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Ah, yes. The flanking dance! :) (Edit: Ye gods, has it really been seven years since that thread? How can I remember about stuff like this, but I don't know where I put my keys?)

OD&D. Those bards were seriously over-the-top. They've cranked them back a bit more in each edition since (until now, I guess).

He did that on purpose! It was a trap! A trap, I tell you!

Hey! My 3E druid always let the fighter wash the bottles! :p

Just ordered a couple of sets ... I'll post a review after I get to test-drive them myself. I've always used vinyl roll-up mats, so I'm interested to see how much of an improvement this is. Oh, and for the record--I'll put in my vote for hex-gridded versions to be made available, at a...

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Geez, they even gave him a free 'out' ... :-S

That's a good point. The two taclords I've played (also in one-shots), one had a zeihander fighter and a ranger in the group, the other had a TWF ranger and a rogue ...

I just wanted to second this, in case it was necessary ... This is one of those powers that is massively more fun and useful in play than it looks on paper. "What, I give up my action to give an ally a basic attack? What's the point?" In practice, the flexibility makes for incredible...

Armor, shield, and martial weapon proficiencies.

Plus, it's not like the two action points are going to be the difference in the BBEG winning or losing--if he uses them for offense, he'll lose by just a little bit less, ordinarily. But they can very easily make the difference between losing and living to fight another day, especially if the...

Well, yes; but you're not limited to the climactic encounter being an encounter of 'Average' difficulty, i.e. right around the party level. The 'Hard' solo encounter templates in the DMG are both at level n+3, and both have a solo monster of higher than the party level n (an n+3 solo by itself...

No, they pretty much have this in the core books. DMG pg. 58 (in the Building Encounters chapter, natch) lists an optional build under the Dragon's Den iconic solo encounter that includes a level n+1 Solo plus a level n Elite to make a hard level n encounter. And the sample dragon encounters in...

I lost a perfectly good druid to that one, at a session I couldn't attend. He'd just gotten grappled (in dire wolverine wildshape, no less!) by a baddie at the end of the last session, when we had to break mid-combat for time constraints. Evidently, I was fading fast, and the arcane archer shot...

I like playing a Small druid (eg. gnome or halfling) and getting the dire bat companion at 4th. Nothing like having a flying mount! Probably doesn't fit your character concept, though ...

Right. It's not about kobolds particularly, or about the detailed set of tactics they were using in the article. If you know what tactics your opponent is going to use, you can devise counter-tactics to thwart them. The fun part is, when you know the enemy you are about to face is going to use...

... which is just the 4E diagonal measurement rule in a simpler guise. A pretty useful thing to have in your head, actually--don't worry about counting squares along a path, the distance to a target is the larger of the square counts along the file and along the rank. And any path between you...

... and I don't know whether to laugh or cry. :D Giant in the Playground Games

Nah, I saw some different ones. Always seems to include the lump of coal, though.

And allow me to anticipate the next question, viz. "So what's the advantage of having more than one quarry?" The answer is, that you don't have to declare your quarry bonus damage before the attack roll, but only after you determine that the hit was successful. So if you are surrounded by...

Um, even a single-classed cleric can't do that. The Healing Word power limits it to one use per round, even though it only requires a minor action ...