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I don't really get the point of resurrecting the Magic Missile sacred cow.

Dunno if you read the OP or the title of the thread, but we're not talking about giving the players damage bonuses.

Thanks, FATAL.

I just really like the idea of laying out some objectives for my party - makes the battle into "what will happen if we fail?" rather than simply, "will we live or die?"

Christ, that's grim.

Good show :D

Agreed. I hate skill challenges because they just seem so artificial. A single roll should suffice for most things. Why does, "I try to sneak past the guard" or, "I try to convince the baron" have to involve fifteen seperate dice rolls? Perhaps they were trying to mitigate the effect one bad...

Actually, I used a dragon, so I guess I must've blanked out the stunning from my mind. Carrion crawlers only stun after like three failed saves, and I used those too. Edit: And I used an ettin! What the hell is wrong with me

Nasty combination.

I think the mini looks awful. His proportions are completely off - look at his arms! They're tiny! I guess it goes back to the original picture, though. Reminds me of Dick Tracy.

By the way, the "warfare in D&D" link in your sig was very interesting, and I will be trying it out in my game. Thanks!

Agreed. I'd give them XP if all they did was yell, "Find your ferret?! Don't you know there's a war on?" You could even make a skill challenge of it - "Convince this idiot that he has more pressing matters than finding a pet right now".

I've seen PbP games where the first combat took six days to carry out. Dear God.

I don't think I've ever used a monster that has a stun power. Not really through choice, either - I just haven't come across one from level 1-9 yet.

Thing about the "ranged defender" idea is that it's just a bit unfair. Picture the scenario: DM: You approach the cliffs. At the bottom of the cliff there are five hobgoblins, at the top stands a hobgoblin bowman. Roll initiative. OK, bowman first - he uses an encounter power and hits all of...

But is that necessarily a good thing? I personally would prefer it if my players didn't have characters they've spent months developing killed outright and taken away from them. You probably use raise dead in your game, though, I guess. I find that that ritual adds more problems thematically...

Capital letters, punctuation. 2/10, see me after class.

Didn't WotC make a module for six-year-olds that had the rules boiled down to something like this? It'd be a fine way to make a simple RPG for kids - everyone flips a coin for attack rolls, everyone has five hitpoints except for defenders who have ten, everyone does one damage a hit except for...

I kinda wish people wouldn't use acronyms so much. What's HPE?

I'd watch out - many of the monster manual 2 and 3 monsters have had their damage boosted already. For example, the Light of Amoth is doing 4d10+20 damage a hit - I think 4d10+35 might be overkill.