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Well, you still need to expend a minor action to get any use of the sustained effect of Curse of the Bloody Fangs, so I don't think they did it for that reason. The reason stated in the article was to clear up the language of the powers. Personally, I think it would be a mistake to change...

Yes, if effectiveness was really bad. The part I found confusing for my players was that it didn't have anything obviously sustainable on the Hit line, yet you could do Sustain Minor with it. So any thoughts on the change? I think Summons of Khirad got very different from it.

What are other people's thoughts on the wide-spread removal of "Sustain Minor"? I agree with the article that Curse of the Bloody Fangs (Daily 5) was very confusing, but what was wrong with Curse of the Black Frost (Daily 9) or Summons of Khirad (Daily 9)? Both those had clear and functional...

OK, I see. Personally I wouldn't let that bother me at all, but I understand your reasoning now.

Fair enough. So I increase attack bonus, defences, et al according to the level-up. Hit points and damage expressions I recalculate according to a standard or elite monster of that level. Then add swarm traits. What I don't understand is why you feel that the same-sized swarm should be four...

Thanks, but I know those formulas too. I use them when building a monster from scratch. Maybe I'm being dense, but if I start with the stats for a single Savage Orc Brute Minion, I would expect from the OP that I could apply something like a template to make it into a horde of orcs. Otherwise I...

Sure, I understand all that. But, surely, I wouldn't keep the attack bonus, damage expression, hit points and defences of the 4th level Savage Orc Brute Minion when I compile 128 of them into a 24th level Gargantuan swarm? I was looking for a transformation formula for those things, but couldn't...

Have you gotten any further with this? Unless I'm missing something, there is nothing here that tells me how to stat up those swarms, right? I would love to put my paragon PCs against hordes of orcs. :)

While I agree with your design choice, it seems they are:

Here is also some good reading on skill challenges: At WillSeries: Skill Challenges Good luck!

This is precisely why I find it so tempting to do this. For me it's worth a lot of effort in my DM's workshop, since things will be so much easier at the table. Then I'm in a rather unique position in that I'm not actually playing 4e, but rather my own swedish OGL d20 fantasy game, which has...

You might want to read Justin Alexander's remix of this adventure here.

Sorry for the late reply. I was out of town for a few days and had to do without EN World. :eek: 1. This is very much a work-in-progress (and the progress is slow), but I started with the powers actually selected by my players. I hope to cover everything eventually. 2. Recognising that the...

In my heavily house-ruled version of 4e, I've changed all UENT to "until end of target's next turn". That way you remove all afflictions on you at the end of your turn, either automatically or with a saving throw. It does change the benefit of some powers radically, so I've had to change a few...

Do you have any proof of that? I know for a fact that EULAs are invalid in my jurisdiction. Once you have purchased a product, you are basically free to use it in any way that doesn't violate the law. And EULAs are not part of the law. On the other hand, this is getting very OT, so maybe we...

Complete nonsense. Nothing illegal about modifying a program you have obtained legally. Not to mention that FIFY quotes makes you look like a jerk.

This is true, but how much of a problem is it really? Also, in this case I think both models fail to give the exact real world distance. So you can sometimes go past a lone guardsman standing in an open field without losing the 1 or 2 squares of movement you would in D&D 3.x. I really don't...

I really don't understand how that works. Can you show an example? The shortest distance between your starting point and your goal is a straight line, right? Are you saying that some diagonal is shorter than that straight line?

Let's try a different scenario then: O...... ....... ......T The straight line distance from O (origin) to T (target) is 6.32 squares. 1-2-1-2 rule gives 7 squares. 1-1-1-1 rule gives 6 squares. Obviously the 1-1-1-1 rule is the better simulation here.

Ok, let's break this down (before the debate breaks down). With producer, I didn't mean author. I meant the man with the money financing the production of the author's work. Absolutely. If I build myself a house, it's mine. No, that's something else entirely. If I'm a construction worker and...