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Pixie vampire named Mosquiote? It has to be done.

Remember how they fixed Armored Warlord by adding the prerequisite proficiency with chainmail? This is the exact same problem introduced in a different way. Yes, it works by RAW, but it's likely unintended. The class feature needs to say something in the lines of, "if you have proficiency with...

I don't like the +X item system, and would love to be rid of it. Before 4e came out, it was one of my biggest hopes for the system, that they might ditch all the +X items. When I read a story, I don't see a new item every 3 pages, which is what it feels like I have to do in 4e. I do like the...

Your player is right. And yes, this gives each die a 25% chance to explode, much like using a 2d4 weapon, except damage is bigger since it's 3-6. And yes, having played games with exploding dice, this happens very frequently and you could get massive damage values out of it. By level 30, dice...

Oh, strike that, you have to fix it then. My previously proposed fix should work fine. It would amount to 4.5 extra damage per encounter. A modest boost, that is more than the bugbear with the oversize weapon needs. And for the record, I don't believe oversize weapons were ever meant to be in...

With an execution axe, it's 10% chance of explosion per die. He's not likely to get more than 1 per damage roll anyway, at heroic (for 2[W] powers it's 1% chance both dice will explode). He'd be lucky to get 2 at paragon, etc. The added complexity doesn't seem worthwhile. I'd say just leave it...

Couldn't help but raise my eyebrows when I read vorpal at level 8, but I assume you mean vanguard. Wednesday Boy is correct on the charge square issue. You can go from 0 to 1, via 7-4, 7-5, 8-4, 8-5, or even 9-5. They are all legal.

Looks like you can search for them by name, and they come up as Alternative Reward, but I see no Alternative Reward category to browse through. They are missing the category under Misc.

I like the rank ideas that have come up a couple times now. Currently, I don't think the system sufficiently rewards training. For instance, if your dragonborn warlord wants to be the commando type, and trains in stealth, while this gives him a +5, a +5 on top of nothing, still feels like...

I wouldn't worry about it too much. The difference is pretty negligible in the long run. But if you are worried about the cost of the old item, just add the appropriate fraction of the cost of the item as gold to one of your treasure parcels. I've stopped paying attention to parcels for a...

I bought it (for a friend, not for me) at the FLGS. But there are many brick and mortar stores with online presence, who do sell it online, so it's not exactly difficult to find online.

I can see a few DM's who would use this. I've been in some games (various non-D&D systems), where we started at orphanages and the like, at apprentice level. It's a fun "this is where we came from" start up to an adventuring career. One thing I'd change is, in all the powers, I'd replace all...

As DM, all I ever use are, DDI, page of MM3 updates, and page of Skill DC updates. That's it. Every other book you think you need, you can either borrow from a friend, check out from a library, or dig for it at half-price. Once you get rolling, you won't need it any more. The only exception...

A pint of kobold blood drawn by a vampire, a pinch of gnoll hair skinned with the claw of Malar, eye of a gorgon gouged with the handpick of Gond, scales of an orium dragon willingly given, boil and stir in a golden cauldron for 7 consecutive nights leading to a full moon. That should be about...

Draco: You're equating single hit line with single damage instance. I'm not sure how you arrive at this conclusion. Also monster powers often don't have the same clarity of PC powers, which makes rules applications a bit more vague. If the hit line said something like: Hit: 1d6 fire damage and...

Events unravel around the PC's whether they are interacting with their environment or not. It's the DM's job to portray these events. I can't think of a situation where inaction would not have consequences. I mean if the PC's don't care that goblins are pillaging the village, or that cultists...

Weight of Earth Slows at-will Noble is a generic theme from Dragon 399 with no race restrictions, that gives me a free common level 6 item, and that's where the +2 armor is coming from. Gauntlets are level 5. Acquisition rules don't differentiate between common, uncommon and rare, the only...

Nowhere does it say to subtract from any *one* type of damage. I don't think this is a rule. I guess we just have to disagree on our interpretation of resist all.

So if I fall in an elemental pool and take 8 fire, 8 cold, 8 acid damage, and have resist 5 fire and cold, I take 3+3+8=14 damage, but if I have resist 5 fire, cold, acid, lightning, thunder, radiant, necrotic, poison, and everything else under the sun (i.e. resist 5 all), I take 3+8+8=19...

If *all* your players are of like mind, it probably isn't an issue. But a mix can make things awkward. I have a hunter who typically just needs a 2-4 on the die to hit. In another group, I have a buddy playing a paladin who typically needs a 9-11 to hit. If these two characters were in the same...