Search results

Some dailies are rather crazy in damage, but since they are only doing damage, they should be. Much worse in my opinion is firewall. Line it up right and you have a group of creatures forced to take a minimum of 40ish damage and two turns just to get to you. Once they do, any wizard worth his...

Mind-numbingly overpowered. Limiting crits to only 5% of the time makes up for the fact that crits deal approximately 200% damage, and often have side effects. It makes +1 to attack rolls, increase the crit chance by 5%, thus making it worth more than an EPIC FEAT. In order to counterbalance...

It all depends on the world, and while there can easily be worlds where bugbears have been allies for eons while the abomination of a half-elf is a threat to society, the typical fantasy world views it the other way around.

The largest issue that I can see is that you are willing to give the PCs extra power at no cost. Doing this changes the approximate worth of a PC slightly, such that when you are building encounters, you need to take into account the extra power, it may not seem like much, but it is not...

I'm not saying that DMs shouldn't consider making bugbears a legitimate race, I'm saying that no DM should feel obligated to change the world in order to suit the PCs. Furthermore, a simple saying of "Life will be tough as a bugbear" is enough to allow throwing as much racism his way as you like.

Anyone playing this game should know that bugbears are monsters and that often there are social consequences with playing them. The player should have an idea that their ability to act like all the other PCs will vary depending on if they are in a major city with a goodly king, or of they are in...

Remember that regardless of how this works out, the end result will step on the toes of the Demigod ED. In application I find that there is a very depressing factor associated with the die roll. When I roll a die at the end of my turn and get a 20, I would not be thinking to myself "Yay, I can...

Be blunt to them beforehand, It is completely rude to sigh off on bugbear as a race and then 10 minutes into the campaign have him chased off into the woods with torches. You need to sign off on bugbears while making sure that PCs know that bugbears are monsters, and that civilized life is tough...

A DM shouldn't be forced to mold their world around the PCs in order to maximize the PCs fun. The DM needs to be having fun too, and one of the funnest parts of DMing is having total control over the environment and being able to conjure a unique world from your own imagination. Most worlds...

At the very least you need to make it replace an old at will power. Secondly Twin Strike, and to maybe a lesser extent Righteous Brand and quite a deal more powerful than other at wills, and may easily unbalance a class.

While it is optimistic, and I myself would like to see it, I highly doubt there will be ANY major content specific to the 8 PHB1 Classes as that is the domain of the Martial Power and Arcane Power sourcebooks.

A role is what you do, not who you are. The role should always be behavior, and not physical attributes. There are already a good number of MM entries that hardly match up statistics to their supposed role, thus when a monster's role becomes blurry it is sufficient to simply give it one of its...

Their Mistake IMO

For a genasi wizard to obtain the bonuses of a heavy shield, hide armor, and hide specialization a mere 11 in STR (Becomes 13) and 13 in CON, while still being eligible for the magical 20 base INT. (You can even throw in a 12 to WIS to keep your Thunderwave pushin')

Intent. RAW is useful for determining an objective standpoint from which to address a rules question, but when applying it in game it is not always the correct solution. I suggest that regardless of what is written, a player must decided what the actual intent of the rule is. In this situation...

Attacks almost always require an attack roll, anything that doesn't is an effect in my book.

The official errata changed it to fall off at the end of your next turn. Thus to reap the most damage, you can activate it twice. Minor - Quarry Standard - Action +1d6 Quarry damage End turn Other people go Start next turn Standard - Action +1d6 Quarry damage End of turn (Quarry falls off)

Hits only, if it was the other way around it would likely be preceded by the phrase Hit/Miss. +12 vs. AC, 2d8+4 damage Hit/Miss: Mark the Target Is roughly what an entry that marks regardless would look like.

Some monsters (Only example I can think of off the top of my heard is the shardsoul in the Warlock's Knights section of the FRCG) have abilities that emulate either parts of the fighter or paladin's mark. These often take up a secondary ability line and are often worded as: Name (immediate...

Seeing as this is one of, if not the largest, 4e rules questions forums, it might just be a safe haven for the last of us rules lawyers to gather while we are systematically being killed off elsewhere.