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I like the idea of something like this: Undying Vitality When the Strahd zombie takes at least 24 damage in a single attack, one of its limbs is severed. The severed limb is a new creature which is placed in any square adjacent to the Strahd zombie, and it acts on the same initiative. It...

My math differs a bit from the consensus here, but the end result is a bit similar. I modified this from a post on removing item dependency on the wizards boards. Characters add: their full level to attacks and defenses (rather than half their level); half their level (rounded down) to damage...

MT isn't better than IB, it just generalizes it to the other 4 stats. That's a good thing. It allows other, non-strength weapon users to get out of the craptastic MBA ghetto. And why exactly should they have MBA advantage vs. any weapon user, especially the Battlemind, another defender?

Which it can do at will as a minor action.

In our first 4e game, one of the players took an Eladrin Warlord and multiclassed heavily into wizard and had a blast. We didn't have a proper controller, like you, and the encounter aoe attacks helped a lot. 16 primary can still be okay; I would recommend going for accuracy over damage with...

PDF955 works very well as well.

Balance issues aside, I don't see the point in redundant or irrelevant conditions. Since there's no reason to take Skill Focus before Skill Training, there's also no reason to put conditions on the bonus. The +3 if untrained isn't needed. Also, yes, 3 disable trap actions per round does break...

My personal experience suggests that a group of 5 does not need, or even want, a second leader, especially when the first one is a cleric. An abundance of low damage healers just makes fight longer and more grindy. I'd suggest a striker or a high damage defender like a fighter. Either melee or...

I love doing this. Mainly because certain players of mine are far cleverer and nastier than I am, generally. They anticipate far nastier plans from my villains than I could possibly come up with. And who am I to disappoint them. And they get to feel all clever, to boot. Shhh. Don't tell them.

Yeah, I introduced a new background a while back, cribbed from Savage Worlds Shaintar, called Atypical, which allows a non-human to replace one racial stat-boost with any of the other two (three) non-boosted stats.

Once again, it's not railroading if the player is in on it and cooperating. Seriously, have you never hatched a plot, as a gm or a player, where something happens that you both want, without rolling some dice"? Some years ago, one of my players, a very tactically minded, great roleplayer, went...

So I was at Encounters last night when I heard there were some changes to TS. This was from newbies who couldn't site a source AND the change was so ridiculous I just had to ask (since I suspect it would be all over the forum if it was true. TS now has one attack roll; both hit or miss. Now...

I agree; Herschel uses an example power which is thought to be overpowered for it's level already. Of course you can come up with a scenario where using it cross-class is overpowered. My only real concern usually involves swapping powers of the same role and stacking those effects - Barbarian...

Not working for me, either. Nothing for January, on. For weeks now.

Well, it's your game, but... Stating the obvious, the main ramification is that no one will go down for the count until they are out of surges and everyone has about triple hit points starting with the first encounter. You didn't mention it but, how many PCs do you have? I ran six with one...

Actually their wording jives with the way we've done it pretty much all along - multiple attack powers don't trigger marks as long as at least one of the attacks goes against the marker. I know that's not canon but it works better for us. For instance, it encourages solos to spread the love...

I think this is the passage you're looking for, PHB 2, pg 219, talking about effects on failed saves: "The effect doesn’t change if the creature fails a saving throw against it at a time other than the end of its turn." So no, granted saves or the Warden's bonus save doesn't make a condition...

I started with AD&D 1e. My immediate reaction was, what a cool concept, why does it have to be so restrictive? My second system was Call of Cthulhu in '86 but I was looking for another system for fantasy. So early on I latched on to a group that introduced me to Champions and Fantasy Hero...

Which just goes to show that they still aren't concerned enough with consistency or balance even between different builds of the same class. One cleric gets an at-will as a BMA but one doesn't? Personally, I give Melee training (the old pre-nerf one) to all weapon using classes (plus monk) that...

In both cases, it is still your turn. You can still spend an action point, end of turn stuff like saves and, in the latter case, free actions. So no, your turn isn't over yet. You just can take no more actions. Significant difference. Besides, in all other cases the language is quite clear - end...