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In our game we've found skill challenges to be useful in that they give the players another option in the face of seemingly impending combat. In this case it was the players who asked if they could use a skill challenge to avoid an unwanted fight ... something that is way beyond the purview of a...

I'm sorry; what limitations are you talking about specifically? I don't see any missing anywhere. The way it looks, unless the caster of polymorph is an outsider, pit fiend is out at any level.

I like that idea, though I've never had aproblem with aid another as it gives a player something to do if the PC is unable to contribute in an encounter otherwise.

Very similar for me too. Usually when I'm a player I'll ask for an appropriate knowledge check before I start blabbing things but if my character doesn't have the right skill I bite my tongue and hope for the best. In dire situations(ie. the knowledge is likely the difference between standard...

I'm sorry I must have worded my reply badly because it doesn't seem as if we've a disagreement here. The issue as I saw it was that with the 2[w] roll, those damage bonuses are not doubled up as per raw according to the example. They are added to the 2[w] roll the same as they are added to a...

But this is not the RAW. Check out PHB 276 under the example where Valenae attacks with her +2 thundering longsword. The only thing included in the 2w is the d8 damage roll; not the feat bonus nor the +2 enhancement bonus.

It does strike me as more of just a scenario/delve. More delve, as it's even described in the DMG as just a string of combat encounters.

Goonies der_kluge's universe's got nards!?

I just wanted everyone to know that I succeeded in making it all the way through this thread. Whew. Anyway, as my 2 cents: as far as combat goes, isn't playing like a video game a GOOD thing? Combat in video games is often fast and fun ... the same goal stated in both 3e and 4e books as well...

I prefer that the female dwarves look female. It's a refreshing change.

Probably roughly a dozen people reading and then posting in the latter thread. That's my vote ... but at least we don't write erotic star trek fan fiction where all the characters are furries and put ourselves in as the main characters that's more nerdy. :p

I found exactly the same thing.

The longest single session I ever ran was 14 hours long; it was fully seat-of-th-pants style. Nowadays sessions run 4-6 hours, but it's because of players' time constraints rather than burnout. They are all seat-of-the-pants style, too ... in fact, I've never even been able to read through an...

The vine's kung fu must have been stronger.:)

Not at all. Such cinematic moments would/should be reserved for the final face-off against Uberscorch the Great Wyrmlord of the flaming pits of Burnination, not for just 'a red dragon'. As an aside, is it known whether immunities are completely gone, or simply scaled back to an acceptable(only...

Smaller? I don't think so. Now that this ability exists, variations on this ability will likely rise, not to mention feats, skill tricks, talents ... whatever you want to call them. That is rules bloat. Anyone without this special bugbear ability can't use the 'meat shield' technique ...

Well, it seems like in 4e the capabilities of different classes(arcane/divine/martial) aren't going to be so hugely disparate as in 3.x, so, depending on how it turns out, this may even be a non-issue. As always, we have to wait and see. Curses!

Trinumerous, the Unarmed One.

boomboom; clash! ... postcount = postcount+1 :D

Agreed. While extremely hak-n-slash, Diablo2 had some excellent and very yoink-worthy ideas; skill trees not being the least of which(anyone else notice 'item sets' in MIC? Diablo2 did that too.)