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I'd be careful of balance with the other classes with this. 3.5 wizards were flat out more powerful than many other characters at higher levels, with the exception of clerics and druids. While I think wizards really needed some of the improvements they received with Arcane Power and various...

I think reducing the radius covered by the light source is fair if it's not being held up by someone. A pocket at the top of a backpack makes some sense though, and might get around this. Mostly It doesn't come up that often for us. My group loves the darklight ritual (FRPG), and uses it...

Here's what I get for being lazy and not looking up specific powers before writing posts. The line that I emphasized in the above quote makes a difference in how I would interpret this. As you say, they are resolved as a single hit, and thus treated as one attack for purposes of damage...

Nice, although the "flower" kind of doesn't work for me. For the final two lines, perhaps try: My ascendance a prelude to war and disaster, All shall cower and will yield to my one true master.

Ah, I misunderstood the point of the question. Before I looked up the Goliath power, I was thinking of it as something that reduced damage from a single attack. The question would be whether the two attacks both would be reduced because they were a single action. Even after looking it up, I...

They shouldn't stack. It's the same penalty for the same action. I say pshaw to strict RAW interpretation. :)

In this case it doesn't matter how many attacks there were. While this power is active, the goliath reduces *all* damage that hits him by 5, no matter how many foes or how many attacks. The power stays up until the end of his next turn. So yes, the double attacks would each be reduced, as...

I house-ruled sunrods down to the same as a lantern (10 squares IIRC) because they were just flat-out better than everything else otherwise. Low-light vision does come into play some of the time. Right now the party's favorite trick when being sneaky is to use the Darklight ritual from the...

Here's a few for each of the sins. Some of the statements could be used for other aspects, since there's a fair bit of overlap between them. Hopefully this is the sort of thing you had in mind. • Wealth The wealth of nations will be ours for the taking. Gold and gems will be showered...

Those that aren't gifted their custom winged armor have to make their fake wings out of pipe cleaners. ;)

Tomb of Readiness Terrain Feature This stone tomb is open, and features a blank name plate. Inside is an empty stone bier. When a dead body is placed on the bier, the name plate becomes engraved with the name of the dead person. Improved Tomb of Readiness The same as the normal Tomb of...

"Balance" means different things to different people. As is so often the case, we're not using the word in quite the same way. Some feel that balance is equivalent to a lack of distintive flavorful options and the freedom to do what they want with their character concept. I don't agree that...

This is absolutely true - 4E is the first system where you can do this without worrying about xp spent for making magic items (in 3.x), or the different progression rates of the classes (1st & 2nd). Initially in my 4E game I tracked xp for quests, skill challenges, and encounters, and kept it...

That sounds reasonable. So they would take no damage from the crit, and instead take a long term wound? I'd be interested in hearing more about this when you've had a chance to try it out. Adventurers should have a scar or two after they've been putting their lives on the line for awhile!

That sounds exactly like what I was thinking, and it makes sense to not scale it for the elites and solos. You're right that they already have some advantages in damage. I wouldn't add any dice onto creatures that already have extra crit damage specified in their listing. Precisely! :devil...

Unfledged baby wyverns (or flying predator of your choice) tousle with each other in a wildflower strewn meadow. It seems you have stumbled across their nesting area, but there's no sign of mom or dad, until you happen to look up... As you draw near the oasis where you had planned to rest and...

I was considering adding dice to monster attacks when they score a critical, in the same way that PC's get them due to their magic weapons and implements. It seems as you level up, that these extra crit dice become more and more significant, so that PC crits really hurt. Monsters have no...

Revised Ongoing Damage card Because the second hand thing wasn't doing it for me, I came up with a variation of the ongoing damage card. You can use one or more markers on the boxes to indicate the amount of ongoing damage, or make marks with a marker if the card is in a sleeve. You can...

More rounds leads to more choices, but with 6 PC's it also takes a significant amount of time to run each round. I wanted to shave the number of rounds that at least some of the fights take. Too many "easy" fights were taking a disproportionate amount of time out of the sessions. In this case...

We left AD&D behind us back in 1988, playing Rolemaster for the next dozen or so years. We started a 3E campaign eventually and converted it over to 3.5. Now we're doing a different campaign in 4E. I feel the game has grown and progressed with the newer editions, and have no desire to go...