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This depends entirely on how you visualize HP. A 2 hp attack from a halfling is not a stab in the toe if the fighter only has 1 hp left. That's the halfling shanking the fighter in the gut as he's still dazed and exhausted from parrying that ogre's massive club attack (that really just did 30...

Although if you get a bonus to Saves (which I imagine are rare, but extremely significant when they show up), that makes a character much tougher. Hey, here's an idea. What if there are feats that provide you with bonuses to saves, but only against certain things? Like a Dwarven racial feat...

Reminds me of Final Fantasy Tactics. This is a very, very good thing, by the way.

I disagree. There should be no such thing as a "normal" fight. I try to follow the action movie style philosophy of fights in that every single fight should have something interesting going on to set it apart from the other fights that have taken place, otherwise what's the point? Let's look at...

I'm fairly certain they mentioned Cavalier as a Paragon Path. That may be what you're looking for.

Well, then you narrate those exactly like you would normal movement in combat. Instead of saying "he staggers two squares back to here *points on map*", you say, "your attack forces him back 10 feet into a tree." As for things like auras 'n stuff, it's as much a DM fiat call as anything else...

I dunno if I've been scooped on this or not. It's the part in bold that really makes me happy.

Any particular reason you couldn't run them as a Rogue or Warlord with Wizard training in the meantime? I think it'd be neat if you could spend racial feats to buy Dragonmarks. Every Dragonmark would grant a Per Encounter power.

Hmm. The Chillborn Zombie is Evil. All the undead in Desert of Desolation were not. That's interesting.

Ew.

Sounds like a job for Exalted to me. Am I allowed to mention that here?

It's also worth noting that Devil Dogs is one of the US Marine Corps' many nicknames. The Marines are widely accepted to be badasses, so it's certainly possible that gnolls are now becoming similarly badass. That's how I read it, at least.

I don't know how you could interpret these guys as anything other than Warlords. The only reason we used Bards for them before was because we didn't have Warlords yet, so we had to shoehorn in any inspirational speaker type with the magical singing guy.

Well, maybe he's two weapon fighting. He is a ranger after all. So he crits with the first attack and rolls max damage on the second attack. I'm pretty sure I'd need new pants if that happened.

This is the second report we have of fighting a dragon at 2nd level. Cool.

Y'know what's really weird? The Dryad doesn't have boobs now. Almost 35 years of Dryad boobage gone!

One thing I like about squares is that I feel like they actually support narrative gaming without a map better than ranges in feet. If you're not tracking characters on a map, all you care about are speeds relative to the other characters. You know that if a character moves 7 squares instead of...

I'm going out on a limb, but I'm betting rolled HP are going away. Still, I'm betting a fighter at around that level is going to have 200-250ish HP. Considering that the fighter's going to have to deal with the Pit Fiend's aura, 8 summoned friends, and his three other lvl 26 bodyguards, I'm...

I dunno, man. My players have all had a lot of fun so far. But then again, I've been completely up front about the fact that I wing stuff and play fast and loose with the rules sometimes. Lemme put it this way: When I run World of Darkness stuff, I don't build every NPC using the character...

Well, unless you're rolling in the open and telling the players exactly what numbers the monster has, it's doubtful that they'll be able to reverse engineer their stats in the middle of the game. And if by some miracle they do figure it out and complain, then I give them the finger, tell them...