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You do realize Goading Attack is an 'after the attack hits, I decide it does more damage and goads the target, potentially causing the target to die of embarrassment, regardless of how strong-willed they are', right?

How is this any different from Goading Attack, used by a 5e Archer Battlemaster Fighter shooting an opponent with a bow? Both targets are penalized against attacking other opponents by apparently non-magical means.

Ladder is DC 0 from levels 1-30 according to PHB page 182. Stayed the same in Rules Compendium page 137. DCs are for when you are in a skill challenge and if climbing a ladder is meant to be difficult in a skill challenge, you don't just say "Hey, we're in a level 30 skill challenge, therefore...

Yeah, if anything, 4e is easier to play Theatre of the Mind because explosions that go cube are a lot easier to adjudicate than explosions that go sphere/cone. Just try to avoid powers that do tons of forced movement all the time that are problematic, such as 5e's open hand monk. The only thing...

That's not 4e being formal about rules. That's 4e trying to establish how to set up a long-lasting campaign where everyone has fun. i.e. the DM is not the adversary of the players, but rather the impartial referee. Explain your house rules to the players before springing them on the players in a...

As someone who has played since 1e, 4e is by far the edition that tries to bring that concept into reality. 4e's DMG even gives advice about how to maintain that enjoyment and avoid the usual pitfalls in advance. It literally tells the DM in the DMG that they can alter rules, it gives options...

I would just note in 4e, Wizards do have healing options, in large part due to the Witch's Full Moon Coven "White Mage" sub-build and Necromantic Mages. Herbal Healing, Glorious Presence(s), Lifetaker, but also Soul Harvest, Vampiric Strike

No, so at level 11, you get a +2 feat/item bonus to attack, similar to how Versatile Expertise gives you +2 feat bonus to hit. Your NAD defenses would go up by +2 as well, so no need for Improved Defenses to get that bonus. That then makes Superior Will into +1/1/1 bonus to Will+make save vs...

There were three basic problems with Essentials: Each book looks like a cash grab — cheaply produced paperbacks that reprint half the same content in each player-facing book. Yes they were cheap, but why do I need half of Rules Compendium in 4 separate books? Remember, I'm potentially a new...

I mean, that's simply not treating skills in a manner that everyone does by default in combat. If something is meant to be challenging, but a PC can consistently uncork skills at a value 5 higher than expected(i.e. about 8 levels higher), the DM has to adjust the skill challenges to match or...

You can combine page 42/spend powers in a skill challenge for bonuses. Players can initiate conditions that sound like a skill challenge is the best resolution for a DM willing to go along with it.

This should never happen in 4e. Ever. If it does, it is the adventure writer making a mistake or for some reason, the fiction has changed and the DM missed it. Or as an example, it is part of a skill challenge and in one run of the adventure, it is say a 6th level party and in another, it is an...

Also, I'll just point out that even if Epic is available within the system, doesn't mean people actually play it. Literally, have never played Epic 4e despite thousands of hours of actual playtime. Some of the assumptions of wildly increasing DCs assume you play it, but in actuality, they just...

If you're in a skill challenge, then the DCs have to go up. If you're not, they don't. The DM is deciding that they want something that challenges a party of level X that is not a combat, but a set of skill checks. If something isn't actually a threat, you can handwave it or let the story...

It comes from me. Early on in 5e, I ran the math of a 'typical campaign' and basically, you should expect to get +9 to hit/+6 to important skills instead of +18 to hit/+12 to important skills over the levels of 1-20. It is much fuzzier, it might be the equivalent, and no one gets aware of this...

Thanks, glad people are finding it useful. It was very helpful for really understanding how 5e worked(and in some cases was attempting to work)

Thanks!

Just because this guide doesn't cover a near-Gold theme for Wardens... Order Adept+Heal Skill lets a Warden pick Wizard utilities. Namely Herbal Healing, which allows a PC to use 2nd wind as a minor action+get a saving throw. So hit 5th level, retrain your U2 into Herbal Healing, and minor...

I think one of the problematic aspects of D&D is that there are a set of levels not typically designed to be played, but are in fact merely aspirational. And a significant percentage of players want to see those aspirational levels in existence. And if they're not there, they'll get mad. An...

I think that really, 4e kind of has about 18 levels, because that's where most campaigns tend to finish up or collapse. I mean, I'm MwaO and I've played literally almost all the time 4e has been in existence up until now about 1/week. And I still have never gotten a PC to Epic, even one who...