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Clearly he's an unaligned paladin.

The beholder aura functions the way it does because the beholder is a solo monster. Solo monsters generally have to have things they do on other people's turns, in order to make them more interesting and challenging to fight.

To be clear, the warlord version does expend a surge; that is why it is an encounter power while the cleric version is a daily.

Aid the Injured is a power, Inspiring Word is a class feature. You can't really directly make a level/power comparison between the two. Also note that Aid the Injured is a decently valuable utility power for someone multiclassing to warlord to take as an option, and will be more valuable than...

I love the delve format personally, it is basically how I set up my own encounters too.

I think this is changing and is a big part of why the half-orc got the boot - and I'm all for it. Nearly every group I've played with since about '96 or so has included one or more women and there has been fairly universal eye-rolling or worse about the sexism that has been inherent (if not...

Yeah, there is no 4e general forum, but that doesn't appear to have stopped people filling up the rules forum with non-rules issues. The sooner the rules forum gets back to Mistwell arguing with Hypersmurf, the more right the universe will feel.

If I had to hazard a guess, they couldn't simplify it down enough for the core 4e philosophy of not overcomplicating things. I wouldn't be surprised to see it appear in something like a DMG 2 though.

Other things one probably shouldn't announce to people (like say on a public message board?) include one's downloading of illegal copies of copyrighted material.

My feeling is that 4e magic items are designed such that you would never see a weapon with a passive +2 Will defense bonus (at least hopefully, otherwise we'll be back to Christmas tree time.) Implements fill the "weapon" role for classes that use them and I figure they should basically be...

Putting my DM hat on for a moment, I don't think I'd allow those to stack, any more than I'd allow a ranger to apply his off hand weapon's daily power to an attack made with the main hand weapon. There's not a terribly strong RAW argument for not letting them stack, but I get the feeling we're...

Actually because of various work issues and scheduling collisions, I've barely been playing DDM myself - won't be making the qualifier this weekend, etc. Unfortunately I probably won't be at GenCon this year for various reasons. I think a lot of the local (and probably national) disillusionment...

D&D is rolling dice and killing kobolds.

I can understand why Jeff wants/needs to proselytize for 3.5/Pathfinder (hi Jeff!) Let's say one of his current players moves away, and he needs someone else for his Saturday game. He calls me up and says, "Hey Ian, haven't seen you for a while since I dropped DDM, but we're looking for another...

I'd say leader too, but I would not at all be surprised if the sorcerer ended up with a primal or elemental power source instead.

I would remove the removal of text descriptions of all the monsters in the MM. ...OK maybe that isn't a dynamic.

I find it sort of odd that the cloud of daggers aftereffect isn't considered a Zone, which means you can't dispel it, etc.

Pleasing me.

What seems to be the real central issue here, and what this thread has so far mostly danced around, is that there is a big difference between what a feat is now, and what it was in 3.x. Feats are very minor boosts now and are intended to be that way. No longer are feats the central feature that...

So, can someone explain to me why it is a bad thing for players to know which ones are the minions? I think that's the concept I'm just not getting here. The game seems specifically designed to encourage players to use anti-minion abilities against minions, so how is it metagaming when they do?