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    The Half-elf Con bonus: A possible explanation.

    Not really. A mule gets its hardiness from its donkey father. They're preferred to donkeys because they get their greater size and strength from their mare mothers.
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    The pendulum swings back: Humans suck once again

    At level one, a tough foe will need a seven to hit your dwarven friend, but an eight to hit you. At level twenty-one, a tough foe will need a seven to hit your dwarven friend, but an eight to hit you. The bonus is going to be felt at all levels, because it's not simply a matter of big numbers...
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    Sleep. Sleep! SLEEP!

    Casting sleep on two or three enemies isn't a very good use of your resources. At small numbers, it's going to seem swingy. Cast it on a large group of any level creatures and you're going to put about half of whomever you hit to sleep. It scales with level because your ability to hit with it...
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    D&D 4E Thoughts on 4E after Nine Sessions

    This is what first level used to be.
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    D&D 4E 4e's Sleep spell

    A lone wizard is attacked by a horde of kobold minions moving, for some reason, in a 5x5 square. He casts sleep and then RUNS.
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    How will you read the core books day one?

    I'll go into the bookstore and look at them with longing. I'll cry a little inside because I can't afford them. Then I'll take them down, just to look at them. I'll run my hands over the smooth, shiny covers. I'll inhale that new book smell. I'll gaze in adoration at the pretty pictures on...
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    Tracking all this stuff

    For marking, I'd think that that would have to be the player's responsibility.
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    Grognard's First Take On 4e

    Imaro, the PCs have more hit points and the monsters do less damage, plus crits have been turned to max damage rather than double. Basically, it takes longer to kill players, too, even if the dice swing in a bad way, meaning you're not going to see any one or two round deaths. Unless you hit...
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    What class will be your first?

    Dragonborn are perfect for rogues; you pour your points into dex and racial bonuses beef up your secondary stats.
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    Excerpt: Swarms

    You may not have noticed, but the rats are a skirmisher, while the drakes are a soldier. That makes their implementation quite different. The drakes are meant to be front and center, the primary threat, while the rats are meant to come in and attack while you're dealing with something else.
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    D&D 4E OOTS is going 4E! Edit: Wrong it is 100% NOT! [merged]

    In the same comic as the half-orc backstory joke (#555), he also made a joke about sacred cheeseburger.
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    Predator Gnomes!!

    [family guy singsong]Irony![/fgss]
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    Self-Mutilation Powers

    I'd like to point out that "magi" is a plural noun. The singular is "magus". I have nothing further of substance to add to the thread.
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    D&D 4E 4E with a party of two?

    Depends on if your buddy's touchy. Butt Pat Jock (Suppressed Sexuality) Attack 1 Good job, little buddy! Encounter Minor Action Target: One Ally Attack: +6 vs. Reflex (OR Will if your character is of a higher level) Hit: Ally gains +1 to saving throw until end of your next turn; you...
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    Self-Mutilation Powers

    Sort of like being tickled. You can't tickle yourself, a gnome can't stab himself and turn invisible.
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    D&D 4E 4E with a party of two?

    The only problem with Party of Two is that you'd have to house-rule in an encounter power to pat your buddy's ass.
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    A Possibly Brilliant Strategy?

    Well, yeah, it's a risky strategy for a striker due to low HP, but it's a sound strategy for the warlock because he has multiple abilities that make him harder to hit (shadow walk, eyebite). It would be sound for a rogue because he's designed to move in and out of melee. The ranger is meant to...
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    The new point-buy?

    I thought the DDXP characters (barring some mistakes) were 30-point buy?
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    Flanking question based on KotS

    What if you have more than two people? Say you have one at 8, one at 1, and one at 3, with the monster at 5? Are all three flanking? Just two of them?
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    [Long] A Justification of Power Levels in a Setting

    It's good that the math is irrelevant, because it's also WRONG! By the percentages, those 7 paragons should only be seven-tenths of a paragon, followed by seven-ten-thousandths of an epic character. I think your first 0.1% should be 1%. ;)
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