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Except that the encounter builder is next to useless and before it went paid the MM stuff wasn't in the Compendium, and I'm not going to pay X amount each month for this one service. A reasonable one off payment I'd be happy with, if it had all the information, but not subscription. Maybe if I...

I notice above that Hirahito is/was working on Monster Cards, but he is obviously completely swamped with all the brilliant work he's doing on the Power Cards, so I thought I'd ask. The one thing that would make my life several dozen times easier as a DM would be either Monster Cards or simply...

That's juts what I was about to say. If the Defender's AC is consistently 2 points better than the striker's, a marked monster's no worse off with regards to hit chance (obviously, there are the other consequences) going for the striker than the fighter.

I don't know whether this counts as 4e Rules, stirctly speaking, since the rule books don't even pretend to cover this but I have some questions from one of my players that I'm struggling to answer. As a bit of background, the character in question is trying to raise an army to retake his home...

The important thing about Manchester isn't the proximity to the Atlantic but the fact that it's in the North of the country. After all, everyone knows "It's grim Up North" Ok, maybe not everyone...

I would have responded to this, but everyone else was far too quick for me, and correct. I haven't played either of the war games, but have played WHFRP, and I'm now worried about playing DH. If it's more grim and gritty than WHFRP, then I'm scared. Oh, and I'm 6'1" if anyone was taking count.

I thought I'd make my first Hive post after some time of lurking a useful one. The difference between the two, as far as I know, is that WHFRP is based on WH Fantasy Battle, whereas DH is based on WH 40k. I hope that helps.

And you'd never get a chance to heal and therefore die in a couple of encounters. That is, if your companions didn't execute you for stopping them from regaining abilities. :)

Also, it'll take you a good 4-5 rounds to burn through the rest of your encounter powers, so it's going to be trickier to use this power to a) effect more than 1 enemy and b) not effect any of your allies, given all the manoeuvring that will have gone on in those early rounds.

There shouldn't be much if any work required. In my experience, making adventures for groups less than the default number is several times easier in 4e than it ever was in 3rd. I've run several fights for a group of 2 characters at 1st level (some testing in the first session and a 5 fight...

You know, as far as I'm concerned, if discussion of a possibility is this confusing, I'm more than happy to say it's not a possibility. Otherwise my players'll need some sort of logic training just to decide what happens in a combat round.

As a counterpoint to all the "Second Chance is the worst because I saw it used once and it made things worse/made no difference" comments, I'll point out that I was talking to a DM at Free RPG Day who hated Second Chance. Not because it was bad, but because he had not once hit a halfling with...

The problem with the first 3 is that you're making feats that absolutely everyone will take as soon as they become available, which is against a prime directive of the game's design. Don't make a feat that is either so good everyone wants it or so bad no-one takes it. The fourth isn't a bad...

Actually, the power itself say 0 or fewer. That depends on how rules lawyerly you're being with the power. It says +4 to damage rolls, and minions don't roll damage. And yes, the above means that thanks to the advice to Save as and just stick .pdf on the end of the file name, I can now see...

My players, when we were doing character gen for the game I started a couple of weeks ago, both chose the Array to start with, then used the point buy rules to tweak it to suit. That seems to be a nice middle ground between overwhelming options and underwhelming flexibility.

Then I don't know what the problem is. I can still log in OK, although attempting to open the file opens an internet page with headers and a bunch of gibberish characters, which is peculiar since I've been able to open all the other ones in teh past. Ah well, may be because I'm doing it on the...

It's not costing money, but you do seem to have to create an account now, wehereas before you could just hit the login button with the fields empty.

The other thing to think about with regards to the sources thing is Resist and Vulnerable. If any number of uses of the same power count as the same source, presumably the best way to deal with monsters with Resist would be to spam the same power on them repeatedly, as the Resist would only take...

Also, this comes at a point not too many levels away from when you get to pick up that feat that used to be called Golden Wyvern Adept whose new, dull, functional name I can't remember.

It is. The problem is that they thought they were buying Tower Bridge when they asked for London Bridge. More fool them! I'm pretty sure I only knew the chorus of the song, although I do have vague recollections about the different materials verses...