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lol Keep them coming. I love Gary, but I also recognize his... foibles. Good on you for calling them out.

The difference to me is that I'm finding fewer places where I have to make stuff up, and more places where I can, if I want to, make stuff up.

I read and enjoyed it. Thanks.

Current situation: You can use 1/2/3 magic item daily power(s) per day, add one use for each milestone Proposed solution: You can use 1/2/3 magic item daily power(s) per encounter, recharge one used daily per milestone

Nice Sturgeon quote. :)

Yes - I like Dragon and Dungeon. Looking forward to some of the pcgen tools. Might try online tabletop, dunno.

This is the same argument as the one about how minions are a bad mechanic because "a level 1 PC can roll a 20 and kill a level 21 Legion Devil Legionnaire minion in one hit". Any encounter where both high and low level entities are present is not supported properly by the 4E ruleset, and...

This is what I was gonna post. I'm sad that someone else did first. :(

I echo this - running almost everything else in 4E is easy-peasy for an experienced D&D DM. It's a bit of a trick to make Skill Challenges fluid and organic (abandoning the Initiative roll is where I've started). The first couple I ran were static and awkward, but they are getting better, and...

We started doing it when we got our hands on this issue (it was years later, but we got a bunch of old back issues in a box from a friend's older brother who was moving to college).

Well, from a rules standpoint the moster/NPC would know the exact details of the power (the nature of the attack swapping). The monster/NPC might not be aware of any equipment the Barbarian is wearing until after the equipment does something. At that point it's DM discretion - I apply the same...

That's the way I do it.

I'm still enjoying these (and the readable pace at which they are being done). Keep up the good work (and the pace)!

Oh my. I can see the appeal of such a game, but why in the world would you use ANY version of D&D to play it? I think that keeping the PCs as "no more powerful than a farmer" would suggest that a group of kobolds SHOULD smash them to pieces.

This, or something similar (1[W] + 1d6 + Str, increase to 1[W] + 2d6 + Str at 11 and 2[W] + 3d6 at 21) might be a decent workaround. But then it just duplicates Howling Strike... Maybe combine Rage Strike and Howling Strike into one power, and come up with a different At-Will Attack 1 altogether.

Regarding using Rage Strike before 5th level. Two words: Veteran's Armor (AV)

To be fair, we've only seen half the dailies at any given level... It might be that the "Thaneblood" dailies aren't rages.

Yes, it's a bit of a different scale. In 3.x, you could, most of the time, handle any one encounter of even ridiculous levels (APL+6, or even more sometimes). You'd be done for the day though, if not for a week lol. In 4E, if the encounter is survivable at all, you can do several just like it...

I also remember seeing something about that unlimited height thing - but can't remember where. I prefer the cube notion in general though.

What a ridiculous notion! lol