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You tried name dropping Von Clauswitz and Sun Tzu, trying to apply a logical fallacy by assuming expertise. Everything you've said up to this point is either totally subjective or pretty much wrong. More fluff. Normally envisaged by who? No he actually won't escape at all. The gnolls are...

Both kind of weak. N+2 is the minimum value for analyzing anything important with regard to combat in 4e. No, they really don't. Even with crappy tactics and a different build nothing would have happened of significance(maybe a few more surges cost). How did you escape the zone effect of the...

That's a lot more complicated than +1 per tier. No calculations, just add it when you make the level. The MW system is flawed for a lot of reasons. We're already putting a lot of pressure on the magic item system to "keep pace" and make sure everyone is getting +X at certain stages but there...

Scorching burst is a ranged power. The point of origin is the burst zone. The sphere is not attacking through cover so it makes very little sense to grant cover. Concealment might make more sense since the view is obstructed, you might miss. There is absolutely no chance that the corner...

can you sustain it if you can't see it? not sure if there's a ruling on this but since the spell is ranged 10 if I'm adjacent to a creature and I use my std to make an attack on a creature we play I prompt an OA. What about cover? a creature has partial cover from a corner with regard to...

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you have 2 # 2's ;) Surprise is one side being aware of the other while the other side is not aware. Stealth vs Perception in both directions basically. I don't particularly like the rules for surprise in 4e. Especially for spell casters. The 1 action rule can be very constraining. can...

Have to agree. The more things overlap in unplanned ways the more exposure there is to broken combos. Pretty minor that you get the melee damage but pretty major that you get the spell damage since it's got no prereqs and effectively gives you all the element feats wrapped up in one. +1 damage...

The black has a lot of ongoing damage potential for level 1's to handle. The white hits a lot less but does more damage per hit. The sustainable cloud of darkness coupled with the high defenses makes me think this is a brutal encounter for level 1's. If the dragon gets the majority of the...

I'm in the error on the side of caution camp as well. This seems like potential trouble if you get hit a lot by minor attacks you're going to get an enormous amount of extra temp hitpoints. The stacking from invigorating only exacerbates the situation. All defenders who are soaking up attacks...

Hard for me to discuss the encounter very logically when every monster in it is a modified one. It's very minion heavy which by level 5 is not very threatening. Since you deployed armor of agthys and likely have a wizard in your party, all 10 minions are pretty non threatening. I can't speak...

I don't mean to come across as defensive and I certainly don;t feel defensive. I definitely didn't explode. I'm just very direct/blunt and rather than waste my time discussing things that don't matter, I try and lead the conversation back to the relevant situations. I actually enjoy...

This is hard to fathom. I've also been playing these games for 30'ish years and that's not at all what my experience or the data suggests. If you assume the other side is sticking to sound military tactics too then they must feel that the encounters are 1% trivial and 99% unwinable by your...

The less dangerous a campaign the less healing matters. That's pretty obvious. The more encounters you have of N or N-1 variety the less you'll feel the need for healing. There's two problems with this. In N-2 to N+1 encounters, it hardly ever matters if you make tactical errors or have bad...

I need examples of the encounters to speak rationally about them. More importantly if you're trying to make a point that healing isn't that important, you'll definitely have to back that up with credible examples. Your examples are also kind of poor from the stand point that an encounter where...

Yup. Taken directly from page 57. (emphasis mine) Level: As you select individual threats to make up your encounter, keep the level of those threats in mind. Monsters or traps more than four levels below the party’s level or seven levels above the party’s level don’t make good challenges...

Forum posters represent a lot of the more hard core gamers and frequently there's a slant toward power gamer mentality especially in charop threads. Power gamers are actually the best play testers since they are vastly more likely to search out broken combo's, undercosted, overcosted, etc...

You're misreading. here are the guidelines: Individual monsters: L-4 to L+7 (where L is the party level) pg 57 Encounter level n-2 to n+4 (where n is the party level) pg 58 here is the hard example It's n+3 and has and L+6 soldier in it. pg 58 Hard Example for 8th-level PCs: 1 war troll (level...

No it doesn't. You're making an argument that the system is broken because you don't want to play characters with close to the suggested build numbers. DnD is very math based. If the designers built the game so that characters with 14 primary stats would be average in combat, then the...

This is another mischaracterization. What choice do people have currently? They can play or not play. The satisfaction example assumes you know there mental state which is ludicrous. A lot of people when looking at the numbers have expressed dissatisfaction with the gradual decline in pc...