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Lay on Hands (p 91) "You can use this power a number of times per day equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum 1), but only once per round." It is powerful, but I don't think you will have high enough Wisdom for it to be useful for as long as you have surges...

The problem you are talking about is something I look forward to WotC sorting out. I agree with your interpretation, both of what the books says, and what it should be saying - with a couple of additions. 1. It should be allowed to swap a higher level spell for a lower one. (For example have...

My solution is the cruel one: Keep the adventurers stressed and scared. If they keep reasting early - take the encounter to them instead. Have them attacked while they are resting, or while they are on their way back to out of the dungeon/forest/whatever. Often make sure that they realise that...

MAD is not nearly as serious a condition in 4E as it was in 3.x. You raise stats a bit more often than you did in the old rules, and every time you do it, you either raise 2 or all 6 of them. An example: A hypothetical character has four important stats. A is most important, B and C are about...

I think that is selling D&D short. Why can't heroic fantasy be a bit deeper, a bit more philosphical than just good fighting evil? I am not in any way saying that there is something wrong with the standard good vs evil conflict, but there is no reason for that to be the only thing that a game...

Why did they make it unneccessarily complicated then? The LG and CE don't add anything more than several other alignments would have. Simple C and L would in fact have added more. But, I will try not do the old discussion all over again. The system is there, and I guess I can just ignore it...

We ran the encounter today, and I would call it a TPK even though the rogue actually managed to run away. Our excuse as a group? Playing the whole thing with a four person group and having with the DM to play it all without scaling down, plus going into that encounter without a single daily...

Spellbooks? The way spellbooks are described in the book seems to lead to things that don't fit so well with how the 4th edition rules work as a whole. Examples: 1. A level 9 wizard has chosen the feat expanded spellbook. In that spellbook you can find 9 daily spells, 3 of level 1, 3 of level...

That seems ok to me, with the understanding that you can only have either the 1st level spell or the 5th level spell prepared at any time. I think the wizard spellbook is something that will cause a lot of misunderstandings and differing interpretations - just because it does not intuitively...

I would say hero fits better than douchebag. And that has nothing to do with justifying something that I would never recommend doing. Hero is not the best word, but the hyperbole is in the poll choices - not mine. Why? Simply because the leak has led to more press, more Internet buzz and more...

This. Especially the bit about theft. I honestly can't take arguments against Internet piracy seriously when people call it stealing. Even considering that the files might have mistakes in them - still clearly good for D&D. I do understand and respect that WotC employees cannot agree that the...

My experience is that people are used to triggers like that in card games, which is why I think power cards will do the trick.

A couple of years back I taught some computer classes for teenagers where issues with copyright, illegal downloading etc were an important part so I had to do a bit of reading up. I also learnt quite a bit from my students. Just a few little things that I think are interesting: Illegal...

One new rule is kind of important here. Heroic tier characters can use one Daily power from a magic item per day. Paragon tier characters can use two, and epic tier three. All of that limited to one daily power use per item. You get one daily power item use back every milestone. This should...

Not all daily powers are equal. Low level magic items have low level daily powers, high level magic items have high level. Edit: Sorry, misread your post. Yes, it does seem a bit odd. On the other hand you can only use one orb at a time, so the thing you are missing might be that the expensive...

"Piracy" is not theft. When you steal you take something from another person/company/whatever and as a result you have it and they don't. Spreading those copies is a copyright violation, nothing else. Copyright is in many ways a good thing, and I don't condone violating it. Still the way to...

That would mean that wizard was the worst class choice for an Eladrin, so not a good idea.

I am not saying that they did. But I do actually think this leak is good for them. Lots of people previewing their very nice looking, very fresh product. And, at least when it comes to the Player's Handbook, realising that it would be oh so much handier to have the physical book as well. Leaks...

Actually a really good idea. I would consider doing just that, if the extra cost involved in sending money in a foreign currency to an overseas destination wasn't so high. Instead I guess I just buy fewer books.

If I remember my Tolkien correctly (very long time since I was a fan) Elrond would be a half-eladrin rather than a half-elf, using your division between elves and eladrin. This is one of my reasons against half-elves - using that mix rather than other mixes feels totally random. And a race that...