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Weapon feats, sure, but there's plenty of ways to get damage bonuses that don't involve the weapon you're using. As for crits, you wouldn't get crit dice/effects off your weapon, but you would definitely get all other critical effects like Devastating Critical or extended crit ranges.

Magic: the Gathering actually has the most clear interpretation of this, IME. Some spells (cards) are "Instant" -- they can be cast on anybody's turn, and at any point in the turn. These effects always spend resources when cast, but then are given a chance to resolve via "the stack". Every spell...

Why wouldn't you? It's already incorporating strength mod, and it's a damage roll. As for the usefulness of this power, keep in mind that it runs on an Opportunity Action; this means you can trigger it per turn, not per round. So every enemy's turn you'll have a chance to trigger it, and again...

I went for option 2; the last thing I need is a chart providing ammo for players to argue about why they should be able to automatically succeed at something that I've presented to give them a challenge.

One roll of critical dice, one application of bonus damage.

I would tend to agree, Elemental Chaos makes a certain amount of sense. Alternately, a demiplane on the edge of the EC. (This seems to add a bit more plausibility without upsetting the fact of "WTF why did nobody else notice all this".) As for who did it/why, I would probably want it to be...

Step 1) Read DMG for basics. Step 2) Read DMG2 to see how a skill challenge is ACTUALLY done. Step 3) Scratch the formal layout and just give people narrative scenes to solve. Use simple easy/medium/hard DCs by level (based on what they describe their character doing) to determine success/failure.

Fair enough, though in many cases these effects are chained together such that it wouldn't make a difference (ex: stunned -> unconscious, etc). :)

Eh? How do you follow that logic?

(This is the oldschool deck reference, but figured it appropriate)

@Zuche : Hell's bells, you make some serious logical leaps about me and my scenario in that post. First off, I didn't survive. I said my team won. I got killed off because the DM found my -2 mark plinking a nuisance, so he focused me down. I elected not to take any heals after the first attempt...

According to DracoSuave, having Resist 5 Acid and Resist 5 fire against an Arcane Admixture: Fire augmented Acid Orb means that you're going to resist 10 damage of the Acid Orb. Whereas if you had just left the Admixture out, you'd only resist 5.

Well that callout was unnecessary. I posted my opinion of it, others liked it. No reason to fracture the conversation just because of differing opinions.

Answer me honestly: Would you be okay with being dazed for a turn every time you use a ranged attack? Brutal content or not, I'm pretty sure most people would say no; especially when the melee characters are sitting there hammering away without a care in the world. This is the crux of the...

http://www.enworld.org/forum/4e-discussion/311051-post-your-lair-assault-results-here-spoilers.html

Draco: Do you realize that, by your interpretation, the Arcane Admixture feat actually makes your powers *weaker* for using it? More keywords means more chances to apply resistance, and thus less damage. Sense, it makes none.

DM shouldn't be seeing anything the players come up with until he's already committed his monster/trap layout to the map. @Zuche : There is a HUGE difference between a paradigm shift during the game due to an unexpected complication and a complete neutering of a class. I shouldn't be punished...

That's disappointing if that's the case, I wouldn't expect that from the guy who ran it for us. I'll have to see if I can get a look at the material (I don't really think it's possible to cheat since the DM has so much control over the game anyway, and once you've seen it once you know how the...

Because teleporting after round 4 was penalized by unresistable 10 fire damage to every creature in a burst 3 of the origin square (which most of the monsters resisted anyway so I couldn't even use it as a nuke). I couldn't enforce my mark or use most of my good attacks without nuking the party...