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What's the stance on D&D Next/5th? I gave that a look and it seems to be a bit more like a mix of 3.5 and 4. The thing with 4 is I didn't like the idea of only having a few skills on hand, and having to pick through a bunch. Is it worth going down to 3.5? How different are the 3.0 DM and MM...

I know, there's never a leader. Hence someone decided to go Paladin because he can heal. Although not as great, surprise. My wife went Fighter at first but may switch Psion since the younger kid isn't apparently playing so no 2x controllers and no defenders like it was looking before. I wasn't...

That might explain it. How often should players really need healing and rest? So far the group is nice and "varied" with a Ranger, Fighter, Paladin and Sword Mage. Normally it would be 5 strikers and a wizard... The idea that 1 hit could very nearly explode one of the players I found odd. Its...

2 kids and Wife finished introduction. My bro in law and friend opted to join at the DM guide/2nd part portion. Youngest kid wasn't interested. 1 less, not too bad. Is it me or do some of these monsters do some insane damage? According to Red Box rules, Gray Wolves get +7 v AC, 1d6+5 and free...

My friends bringing over the books he has. I usually like staying up to date, and it makes it fresh for me too. Explaining Thac0 to kids isn't the most fun either. I picked up the Red Box yesterday and got the 2 kids through the beginning, now the wifes hounding me. I see some errors between...

I dont have any 4E books on hand. I used to have a bunch in pdf format, but deleted them thinking I wouldn't be playing anytime soon, or where I went they had them anyways. My friend says he has all but 2. Not sure wtf that's supposed to entail exactly, but I'll find out shortly. I figure Ill go...

Hey everyone, I haven't played much since 2nd edition. I dabbled in a session of 4e but the DM running it was horrible. Misread a green dragon having ACID reduction and made ALL attacks resist 10 damage for a group of lvl 3's or so. Anyways, I figured this would be something fun to spend time...

Been thinking about getting a group going again but we have the dilemma of usually having 2-4 people only, usually never all at once. And on top of that its usually a batch of strikers... So anyone come up with some good ones?

Ahh, I remember back in 2nd edition with my thief. I never even used ranged weapons and we found a bow with disintegration arrows.... We get attacked by a wyvern, I said watch this! 1 hit kill! I rolled a 1, dm said it pops the fighter in the back, instant kill. Oops, ok, I got em this time...

Ahh kool as hell. Many are familiar so this makes it even kooler. Might wanna fix the link on the 3rd one.

Im in this exact same situation. I have a handful of people interested, but highly doubt Ill get more than 3 going at a time. Im notorious for playing thieves/rogues in any type of game, video, roleplaying , etc. So most people dont even play that. I plan to take the char I wanted to be if I...

Nod, I saw all these posts about Skill challenges and read into and saw that one could design a quick, simple method for giving out a little XP without fighting. So with so much riding on a few toss of the die instead, I guess I can see why they lowered success/raised failure rates. And as noted...

Sall good. Thats when a bunch of Skeletons come out, immune to shuriken and dagger damage.

Also just because you have an initiative order, doesnt mean everyone actually stood by and took turns whacking. What happened to the old "On 3! 1...2....3!"*madness ensues* Or i guess you could say everyone readied their action for when the last person in the initiative order attacks.

Nod, I was very surprised with the lack of short bows as a default. For RP reasons, I was just never a fan of the Xbow.

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Ahh, small thing I just wanted to clarify. So you don't trigger Opportunity Attacks when moving INTO someones adjacent squares? I dunno why I was thinking any moving, in or out triggered an OA. But on rereading, it seems to be only when leaving an adjacent square on in someones reach sans shifting.

Ahh it's things like this that I used to aggravate the high hells outta my DM. Just like how in Magic:TG I insisted my 0 damaging Hypnotic specter should still make you lose a card.

I was thinking Deft Strike for a rogue would be chancy without a high defense to Opportunity attacks, but then saw that if someone Marked by a fighter attacks someone else, then the Fighter can pop him one. So If I did a zigzag back and forth like move passed the Enemy, that would trigger an OA...

I would hope you needed 1 shuriken per target. Unless your talking about the Predators shoulder cannon then... Nice to off hand the beer though. I wonder if it'd count as a minor or free action to break it off into a weapon...