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Oh, a little question, thalmin (or anybody else who get his or her hands on a red box already), if it's no bother: Do power cards still look the same as before or have they changed the design? Cheers, LT.

Except that even the Hand of Blight at-will power already has an Fell Scorn augment - dealing +1d8 damage, which means you always benefit from it (since HoB is hardlocked into a warlock with Fell Scorn). Considering HoB already is a rather decent power, that's not shabby at all. Having more...

Also: It's retro. Retro[1] is always in, somewhere, somehow. Could pull in some people who think it's neat - just like the internet's permanent obsession with steampunk! :p [1] Retro as in retro-music or retro-fashion. Cheers, LT.

Good for them - good for us! Dreamblade had some amazing and very creative sculpts, a shame that the game never really caught on. IIRC, they even started the whole transparent mini-thing (for WotC, at least), something I love about DDMs, since metal miniatures can't really duplicate that! If...

Whoa, bigger changes than expected... but I like all of them. Revised melee training is cool, but ensures that Str chars are still supreme at MBAs (as it should be) and the implement change goes a long way towards simplifying multiclassing - and as a bonus opens up interesting chars who cast...

At-will, encounter AND daily transmutation spells? I smell a transmuter build! And I absolutely approve! :lol: Ditto on that. I liked about melee training that it opened up decent melee attacks to all characters, but there was always something off about it - since everybody could take it, it...

In addition to that, the new encounter ability (seemingly an alternative to the 3rd at-will) isn't too shabby! +4 on a missed attack/saving throw? That's one of the better racial powers. Since many classes only have 2-3 really good at-wills and don't really need to have three, it seems to be a...

Yeah, I wouldn't call it 4.5e - but that's another topic. I'm only saying that I've pre-ordered two of'em, one for myself (hopefully to be perused soon, once I moved/found new group etc.) and one as present for my sister (apparently, playing RPGs is something genetic or so! :lol: ) Stoked for...

Also: GMs have so much more to gain from forums like ENWorld. As a player, you usually work up an initial character concept during the first session of a campaign, then it slowly develops through interaction within the sessions. Not a lot "homework" you can do, even if you want to. GMs...

Nobody talked about "watering down" a race - it's just about the separation of mechanics and flavour. E.g. I want to play a cowardly, but talkative fire sorcerer - then I could take the dragonborn, get the fitting ability boosts, change the explanation of the "Dragon Breath" to "Quickened...

The racial abilities can be pretty sweet as well (e.g. second wind as minor action etc.). However, rather than banning races, I'd rather reflavour them into human subraces with (overall) human appearance. Most races are not too overtly magical, so it's possible to explain away the abilities in...

Actually, I expect that they need formulas/recipes/etc. The rare items have the distinction that they're impossible to make and the snippet talked about more DM control as well... so I assume that common items are automatically available to PCs, while uncommon items need to be studied before -...

It actually fits with almost all power sources, except for primal perhaps - I could see quite a lot of arcane or psionic utilities tied to knowledge skills as well. Of course, if Thalmin can give a small overview of the other included powers... (mage next, mage next, mage next) :blush: Cheers, LT.

Yeah, that really seems to say that you don't hate roleplay, as the previous posters said here. It really, really sounds a lot like you're prefer to handle your character more like a character in a novel or film, just a little more interactive; less "pretend to be an elf", more "cooperative...

Eh, I wish there was a better "intro" module for 4E. I like 4E a lot... but KotS can be very, very grindy and drags a bit. It's a good showcase for the pure mechanics, but for the general way 4E plays... not so much. For my group, KotS was like this: 1st half: Cool, it's fun! 2nd half: Hooooow...

So... I'm probably going to run a 4E game again soon and I'd like to address an issue my players had: 1st level characters are boring and feel too cookie-cutter. Especially after having played higher-level characters, the rather slim power selection feels odd - so I thought this could be fixed...

This, absolutely. Without stats and campaign-specific support, the value as plug-and-play product decreases a lot - and unlikely to be a source for important NPCs If however, it has decent to good illustrations and character descriptions for more or less common people (i.e. not kings or...

Y'know what I want to see? WotC talking to BioWare to pick up a Mass Effect RPG license (akin to Green Ronin picking up Dragon Age). SAGA would be a solid base for modelling the ME universe, especially as Biotics/Tech powers would work very well in the Force system... ...ah, one can dream, no...

True. The problem with Weakened is just that its effect is rather massive - I wonder if that could be solved by making it "do minimum damage and cannot crit" instead. As static bonuses are a big part of the damage, it's not as severe as half damage in many cases, but still has some effect. Also...

Eh, in school I had a teacher who didn't use text books at all. Instead, he showered us with dozens of loose leaf copies from various sources, because he had a deep love of photocopiers! Cheers, LT.