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If that's so, then the people at Wizards are complete idiots. The easier they make adventure creation, monster creation, NPC creation, and the less prep time they require of DMs in general, the fewer modules and MMs they're going to sell. If creating adventures, encounters, and monsters is...

That's interesting. My guess for a craft system is one based on skill challenges. Get 4 successes before 2 failures and you've got a sword. Get 2 failures first and you've got a mishappen steel rod. Want masterwork? 8 successes before 4 failures. Maybe throw in an endurance check every...

The reason to prohibit these things after a charge is to prevent people from charging, hitting the enemy, then using a move action or shift to move away. That reasoning doesn't apply to movement before a charge.

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That's kind of similar to what I'm planning on doing. I'm keeping arcane magic in my campaign, but divine magic is right out. However, I still want to have the possibility of religiously based characters, so I'm going to let them "multiclass" into a priest class (which will be more of an...

Actually, Monte's priest feat was where I started. The way I look at it, the multiclass feat would be similar to the priest feat, except that it also opens up the chance to get some powers by spending more feats.

Ooh, creepy. I like it! :D

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It takes the same amount of time within the granularity of the action system. But IRL, holstering is considerably more time consuming than drawing.

I'd say sheathing/holstering takes more time and concentration than drawing does.

Do we get XP for the demons?

This is a big part of why I've been looking forward to 4e. Clerics and Paladins are going the way of the dodo bird in my homebrew.

What's stopping you? Monsters in 4e are extremely customizable. Slap a template on it. Heck it's intelligent, slap a class template on it. Maybe a wizard template to give it back some of the spellcasting it lost (this is probably what I'm doing for my game). Really want something different...

My only problem with Zombie Smash is it's ambiguous. It sounds like it could be a power for a character who hunts undead. You don't have to call your attacks unless you want to. This isn't Dragonball Z. ;)

I definitely want to see this.

This, I think, is the critical point. So many of 4e's powers are encounter based that going into any fight without having taken a short rest is a bad idea. Going into a fight as hard as this one without your full complement of encounter powers and second winds is downright suicidal. People...

I think it's pretty easy to handle this in 4e, thanks to the simplified skill system. If a character has some sort of background skill that doesn't fall under an existing skill (woodcarving, sailing, etc.), the DM can just treat it as a trained skill and let them make a check. Ridiculously...

Escaping from a grab is either athletics versus the grabber's fort defense or acrobatics versus reflex.

4e is new and different, and therefore bad. It will be bad until 5e comes out a decade hence, when 4e will suddenly become everything that was good and true and right.

Well, the fourth encounter is challenging. The first three are just resource management exercises. The problem is that most 3e resources were daily, so it was difficult to make a truly challenging encounter that didn't wipe the party out for the whole day (leading to the 15 minute adventuring...