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    Young and Adult dragons too powerful?

    There's a level one daily power that could help. Sleep. If it fails the first save, it falls[,] unconscious. Icy Rays is a third level encounter power that immobilizes the target. Either one of those would be enough to put a hurt on a dragon.
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    Perception: We've all gone blind!

    You're rolling against multiple perception rolls, BUT if one person finds you, that doesn't mean all the rest of them can see you! It just means that they know which square you're in and can make an attack at -5 to hit you. Thir, dragonborn rogue, cries, "He's behind the tree! Shoot at the...
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    Perception: We've all gone blind!

    If you hide during combat, you make an opposed stealth check. If the mobs fail, then they can take a minor action on their turns to make another check against your last stealth check.
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    I think this time.. we can actually make a viable dragoon (final fantasy based)

    Just make a spear-wielding fighter and refluff the charge as a jump; done!
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    death saving throws question

    It's like system shock in 2nd edition. When you're down and dying, something has gone seriously wrong that can't be patched in just a few seconds, regardless of method (potion, divine intervention, someone shouting at you). It takes a period of devoted care to make what was wrong right. Maybe...
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    D&D 4E 4E Sample Combat: The Terrasque

    Okay, I've decided to save some space in the thread by putting the file into excel. That way you can peruse at your leisure. This is the first two rounds. I've found a number of errors, so I'm editing as I go. I'll probably end up just throwing out and redoing the later rounds, things are...
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    D&D 4E Showing the Math: Proving that 4e’s Skill Challenge system is broken (math heavy)

    At first level, the easy/medium/hard DCs are 15/20/25. So your PC with +9 on his skill rolls will need 6/11/16 to succeed at them. Given that they can only get one failure, it just makes sense to focus on easy rolls. For the more complex challenges, with greater leeway, they can go for harder...
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    Disappointed wit Vampires and Deathknights

    Yeah, but he's meant to be a soldier rather than artillery. His job is to lock people down on him and dish out damage rather than stand in the back and lob out damage at a distance.
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    Multiclassing and base class features

    Make it 16th level. That's where paragon paths get something special that's kind of missing from the multiclass.
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    Disappointed wit Vampires and Deathknights

    Your death knight does cast fireball. It's just a fireball in line with all other powers in 4e. That is to say, it's not broken like magic was in 3.5. It's a close burst 2 that does 6d8+12 and gives the knight free attacks against anyone who attempts to move while near him. That's a pretty...
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    4th Edition PHB: Clarification/Errata Questions

    1) Oil's missing. I'd say you can get as much oil as will burn as long as a torch for the cost and weight of a torch. 2) Go with the section that deals specifically with the skill; Nature is Wisdom. 3) I don't see why not; it's still adjacent. And you can get greater clarity if you use the...
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    D&D 4E A simulationist DM has a few reluctant questions about 4E

    1) Adventurer skills advance at 1/2 per level, but DCs advance as well. So if you have a strength of 12 and are untrained and are wearing plate armor (weird paladin build), then you'll have a -1 to your Athletics check, and will have to roll 16 or better to get an easy DC at first level. At...
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    New podcast from wizards , i dont understand OA's.

    I believe there are immediate reactions that allow any basic attack, and therefor a wizard could use MM for those.
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    Feystep

    If a spoon is good enough for the Sheriff of Nottingham, it's good enough for me.
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    Attributes and Builds

    A character that makes use of both secondary attributes is definitely viable, but it takes more careful management of resources, I think. By spreading your discretionary stat advancements between two feats, you'll be lowering your ability to hit by two, which will have a fairly significant...
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    D&D 4E 4E Sample Combat: The Terrasque

    Oh dear lord. I think I have to go back and change some things. I may finish the second combat tomorrow. It's hard to keep track of all that crap. I think that's why most people only control 1 PC; what do you think?
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    D&D 4E 4e fixed the math, so what's with the +6 skill items?

    At level 24, when +6 items become available, you're not facing 12 DC challenges... Oh, and as for Johnny the Rogue; no one can hide with a light source. :P
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    Single Race Parties

    I went with halflings, because it would just be amusing to have them running around underneath all the really big guys, stabbing them in the groin.
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    Feystep

    Sheesh. Keeping an eladrin captive would be easy. Just poke out his eyes! It's not like it's hard; all you need is a spoon!
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    Rules Question: Sustained Powers with (save ends) Effects

    That depends on the power, Caliber. Most of them will make it clear. The Astral Storm power, for example, deals half damage on a miss when sustained. The idea being that you're sustaining the storm rather than sustaining an attack. Other powers will state that if you miss, the power is not...
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