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Amen- the only thing my Mage has to do each morning is to decide whether to lock down the lead bad guy and put the rest to sleep, or just push everyone into a Area Burst 1/2 and lock them down for the entire fight. (Push 6 on an at-will? Encounter powers with AoE/zone damage and slow/immobilize...

Can't find my d6 LOL awesome! Why can't I roll a d6? (No button on the reply menu) :( But what kind of sadistic DM says I'm gonna die and then makes me roll d6? Is he making me roll to determine damage type? or maybe it's a check for the monster's encounter power to recharge? Or am I...

The Biggest Gaming Meme? Or "I wanna cast MAGIC MISSILE." But you must say it in a nasal voice for it to count. For many gamers of a certain age, there is always a way to work Holy Grail quotes into the current in-game situation, because It's Not a Gaming Session Until Somebody Quotes Monty...

Gaming Terms That's interesting... In 4th Edition play, I've always heard it referred to when you roll maximum damage instead of rolling a natural 20 on your attack roll, giving you the same damage as a critical hit (minus magic item damage dice, of course). In this usage, it's less...

D&D in Baghdad, too It looks like military members have some of the wierdest places, except for the guys that have played in medieval castles and the like. I primarily game in the biggest three USUAL places: DM/player's house, game store, pizza place. But I also kicked off my first 4th...

THAT is awesome. It reminds me of 4th-grade, when all the kids pretended to play D&D and loved to brag about their 100th-level characters with 25 Strength (or all six stats), each of whom had Stormbringer and Mjolnir (from the 1st print Deities & Demigods book) from defeating Elric and Thor is...

-sigh- Well, it was a fun thread while it lasted... ("Dwarf Barbie": Still trying to shake the image of a dwarf with battleaxe, platemail, hot pink lipstick and pumps...)

You win the right to drone on about how cool your character is, and people will have to pretend to listen because you actually won a tournament with your broken min-max awesomeness. :D

Stock Up Now I've always preferred metal Reapers for PCs and important (recurring) NPCs. I can't mentally adjust to little cardboard pogs, so I am stocking up on singles I want. The limited supply of single minis out there is now a fixed pool of minis, so if you DIDN'T buy them by the case...

...except in D&D: My Little Pony, they don't have hit points, they have Heart Points. Powers using the Wonderful power source are called hugs. This is a topic begging for a Dragon article, at least! -AY

WotC's a company- it only stays alive if it makes a profit. What are they supposed to be ashamed of? Actually, I'd love for WotC to make wheelbarrows of money, so they keep making D&D products. And when they make products that are popular with the majority of their customers, they should do...

Hmm... mileage may vary. Most of our party got caught in the shroud of gloom/breath weapon, too. But the defenders cornered the dragon in its first spot, and even though they all got a faceful of tail sweep were able to hit with lots of OAs when it bolted. When the dragon came back up in a new...

Ouch. Long post- so I just scanned the first part. (I did give a Red Box to a cousin for Xmas, though.) Xmas party- drunk uncles, kids running around on sugar highs trailing wrapping paper... and D&D. Umm, maybe? If: You download and print these pre-gens before you start...

"Old?" Not necessarily. I ran a PBP game for 3 years and posted on lots of forums in the 80's, pre-Internet. Back then, they were just called BBS (Bulletin Board Systems) that you had to dial directly with your modem. God, I'm OLD. -AY

Actually, it was an attack roll (You're Gonna Kill Somebody: DEX vs. Fortitude, 5[W] +DEX, requires minimum 1-ton vehicle) using an Acura Sedan +5 (4d20, two-handed property), against a plate glass window (AC/Reflex 5; Fortitude 5; HP 100) with partial cover (giant tree out front): SMACK...

Yeah, lesser planar ally is a 4th-level (?!?) utility daily, and summon warlock's ally is a 9th-level attack daily (minor).

I think we've seen them all before, but now they're classified as Common/Uncommon magic items: armor of cleansing (lvl 3+) (C) delver's armor (lvl 3+) (U) fortification armor (lvl 4+) (C) (new? negates enemy crits on a 16-20) hero's armor (lvl 2+) (U) (new? +2 all defenses UENT when you AP)...

Well, there's the encounter 1st level free action Holy Smite, which is triggered when "you target an enemy with an at-will," dealing 2+CHA radiant damage. If you hit, the target is dazed UENT. All the level 5 daily powers are also Smites, just like other Paladin builds (chilling smite, fiery...

No. Just incredibly bad parking, then bounced off a huge tree and through the window. (I blame the tree; as if blocking the store's marquee wasn't enough. I think it was transplanted from the set of Poltergeist, being as close to Hollywood as we are...) You can see below it took out a the...

Yahoo! Groups Luckily, the only table that got hit was the one with no game at it... Everybody else made their Acrobatics / Athletics checks. -AY