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Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Archive The above link is for a whole series of excellent articles on Skill Challenges. DDI is required. Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (Life During Wartime, Part 2) The second link there is...

It's not necessarily playing the monster "poorly" actually. For one, the monster is clearly outnumbered here, in which just concentrating on one guy would mean it has to stay near him, and therefore becomes an easy target. Constantly teleporting around to get little jabs in at different PC's...

Your point is sort of...well, his point really. Except for the NAD part. Take, for example, two Dragonborn Sorcerers that are going CHA/STR for the Dragon Magic build. One goes with an 18 CHA and the other goes with a 20 CHA (post-racial). Now, if the other base scores are all 10's and an 8...

To answer your question: I have no idea. An alternative though is to just get a DDI subscription, download character builder and then build out your character. When you're done, you can print out a character sheet complete with power cards. These cards will use the stats and bonuses from...

The only thing I would add is that the one thing that could be an issue when canceling your subscription is that you need to do it a few days ahead of the auto-renew date (I think it said 3 days, but I'm not 100% sure). This means, for example, that if your subscription renews on the 20th, you...

I'm that way too. I play a Defender in one game, and a Sorcerer in another. With the Defender I'm constantly trying to learn the abilities of allies and monsters in order to set up beneficial situations and avoid potential pitfalls. With the Sorcerer, I've assembled a lot of abilities that go...

The problem with THP is exactly what you said, that you can give it to them before they take damage. In fact, you can buff them up, and keep it buffed up, such that they never take a lick of damage during a whole fight. Mind you, that was after the Dragon hit them with his breath weapon...

I voted for Defender because I absolutely LOVE my Fighter. I also just love the whole concept of a Defender in general, and it's always interesting to see the different ways that they all work and what they can bring to the table. A close second though would be Striker. The character I'm...

One of the ways that I handled this with my group is to buy some multi-colored index cards (each card is one of five different colors) and then cut them into little one inch squares (I used a punch from my ex's scrapbooking stuff). I then organized the little squares by color and labeled them...

Actually, the section in the back of the MM is for NPC's, and clearly says that it might not be a good idea to let PC's use them. (emphasis mine) So while yes, you can make PC's out of these racial writeups, it also pretty clearly states that were intended for NPC's and that a DM should be...

Oh, I must've done the math wrong. I thought Plate Spec edged out, but I guess not. Even still though, as you noted, the extras that Defenders get will give them the edge. And taking an ED like Adamantine Warrior usually puts them permanently ahead of everyone else...or at the least even, but...

This. How many movies, games or books have you seen where the villain brings a whole bunch of disposable henchmen that act as cannon fodder while he tries to get what he wants done? You can do that here, and basically have the whole encounter be a smokescreen for the lurker who's gonna kidnap...

As others have pointed out, those templates were never meant to be applied to Solos. They're for making normal monsters into Elites, and Elites into Solos. By applying a healing template to a Solo with already high HP, you just added a LOT more length to the encounter. In fact, you said so...

Simple. Being "good" at a lot of stuff doesn't mean you're the "best" at all those things. Let's take a look, shall we? High AC: Sure, you can get AC equivalent to Plate Heavy Shield with two feats. A Paladin can have that out of the box with zero feats, and a Fighter only needs the single...

I find that 90% of grind comes form either poor encounter building, or poor play on the part of the players (could be because of non-synergistic PC choices or not paying attention/being prepared for the game). Example: Recently, one of the regular players in our group decided to try his hand at...

Well, I would say that the fact that 4 out of your 6 players are playing one of the two "overpowered" characters to be evidence of how they're a bit overpowered. Also, while you may not have noticed a problem now, I'm guessing you're still in Heroic, right? Cuz there's quite a few ways to...

Have you tried a Dragonborn yet? While they don't get the bump to CON, and the bump to CHA goes wasted, they have a lot of stuff that keys off CON and makes it a useful stat. The +CON to surge value alone has made my Dragonborn Fighter one tough SOB. Plus, depending on the class, there's a...

Well for one, have you ever heard of "buyer's remorse"? Since none of us here (barring the OP) are part of this game, it's hard to say what the player's motivations are. Does he like the flavor better, the party role or the powers? If he makes his change, will he actually be happy? Possibly...

Well, knowing more about your character (ie: race, class, stats) would help to figure that out. Certain things a Warlock does are more useful for a Wizard or Sorcerer than for a Fighter or Paladin.

Very true. If you open the door for the turn to continue prior to falling, all sorts of cheese can come in. For example, what if the character that teleported up into the air used a teleport + attack power (for simplicity's sake), action pointed, and then used another that granted some...