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Yeah, but I don't see that warlord ability giving people a whole round of actions, just a single charge action. So with that it doesn't give them the ability to shift and then charge, just a simple charge, which would cause an OA if they did it away from one enemy and into another...

From what I heard there was a plan in the government to convert, but it turns out that the expenses of replacing all the speed limit signs with km/h instead of miles/h was simply too high to be worth it... :)

Actually I am fine with both the law/chaos and evil/good axes being in the game, but I just don't want them to be so important to the rules. They should be more roleplay related, because when they get involved with the rule sit becomes impossible for somebody to be somewhat evil or evil in...

Playtest of the Stone Table So yesterday I tried out the Stone Table area from Oakhurst Reloaded for my first 4e trial session. We spend about an hour going over the rules and characters with my 6 players (so we had a full party) and then entered the cave. The ranger rolled extremely high on...

Depends on the monster type...

Winterwell A small mining town in the outskirts of a mountain range called the World's Teeth. This town is built in a large alcove in a cliffside, from where a small hot water spring comes up to the surface. The water that doesn't freeze over in winter is the reason this place was chosen for...

Although you make some good points, I don't think a PoL setting absolutely has to have an ancient empire that can be cannibalized for its values. Of course that makes it easier for quests and all that, but it's not going to be everywhere. Most of my PoL setting will be on a new continent that...

Wow, they completely removed the skill system??? Best idea ever, now we'll never have to discuss the DC's anymore, but we can just have the DM handwave whether we make it or not...

Maybe he considers Brokeback Mountain a gun fu movie? It had cowboys... :p

*cast Stephen Colbert's Crushing Hand* *has some Doritos*

That's almost exactly how I would have handled it and in the 4e system I can see pretty much everything going something along these lines. I am sure I like it and that my players will probably like it too, because it is a sort of blanket rule for doing these kind of things and imo really opens...

You can do that kind of stuff if you really want to. Just do it aftr the cobat with every character that is supposed to have died in the combat. Assume that "death in combat" means mortally wounded with no chance for recovery, but he still has a few breaths to speak to his comrades who are...

What we've heard sofar indicates that a character or monster pushed into an unsafe square gets a saving throw and if he passes he falls prone on the last safe square before being pushed in. What with people having combat advantage against the character and needing to spend a move action to get...

I suspect somewhat less at will powers at higher level. Having 8 different ones of them seems too much, especially since Magic Missile is not going to be very cool anymore at level 25. It'll probably be replaced by a more powerful spell that counts as a basic ranged attack. Probably similar for...

In 3.5e we always pick up the dead guy's stuff and start using it and the new PC comes in with his own set of new magic items. Seeing how often items are specialized to specific types of characters and that after a few levels you will have stronger items anyway, it usually didn't create a game...

QFT... Steven Erikson is my favorite fantasy author and Roger Zelazny one of my favorite writers of all time. Erikson (who based his series on a roleplaying game he created with his friend Ian Cameron Esslemont) does an excellent high magic world with deep and detailed backgrounds, scheming...

Well, in this case since the skill challenge is a set-up for the next scene (facing the kobolds), whether they make it or not should impact that scene. So you could say that if they fail the skill challenge some trator goes off and warns the kobolds that there are adventurers in town coming for...

After playing several epic campaigns with a powerplayer DM I'm not so worried about character creation anymore. Ever tried to create a level 25 monk/psychic warrior from scratch with all the feats, powers skills and what not he gets. I must have spent about 20 hours on getting all the stats just...

I took that awesome stone table map, printed it and will use it to run a 4e intro session for my group next week. They are not huge miniatures/battlemat fans, so I hope that a great looking map and the streamlined 4e rules will help them see the light... :)

Yeah, I never understood why people get hung up on "conversion" of their characters. I'd say I usually know my favorite characters well enough to know whether a certain power reflects the character or not. Different rules means different powers and options are going to be applicable, but the...