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No, but if I grab a guy, and my rogue partner comes up on the opposite side, we're flanking; and that does grant CA.

The paragon path multiclass, which WotC admits is underpowered compared to taking an actual Path, is woeful. I have no problem with the power choices. It's that you trade 'get a nice action point ability, get 2 Nice path abilities' for 'swap an at-will'. IMC, if someone wants to multiclass...

Welcome to HERO... Where if a power does enough 'damage' to kill someone, it can alternatively do whatever you want, including turning them into a newt. Seriously, that's exactly how they balance transformation attack powers; they have a 'damage' roll, and if it exceeds the 'Body' of the...

Having just looked at the Class Template section, I think if you used the template like you would a second class definition, and did similar to the 3.x UA Gestalt rules, you'd get about the same effect... I.e. take the higher of the two class HP values, higher of the individual defense bonuses...

I think the 'intended' interpretation is that you can each day prepare spells per the normal rules; i.e. you have 1 1st level slot and 1 5th level slot, and they can each hold a spell of their level or lower. So you could mem both your first level dailies, but not both your 5th level dailies...

Not every encounter should logically provide treasure. If they somehow level faster, toss an extra parcel into the next logical reward. Keep in mind that quest rewards also dig into the parcel system; if an NPC is giving a reward for doing something, that should be a parcel. If they miss an...

Races and Classes said a lot of things, not all of which turned out to be the final result. I too wish to see the Monk as a Controller, with a Wis/Str stat split. Let him add his Wis mod to Dex/Int for light armors, to give him a high relative AC, since he's in melee; but keep damage down in...

To me, the concept of Healing Surges feels like the way healing works in the Wheel of Time (and other fantasy stories): Being healed magically is stressful on the body and mind, makes you tired and/or hungry, and you can only take so much of it. In 4e, they've made all healing pull from the...

Most settings for D&D are pretty black and white. The next kingdom over where the emperor sacrifices people in rituals to keep his castle afloat on a dark cloud, is evil. Most of the people there are probably unaligned, just as in this kingdom where the king is a devout follower of Pelor...

I think it's more due to the long discussion of this a couple weeks ago. Personally, I think the new system makes a lot more sense than the old one. No one has an alignment unless they go out of their way to get one. If you're actually all about helping people, you're good. If you're all...

I think perhaps you've taken the fact that the cleric got put into the 'leader' role to mean that all leaders will be healers. There was a similar perception problem in another game I played which had similar roles defined; of the 6 or so options for the role that matched 4e's Leader, there was...

I'll take this opportunity to say that the linear nature of randomness in d20 is one of the biggest issues I have with the system. Bell curves are so much nicer. Wonder how much it'd screw things up to switch it to 3d6, make 3 the 'crit fail' for rolls that have it, and 18 the 'crit success'...

For some reason, some people don't like playing characters that are ineffective. Even more people dislike spending an hour building a character that dies before experiencing any real character development. When they say 'heroic' when refering to low level 4e PCs, they don't mean Batman... a...

I'm kinda curious how many of those bonuses are named/typed. Lots of those kinds of things are a '+x feat bonus' or (more common) '+x power bonus', and therefore don't stack with one another. I won't have the books till next week, or I'd check it myself.

I think the big question is if the secondary attack that you get from the "Hit:" string is per target hit, or not. I.e. Cast this spell, you hit 5 enemies, they take 2d8+8, say, and get the ongoing damage. Do you then make 1 secondary attack, or 5 secondary attacks? You did the rest of the...

Thats, ah... impressive. It does sound like the secondary attack goes off for every hit. Who was it that said we weren't going to see Flamestrike in 4E? Then again, Warpriest may be a more controller-leaning cleric PP.

SteveC, Mourn... <OT>No society can prevent murder. In fact, if you haven't noticed, no society tries. We teach people that murder is bad, and we try to catch and punish those who commit murder, but we do not try to prevent murder... because it's not possible. Some governments take away...

Honestly, I've been thinking of going the Power Card route for powers, and using a DDM-style layout for cards for the PCs. Your 'character sheet' is then a deck of 8-20 cards, and contains most of what you need to play. Feats mostly seem to provide passive bonuses, skill mods can be listed on...

The thing is, the damage difference only counts for character concepts involving 2h weapons. A sword/shield fighter or paladin will not be affected much at all. Rangers almost certainly not, with the possible exception of longbow archery-focused ones. Most other classes use 1h weapons, or...

Heh. Before we know very much: "OMG, 4E is 2EZ. PCs have a million hp, godmode, and will never ever die!" After we get actual rules: "OMG, 4E is so harsh. I'm gonna house rule this so it's less painful, and make this easier, and not use that rule at all!" lol @ teh internets.