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Assuming the rules are being applied correctly (i.e. Divine Sanction not tripping Hospitaler's Blessing as mentioned above) and reasonable steps are taken when designing encounters but the problem still persists, there is always the option of the DM requesting the player nerf one or more of his...

I disagree with the interpretations above. To hit a creature you must roll successfully against its defenses, and this is almost always done individually against each target. Thus, each target is hit (or not hit) individually, and the power is activated against just a single creature. The...

Well, I started a detailed analysis of why 4e's magic items disappoint me, and how it came to be so, but it was really turning into a much longer essay than I was willing to write. Besides, DEFCON 1 hit the most important points. In short, for me 4e really strikes the wrong balance with...

"Citizen, only communists could know enough about red boxes to ruin them. Please report to plasma facility B-1368B-4 for mandatory child-safe jumpsuit cleaning."

Well, the elf is ambassador from Elven lands and also appears in 742 and 744 (although V is absent in both). So not a slave, although subjugation is clearly something this empire is all about. The only other clue I can think of is that V's familiar didn't know anything. It's been around more...

Same here, and I was doubly glad it was already corrected back in the day once I noticed the thread's strong aura of necromancy. And I completely missed the change in HotFL, so I'm glad I happened across this thread.

I think it's a poor idea, on the whole. The results would probably lack mechanical and thematic coherence -- somebody wants all items to be common, some DMs probably want everything to be rare because they can't stand anything above low-magic worlds, some will vote based solely on their current...

Can we try again with a little less condescension? What one is capable of playing isn't necessarily what one wants to play. Sometimes I embrace complexity, sometimes I tolerate it, and other times I want to blow things up with fireball over and over again. I expect at least some other players...

It's on page 70 of HotFL: "If an adventurer does have proficiency with an implement, he or she can use it with any of his or her implement powers." I imagine it's also in the RC, but I don't own it.

I really love the idea of the Illumians as the embodiment of language, and they played a major part in one of the worlds of my homebrew setting. I also wanted to play one in our last 3.5 campaign, but they were not appropriate for the setting. When our group moved to 4e one of my first tasks...

Is it aimed at new players or lapsed ones? The answer is "yes." By cranking up the nostalgia factor to 11 it markets directly to lapsed players. For them to buy the game for themselves (if they are so inclined) that is enough. Emphasizing the part about new or beginning players (i.e. who the...

Maybe not, but the cost to "make" the next PDF is likely much closer to 0 than the cost of printing another book. It is also efficiently greedy, as you can "make" exactly as many PDFs as you need when you need them with no waste. (Admittedly, I assume the costs of supporting that electronic...

They were certainly up about a month ago, but not a lot was going on, at least in the forums. A very few meandering threads about the new release.

Those 5 prerequisite ranks in Perform(dance)? I presume it was to the sonorous lamentation of their women. :)

I had played CRPGs for quite a long time, but my first time playing tabletop was in summer 2004, not quite a year after I started grad school. I just showed up at the game and made a 10th level human male samurai named Ainamacar, for lack of anything better. I'm staring at the character sheet...

I preferred #2. In particular, I had the feeling I was viewing through a spyglass, and I felt the potential of surrounding setting. Like, I could almost pan it around if I tried hard enough. It was seductive for me, anyway. I completely missed the "6" in the logo in both covers until it was...

This. Creating off-the-wall rules that can explicitly break any particular assumption about the game, and implementing it in a program that assumes those rules still hold, is an invitation for disaster or at least effort better spent elsewhere. The character builder operates within the...

I count down for the reasons Umbran states (although I generally do it both as a player and a DM). Although I'm currently playing in a system with explicit damage threshold's for falling unconscious and then dying, and in that case I count up. I guess that means I start at the initial state of...

Fair enough, I just didn't get that perspective based on your first post. Whether you like the process of building or not is immaterial to me, it was just the reasons you gave that struck me as peculiar. I'm glad to have a better understanding of your position. Nearly as glad as I am that...

Since these things are not mutually exclusive, wouldn't it be fairer to say that you can't stand playing with a group that won't stop min-maxing characters (or thinking of them only in those terms) even when at the table? In both your examples it seems to me that the problem is the players, not...