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To help reduce grind, I've instituted the following house rule: Second Effort Once per encounter, the PC can expend his Second Effort. When he does so he may re-use an Encounter Attack Power that has already been used. He also gets a +2 bonus to any attacks. Basically it's similar to a...

One of the problems with 4e is that throwing higher level monsters at the party doesn't really increase the challenge because their characters are more likely to die, but mostly has the effect of extending the combat (aka grind). This is especially so for higher than party level Soldiers...

This. I tried running a 10th level cleric as an PC-NPC when the leader in our party was away for awhile. I gave up after the first session. All the different encounter, daily, magic item powers plus feats made running the PC-NPC a nightmare when trying to run the other monsters too. I was...

Orange? Forget that, it's a Red alert. If you have a 50% to hit, that just got reduced to 25%. Yuck.

With Arcane Power out now, does anyone have an opinion on whether or not the Wizard now stands up to the Invoker and Druid as far as the controller role? My wizard player and I had a brief discussion about this, but was wondering what other people thought.

I had this happen to me recently when the Fighter hit AC 22 with a roll of a 2. He was right in the end. :-)

Beholder Eye Tyrants? I just ran an encounter with a Death Tyrant and we had a blast...the Eye Tyrant aura is full of awesome.

This. I guess one question is whether or not Dungeon would be interested in getting submission proposals for some of these. I've been kinda jonesing for a 4e version of Castle Amber myself. :-)

I want to implement an across the board +1 attack bonus for all the characters in my campaign, akin to giving the Expertise feats for free. Is there any way to implement this in Character Builder?

This. They seem to have realized that Solos need to be much more dangerous offensively. I'm stealing this for every dragon I use.

I use a freeware program called Evernote, and then cut and paste the screen grabs into Excel.

Okay, from lots of comments on the board and such it's obvious that Minions are overcosted...ie you should get more Minions for replacing one normal monster. Has someone come up with a reasonable number then? 1/8? 1/16?

Forked from: My 3 quibbles with 4e This. Next to the Character Builder, I would really, really, really love to have a good Encounter Builder. One that not only could grab monsters from the Compendium, but also include alterations (ie level increases, decreases) of current monsters, and...

I'd originally wanted to finish our campaign to level 30 by November, but given we only game every two weeks, that was ending up requiring us to level up every week. Well, that ended pretty quick. We decided that the players just weren't able to get used to what they could do before they were...

I'd originally wanted to finish our campaign to level 30 by November, but given we only game every two weeks, that was ending up requiring us to level up every week. Well, that ended pretty quick. We decided that the players just weren't able to get used to what they could do before they were...

It's basically Mystara before the Gazeteers came out.

It's an interesting idea, and something I've always kinda liked about the old way of doing it (ahhh...Basic). It should speed combat up a fair bit wouldn't it?

The first one was vs a Tyrannosaurus Rex, a Level 9 Solo Brute, in a jungle so there were trees around. Mind you, it didn't help that the Fighter pinned the T-Rex in place for the entire combat. :-) The second was just at the edge of the jungle, in a cleared area before a great wall that the...

It's fairly easy to make a dungeon encounter easy, given how you can significantly restrict where people can go. But it seems to me to be a bit more difficult to do outdoors. I just ran two outdoors encounters and they were kinda...blah. Any suggestions?

It's fairly easy to make a dungeon encounter easy, given how you can significantly restrict where people can go. But it seems to me to be a bit more difficult to do outdoors. I just ran two outdoors encounters and they were kinda...blah. Any suggestions?