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For me, I think it depends on the number of attack rolls made. I'm not running a game yet, and I don't feel brave enough to use critfails just yet, but context is everything. Something like this, however: If one target receives a natural 1 in a burst power (like Fireball, for example) that...

Not sure how you work that out. 10 + 4 (Int mod) + 1 (half level) + 2 (leather armour or Unarmored Agility) + 3 (Swordmade Warding, assuming the off hand is free) = a very respectable 20. As for the change of plans: Although your stat bonuses don't support it, I'd like to suggest being a...

I'm interested in seeing this come out, in one form or another.

You could always use a dice roll where the expected value is less than 1. A lot of old board games have dice that can do this.

I voted for elvenkind in the poll, but I think that half-elves would be the really interesting choice. Yes, they are usually very friendly and helpful, but that could easily just be a front. Plus enemies taking advantage of Dilletante could really throw your players for a loop...

Chaos Scar is Heroic tier. The adventure they released as the conclusion to it is level 10. Is there any reason why you're reluctant to write your own adventures? Yes, it would be an added time constraint, but you'd also be able to run something that more closely caters for your group.

I joined a group going through Scales of War at level 5, half way through Heroic tier (2 of the players left to join another game). I haven't had any other 4e experience, though (or any RPG experience in the last few years), so I'm not sure I can compare it to anything; but so far, it's been...

I meant abuse being able to maintain the condition, not be able to avoid the damage. I don't know what 4e has in the way of turning disabling status conditions into an advantage. (The only example I can give is in the Pokemon computer games, there's an ability called Guts that can double the...

As DM, I'd probably house rule to allow a player to do this. I'd say certainly, but there are probably ways to abuse this. Although probably not at level 1...

It's a design feature of vBulletin. You can still nest quotes, but you have to type them in manually. As to the original question: As as obyrith, driving people mad is what Pazuzu does. So making an enemy attack itself sounds like an amusing thing to do to someone. RAW or RAI aren't important...

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Here's a few more ideas, taking party level into account: Parchment Armor (lvl 4+): Probably not the best choice at +1, but interesting at higher levels. Bloodthread Armor (lvl 5+): Useful if they end up in trouble. The bonus to saving throws will help them be disabled a bit less. My sorcerer...

I have DDI and it's only giving me the mobile version right now. But my previously open compendium tabs still work (and no, I'm not about to reload them). Viewing the source code for the page, I'm inclined to put it down to DetectMobileQuick() not working correctly, rather than malice. Time...

I can't see how they got + Cha mod, but I can see the following: Healer's Implement Holy Healer's Weapon or Weapon of Healing Healer's Armor Healer's Brooch Word of Retaliation Symbol of Life Battleforged Shield Out of that, I think I can get a static bonus of 6-8, and +2d6 as a daily. So I'd...

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I've heard people suggest (and I agree with them on this) that any attack that does ongoing damage should factor in that ongoing damage in its calculation. So if a level 7 monster is doing ongoing 5, for example, then the attack itself should only do an average of 12 (2d6+5 being the obvious...

Here's a bit of a challenge for you: I have a blind friend, that I'd like to buy some dice for, as a present. Do you know of anywhere that sells dice that can be "read" just by feel? I'm particularly interested in getting them a full polyhedral set, and a few (at least 6) d6.

One thing you could consider is requiring them to take a solid enough hit to die. This 3-part article about taking shortcuts with HP tracking for monsters suggests level+3 as the threshold. Or maybe you could have then bloodied on a hit like that, requiring another to go down, with twice that...

The main issue with that seems to be the power level. Compare a level 1 encounter or daily power to a 27 E or 29 D. At that point, there's something like twice the difference, in terms of damage.

First of all, on a crit, the damage dice that would normally be rolled for the power are instead set to their highest values. If the power or item specifies that it does something on a crit (most magic weapons and implements do extra damage, some have an additional effect instead; there is also...