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Yeah these critters almost TPK'd my party. And they rolled lots of 1's, AND I was letting PC's have Opportunity attacks against them as they entered the PC's square (that made them much closer to being balanced, otherwise fast moving swarms have all the rules in their favour!) Glad I DIDN'T...

Wow those armbands are good. They just showed up on one of my random treasure rolls. Should I make them work only when the character is bloodied? When the enemy is bloodied? Any other ideas on how to make those armbands actually balanced? Make them just for one type of monster, (like...

I make zombie rotters that are destroyed become bloodied instead. One more hit and they die. One critical hit kills them completely. It makes them much more zombie like, my players like it when I tell them they've hacked off an arm or a head so its bloodied but still coming at them! goblins...

I'm so glad I found this thread. It was starting to bug me while staring at the DMG screen. I can see that hypersmurfs legal text like ruling based on reading the rules is technically correct, but I always think of double move as 2 separate moves as it hurts my head less that way. Still...

That explains why Belkar always hangs out with the others in Order of the Stick. He's into stabitty stab stab fun. Re fleeting ghost: Ugh. See those stealth in combat rules remind me of the sorts of things that used to piss me off with D&D. I'm not that interested in reading up on errata...

Thanks for all the replies. I told her what I'd done wrong, and she was like "that explains why it was so good". I'll go with the RAW for now as its my first 4E campaign and I like to stick to the designers vision for now. I see that she can multiclass at 4th level to pick up a wizard...

She is an Eladrin rogue/wizard because it was a solo campaign, so this gave her skills, tricks, and a little bit of magic with potential to get rituals. Then one of our friends joined in too, he decided to be a cleric. It's far less likely I'll kill them by accident now with a cleric around...

Just finished playing our second session of 4e after a 3 month hiatus due to poor health. So I'm rusty. And I forgot that bit about multiclassing feats only letting you use that extra at-will power once per ENCOUNTER. Is this going to wreck my game? My wife happily used scorching burst about...

I'll give these playmates a go this Friday. I'll keep the Weisbaden character sheet underneath, with the favourite powers bit sticking out so I don't have to faff about with cards - all the math has already been done during PC creation, so we'll just print off another sheet each time a PC...

Thank the gods somebody did this! This looked to be one of the big remaining chores in 4e - I always loved rolling for treasure because it gets my imagination running as to figuring out what encounter would create some truly whack job treasure roll. It also eliminates favouritism, the biggest...

Brilliant stuff. Especially about the crapping on the troll. It's a good way for them to vent about all the whining made by their fans who still buy their product, play their game then bitch about it all the time. I hope they keep making these, I still smile when i think of the gnome one.

Stalker0, could you please do a little write up explaining the ramifications of these changes? I really enjoyed how clearly you explained your system, so I would love to see you break down how this changed system would affect gameplay. I've got a concussion so I can't think straight at the...

I really liked the article. I was very happy that there was not a source of conflict built into the dragonborn race - I am so tired of people playing racist characters. The whole elf vs dwarf thing is just so irritating to me now. I also like that they painted the dragonborn with broad...

Quote: Originally Posted by Hambot Artificers should be able to break down a magic item and get back more than 1/5 of the creation cost. Artificer also sounds like they could make magic items = their level +1. Um, I am offended by you saying my ideas are...

Masters of the Arcane have limited ability to see into the future and anticipate timelines that will cause them harm, then manipulating those futures by anticipating an opponents every move. Shifting away from swords in the nick of time, a wizard almost has an aura of indestructibility...

"Passiv" on the initiative card should read "Passive"

I really want that extra powers sheet to auto populate using data from the attacks tab, just like the powers on charactersheet1 do. My level 2 PC already needs extra power spaces, as riposte strike takes 2 slots to enter properly, once for the initial Dex attack and another for the conditional...

Artificers should be able to break down a magic item and get back more than 1/5 of the creation cost. Artificer also sounds like they could make magic items = their level +1. That instantly offers parties with an artificer an equipment edge, which they could now afford to use when the...

Some good Ideas in this thread. I wondered this too when reading the intimidate skill, as I could not find anything that said that PC's were immune. It could be really flavourfull for the young PC's to wet themselves first time they came across real orcs, but its not something that you want to...

Oh no, letting players get what they want in a game of make believe... must be a bad philosophy. Honestly, just play it the way you want to. Have fun. But please don't abuse the guy who wrote the DMG for trying to increase the overall level of new PC satisfaction at the table as the default...