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@ JohnnyO: I realize that; I was just planning on making the sale of magic items very, very difficult (though I plan to translate some of the gold in parcels into more magic items instead). @ superpriest: Good to know that. @ Infiniti2000: Nope, my math is right. You start getting parcels at...

I'm new to DMing D&D4 and I've decided to use the Treasure Parcel system. I've seen some critiques of it, but I still think it will work most easily for me. I just wanted to check my math on something. Between levels 1-30, the parcels award 121 magic items (4 per level, with 5 at level 30)...

Today I became the happy owner of Monster Vault. I was comparing some similar creatures in MV and MM1 and noticed that, for example, the kinds of goblins or orcs are different. Has anyone mixed these creature types? I can't perceive that any problem would occur, but I was just wondering (I am...

Thanks for this info! This spares me from creating spreadsheet indices of my own.

This has been an awesome bunch of replies - please continue. :) I suspect I've learned what I wanted to learn. As stupid as it sounds, I wanted to know if I was going to be the only kid who wasn't in the club if I didn't use the DDi. I suspect my players will want to use it...but I do like...

What are some examples of things that are not in DDi?

As someone new to 4th, I've already been bitten by the desire to get all the books for it. For 3.5, I went a little crazy and in the span of 2 years (and with judicious sale shopping) accumulated every WotC hardback they put out for it (including FR and Eberron). At the moment, 4th edition is...

Thanks for the replies; this has been very helpful to me, though I am still working out how I want to handle this. I'm really torn on inherent bonuses. Part of me wants to try them while another part of me wants to try my first 4th game with the default presumptions before monkeying with them...

This is an interesting topic and near and dear to my heart. My last world had a distant, unknown Creator God and all the "gods" were essentially angels of various power levels. It was similar to the theology of Middle Earth. Now, moving to D&D4 (and wanting to use the "core pantheon"), I'm...

Thanks everyone! The Minor Sustain in question was Consecrate Ground, which I understand has been errata'ed to be immoveable, though we think it's pretty cool as is. How about this: since Consecrate Ground provides a healing effect to those allies who are bloodied, if the enemies were...

I wish I could have provided a more useful subject, but these questions aren't really related to one another. 1) Why is the Cleric power Healing Word a close burst 5 (rather than Ranged 5) since it only affects you or one ally? 2) Can a power requiring a minor action to Sustain be sustained...

I'm totally new to 4th, so if this has been covered already, please feel free to shuffle me off to the appropriate thread. I'm trying to set up a "points of light" setting of my own, using as many of the presumptions of the RAW as I can. It's going pretty well. I'm up to magic items. As a...

Have you looked into Fight! by Divine Madness? The rules are meant to emulate fighting game characters, but there are specific rules for shonen style combat and its designed to be able handle all sorts of weird character concepts.

Thanks! That's a huge help for a player who has become rather disgruntled!

Thanks.

I can't find a definitive ruling on this anywhere. If a character is using a reach weapon and is standing in the square behind an ally who is engaged in melee combat, does the reach weapon have any penalty to hit the same opponent? I can find no rule that says that it does, and we've been...

Well, yeah. I knew all that. But if you are ballparking Encounter Levels, is the cohort another character or just "part of" the guy with the feat?

After 3 years or so of playing, we finally have our first cohort. In prepping appropriate encounters, is the cohort just considered a "power" of the character with Leadership (kind of like summoned monsters don't count for XP)? Or does the cohort, even though of lower level, need to be...

I have a player who is making a rogue who happens to have prodigious leaping abilities through a combination of simple skill ranks and a few skill tricks. He's wondering if he should waste some feats on things like Leap of the Heavens (no running start required for a "running jump"). Is there...

See, this method is OK...but it's still based on the players either not knowing the exact numbers or forcing them to work with metagame knowledge. My players are generally very good about not acting meta, but when a player's character's life is at stake, things sometimes change.