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Wizards are probably the toughest class to get down. The start with guaranteed high AC and reflex (73% of all attacks target these). The can easily have AC 18+ by level 1 or 2 and they can pump that AC to 22 for one round per combat (including blocking one hit retroactively) and this doesn't...

Exact same experience I'm having with mine and pretty much the experience I've seen when I've been the rogue, the warlock or the cleric in other parties. The wizard is super effective at dishing out damage just not massive damage to a single target in one round. Sphere adds up though. Even on...

definitely missing something. I'm sure there are other players thinking of wizards as massive damage dealers as in previous editions but that would break the game. Wizards can distribute more damage per round than any other pc by far they just can't take advantage of it in the same way...

You definitely made it appear as if it was a problem being exploited by your pc's. You could give them ample warning this was dangerous business by having a creature stun a mount and have the mount fall to it's death. If they can't glean that being 150' in the air is going to catch up with them...

is there a point here? are you saying it's "illegal or broken" to change a monster to a different type? can I make an aquatic ghoul? So? I could have and would have substituted other fire creatures if someone suggested that this was not a viable alternative. You're fabricating an argument...

Nice. Clearly always the intent, made no sense to possibly penalize on the bonus save.

The inverse is not true. Being weak at melee is not the same as being weak at ranged. You can always attack with a bow. You can move and attack with a bow in most cases. Melee types can be COMPLETELY prevented from attacking at all by a flying creature for instance. You're still plenty...

This is easily fixed. You're being way too soft on the pc's in my estimation. First letting them have flying mounts in heroic seems a little montyhaulish to me. I've been playing DnD for 30 years and other than a flying carpet in one campaign my experience with flying mounts is limited to 1-2...

that's fine, but it does matter quite a bit to the quality of the encounter. No, you're mistaken. No where in the game is there even a hint at this assertion. If I was using a drow priest is the encounter value increased because there are other drow or spiders in it? I changed the monsters to...

seems pretty clear that the shift doesn't provoke an OA but the ranged attack does if you're next to something when you make it. this is an exception based rules system and allowing a shift before the ranged action takes place is designed to be an exception to the ranged attacks provoke but not...

You keep dropping "an elite 5 levels higher" into the conversation like this was cheating. It's well inside the bounds of what is expected for pc's of this level. he should have been moving every round. he can simply run away from the paladin and break his mark. he also should have been a...

Lets not forget that there are a massive number of hover fliers in 4e. Probably more than half the fliers can hover. Prone is the only reliable way to bring them down. As previously stated most prone effects come from melee attacks which makes it hard to apply them to fliers. The rules for...

I didn't mean to be offensive to warlords just that relying on others to do the damage can be a lot less fun for some/many players. It's also a little ineffective. Using an at-will to trigger a basic attack is doing a little less than using an at-will for instance though the shifting and such...

I don't have the PHB 2 yet, is there info surrounding this quote that indicates whether it means obstacles that shut the power out from another area or a flag pole standing in the way breaks up the zone and prevents it... I think it's obvious that it was meant to be (RAI) you can't push it...

I don't think you can say impossible. A fey warlock and a wizard with sphere can remove half the combatants before they move. Just the fey warlock with a little luck can pop off 4-6 minions by himself before they can act. Obviously initiative or surprise are huge here. Sphere as usual at...

I don't think they can but there's a lot of reason why they might want to. right. From a RAW standpoint it looks as if this is not allowed but it's pretty easy to see how a dragon might do this by arching his neck and firing downward. some at wills can immobilize or stop movement and dnd is an...

Where did that quote come from? I think they're trying to say you can't push a zone through a wall. If you move a 5x5 cloud kill down a 15' corridor the zone becomes 3x5 until it gets out of the corridor. So that you can't lock creatures in a room and push the zone through the wall. If a door...

The lack of uniformity is probably not good unless they felt there was a significant reason. I think maybe the reason is there are a lot of melee types who have a bow back up and they already suck at ranged combats because dex is not a good stat for them. Making more feats to distance the gap...

The pay off comes in the shape of an added AP and an additional use of a daily magic item. This doesn't mean you can use the same daily over, there is a hard limit of one daily item use (even if you have 3 daily items you can only use one on any day until 11th level pg 226 of the PHB) but if...

Well this was the point of the original thread. Making it 0/+1/+2 instead of +1/+2/+3 is a matter of personal choice and not a significant change in the system. There's a fine line to this. I'm not suggesting a room full of traps, just the bad guys picking an area more suitable for their...