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Depends on the monsters - a lot of "neener neener, you picked the wrong spell/class/weapon material" stuff got trimmed down. Rogues can rely on their sneak attack for the majority of any adventure now, for example, even against many undead.

Sounds like a square peg and round hole sort of scenario. D&D has a specialty or two that it's very good at. You're taking that away and using D&D to do something that other RP-centric games do much, much better.

Think on it a moment - you'd still have a 1 in 8 chance to explode. You'd be adding a d8, just the same. It'd be the exact same average, but you'd be boosting the low rolls into midranges instead of rocketing the high rolls even further.

How does one identify or find a branch's Real Librarian(s)? You know the ones I'm talking about; they have a Library Sciences degree, or something like it. The folks I talk to at a library all seem to be close-to-minimum-wage no-qualifications types.

Sounds like some sort of fishy, profit-motivated clandestine act in the Penrose Library! The Tempe, AZ Public Library has a pretty good selection of 3.5 books, and a couple random 4e books too. They even have some Goodman Games books! The limitations (not all book titles include "dungeons &...

That's a significant point. We're currently talking about Class, here, but characters also have Race. There are now a large number of effective and compelling racial feats. Nabbing an appropriate multiclass feat is nice for the only-3-trained-skills fighter. Style feats that boost your at-will...

I honestly don't have the patience to keep up with the (many times revised) core system. Whenever I play in a game where someone's using it, there's this feeling of "Oh, is that how they're doing it now? It's fascinating, what those rascally kids have gotten up to." Last time I played with it...

Oh man, that is a funny image. My character is a full-blooded Orc, with a goat head, lion head, and dragon head. (soulmeld: threefold mask of the chimera) Maybe I'd let Bwagadaa (girallon) and Hootles (owlbear) carry me overhead, maybe even on a palanquin, but I definitely give off a "Lord of...

Nope. Source: Rules of the Game Archive All four Animals articles are quite good.

I don't even really want to get into the whole Mounted Combat rules - I just want to convince my DM that, when not fighting, my girallon, Bwagadaa, when moving around quadrupedally would be capable of carrying me. I know that, somewhere (possible in the 1e books that I used to own?), there is a...

PHB II is introducing a no-prereqs feat that gives a scaling attack bonus based on what tier you're in. You could now potentially use your ORIGINAL idea, with the attack bonus, that we all talked you out of. Simply state that it is an alternative to the PHB II feat and can't stack with it. Maybe...

WOO ANOTHER POST IN THIS THREAD! Has anyone come up with a suitable process for converting a regular skill challenge a la published adventures over to Obsidian? I, too, tried to run Scales of War at one point. Like Black Plague, I didn't find converting the challenges to be all too easy to do.

Vaca santa! That's a long trip. Don't you have a wife? What will your wife, your cow if you still have one, and/or kids going to do without you? PS: I am checking with other gamers I know to see if they would be interested in you visiting. TBH I don't have an interesting life or an interesting...

When I try to visit the wiki, it tells me I'm logged out. I have to login several times just to start using the forum again.

Much better, IMO. I can visualize them quickly and the first two give me ideas of my own.

Has anyone even tried the full-on spellscar experience? I've not seen anyone in my home group or my RPGA legion even touch the spellscar idea.

A sample character usually has a small handful of salient traits and quirks which are evocative and representative of the race or class being showcased. These are usually described in a quick, sweeping fashion, because your job is not to tell about a character, in this situation. Just spark the...

It's a free action, which you're free to take on anyone's turn. If your DM is being a stickler and saying you can't take any more actions in your turn, simply resolve the effect while the next guy takes his turn.

Mobile rogues using Deft Strike and constant flitting in and out of shadows can get combat advantage all by themselves just fine. Most of your Encounter/Daily powers will need to come from Martial Power, or grant you combat advantage long enough that you don't need to re-hide for a round or two...

Try ratcheting up the "interesting, cool, and/or badass" and tone down the "encounter-rocking combat power".