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This still doesn't answer the question of whywe need a new level-based defense when the one we currently have works fine. Plus, you still haven't given a reason why a level 30 party should find it just as difficult to hit a level 1 Kobold as they do Orcus. What's the point? Lower level...

If that were true, then you'd also have unlimited milestones and AP's for a day too. Before you leave town, you just run through a bunch of encounters and build up a reserve of action points and milestones to power all magic items. This, however, would be extremely broken... I think that the...

There's a whole series of powers with essentially the same effect. They're obviously intended as anti-BBEG powers by getting them to focus solely on you no matter what's going on. As I said, this can be a good thing or a bad thing, but it's not necessarily universally good. Sometimes bouncing...

But since level has nothing to do with "to-hit", a level 3 party could hit him just as easily. The only issue they would have is dealing with his massive HP. What sense does that make though? This is why the 1/2 level bonus was added, was to create a way to make higher level encounters...

That mechanic is called "or". :D Seriously though, there aren't any examples I can think of where something applies in either of two conditions, but gets doubled if both are present. It's rather ridiculous to apply this twice, especially considering all of the powers that push/push/slide AND...

This I think is where the key disconnect is coming from. The way I view it, the Wizard would probably know if his Shield would be effective or not. Basically, he's seeing an attack coming and thinking "Oh no, I'm ****ed" and bracing for it, or he's thinking "Wow, he's going for an overhead...

I never played 3.x, so that's not where this is coming from. I get that too. The problem I have is that out of the heavy armors, you can only get specialization with one without pumping DEX, and that's Plate. So unless you're going for a Heavy Blade Fighter, you're kinda screwed. You're...

There's a lot of stuff actually. I don't know about the powers necessarily, but there's a lot of excellent Paragon Paths. Death Dealer, for example, is brutal. Adjacent enemies get a -2 to saving throws, which is great for all those (save ends) conditions. You get one that when you spend an...

Unless the Fighter disengages himself, there's no way for him to get to the back. It's a melee power, not ranged. The enemy could try and disengage, but he'd be provoking attacks for doing so, and even once he's disengaged the Fighter just effectively gave everyone else in the party a +2 to...

Yes, this has always annoyed me too. Also, Plate providing a Higher AC isn't much of a justification. Scale and Plate are one point apart, one point, yet with Scale Spec you get +14AC and no penalties and with Plate you get +15AC and -2 check and -1AC. That's with PHB armor, but the...

Yeah, there's actually nothing in the rules themselves that state you have to be in corner or the middle. The only reason why this happens in the picture is because it's a blast 3, and those are the positions that they chose. Saying this was the only way to do it would be like saying that the...

With a normal mark, this is true. When you're talking an encounter long mark, it's different though. Even if the BBEG ignores the Fighter and the Fighter goes off an engages another target, the BBEG has a permanent -2 to hit. This will get annoying after awhile, and the only way to get rid of...

Exactly. Those saying that Lasting Threat is better are assuming that an encounter long mark is only a bonus. Since you have be adjacent to use the attack, that means that the target will take an OA if they move away or a CCII attack for shifting or attacking an ally. Since this is sort of an...

One of the problems is that it would be roughly the same difficulty to hit Orcus versus Irontooth from KotS. Granted, you'll have magic items against Orcus, but he would have enchanted armor or an equivalent behind the scenes bonus. Part of the point of the level scaling is that you an hit a...

Holy crap! You can get +1000 to hyperbole?!?! ;) Seriously though, yeah, Dragonborns can get really good with Intimidate, especially if you're going with a Pally and jacking up your Charisma. Training, plus Focus, plus Racial comes out to +10, which already equals the Hostile modifier. Any...

Well, think of it this way. You attack the enemy and use your shield to push him back five feet. Then you step forward and jam the enemy with your spear to push him another 5 feet.

My God...that's just crazy enough to work! *grabs Dwarf* "Here my friend, have a drink of this and let's discuss this 'Dragon problem' that the town is having..." :]

No kidding...with the justification of "Well, why should every other monster get this extra thing when the PC is out of surges, but not the Death Titan? I need my players to fear the Death Titan, so we'll just combine them." :eek:

#1 wouldn't work, because when you ready an action you're taking the action on your turn, because your turn moves in initiative to be before the enemy's turn. Thus, it's your turn, and he can make an OA. Not to mention the fact that you need a specific trigger, and it's possible that your...

Yeah, but you're talking about minions there... Differences in Minions, since they have only 1HP, aren't as big because they don't last as long. The Goblin/Kobold thing will have more of an effect because neither will go down in just 1 hit from anything.