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I've been playing lots of Smash Bros, so I'm imagining Grabbing to be similar. You grab onto them, smack them a couple times, and toss them away. Though I think it would be harder to toss them. Maybe moving them a square and having them prone would work...

I personally don't see the difficulty of keeping track, as long as you have a little bit of time beforehand to set it up. I'm sure a lot of ideas have come up before about how to show marking, but these are the first that popped into my head immediately. Each Fighter and Paladin get little paper...

Satyr have long been in my setting as a playable race in a different system, so I'm hoping 4e has rules for them as players as well, though I know the leaked list doesn't mention them. Hopefully they aren't too difficult to make a race of, even if I need to house rule a level adjustment.

How to defeat a breath user, a number of ways. A poison tablet, that hinders the ability to produce the things required for breath attacks. The use of such of a poison was first done by the great assassin Ticarius, known as the Ticarius Attack. Since then, it has been shortened to tic-tac, and...

That's what I'm trying to say, only instead of tossing logic aside, make up logic. That is, if your group enjoys that kind of thing.

Something I'm finding a lot in discussions is "this shouldn't work because." Things like sneak attacking a slime or charming undead in 4e, though this idea isn't restricted to 4e. The thing is, the mechanics are there. To make mechanics balanced, you have to get rid of a certain amount of...

If you roll attack and damage dice together, you get both attack and damage at the same time! Though I'll probably use the average anyways, mixing it up a bit. He does 5 on the first hit. 4 the next. 6 for another. The PCs are running out of resources too early, so the next attack is 3, the...

I don't think it would be difficult to make a "White Mage" kind of class. Paladins and Combat-oriented Clerics would become spellsword classes, in a way. That way, you don't take anything out, allowing you to test out the full 4e (minus races, of course.)

I only joined ENworld a few weeks ago. This is like a god coming down and smiting me. The good kind of smite.

I think that I might add more rules to the intimidation auto-fail for my own means. Basically, if a PC tries to intimidate and rolls a 1, he sucks so badly that the Duke laughs. Not a success, but not a failure, though the duke would tire quickly if it happened again.

*After recovering from swoon. Wow, a WotC reply!* Okay, I understand power sources a bit more now. I didn't think earlier that the classes would probably all have simpler abilities as well, though it makes a lot of sense. I think that the archer ranger would be the best as well, though a...

(I should have added a "Don't be picky" option in the poll.) I think I agree with you two. With a good tutorial beforehand, I'm sure all of the classes would be okay to try out. The problem is that I don't want any of them to get intimidated and decide to leave. I already know that one of them...

I think those nine slot pages would work well. If you use dry/wet erase markers, you don't even need to flip things, just draw a big X over top of things you've used. If you make your own cards, you can just put a big underscore where the [w] would be in damage, and write the damage in using a...

Yes, limited interaction is probably best. I will probably allow them to kill off their characters after a few sessions to try the other classes if they look better, after they've tried the game out. Ranger might be better then Fighter, as it allows them to do more at a long range, though I...

So in my 4e campaign in a month or so, I'm going to be having at least 2 people who are brand new to RPing in general, let alone DnD. One of them reads fantasy books, so she is at least a bit knowledgeable, but the other one watched Lord of the Rings years ago and that's about it. What do you...

There was a french tactical mmo I used to play, dofus or dofes or something, which has a sacrificer class. When they used their power, they gained a bonus to a certain ability score depending on how much damage they took before the next turn. My friends and I who played it used the tactic "Round...

PG 1: In the second paragraph, replace "Pole Raying game" with "Role Playing game." PG 29: Replace the Fighter power "Magic Missile" with the power below. Fighters do not actually have Magic Missile.

We seem to be placing magic items in a catch all category. I think of them as unique items, each of them. Some examples. A +5 flaming burst sword was made for a very stupid, but heroic warrior. So on the hilt, it says in Common "YELL FIRE TO MAKE IT EXPLODE." You don't even have to spend a rest...

Recently, I played in a game, a large wizardess NPC was described as having a beauty mark, and she kept touching it throughout the day with a wand. Turns out it was a wand of arcane mark, and the beauty mark wasn't really there. I'm not sure if it actually works with the rules, but this DM...

In June I'm going to be moving out of town for school. Since I plan on getting 4e, I think I'm going to sell all my 3e books. I wont have room for them in my new place, so they'd basically sit at my parents house and collect dust. I'll just sell them, and if it is desperate for me to play 3e...