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1.) How many players in your group? 6 + the DM 2.) Do you DM? Yup 3.) Do other people in the group DM, and how many? Of the seven, 5 have DMed 4.) What's the Male/Female composition of the group? 6 males / 1 female 5.) Got a good gamestore near you and what is it? Acme Comics is near me...

Forked from: "Can't finish its action..." As I was debating this thread, I realized I needed an answer to a more fundamental question before I could continue. Is the Target(s) of an attack decided before the attack is resolved, or decided based on the actual resolution (effect/hit) of the...

Correct. The choice of the point of origin defines the selected targets. The choice in the example included the paladin. That choice satisfied the mark requirements. Edit I do see what you are getting at with your last sentence. If the burst had a random AoE which may or may not have included...

But now your separating the power (making a [burst] attack) from the action. I don't like that. The action being interrupted is making the attack. The only thing Interrupt does is prevent the action from being resolved.

Incorrect. In the same way you choose a target of a melee attack before making the attack, you choose the target(s) of a burst attack before making the attack. By your example, the choice of targets for the action included the paladin and satisfies the conditions of the divine mark.

Nope. The paladin was a target edit: of the action. That the power was unable to be resolved [because of the interrupt] doesn't change that.

Reliable: If you miss when using a reliable power, you don’t expend the use of that power. It's regrettable that it wasn't phrased "Reliable: You only expend the use of that power when your attack is successful". Then it wouldn't have to be a judgement call. As it is, a real RBDM could rule...

I think divorcing the use of the power from the action it requires would overly complicate things (not that 4E has to be simple). Using a power is the action. In the grand tradition of the rules forum, that is of course up for debate. And furthering the tradition, there is some less than clear...

"Interrupt: An immediate interrupt lets you jump in when a certain trigger condition arises, acting before the trigger resolves. If an interrupt invalidates a triggering action, that action is lost. For example, an enemy makes a melee attack against you, but you use a power that lets you shift...

Why is accepting the gospel truth of the 4E developers any different/worse than accepting the gospel truth of the previous editions' developers? Using your example, why was everyone OK accepting that one character got to have several more attacks per round than other characters. The math...

The core framework ensures that your character will fill a useful and meaningful role in combat without trying to hard. This is valuable when you are trying to generate a positive first impression on new players. New players (and new DMs) are the target audience when the rules discuss roles and...

That mob of beggar kids that surrounds and distracts you in big cities while one of them runs off with your coin purse ... Thiefling Swarm. I don't think you missed anything. Don't know that it is an elaborate trick or and devious plot ... just a and it is story choice I don't find particularly...

I started a WotBS campaign at the end of April. This Thursday, we'll be starting the second adventure. I have a feeling we'll be playing 3.5 till the end of '09 unless I get burnt out before then.

You looking for Amber? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Diceless_Roleplaying_Game

It's not really complex. The only real change is that instead of PCs triggering a failure, it is the Skill Challenge that can trigger a failure (by "attacking" the PCs). Otherwise, it's by-the-book get X successes before Y failures.

I like the idea of having the Skill Challenge "attack" the PCs as it were. The only issue I see is that the current structure makes free flow narration a little more difficult, especially in diplomatic scenarios. I wouldn't have "phases" per say. I would simply allow the Skill Challenge to...

This is a rough mock-up, but I think it gets the general feel of the trap w/o too much complexity. The trap in the movie was really a two stage trap. First stage was a simple false floor trap. The trap doesn't trigger when you first step on the trap. Instead it triggers when a person steps on a...

Has there been any other confirmation of the last comment from that post? : "WOTC has let us retailers know that the launch of 4E is aimed at veteran gamers. New players will be targeted in a separate marketing campaign in the fall, likely coinciding with the new starter game in November."...

I'm actually looking forward to the Fighter. Pure Fighter too ... no multiclassing this time around. The 3E fighter was used more as a utility class to round out a character concept (at least in our group). This time, the fighter looks to be interesting on its own. Whenever my fighter gets...

Well damn, after mistaking the 3.5 Epic article for the 4E one, the actual 4E article was kind of a let down. If the actual implementation is something along the line of the 3.5 article, I'll be happy with the Epic tier. I'd actually be willing to play in it for once. But the actual content of...