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Thinking about it, NPCs classes not existing would be fine. Stats for "random villager", "random smith", "random tribal caster" and "random noble" is what we need.

Not being able to use a power seems enough drawback in my opinion.

I can understand his feelings though. I feel identified with him. I DM a lot, I put a lot of effort so I can get games going, because the full year I was totally unable to write any games or anything, we played a total of five games (between two DMs) during the whole year, while if I'm active as...

At third edition, I let my players meta a bit with that. They kinda know the state of their partners, if they really require healing in that moment or if they can hold a few more seconds. It's that kind of mental link you develop with friends after facing many challenges and smiling back at...

Very nice analysis, thanks for the effort :) You talked about the city guard and how strong they seemed to be. I want to see if NPC classes will be in the PHB/DMG and how powerful they will be compared to PCs. We have seen that monsters, even being 3-4 higher level than the PCs, are not that...

I think you misunderstood me (or my choice of words was not addecuated). 85% of times I meet my friends to play D&D I got to DM, while the other 15% is shared among two other DMs.

My group has little choice. Out of 10 games we play, 8.5 are DM'ed by me, the other 1.5 are a mix of Star Wars and a 3.5 core game DMed by another friend and since I'm converting to 4e... However, I've got a good feeling about D&D4 and I have managed to transmit this feeling to my players. In...

I tried it the other day. I was going to start DMing and I thought it would be interesting, so in their path to a Breland town, I added a little town where the major had been assassinated and the crowd was kinda lost about what to do, so the PCs were offered a nice reward for discovering who was...

I'm not talking about 4e, 3.5e or 7.18 (random number hehe), but about the concept of randomly stating NPCs. If DMG states that a level 7 Brute should have between 65 and 75 HP, what is 70? Now, it was not my intention to enter this discussion, just wanted to clarify the usage of the word...

That's what he meant. When I think of randomly stating a NPC I think of something like this : "Ok, this villain needs high HP, but not that high or PCs will be out of resources and eventually die. I will give him 70 HP". 70 is a random number, but following some guidelines. Giving it 7 or 700...

When I was like 6, I got the game "Menzoberranzan" and I thought it was some Vasque city. I have always liked the "Shadowkiller", "Shadowlurker", kind of names (ok, not those two). It's nice that you can form such words in English and they sound and look quite nice. The same kind of name is...

I will have to side with Derren in this. I understood perfectly what he meant with "randomly". Problem is that in some languages besides English, randomly can mean something similar, but not exactly the same. When he means random stats, he doesn't want to say "I will throw a d100 for each stat...

I would say that the days of party casting 50 different buffs (potions, scrolls, spells, wands, whatever), keeping track of what stacks and what doesn't, the duration and stuff are over. At last.

Several months. Waiting anxiously for the translation.

So with a '6', all monsters abilities will get recharged, right?

So it would be equal to the dexterity used for dexterity checks for both PCs and NPCs (Stat + half level), but it isn't the case here. It's the first thing I checked. For NPCs, it may be modified by their role (artillery, leader, etc.). In example, this Dwarven Warlord, level 12, with base...

Ah, looking at those stats I still can't figure how initiative is calculated. For those premade PCs, it was just the dexterity value, but for NCPs, it seems so random (It could be a set amount, not calculated by anything, as other stats).

True, forgot about those. Funny how as an ex-retribution paladin I could forget about that. Ah well, HoW was not good mana-wise, and hard to time with a swing (it resets swing timer). I will do a report on my game (happening 30th April). I've managed to somewhat transmit my enthusiam to my...

Uninterested players would ruin anything, so well, cheer up, next game will be better! I can't think of many things being "bloodied" in WoW, maybe some boss encounters Enrage or a bonus to a rogue talent that was pulled off (20% extra damage against enemies with less than ~30%HP). But yes, I...

I was losing a bit of faith in D&D. Less time to play overall, I was not in mood to write anything...then I heard about ToB. I took a peak at the English version and loved every single page of it (well, mostly the idea). Bought the Spanish version when it was released and it kinda renewed my...