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  1. Oldtimer

    Hit Points--A study of humanoids.

    Then you really should be playing another game, because hit points have never been just physical damage in D&D. Not ever. This debate has been going on since 1974, and will probably go on forever. Some people insist on looking at hit points as purely physical damage, and then complains that...
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    Quick dice probability question

    Your average will increase with just a bit more than +3 (goes up from 10.5 to 13.825).
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    Lone Wolf sends Cease & Desist letters to anyone using the term 'Army Builder'

    Have you really understood the problem here? Going after other companies using your trademark is one thing. Going after forum owners because posters are using a common and desciptive term is just bullying. Pure and simple. And it's not about property. It's about intellectual property. Despite...
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    Lone Wolf sends Cease & Desist letters to anyone using the term 'Army Builder'

    And just why should a forum owner comply with such unreasonable and insane demands?
  5. Oldtimer

    Clarification on Superior Cover

    I can't say I see them as corners or terrain either.
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    Clarification on Superior Cover

    Really? To me there seems to be two ways of reading the sentence "Cover and Creatures: When you make a ranged attack against an enemy and other enemies are in the way, your target has cover." (my emphasis) Either the bolded word means normal cover (as opposed to superior cover) or it means...
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    Clarification on Superior Cover

    Please enlighten us. You think it's clear that allies can provide superior cover or that they can't? People have stated that they can't, but I fail to see where this is made clear in the rules. P.S. Would that be a "save ends" effect? Can I roll my save now? :p
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    Lone Wolf sends Cease & Desist letters to anyone using the term 'Army Builder'

    Madness...? THIS IS INTERNET! Sorry, I just had to...
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    Clarification on Superior Cover

    Well, the text "trace imaginary lines from that corner to every corner of any one square the target occupies" would suggest that the attacker in the picture can choose the troll's lower right square and there seems to only be one blocked line when tracing to the corners of that square. The troll...
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    Lone Wolf sends Cease & Desist letters to anyone using the term 'Army Builder'

    Only a matter of time. They're getting there eventually. Oh, and... ARMY BUILDER
  11. Oldtimer

    Clarification on Superior Cover

    I must say I love the discussion, but I've seen this thing referenced twice now and need to ask. I what way does page 280 (PHB) show that creatures aren't supposed to give superior cover?
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    D&D 4E Completely Unofficial 4e Dataset Xml Schema and Discussion (Updated 7/02)

    Mia? So, I suppose the efforts of jimmifett is for nothing, since the site hosting his files seems to have died? Anyone else who has given some thought to XML schemas for 4E data?
  13. Oldtimer

    D&D 4E Disarm in 4E

    Halfling rogue, Dex 20, trained in Acrobatics, Skill Focus: Acrobatics = +15. What am I missing?
  14. Oldtimer

    Fey Death and Misty Step

    That explains the confusion. I never use CB myself, so I don't see the mistakes they put into it.
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    Fey Death and Misty Step

    No, Fey Death is not an immediate reaction. If it was, you could seldom use it, as you normally kill stuff during your own turn. The Fey Step racial power was "tossed in" by Robert J. Schwalb who wrote the article in Dragon 373. The feat actually allows you to perform your racial power as a...
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    D&D 4E Adventure for 4e - level 2 - 3

    It's called Treasure of Talon Pass and is available here
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    Exclusive interview WotC President Greg Leeds

    That device has nothing to do with montoring the entire Internet. It just watches a LAN (or, to be precise, an Ethernet hub/switch) for .torrent files being transferred. From my quick scan of it, it doesn't seem to react to the actual P2P transfer, just the .torrent file. So if I sent you the...
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    Why DON'T you pirate?

    Jeff, I will back out of this discussion now. You are just being hostile and insulting and we are not getting anywhere. I'm sorry if you felt singled out - I just quoted our post as an example - no need to start a war over that. In twenty or thirty years, when IP laws are just a distant and...
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    Why DON'T you pirate?

    That is only talking about property. I can give so make examples where his definition would break down for intangibles. I'm a scientist and when the model starts to break down, I don't blame reality. I modify the model or create another one for this special case. I admit my lack of detailed...
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    Why DON'T you pirate?

    Can some of you please lay off the flame bait! NO, IT'S NOT! Of all the arguments against piracy and for copyrights, this must be the most stupid one. Simply look it up in the law books. This is a flat out lie. No, it's not property - it's a strange thing defined as "Intellectual Property"...
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