Search results

You take the feat Martial Cross-Training, giving up one use of Power Strike in exchange for an encounter attack power of your level or lower. The interchangeability may leave a bit to be desired and may not have been present when the Essentials material first came out. But they have been...

Do you... really need to insult people when they respond precisely as you have asked them to respond? Anyway, count me in as well on not agreeing with either option. For myself, I tend towards the options over the bonuses, but think there is room for either. Ideally, I'd like two seperate...

You keep ignoring the terms "instead of" and "in place of". They are the relevant terms. As you say, you agree to use one modifier instead of another. You can't then use something else also instead of the first option, and suddenly be using both replacements at the same time. Just to confirm...

Well, I suppose the one Class Compendium article on multiclassing is along those lines. And was, pretty much from the start, acknowledged as the one element missing from Essentials. The rest of the Class Compendium elements? Don't seem to have much to do with Essentials at all. They aren't...

It's certainly doable, but whether it is trivial or not will tend to be a question of what PCs are at the table. If you have a 3.0 wizard and a 3.5 wizards using dramatically different versions of the same spell, or a even two PCs of the same class which has undergone significant revisions...

No, because nothing in the rules says anything like that. Look, Hide Armor Expertise says "While wearing hide armor, you can gain a +2 bonus to AC instead of using your Dexterity or Intelligence modifier to determine your AC." Similarly, Sentinel says, "While you are not wearing heavy...

Well, for me, I don't consider it "mix'n'matching" so much as "playing 4E as presented". Heroes of the Whatever are just as cool as using Martial Power or PHB3 or whatever. I do have a few feats banned in my upcoming games - primarily expertise - but those aren't really specific to...

Oh yeah, I think that is a great description of it. And you know, I do think the potential for conflict was always still there, just often overlooked. And, of course, even if conflict is possible with many critters, that doesn't mean that all interactions need to be defined by it. I basically...

Tastes vary, I suppose. I know that one of my best experiences in 3rd Edition was playing Living Greyhawk in the Geoff region, which had a lot of interaction with fairies at their most capricious - even amongst the ones theoretically on your side, you had to step very carefully and beware the...

To be fair, I don't think that's an accurate reading of the quote. I don't think he's saying, "We shouldn't have fairies in D&D." I think he's saying, "We should have darker, Brothers Grimm style fairies in the game, rather than Disney versions offairy tales." Which is the direction that 4E...

Also, I wouldn't underestimate Death Attack once you get access to it. While not something you can reliably use, you can certainly take actions with it in mind, and it will crop up more often than you think. I see the Executioner as a character who unloads a devestating nova strike at the...

I felt the game was worth the $15 - playing it with a friend was actually quite a bit of fun. But that was on the XBox, and being able to play on the same screen. It sounds like the PC version has quite a few more errors and problems, and was a bad port in general. The down arrow = selling item...

Others have already mentioned the two main themes - multiple targets and inflicting the conditions. The general problem is that Controller is both not directly defined by a mechanic like others are, and thus that it is easier to replace. Your rogue can pick up Blinding Barrage, Cloud of...

Still, hard to deny it factors into a player's experience of the game. If I need an 18+ to hit a tough monster, and get a +3 bonus to kick that to a 15+, I've doubled how often I hit. That's is a very immediate, noticeable effect on a player. Whereas if I hit on a 6+, and that changes to a 3+...

Yeah, but I think the argument there is more about execution than the premise. If the Hurly-Burly brothers actually had cool rules connected to them, and were well-designed mechanically, they would be just fine. The Nerath flavor or theme doesn't really change that. I get the sense that WotC...

I'm someone who is of the opinion that you certainly don't need Expertise to have a good hit chance at Epic levels. And yet, that doesn't mean the bonus is ignoreable. A well-built character with all those benefits isn't guaranteed to be hitting on a 2+ all the time. Against a DM who is...

I read it as "Epic Save from Autumn", and before the thread opened, I was trying to figure out what had happened last fall that required epic salvation.

In my group's level 1-30 campaign, we used them, but not often. We had to hunt down a Cure Affliction when half the party was petrified. We made regular use of the Enchanting rituals. We had some clever use of Leomund's Secret Chest. Rituals became more common at Epic, both because I was pushing...

Originally, mainly to continue subscribing to the magazines when they went online. And that remained the primary reason for a good long while. When my subscription lapsed in... November of last year, I think, and DDI was going through a bit of a transition, I figured I'd wait a bit to renew...

They were always clearly too good for a level 1 item - giving twice the bonus plus a power compared to the Headband of Perception. And the power was a bit too free about what you could expend, since giving up a low-level daily utility for all-day Darkvision was not bad. Still, given they fixed...