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    Are Multiattacks a Problem?

    I've pondered what the impact would be for twin strike to use both standard and move actions. However, it pretty much tells melee rangers they must use reach weapons (like spiked chain) so their enemies don't just shift away, and archer rangers have little to worry about once they figure out how...
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    Dragon 402 & Dungeon 193 ToC Are Up

    Depends on your demographic. Around here, people play dwarves because they kick ass. And people don't play minotaurs because a. they suck unless you are a fighter; b. you have to contend with the udder jokes, no thank you. I don't particularly want to see a flood of people suddenly playing...
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    Are Multiattacks a Problem?

    The problem is not necessarily multiple attacks, but the varying degrees of optimization. Looking at two level 6 wardens, the earth warden was dealing 1d10(b2)+18'ish damage and had AC 24'ish, the wild warden was dealing 1d10+7'ish damage, and had AC 21'ish. In the party with the earth warden...
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    Paladin Ranged Attacks?

    I've witnessed the same challenge with charisma paladins. I think Strength paladins can throw javelins and the like, so they are not completely useless. Half-elves obviously have the dilettante option to snag a 20 square Acid Orb, or a 10 square Cunning Words, Vicious Mockery, Dragon Frost...
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    Warlock Update

    The point is, half the time, they didn't know what the heck they were doing in PHB1, and don't like to eat crow. Now that the system is much more refined, and they have a better understanding of where the power level of everything needs to be, they need to be quite a bit more liberal about...
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    Dragon 402 & Dungeon 193 ToC Are Up

    Weapon and Implement Expertise, fi-nal-ly. I'm not sure why dwarves, humans, half-elves, and halflings needed more support (dwarves?!). A better utility power article would have been for Gnomes, Minotaurs, Changelings and Shardminds. But I guess that wouldn't serve to the masses, because they...
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    Teleportation at level 1

    Just another angle... In 3.x, we had to fortify keep walls with a layer of stone, a layer of lead, another layer of stone, a layer of iron, another layer of stone, anti-teleportation wards, anti-summoning wards, anti-air missiles, sonar bats, and a few alarms, just to present at least a moderate...
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    Teleportation at level 1

    If I don't want the PC's to escape so easily, yes, their captors will be sophisticated enough to protect their prison against teleportation in, out, or within. If I want the PC's to escape their cell in the first 10 minutes, without entire sessions planning their escape, and I want the...
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    Has the DM fallen from grace?

    There are three aspects to trusting the DM. First, as far as the story and direction goes, I find that two way trust drives the story the best. As player I trust the DM has some direction in mind, and I do try to figure out and follow that direction. As DM I trust the players, in that they are...
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    Evard's shadow

    I can't quite tell what the short/extended rest intentions are here. It looks like 8 combat encounters, 2 skill challenges, with no extended rest. Basically a one adventuring day level, if you survive it. And the first 3 encounters might just be soft enough to do it, for a level 4 or level 5...
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    The half group skill check

    I've always done group checks this way. All you need is half the group to succeed. The only thing I've been thinking of lately is going against recommendation of making group checks Easy DC. Moderate DC is actually a better challenge I think, with a more real chance of failure. When I make the...
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    Bladesinger Preview!

    Now I want to make a tomb wizard (to go with my halfling rouge) lugging around a giant tomb stone. I better be genasi so I can have the strength to carry it around. Best be female, since I'll undoubted have the reputation of a tomb raider, as I search for more +'s for my tomb stone implement...
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    Spawn Wraith questions`

    It means the PC has to die, either by failing 3 death saves, or by being reduced to less than negative bloodied. Wraiths can easily arrange for this by attacking unconscious targets. And yes the PC can be raised (unless you decide they can't). If you want to go crazy, build an encounter with 3...
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    Skill Challenges that KILL

    The way I might make skill challenges lethal, is by its consequences leading to a lethally difficult combat encounter. Maybe each failure costs time, and I keep adding more and more monsters and/or traps to the next encounter. Maybe they come out of the skill challenge with damage (not just...
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    Zero to Hero!

    Feeling like a hero (or not) is fairly system agnostic. The DM can make PC's feel either way at any given level. I can run a 4e game where level 1's feel like heroes, or level 5's feel like nobodies. I was in a 3e game where we were up to 7th level and still felt like nobodies. In a 3.5 game, I...
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    New Content or Better Content?

    I could actually get on board with that.
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    New Content or Better Content?

    Yes, we did need it. The controller role is still rather nebulous. By my reckoning, the Bladesinger is the best definition for what a controller might be doing. Hunter was the latest closest thing, but Bladesinger blows that out of the water. You can focus fire *and* control. That's currently...
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    Assault Clerics, Cleric Shocktroopers

    Decide what you want to be the common ability of the Lightbringers. Then make a Lightbringer Theme, a background, and maybe a leader PP. My vision of it would be something like: Background: +2 stealth or religion. Theme: Level 1 - give them a power like Bravo Prey; Level 5 - May use wisdom in...
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    Does Gith Blademaster apply to Holy Avengers?

    Yes, the racial feat bonuses apply both to weapon and implement attacks, unlike the updated weapon focus, which gives the proverbial middle finger to anyone who uses a weapon as both a weapon and an implement like the swordmage. No, I'm not bitter or anything.
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    PC races

    There are additional racial options, but not additional races. For instance there are a number of new Genasi Manifestations (Dr 380 & 396), Dragonborn Fear instead of Breath (Dr 388), and maybe some others I'm not thinking of at the moment.
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