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    D&DExp Character Sheets!

    Personally, I'm wondering at the lack of either Leader. A vital piece of the 'party jigsaw' is still missing.
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    D&DExp Character Sheets!

    Sorry, I should have been much more explicit with my assumptions. 1) Point-buy system from 3.X is in place and in use in 4E. Same start, same everything. As you point out, there are 8s and 9s (and no stats below 8) present, which would indicate that point buy was used. I initially did this...
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    Sooo, that's my players certain not to be subscribing to DDI...

    I think Kamikaze_Midget hit it for me: You don't have to buy the books to play. And this isn't SRD content only, but all rules. Considering that most role-players seem to have laptops these days (I do not), consider that you can have the Rules database up and searching it in-session. I could...
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    D&DExp Character Sheets!

    Doing a quick bit of math, and a few 'natural' assumptions, I think we can pin down the racial attribute mods for the characters we see. Dwarf Fighter - If you assume that Str and Con are the Dwarf 'bonus stats' (and that each race gets two), then her stats cost 6+10+4+2+6+0 = 28 points...
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    Weapons from D&D Experience

    Eldritch Blast is the same; 'counts as a ranged basic attack'. Sounds like Feather Me Yon Oaf, if still in, has gotten a boost. :p
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    D&DExp Character Sheets!

    Thanks, guys, both for giving me the fish and teaching me how to fish. =) 'I plead the 4th.'
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    D&DExp Character Sheets!

    Can you provide a link to this information, or put the information in this thread? I can't seem to access it otherwise. Thanks!
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    New screenshots of character visualizer, virtual tabletop

    Just to quickly point out something. The demo is of pre-Alpha, granted. I don't see anywhere in the blog that mentions that's where the design is currently at, and coming from a background in demoing and testing, there can be any number of reasons why they can't or won't show something closer...
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    D&D 4E SRM Marking Marked and Other 4Eisms

    Well, with the clarifications, I think concerns about Marking should be lessened. I _am_ surprised that they chose to go with overwriting marks. My personal choice (based on what we have) would be to have a creature with multiple marks only suffer penalties (but all of them) if he does not...
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    D&D 4E SRM Marking Marked and Other 4Eisms

    Well, actually, we don't know how obvious marking is, 'in-game'. If you play combat completely tactically (which is how combat generally goes in my group), then yes, the creature will know and act appropriately. If you go for more of a 'realistic' approach, certain stupid creatures might not...
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    Do We Know Enough For Players To Plan?

    For my group, they already have 'staked out' their territory. Most likely, the group will consist of: Tiefling Warlock (which pact is uncertain) Warlord (race uncertain) Defender Wizard (race uncertain) Elven Ranger (most likely) So while obviously we couldn't play tomorrow, I know enough to...
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    Build Options

    I personally believe that people's oppositions to the 'builds' presented in the article are mainly based on what we see. While I personally believe that there will be enough 'customization' to make the 'builds' just what WotC claims that they are, I also feel that there is sufficient evidence...
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    D&D 4E SRM Marking Marked and Other 4Eisms

    Hoss: While I agree with you that it does depend on what it does, this is described as the Defender's primary mechanic in combat. This would lead me to believe that each Defender will have a relevant mark at all levels of play, or else the role is broken.
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    Things the rogue class said..and didn't say

    Well, a way to compare would be to count up how many spells are in the 3.5 PHB. Consider that the 'stat block' for a power seems to be decidedly smaller than one for a spell, and you can easily say that the # of powers will be at least equal to those in the PHB, assuming other information is...
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    WotC has a milking machine now (Draconomicon I)

    *nods* WotC is known for their market research. While you can claim that this makes them 'slaves to the poll', you can't very well say that they're not listening to people. I can tell you that with Magic at least (is that a verboten topic here?), they do polls on their site all the time, and...
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    D&D 4E SRM Marking Marked and Other 4Eisms

    Perhaps it has no 'real world condition'. We have many things in D&D that aren't even overtly magical that have nonetheless been done for the sake of mechanical 'elegance' (for lack of a better term). Marking allows a Defender to do his job. I do hope that the rules cover situations where the...
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    WotC has a milking machine now (Draconomicon I)

    epoch: While you are of course free to do as you wish (and I urge you to do so), I'd like to point out that 3.X had no Core support for a Base Swordmage class. You can certainly argue that there is no reason to expect it should, since the previous editions did not. However, that does not get...
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    Build Options

    It's stated in the 4E info here that the Warlord is Int-based. It would seem that the Leaders in general will get 'leading' builds vs. 'retiring' builds. Paladin is the really tricky one.
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    WotC has a milking machine now (Draconomicon I)

    Well, the question as to whether it could be done in one book depends entirely, not on the breadth of the book, but its depth. If when you are looking at the book in a bookstore/game store/wherever, and you see that 100% of the pages (or perhaps a more realistic 80%) are useful, that is a...
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    WotC has a milking machine now (Draconomicon I)

    Something I have not seen pointed out in this thread so far is that we know that Metallic and Chromatic dragons will have very different powers based on their MO; that is, Metallic Dragons are more domineering and control-oriented, while Chromatic Dragons are more destructive. This gives one...
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