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Except that the two aren't really in competition with each other for the same magic item slot. The Belt of Ironskin is balanced against other belts, none of which grant static bonuses to your defenses. The Cloak of Protection is balanced against things that do. There's no reason you can't have...

I'm curious about something. When you talk about "letting go" of this Story Hour, does it really require an investment of energy to click on the Story Hour message board every so often to see which threads have recently had new posts? I mean, if you did decide to "let go" of it, what would you...

I haven't actually used this in a game setting yet, but some time ago my girlfriend and I were tossing around the idea of a world where all of the currency came from living things. You'd have coins or other tokens of ivory, coral, amber, and ebony. We didn't settle on a conversion rate for these...

My guess on why you can't sneak attack with a longbow? They haven't written the feat for it yet. I would be willing to bet that there will be one, though. And if there isn't, well, D&D is the kind of game where you could fix that yourself. Haven

Based on some of the ways I've seen PCs get blown to pieces, especially by enemy casters, I'd say that another benefit of Cure Light Wounds is that you can heal someone that way ALSO, in the same round. That is, if the defender (or whoever) is really screwed up, you use Healing Word as a minor...

Ask this question again on the May 28th, slightly after midnight. Haven

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I really did laugh my hindquarters off reading this one. I love the plot-advancing strips, but good lord, he couldn't have appealed to my sense of humor any more perfectly. =) Haven

This whole thread should be brenched - NOT DELETED, YOU COMMUNISTS! - because it has offended me so deeply. Don't you know monkey cupcake-women are against my religion or other protected class? Haven

el-remmen, I'll point out that that kind of thing can happen just as easily in 3.x if you have a paladin and an adjacent healer. Between the paladin's Lay On Hands and the healer's Cure Critical Wounds and so forth on down (hey, he did say they're 8th level), this kind of thing can happen - it's...

Ah, what the hell... let her keep her beard so she can fit in with the design team's apparent guidelines. *ducks* Haven

Some other webcomic tributes: Something Positive Penny Arcade I expect to see quite a lot more by tomorrow. Haven

I take Action Points to be a whole lot like Drama Dice in 7th Sea, actually. Unless other details of the rules persuade me otherwise, I'll experiment with houseruling them so you can go through several encounters to build up a pool of them, and then unload everything you've earned while fighting...

You still can. You just have to understand what's going on with the game's math clearly enough to scale down the NPCs' attack bonuses, resists, and ACs. The transparency of expected gear levels (in comparison to 3.x, but even more so to editions prior) makes this a lot easier. Describing gear...

Honestly, any DM who is good enough not to need these restrictions and guidelines will know how and when to ignore the restrictions and guidelines. Quest Cards in particular are a useful aid to the inexperienced and an amusing but impractical idea to veterans. In response to your commentary on...

I was a Realms fan for a long time, but I really disliked the direction of the continuing development of the world's flavor over the past few years. This article piques my interest again, particularly with the discussion of Cormyr and Sembia. There was a time when I didn't think I'd say this...

I had good luck in my Forgotten Realms campaigns when I ran a scene on the Fugue Plain for characters who had died. They knew they were coming back, but they got something interesting to look at and think about while they waited for a Raise Dead to be cast. They also got to watch the demonic...

I have really liked what Birthright.net did with updating the setting to 3.x, and I hope that those same stalwarts will take on the task of 4e updating. It's one of my favorite settings too. =) Haven

And unless raging in combat actually stops a fighter from using his normal class abilities, everyone and his brother will spend the feat (or whatever) to take a single barbarian class ability - the rage itself. This is basically the same as many fighters actually being Brb 1/Fighter X in 3e...

I really only foresee one significant challenge, and it's one you'd have to get around anyway. 4e does have some different assumptions about how much pain (i.e., how many opponents) the party can take at a time, and that amount varies in certain odd ways. You'll have to be ready to rejigger...