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Remember that magic shields are just arm-slot items. They're just like wearing magic bracers -- there's no plus-whatever, just a magic power it gives you.

How about Customer Service going against your opinion? <points>

Interesting question, but I'm with JourneymanMage. Dazed says "you can take either a standard action, a move action, or a minor action on your turn". Once you've begun your turn, that effect has taken place. Removing the daze after the start of your turn doesn't change the fact that you were...

The PHB had a mandate to fill out power lists for all classes at all levels. Any book that introduces a class HAS to do that, just so the class is actually playable. An expansion book doesn't have that requirement, so it's more free to focus on interesting concepts and drop them in at levels...

That's the biggest reason beastmaster doesn't really make archery obsolete. All the "you and your beast attack" powers are strength-based, and basically equivalent to the TWF attack powers. You can make a beastmaster-archer by mixing the powers you take, but you'd end up the same way as...

Considering how deadly Sleep was in my game when the greataxe-weilding fighter came over and used a Coup on the sleeping shadowhunter bat... yeah. I'd rather not having him using that two and three times before they wake up. It went from full health to like 3 HP in one hit. A single free crit...

This may be more appropriate to the "most heroic deed" contest than the "chili cook-off", but you could have the PCs roll to see if they can come up with insightful questions, skill challenge style. The NPC steps up on stage. "I slew a dragon!" he proclaims. "I did it myself, with no help...

You're going to have a hard time finding enough decent save-ends effects to bother with the orb before Paragon. If it were me, I would skip the Hide armor and just take the Leather feat for +2 AC. With the Staff of Defense, you can have a decent 17 AC at first level and spend your human bonus...

I don't think it's an issue to allow pseudopods. Just because an ooze can stick out enough material to whallop you with, doesn't mean it's enough to lift itself with. And just because they can't "climb stairs" doesn't mean they can't get up over a six-inch barricade. It may be that a jelly...

Exactly, that's what they've pretty much said in the various dev articles and such. If you want to fight Vecna, you can't just beat him up; you need to pull some tricks to weaken him, strip him of most of his divine power, and only then go kill him. Demigods (as I understand it) will be up in...

DMG, page 15. It doesn't explicitly say "hidden rolling is expected", I grant -- what it does say is, "It's up to you, but consider:" and then lists three reasons to roll behind a screen, and one not to (which the next point immediately rebutts). Given that it puts it up to the DM to make an...

"Uh.. parley?" In that sort of situation, you're simply not going to win. You're fighting on the dragon's terms, in his most favorable environment. That's the time to pull a Sir Robin and Run away! Run away! or else try to surrender. You could try to use ranged basic attacks, though; the...

Sure, you can use retraining to change your paragon multiclassing selections. Nothing says you can't, so you can, subject to all the usual retraining rules. (Just remember that you have to meet all the original requirements -- so the 7th-or-lower encounter power you get at 11th can't ever be...

You've just misunderstood what a controller is. The PHB explains it on page 16: Controllers deal with large numbers of enemies at the same time. They favor offense over defense, using powers that deal damage to multiple foes at once, as well as subtler powers that weaken, confuse, or delay...

The DM is never required to reveal what he rolled to the players. The default assumption is that all DM rolls are hidden. Obviously the players will know if you say, "Does a 22 vs Will hit you?", but that's your choice whether you say that or check their numbers silently. That said, the...

CovertOps, you're confused. If you use Novice Power to exchange your 3rd level encounter power for a different class's 3rd level encounter power, you aren't stuck with that other class's power forever, or even until 13th level (when you can replace your 3rd level power with a 13th level one)...

It's my personal opinion that Sleep was meant to have the "damage awakens" clause on there, and that it lacks it because they removed "asleep" from the list of status conditions late in the dev cycle. My main reason for this opinion (and house rule) is that both of the other examples of...

That's the one. Weird. I know I subscribed to it, but it wasn't on my subscription list, and it's not on the right board. I'd swear I put it on the 4e board -- how the heck did it get on general? O.o

I had a thread I started yesterday discussing whether or not 4th edition Cloudkill was balanced for its level. I had a half-dozen replies when I checked it yesterday afternoon... And today it's just gone. Not mod-locked, not unreplied... it's just gone! It's not on my subscribed list, it's...

In my group everyone wanted the Cloaks of Resistance. But that's really neither here nor there; by 19th level there's a lot more choice available and I wouldn't expect to see THAT many "Resist Poison 10" around. Especially with the Adventurer's Vault out.