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So basically, Frank Miller is taking someone else's creation and turning it into a Sin City spinoff? Man... first All-Star Batman, now this. The more this guy does lately, the less I like him.

Really? Huh, I must not have been paying close attention then. The reason I ask is because skills seem to be the only thing that's not divorced from monster ability scores. Generally, I'm cool with exception-based design (actually, I like it a lot). However, if the ability scores are used...

Is the Eye of Gruumsh's initiative correct? I'm getting +2 (Dexterity) plus +2 (Level) for +4. Where is the +6 coming from?

I could see how one might associate radiant with good... in the context of DnD. 4e is changing some of those assumptions we've had about Good and Evil within the context of the game. Actually, I like that good and evil clerics draw from the same source of power. It raises some interesting...

Hmm... so if the race is incomplete in the pregen (and it certainly may not be), what's the likely hood of the race being incomplete in the actual rulebook?

Your statistics, please.

Aha right, I'd forgotten about that. I thought I remembered a caveat that a paladin can only mark one foe. Of course, it's also possible that the PP's ability is meant to work in conjunction with another defender.

As I understand it, the paladin can only mark one foe anyway (despite it being an aoe), and it's always worked that way (at least since the DDXP). So a lot of your example situations wouldn't have worked anyway.

I don't really like this change. That said, the exploit seems awfully situational. Not only does it take two classes and specific monster and environmental conditions to set up, but it seems like this would only be effective at lower levels. Compare 8/turn to solo and elite monster HP in the...

Unless of course, you were attacking something that was immune to crits...

Ok, read the article and waded through this long thread. I feel no need to rehash the arguments about main-hand/off-hand weapons or 3.0's weapon sizing rules. I think this is, more or less, what I expected coming down the road for weapons. As far as previews go, this is not the most...

There's a lot of mention of "needless symmetry" going around (maybe not in this thread, but in general). In other words, is there really a need to assign every role to the various power types. The answer of course is no, it's certainly not necessary. But if something meaningful and...

I've read the Ultimates Vol 1 and 2, though I don't recall anything about brain diffusion... Is that in the Orson Scott Card version? He's one of my favorites and I thought maybe I'd pick it up after the movie. If I read that, I'd probably find the unnecessary change pretty bizarre too.

With the narrowing of multiclassing, I see a continued expansion of base classes for 4e. (Although "base" isn't really an appropriate descriptor anymore, because there are no longer different kinds of classes.) If you remove the paladin in 4e, you're going to remove the Divine Defender role...

Lost is not in its final season; my understanding is that they still have a few more to go. And technically, when this "season" ends of Battlestar, it'll only be Part 1. Part 2 is picking up again in the Fall. This episode did not really do it for me (though I liked the one preceding it). I...

Yep, that's the one. Like I said, exceedingly difficult. So difficult, in fact, that only a high level character built for intimidation would have a shot, and a remote one at that.

Don't know about anyone else, but I wasn't talking about every situation. Just specific ones where intimidate might be appropriate. In the spirit of the game, I would not call this an honest attempt to use bluff by the player. Unless of course that's the kind of game we're playing. PCs are...

I'm betting Thor will just fight a giant mechanical spider.

4e has skill points now? I feel pretty differently about this. If one has invested a significant portion of your character into being good at Intimidation, one should reap the benefits of that skill. The DC for the above situation would warrant a high DC to be sure, but it's not impossible...

I think we have good reason to believe that these homebrew monsters are on par. Keterys's are really the best examples to follow; he's been doing it for longer and has many, many examples of all levels. But, we have a pretty reasonable idea of what HPs for various monster types will be. We...