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I don't think you hire someone like Monte Cook if you're not looking to do something pretty 'game-changing' to the rules system - why bother hiring someone like him otherwise? I don't really know what he was fully responsible for in terms of 3e - I don't know what constraints were placed on...

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They only thing that's kept me from starting up a game on their beta is the lack of dungeon tiles they have implemented. They only have some 'dungeon' dungeon tiles available so any non-'dungeony' environs look like absolute crap... the way I draw they do anyway. The only way to have wilderness...

My favorite is my tiefling infernal warlock. Just leveled to 16. He's been a blast to play... hellish rebuking his way to infamy and fortune.

As long as Elder Scrolls: Skyrim is on schedule I'm all good.

I've played a few sessions using a sun warpriest, and a couple using the sentinel Druid with summons as his dailies. I've been having a blast. I've played a Mage (enchanter) and two kinds of hexblades (infernal and gloom) for one session apiece. Haven't been able to get into them too far but...

In terms of 4e only podcasts, I think that's what I listen to as well: Roving Band of Misfits, the Tome Show, Critical Hits. I spend a lot of time on the train and like to listen to all three. Icosahedrophilia - this is an actual play podcast. However, beyond that, Chris Heard the DM has a good...

My point... I think the summoned creature lasts until it reaches 0 hit points. Otherwise it lasts until you dismiss it as a minor action or until you cast the spell again. :) I don't believe we're at odds here. I was saying that it's already stated that it lasts past an encounter - in the book...

Yeah I probably wasn't clear - I was typing the message on my iphone on the train. Using my iphone to type is a bit like herding cats even under the best of circumstances. Add me bouncing around in an Amtrak car and it's a recipe for disaster. :o What I what hoping to convey is that I'm not...

I'm not, nor have I been or will ever be, interested in that debate. It is not, literally, a computer program - it's an attempt to unify language as much as possible to speed play and allow DMs to adjudicate fairly. My argument is simply that the author has specifically written in the book the...

Silliness. This isn't a computer program. The text is clear for anyone who cares to read the entry on the power. Draco is disregarding what is stated explicitly in the text to take a stand on how he feels the powerbox should be worded. There's going to be no acknowledgment on his part...

Keterys quoted it above -- Heroes of Shadow, page 101, second column, bottom paragraph. It's not an advertisement. It's in the printed book, stated explicitly. You're being stubborn.

Now you're just being stubborn. He quoted from the book which specifies, in print, the intent of the spell duration, even if the wording in the power block, while different than any other wording of any other summoning in the book and pretty obviously an exception to the normal summoning...

So you're saying all conjurations follow the same wording. And in fact the zone spells you mention only state an additional caveat by which the zone will be dispelled? The necromancer/nethermancer ally summons does not follow the same wording as the other summoning spells in the book(s), and...

I'm with Keterys and Kannon - its clear to me. 4e is exception based. The fact that they worded in the power specifically how long it lasts - that is until the summons reaches 0 hit points, if you use a minor action to dismiss it, or until you use the power again - pretty clearly tells you how...

Meh. I have seen players challenged/mocked in LFR for NOT choosing flaming sphere or stinking cloud. Including myself. I agree with wizards design philosophy... if it's a no brainer for its level, it's probably overpowered. Just because people aren't gnashing teeth and screaming at the top of...

I'm a big fan of 4e, but I think in addition to it being the railroad nature of Encounters, I also feel as though WotC has set up a system where they funnel you to their premade adventure materials. Which I would argue are the weakest of their offerings. A lot of 1st-3rd edition was encouraging...

Yep. Any monsters and I'd be into it. I have a ton of the standard races - elves, dwarves, halflings, a few gnomes, etc. It's the weirder stuff that I'd like to get ahold of. Except beholders... Wizards made sure I'll never have too few of them. ;) I know that prepainted plastics don't carry...

I don't play Pathfinder. I bought the minis. I like minis. I'm willing to pay a few bucks a pop for them. There aren't a lot of other options out there for new pre-painted plastic minis and I hope they make more. I'll certainly buy them, and I'll be a little bit giddy, frankly, if they branch...

I'm totally on board with this line of thought. I think the issue, if there is one, isn't that this build makes use of simple weapons almost exclusively, it's that there are weapon types that aren't supported in the simple category. A dwarf cleric should be able to pick up a simple hammer of...