Search results

The skill challenge could have graduated goals. You need, for instance, four successes to get there at all, eight to get there in a reasonable time at all, and if you get something like 10 or more successes, maybe you could actually get there ahead of the bad guys or whatever. To keep it...

The effect lasts until the target makes a skill check with the chosen skill or 5 minutes passes, whichever comes first.

This is what I don't get. What kind of character sheet was he using? Didn't he get it from someone at Wizards? Why didn't they give him a pre-made character sheet, like the 4e preview ones from D&D XP or from KotS? If he was reading the book or similar write-up, how did he miss the entire...

Check the updated rules as reprinted in the PHB2. They make it clear that you could make an OA (at -5 for total concealment) against an invisible creature that hasn't made a stealth check.

You can argue that the text says that. You might win that argument. But if one of my players tried to argue that, I'd tell them to leave after I finish rolling on the ground laughing. This has been discussed before, though.

Answer A) No, and here's why: Sorcerous Blade Channelling is like the Microsoft paperclip. They way I read it, when you start using a ranged sorcerer power, it pops up and says, "You look like you're making a Ranged Attack. Did you want to make this a Melee Attack?" and then you have the...

I had his idea while reading your post. What if there was a whole forum for tinkering with 4e? Wouldn't that be awesome?

First of all, Majestic Word is only a minor action. Using that doesn't take up much of your turn, so making a healing ability use an immediate action isn't a substantial benefit unless it's an emergency "ally drops to 0 hp" power. Furthermore, the power is kind of unhelpful. These guys just...

Anybody involved in LFR games online? (Preferably without Fantasy Grounds)

There is a specific definition of 'melee attack'. To fit that definition, a power must say "melee weapon" or "melee X" where X is the range. If a power says "close burst" or "close blast" it is not a melee power and thus receives no bonus from the iron armbands.

How does a level 11 character have only 8 charisma? Shouldn't a half-elf have at least 11 charisma? I'm planning a Half-elf Bard for LFr that will take Spiteful Glamour as her dilettante power and then multiclass into warlock for eyebite. Lots of Charisma vs will powers!

Do not trust the character builder! There are a number of bonuses (especially situational ones) that the character builder does not count properly. Always check the texts of your powers, feats, and items and calculate your bonuses yourself.

If the power uses the same wording as Tempest Dance, then this Ask Wizards would be helpful

It might be clearer if you stopped calling it a "druidic society" and called it Bigwoodsistan or something. You don't really need a mystical healing font for the PCs to visit. You just need someone who's trained in the Heal skill (for the common folk's problems) and someone who can cast...

I would try and add some bonus other than another +1 to hit. For symmetry, I'd aim to add a feature with complexity closer to Tempest Technique or BRV. My opinion is that two-handed weapon talent needs a bit more of a buff than one-handed weapon talent, so for two-handed talent I'd add...

An unconscious enemy does not give an automatic critical on your next attack. See Coup de Grace on page 288. It's a standard action that allows you to use an attack power you know. If you hit with the attack, it's an automatic critical.

* Edit: double post *

Several wisdom-based classes are coming up in the PHB 2. Avenger, Druid and Invoker all use wisdom as their primary stat, so you may want to hold out for one of them. There's also Warden, which is strength primary and wisdom as a secondary. We haven't seen any of the multiclass feats, but...

I think it's worth pointing out that trolling can mean something else, (especially definition 3d). Istar may have been saying, "I thought I'd ask this and see what kind of responses I get". He might have also been engaging in another kind of trolling, but I felt I should say something.

Well, good luck with that, since it's not a class power, you can't retrain it. If you play a warforged rogue you there one way to get rid of it, but otherwise, no dice. Yeah, all it does is take you from a d4 to a d6. But you're a daggermaster: you crit on an 18-20. When you crit, that's 6...