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From a dming perspective I've found exactly the same as you, maybe its group size / composition we have 2 defenders, 2 leaders a striker and a controller, the striker is a warlock so doesn't need to close into melee, and the defenders just sit there soaking things up while the cleric zaps with...

Surely the trigger is shifting out of a square in the case of combat challenge, so the character gets pushed if the fighter wants to push him and the player then gets to shift. If the character had already shifted then the character would be out of reach, so it has to be before the character...

Yeah our str 16 half elf warlord uses it on the str 18 dragonborn which gives bonus to hit and damage above his other at will. He uses a glaive to trigger it too, plus his rolls defy the law of averages by being truely awful so getting someone else to roll is too good an opportunity to pass up.

I just finished running KotS for my party of 6, the only fight that nearly resulted in a TPK was the last one, and that was because i had chucked in an extra(un-needed) monster (I doubled up on the guy next to the statues and added a chillborn zombie), that resulted in me going easy on them...

Leading to all kinds of silly, like monsters then manouvering to block the leaping player, or the player being immune to melee attacks while hes over the middle of a 3 square pit. Similtaneous actions by turns are quite hard to adjudicate they just went for an easy option.

In my games, I let my players do what they want, but because we play several games it ends up as Unharmed 100% Scratched 90%-100% Wounded 51%-89% Bloodied 25%-50% Looking quite bad 11%-24% Staggering 1%-10% On the floor 0 While we...

But its not a huge departure from the previous edition, 50% versus 20%, besides how can you justify that no one else pays these prices, surely the merchants charge this price to every other person who is in the market for magic items? from nobles to the bouncer at a particularly rough public...

Well we use bright red squares under the monster for bloodied conditions and upturned beer bottle cap for cloud of daggers , its a little fussy but not really a problem for me as a dm as when i say the blow connects with the creature taking a chunk of flesh off it / causing it to bleed from its...

Would love to, but you aren't allowed to edit polls, as I suppose you could then mess up the results.

Fair enough, a bit silly but ho hum. Its probably fairer to look at the top two options together because half the point of this is to look at it as a flow of information, does the player know or not what hit total hit him. I Probably should have forked it from the shield overpowered thread...

I reckon it would be interesting to compare it against a similar poll in the general rpg forum, see if 4e attracts dms who do it one way compared to another, but maybe thats overkill. I'm a bit confused how in a public poll that 6 votes in one catagory only has 4 names next to it *shrug*.

I know you will more than likely use various methods during a game, but which method do you use most of the time during a heated combat?

You mean like his total was below 10 or over 20, for 1st level players it kinda makes sense. There is no point in asking if AC 8 hits or if a natural 20 hits, it really grates on a player if you do, trust me I have a DM who keeps saying does AC 30+ hit, I look at my AC 19 and go er yes. If...

Surely it means the wraith is now a mean spirited er spirit out to suck souls or whatever, it is under control of the dm but not under control of the wraith who created it, hence no uber wraith with tons of minions but a plague of wraiths causing wanton destruction. Edit: I suppose it also...

Ramping up the to hit just means the AC gets thrown out of wack meaning players get hit more often. I'd rather up the damage of a monster by a dice size or +2 damage (+1 for minions), as players tend to feel a bit useless if they get hit all the time, but rarely do they complain about being...

Got it in one, although i'm rethinking my position on glowstick commando dragonborn, maybe i should insist they wear facepaint too ;)

I had someone slide on a shield the other day in my game, just to get 10ft across a rune that would be set off by contact, it ran something like this, okay you jump on to your shield, the rune beneath you gives an almighty scream, now give me a acrobatics roll, 6, the shield slips from...

Hi my name is Shabe, and I said No (insert gasps of horror). Maybe I was ratty because I was tired, maybe I thought my players were taking the piss, maybe it was because they asked if they could tie sunrods to their armour so that they could have light sources without having their hands full...

Tell me about it, but i think its maybe a little bit off topic.

Hmm our DM does that in one of his campaigns, I (and i think the other players) hate it, I've asked him to stop doing it, I and one or two other players make "jokes" every session about getting them killed, we also have a good 4-5 feats spare between the party and god knows how many tens of...