but your expectations are a bit unrealistic. Yes, they...