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It sounds like you can, but with an unarmed attack. So unless there's some condition that prevents OAs (daze, stunned, etc.), you can always take an OA. It makes me smile to think of a wizard headbutting a troll because he decided to walk away. :) But if I'm that wizard, I'll certainly take it.

Can you bull rush a target into one of its allies? If so, what happens?

If you're wielding a shortbow, can you take OAs?

On page 280, "Determining Cover": "... If one or two of those lines are blocked by an obstacle or an enemy, the target has cover." This is not just in the context of ranged attacks. I still don't see what doesn't allow it.

Can you hide behind your allies in combat?

Well, maybe it's not game-shakingly broken, but it does seem unintended. I could see myself picking up that power for it's blocking ability rather than what it's intended for. That seemed odd to me.

Conjuration effects (at least from powers) create an entity that fills a square. Allies can pass through, but enemies cannot. Also conjurations can't be attacked or physically affected. So does this mean that something like the level 1 cleric daily power Guardian of Faith (creates a...

Ah! I started with AD&D 1st Edition, but I guess I missed the whole alternate D&D branch during the same time period. Thanks!

Offtopic, but what is BXCM? I've seen it mentioned, but can't find any reference to it. Thanks!

We had a DM do this to us. A buddy dropped, but we knew we had a few rounds and didn't worry about him, so the monster scooped him up and took off. The problem was that we were on a boat in the middle of the ocean, and the monster was a sea cat. So, we needed to act immediately to keep him...

Would you attack a troll when it's down? Probably because you know that it gets back up. Well, if the enemy has the smarts or cunning to know how PCs work, then they know that we pop back up all the time. So in terms of tactics, going for the down guy, or perhaps going for the cleric can be...

I came to the same answer as you, but by a different means. If you have a computer, it's easy to do these problems by just looking at all possible rolls. For three rounds, there's 27 possible combinations. (X = Strike; - = nothing; O = stabilize) --> X X X 729 / 8000 --> X X - 810 / 8000 -->...

5.42 is the expected number of rounds before the game ends. But you might be alive or dead. However, the expected number of rounds before you die (given that you do die) is actually 6. This seems more meaningful in game, since we don't care how long it takes for someone to stabilize (except...

That's exactly correct. And the expected number of rounds to live is precisely 6.

I didn't have time to read all the posts, but I wrote this up for another message board. Instead of giving the chance of dying and stabilizing, I give the chance to be alive on round x. Also, I compare with 3.5 rules: