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  1. IanB

    Does the Silver Dragon exist?

    If you can get ahold of the DDM card for the Young Silver Dragon from the Dungeons of Dread set, it has an RPG stat block on the back side. Given when the cards were produced in relation to when the MM stats were finalized they likely won't match the final stats for silvers exactly, but it...
  2. IanB

    Vorpal Uber Weapons?!?

    What are we solving by doing that? Can you actually demonstrate that the game is harmed in balance terms by allowing them? So far I still feel like we're in the realm of "this violates my sense of symmetry" rather than "there is a real mechanical imbalance".
  3. IanB

    Cleric Power Comparison Thread

    I think the main use of Divine Vigor is for when you finish an 'encounter' but are for whatever reason going to be prevented from taking a short rest before you're into the next fight - any kind of 'attackers come in waves' situation I could see it being useful. Everyone can use their second...
  4. IanB

    Vorpal Uber Weapons?!?

    No, I'm not. I'm honestly trying to figure out why you think this is an issue or that something is broken. To me it just looks like a feature. How exactly will the game suffer in actual play for falchions being good at being vorpal? Throughout this entire thread, you've never really articulated...
  5. IanB

    Vorpal Uber Weapons?!?

    Why is that a problem?
  6. IanB

    Vorpal Uber Weapons?!?

    Yeah I'm not really seeing the issue here. A vanilla +6 weapon is worse than a +6 vorpal one? Stop the presses. And remember, the vorpal weapon is 3 times as expensive as the vanilla one. Heck we can probably just wait until the Adventurer's Vault book comes out, and when we can have a +6 maul...
  7. IanB

    Forgotten Realms vs. Eberron

    This is supposedly changing for 4e FR.
  8. IanB

    Vorpal Uber Weapons?!?

    The weapons having non-identical results does not make this unbalanced. There's nothing in the numbers you posted that is going to break the game.
  9. IanB

    Devil's advocate

    But it doesn't average the same. The +1 for TWF is not multiplied by the number of dice. It is just a flat +1.
  10. IanB

    New 2009 Products up.

    Man, I read that adventure title as "Death Ranch". Which sounds like some horrible Charles Bronson movie or something.
  11. IanB

    Careful Attack/Sure Strike: A mathematical analysis

    Maybe SS/CA should target Reflex instead?
  12. IanB

    Vorpal Uber Weapons?!?

    I think you need to prove there's an actual mechanical imbalance here before your contention that the falchion is broken will get any traction.
  13. IanB

    Off-hand weapons. Meaningless?

    Yeah, I agree about being able to use a power with your off hand weapon, even if it isn't a 'you must use 2 weapons' power. I was objecting to the use-a-rogue-power-with-broadsword interpretation, I don't think that one holds water.
  14. IanB

    Off-hand weapons. Meaningless?

    I don't see how you're offering a simple alternative. You're telling me "wield" means one thing when I read it in the rogue weapon talent section, but when I turn the page it means something else when I read their powers. It seems pretty clear to me that in all cases where they use the word...
  15. IanB

    to all the monster creators out there

    With the underdark monsters we have so far being mostly paragon-tier, pegging duergar as low level heroic tier monsters seems a little off to me.
  16. IanB

    Multi-classing: thrill me

    I'm playing a paladin with warlord secondary right now; the idea is that we have a defender (a fighter) and a leader (a warlord) and I will sort of split the difference and fill that '5th character' role for the group. The warlord and paladin share some important stats (strength and charisma)...
  17. IanB

    Vorpal Uber Weapons?!?

    Does the math actually result in a significant average damage advantage for the 2d4 weapon, or are we just speculating here?
  18. IanB

    Off-hand weapons. Meaningless?

    Why is it clear for the rogue weapon talent that it applies only when using that weapon, but not clear for the rogue powers? They're worded exactly the same way. "You must be wielding a [whatever]".
  19. IanB

    Off-hand weapons. Meaningless?

    Would you also contend that a rogue gets +1 to attack with his longsword if he's holding a dagger in his off hand? Or that his longsword goes up to 1d10 if he's holding a shuriken?
  20. IanB

    Off-hand weapons. Meaningless?

    The rogue powers typically call out explicitly that you must be wielding a light blade.
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