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The "bag of rats" reference might count too.

Humans should cover most roles decently. Dragonborn sometimes travel in mercenary bands. That's your fluff right there. A family of halfling adventurers is just hilarious.

Stinking Cloud is your friendly neighbourhood 2*2 poison vortex that floats around the battlefield and kills approximately 2 minions* per round. I voted for it. Icy Grasp focuses on one dude and keeps him immobilized, while dealing damage. That and Web can be useful if the party has many ranged...

Making Raise Dead require a quest is a nice idea, but I don't think "Make the DM come up with a quest on the spot" should be a spell. A hefty monetary price is a good baseline.

That's the one. Thanks, now I know I'm not hallucinating. ;)

Really hazy memory here, but there was a post by a dev that hinted that underwater rules were going in the DMG II. Kind of hints that there won't be purley underwater creatures in the MM, too.

Or option 5 - it's made out of dwarves.

Since everyone is mentioning the hydra, I thought I'd point out that the Fen Hydra in the Dungeons of Dread preview is a level 12 solo brute. No idea about the Laernean Hydra (if it's even in). I hope owlbears are at least unique elite, assuming they're not pack animals. EDIT: Don't type while...

Makes sense.

But if the fighter misses, the adjacent creature doesn't get hit and is thus not included in the attack. Since you don't know if you hit before rolling, the -2 still applies. (But Divine Challenge might not.) ;)

As a tangent to this, I've been wondering about the Eye of Flame's* eyestalk attack: :ranged: Eyestalks Standard; 2 of the following, diff targets. No telekinesis or fear more than once per action. Fire: Rg 8; +15 vs Ref; 2d8+5 fire Telekinesis: Rg 8; +15 vs Fort; 1d8+5 AND push/pull 4 Fear: Rg...

Aha! I guessed it (but didn't call it)! Seems the "boring" numbers on a monster (HP, AC, defenses, to hit) are derived by monster level and type. Just add powers, and shake lightly.

Frost Giant in three steps: 1. Take a fire giant. 2. Replace "fire" descriptor with "cold" and "ongoing X fire damage" with "slow". (Sorry GoodKingJayIII, I had to point out the "schtick" that each element seems to have.) 3. Enjoy one or two pages of new and exciting monster that wasn't wasted...

Or maybe because actual Scandinavian folklore depicts them turning to stone (or bursting apart) when exposed to sunlight. I read about that well before reading The Hobbit or anything by Pratchett. Wikipedia link for the lazy. The regeneration is far more objectionable (but i like it for...

Interesting catch. So there will be additional rules in future DMG:s, maybe with options like The_Pugilist wants. Okay, that's a good point too. :)

For the first time ever, I'm interested in making a gish. A fighter with the Arcane Initiate feat could be a Battlemage from level 1, and then pick up the actual paragon path at level 11. Powers taken from the Wizard list would probably be utility powers and area attacks rather than...

You haven't seen Conan the Barbarian then. That's one fighter with the Raise Dead Ritual right there. ;) Edit: For the uninitiated, I'm not talking about Conan. It's one of his comrades. More edit: A Warlord with the Ritual Casting feat sounds like a pasable approximation of a historical druid...

Something struck me. We can guess pretty well what'll be in the PHB II (more races, classes and powers) and the MM II (more monsters, heck, WotC could probably set up the tables of contents for MM 2-10 now if they wanted). But what'll be in the DMG II? More magic items (wouldn't that be the...

On an almost serious note, the Forsaker* may be playable in 4e. I'd consider residuum some kind of powder, but I like the idea that magic energy starts out tied to fantastical resources like vis from Ars Magica. *) 3.0 Masters of the Wild, can't use magic items, gets damage reduction for...

This. "Ooh, pretty pictures." And I might try to run a game, so I'm definitely getting a MM of my own.