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I can't recall ever playing D&D without some form of visual aid. Before we had minis it was just scribbles on graph paper, but positioning has always mattered (for things like AoE and backstabbing, for example). In other systems, sure, we've done it completely TotM, but never D&D.

Where in the playtest does it say you're not allowed to use minis? :confused: I use them just fine... And honestly, with a group that big chaos is likely to ensue if you go TotM. :p

So what's the difference? Only +5 to Bluff instead of +20? I can see how +20 might be construed as overpowered. ;) Oh, and it doesn't specifically mention copying a unique individual, does it? A little oversight there, since that's one of the more obvious uses for the power.

Heh, my players are pretty well minimaxed and I need lvl+3 encounters if I want them to even break a sweat. ;) Anyway, I expect one of them to pick up Nightbringer next session, and by the time they get to E2 his concordance should be maxed out. (N.B. that +1d10 per level is quite fast progress...

I'm wondering something about E2. SPOILERS FOR THE ADVENTURES AHEAD! Ahem... anyway, in P2 they introduced a powerful artifact that the PCs are assumed to grab, and they state that it will have an important role to play in the rest of the campaign. In P3 and E1 there is not a single mention...

That seems like a rather big and clumsy mistake... :-S At first I thought it might be something like "doppleganger is what we call a changeling who doesn't play nice", but then there would be feats only monsters can choose, so that doesn't make any sense either.

So the PHB2 system then, rather than emulating the (somewhat overpowered) FR and SoW options.

Dazed is a good condition to tweak the economy of actions a bit. Stunned is of course much worse and should be used sparingly. I should perhaps note that in my experience DMing the published adventure series (up to P2 now) and playing in Scales of War (only in the second adventure so far)...

And if you meet a medusa in a situation where you for some reason can't go back to town for a ritual to de-stone the victims (I'm looking hard at a certain published adventure here), some creative DM fudging will be necessary... ;)

Dailies should be conserved until the right moment. When that is, is a matter of tactical judgement. When facing an unfamiliar enemy it can be a good idea to use some at-wills first to get a feel for the opposition. But generally speaking, getting your encounter powers into play ASAP will...

Just a quick note: that's not what the acronym stands for. Because that wouldn't make any sense - a defense against something that's not an attack? :-S It's Non-Armor Defenses, or Non-AC Defenses. ;)

I'm curious about your definition of "killed" here. If it means dead according to the rules, it won't work very often, since not many level-appropriate opponents will go from positive HP to negative bloodied value just from that attack. I guess if she has living minions of her own that get...

Yep, got that one too. Thought it was one of my Firefox addons messing with the process, but I tried turning them all off and it didn't help. Oh well, multiple clicks it is, for the duration it seems...

Solution: just errata away the prerequisites, then the elemental damage feats will survive. Because there's *bleep* all else for casters to take in the way of feats... :p

That one worked because a) he has a Flyby Attack b) the terrain is set up to favor precisely that tactic (i.e. he can circle around corridors and be out of the party's LoS between his attacks) And before you ask: the one in Trollhaunt Warrens was reasonably exciting purely because of the...

The best solo fight I've run is the specially designed one in Pyramid of Shadows. You know, the one with the multiple actions and the hazard backing it up. That one had my party on the ropes until they (by sheer luck) discovered the monster wasn't immune to the hazard... ;) OTOH, possibly the...

Implement Focus is the sort of thing that would have to be introduced in a PH, since it's not particular to any one power source. So, maybe in PH3, a year from now? Of course, it would trample all over the elemental damage feats, which would need errata of some sort to not become completely...

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Implement vs. Fort attacks are not much better... My Warlock player had a very rough time in the Heroic tier trying to connect with Diabolic Grasp and Howl of Doom. Some of that was down to suboptimal tactics, of course, but not all of it. The Wizard, constantly targeting Ref, did a whole lot...

It just amuses me that apparently you have infinite time to back and forth on elves vs. razorclaw as archers, yet you have no time at all for the examples that actually fit your original criteria for being optimal... :hmm: