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For those of you interested in the homebrewed elementals for the bar fight scene, I should explain a bit of my campaign setting first. Everything is happening in and around a sprawling metropolis. It's a very magepunk-ish setting, where they have almost everything we do, but invented with magic...

Hmm... alchemist's frost might not be a bad idea. I was thinking of dropping a magic item, yeah, so that had already been considered. I might even drop 2, but the second might be a reward of the 3rd encounter.

Hmm, this might actually work better. This way, they can retrain in whatever order they wish, if changing their stats is more important that the feats it would deactivate. Good idea, thanks!

I'll also add these points to consider: During the first fight, there will actually be 4 of each minion, though I intended the other guards to take down 4 of them. During the second fight, the wolves will take down those guards, making the lead merchant very grateful for the resulting...

The backpack-hiding is probably the hardest to believe. If you're asking from a strict rules perspective, then the answer is no. Remember that you're about 4 feet tall and about 80 lbs plus gear. That would seriously unbalance plenty Medium-sized creatures. Maybe if they're slowed? I'd ask your...

Hmm... I see your points. I may scale down the last encounter and add a skill challenge at some point. In case it makes any difference for tactical weight, I've been playing since about 4e came out and the Ranger has been the DM for those games. The Paladin was part of our original party, but...

As the title says, it's my first time DMing 4e. I'm a frequent player, and I GM'd Shadowrun for a while, so I'm okay with plot and such. I just want to check that the encounters I designed for our first game won't be too difficult. There are 4 players: 1 Ranger, 1 Rogue, 1 Paladin, and 1 Cleric...

I took part in a similar discussion a while back on these forums. Here was my solution: Instead of taking any other retraining options, you may instead retrain your ability scores. Keep track of your initial scores, before racial mods. You may shift up to 4 points worth of point-buy points per...

I've designed a campaign where each race has a little niche that they tend to fit into. In the case of Half-Elves, they've long found a home ordering the religious life of the region. So if I want religious or cultic intrigue and a resulting battle, I need stat blocks for Half-Elf NPCs, right...

I've been thinking up a class based on the "Wanderer" in SotC ever since I came up with my Cling mechanic. Here's a link to that: http://www.enworld.org/forum/4e-fan-creations-house-rules/243568-new-combat-action-cling.html A quick aside: I tried to include both grabbing and clinging so the...

Well fair enough, but they're still powers for the definition concerning the application of proficiency bonuses, and your apparent lack of interest in them doesn't change the RAW. They follow all the same rules as any other power with the "Weapon" keyword. Edit: Ninja'd!

If this will be your own GSL product, can you make ranged weapons produce their own ammunition? I know we're shying away from Adventurer's Vault, but something similar to an Endless Quiver as a 1st-level magical item could be very useful.

Perhaps "Marksman's Mark," rather than "marking" in the sense of the condition by the same name, should be something more along the lines of allowing the Marksman to fire as an immediate rection if the target doesn't move by the end of its turn?

Encounter powers recharge after a "short rest." Daily powers recharge after an "extended rest" (rests are explained on PHB page 263). Utility powers each have different recharge rates, and each utility power will indicate if it is At-Will, Encounter, or Daily.

Another option to consider is asking one of them to take the DM seat for at least one game, or at least consider it as an intellectual exercise. Monsters' abilities are more readily accessible and readable than players', plus they have the brief "tactics" sections that can clear things up.

I'm not sure how increasing MBA damage makes one defenderish. 2-blade rangers, for example, have excellent MBAs. If we gave Rogues an ability that allowed them to mark targets (and there's already the Rakish Swashbuckler PP in MP, for example, that allows that), then that makes them defenderish...

I think a swashbuckler fits more as a paragon path for Rogues or as a separate class in itself. As for picking up a dagger for non-martial classes, I suppose that can be investigated, but I'm not sure why. The point of a Rogue using Dex is that he is a front-line fighter who will get MBAs...

I'd say "other." But if they really want to sacrifice a +5 for a +3, part of me wants to go ahead and give it to them. It seems like shooting themselves in the foot, though. Perhaps limiting this overlap to "multiclassing" redundancies would do the trick.

An archer ranger I could see (or for them, perhaps something that allowed ranged basic attacks in place of melee basics), but a dex based fighter? I'm not sure that fits overall without reconstructing fighters' powers as a whole.

In a similar fashion, it is possible to prove that 1=2, except for the fact that at some point in the hidden logic of the formulae that get you there, you must divide by zero. In fact, there's a lot of weird stuff you can do if division by zero were possible. I get the feeling this is a similar...