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While I love the new skill system, I think I'd add back in the bit about Int affecting how many trained skills you have. Aside from the outliers (fighters get three, rogues get six), every class is locked in at 4-5 skills to choose from (tho' they can expand that with feats), but I see no reason...

Extended Rest does indeed recover PCs to 100% - HPs and surges combined. Keep in mind tho' that healing in most every form (including the vast majority of cleric/warlord/paladin healing powers) use up surges, so surges are ultimately your only way to recover (once you're out, even a cleric isn't...

Aside from making extended rests that much more common? Not really. So long as you're aware of the fact that all healing goes through surges - healing powers included - and that limiting a groups ability to recover them is akin to heavily limiting their ability to recover at all, then it...

I'm surprised this niche wasn't covered as a Goblin monster. The worg entry does list that they get along well with goblins and often are seen carrying them into battle, but worgs as written are Lv 9 Brutes, so they might need a bit of powering down in many cases. Wolves, OTOH, are only Lv 2...

Its d8 now.

Please. Everyone knows that Saruman is a decepticon, so that means that Gandalf must be Optimus Prime.

There is a pretty substantial restriction however: you can only take one of them, so its not like you can just take each one once instead of loading up on Skill Training.

When it comes down to it, its not a huge leap to simply handle encounter and daily powers/slots like the vancian magic system: if you have the power you can choose to prepare it as many times as you want, assuming you have the slots for it. As has been said, it will likely raise the PC power...

I'd consider handling it a bit like Sleep: Hit: The target is rendered off-balance, granting combat advantage to all melee attacks until he exits the area (save ends). If the target fails its first saving throw against this power, the target falls prone (save ends). Miss: The target is rendered...

Psychic definitely fits better then thunder, I think. Psychic/Necrotic would be my choice.

Shot in the Dark for $800 Alex. What is, "Group vs Group".

Misspost, meh.

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This games scheduled to begin next Saturday (19th) and is semi-closed, tho' I'd be willing to take on another dwarf PC, and/or 1-2 hobbits.

Time: Saturdays, 10am PAC/1pm EST (OpenRPG) The game is based in Middle Earth, but runs off an alternate history. The PCs will be inhabiting a world several centuries into the Fourth age (after the end of the War of the Ring), with the twist being that the war was lost, and Sauron recovered his...

Most of the ideas already given are stuff I'd have given, tho' I'll add a couple things: 1) definitely treat this group as more than just +1 APL. With 6 PCs and very favorable build rules, they're prolly more like +2, or maybe even +3. That said, be careful with tossing higher CR critters; just...

The whole point of a new edition of anything (at its core) is to take what one learns from the previous editions and fix it: in short, to take a step forward. The RPG industry (and perhaps even just D&D) is one of the very few places where this is seen as such a bad thing, and thats caused...

I think thats exactly what he was saying. Even in building 3E it was understood that things like summoned monsters were essentially giving that PC extra actions, so to balance it they made the summoned monsters extremely weak compared to the level required to summon them. If, instead, a...

I'm usually all for anything that cuts down on "needless" rolling, but this system (in theory: I haven't had a chance to try it yet) seems like its worth the extra bit of rolling. For one, it makes what is often a rather dull situation interesting. Take the example given above, with the corpse...

Right now, I don't think it means anything. They've already stated that wizards don't have familiars (but they are working on them), there are no druids (yet), and I'm willing to bet there are no summoning spells yet, so the only real question is rangers and their animal companion (which I...