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    D&D 4E Mike Mearls on how 4E could have looked

    Think giving out Advantage rather than just having it be an option for a power to grant creates less opportunities for interesting options. A close burst 1 power in 4e or an option that grants Advantage
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    D&D 4E Mike Mearls on how D&D 4E could have looked

    Think giving out Advantage rather than just having it be an option for a power to grant creates less opportunities for interesting options. A close burst 1 power in 4e or an option that grants Advantage
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    D&D 4E Mike Mearls on how 4E could have looked

    Disadvantage can be an elegant way to give Martials 'Encounter Powers'. They get a power that works normally the first time it is used in an encounter and then after that, they get Disadvantage on using the maneuver.
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    D&D 4E Mike Mearls on how D&D 4E could have looked

    Disadvantage can be an elegant way to give Martials 'Encounter Powers'. They get a power that works normally the first time it is used in an encounter and then after that, they get Disadvantage on using the maneuver.
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    D&D 4E Get WotC 4e's Online Character Builder to work or get a sub

    Going to reiterate Seamonkey. More stable than Firefox build 52, particularly when searching for choices, you can type at speed and it will get everything, where Firefox has some issues.
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    Creature effect omniscience and self-harm

    That's probably true. But part of the fun of such a power is forcing the target to make choices. Say as an example, you're a Battlemind|Rogue hybrid with Lightning Rush and that attack oneself power. If the monster tries to avoid attacking you, you force it to attack you and then it attacks...
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    Creature effect omniscience and self-harm

    Right. So the monster knows the consequences of its actions and therefore likely won't do it, but rather will do another action entirely. But if it doesn't for some reason, you have a variety of specific options different from the first power.
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    May Rules Update

    There are some legitimate target problems there...
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    D&D 4E Get WotC 4e's Online Character Builder to work or get a sub

    https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ Good browser for loading up specifically ddi and works with current Mac OS 10.13.6
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    Dragon 390: Eladrin article

    Yeah, Dragon 374 had a range of different tier'd familiars. Disembodied Hand = Heroic, Rakshasa Claw = Paragon, Chaos Shard = Epic and so on...
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    Dragon 390: Eladrin article

    Not sure, but think its ability to establish radiant vulnerability got it removed. Probably ironically because the ability was supposed to be a Paragon tier familiar, but simultaneously, they decided to stop giving familiars tiers...
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    D&D 4E 4e ask a simple question, get a simple answer

    Think you have the wrong thread — this is just for 4e D&D related questions, not Pathfinder...
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    D&D 4E 4e ask a simple question, get a simple answer

    Yes, if you have a pre-racial stat bonus of 18 and get a +2 to that stat, you start with a 20. And then you can raise it to 21 at 4th, 22 at 8th, and so on...
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    D&D 4E Get WotC 4e's Online Character Builder to work or get a sub

    Guys, not a topic for this thread. Please delete.
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    D&D 4E 4e need ideas for in-game luck mechanics

    I might structure it as an artifact? Luck's happy with you and good things happen. Luck's angry and bad things do. Abusing it too much makes it angry.
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    What item daily rules do people use?

    Gold is exponential. Assuming items you find are roughly level+2 to +3, an item you don't want in original rules set is a perfect item of level -2 to -3. Find a 9th level item you don't like as a 7th level PC? That's a perfect level 4 item you can pick out. That's really powerful and you're...
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    What item daily rules do people use?

    To not simply allow players to get exactly the items they wanted as the default rules set.
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    What item daily rules do people use?

    That's not really 4e's paradigm in the first place. The paradigm is that DMs and players should all be having fun — and a *possible* way to accomplish that is by having players list items that they find interesting and exciting and then have the DM place some of them for the PCs to find. And you...
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    What item daily rules do people use?

    I think that's actually a really good solution to the problem. You just need to be aware of the issues if you choose not to use rarity when PCs want to buy items.
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    What item daily rules do people use?

    Those rules got thrown out in 4e. Now there's a combo of rarity+use as many magic item daily powers as you want. Rarity means that you can generally only buy/create Common items, which tend to not have game breaking outcomes with their daily magic item powers. So how many daily magic item uses...
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