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I'm assuming the types of punishments you are talking about trigger at the same time marks trigger, so I'll just talk about marks. That one attack targets 2 creatures, so the mark does not trigger. It is making two attacks. Each one needs to target the defender or marks will trigger. If a...

If you are looking for very simple, you can't go wrong with Encounters characters: D&D Encounters Season 3 Characters ? Dungeon's Master AFAIK, they are not lacking in any stats or feats or powers or anything, just built and presented very simply.

I tend to practice a hybrid version of railroading. I try to place branch points at the end of sessions, and make sure I know what the party is planning to do next session. Then I write a fairly railroady session. At least, the encounters are all pre-determined. Maybe a choice they make...

Once I started using Word to create my adventures on the fly, pasting in monsters from the online compendium, I started saving all kinds of time. I keep the Word file in my Dropbox folder, so I can edit it from anywhere, and read it from my iPhone. I even make a table for each encounter. Each...

I was in the exact same boat about 6 months ago. I read ahead to the Winter King adventure and decided to merge the Ice Scepter idea and the Iron Circle. The overarching plot the heroic tier for my campaign is that the Iron Circle, who holds a large city south of the Nentir Vale, is looking...

Recently I had the PCs come across the site of a battle. There was a cleric grasping to life, who granted them the ability to relive the battle, each playing a given character who fought in the cleric's party. I don't really like the idea of giving each player something to read. It just seems...

Here is what I said in another thread: I didn't know how good I had it back when I ran this. It's a very well put together adventure, and gives the players some interesting things to do. Vhennyk and the Iron Circle have played heavily in my ongoing campaign.

Something called Epic Campaign is running twice a week. Wonder what that is. I'm still a year or more away from Epic, but I'm hoping that buy the time my game gets there there will be support.

I used to have the players give the recaps at the table, but that rarely worked out well. One would just read off of is notes, which were more about loot than what was going on. The rest usually couldn't remember key details, so I just started giving my own recaps at start of each session...

It's an odd way to put it but I assume they mean in place of spending an hour walking around town getting info, which I believe is how the typical Streetwise check works.

I'll take Outlaw for my Dark Sun Hunter. A controlly encounter power and ignore difficult terrain in the desert? Sure! The level 10 buff and the utility powers aren't screaming out to me, but that's fine.

I don't have anything to do with the rest of what you guys are arguing about, I'm just talking about how I view creature knowledge of powers. I propose that your belief that creatures shouldn't know what the rules say they should is incorrect. For instance, you seem to misunderstand the rules...

Honestly, I don't know how I would recognize that, so I kind of assume it's just something I'm not getting about that real-world tactic. MrMyth has a good point though. He knows what you have done to him and what conditions you've imposed, but the book doesn't say he knows you'll attack him if...

He has taken up a physical stance, probably similar to how a readied action looks. The Rogue is standing right there, in a position to attack if you get close enough. He's not looking like he just got done doing something and is gathering himself for his next "turn".

He knows he is being controlled by you, in the same sense that he knows the fighter hit him with a sword. He might not know what a sword is, but he knows what damage is. He might not understand magic, but he knows he is being made to do something he doesn't want to do, and can sense that you...

I just take it as most charm-type powers in the DnD universe(s) are such that a person knows they are being charmed (or that they were just charmed). Some powers specifically say the target does not know, which sounds to me like a specific bonus only granted to a few powers. So that isn't...

Yeah, and those are 4 of the best pieces of content Wizards has ever put out.

Okay, I mainly made this thread so I could share the joke I played on my players, not that I expected any of them to fall for it. I am DMing a 5th level 4E group. We have a few Google Waves we use to communicate. I updated one of our waves today with this: The characters I made for them had...

I was talking from the standpoint of how to change things in a theoretical later edition. That wasn't super clear. I've been thinking about limiting my own feat choices to Essentials feats, just so I don't have so many feats to read through. It seems silly, but I'd rather limit my selection...

My single biggest problem with feats is the sheer number of them. I think getting rid of the nigh-mandatory ones and the super lame ones would help, as would defining better what feats are meant to do. At level 1 I feel like a person should have 30-60 feats to choose from. Maybe there are...