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Why not? You have a better example of something that many people can relate to to prove/disprove the 20% model. Used Cars? The cars I have traded in were pretty much driven into the ground but I'm guessing if the lot did resell them I got less than 20% of what they sold for. Pawn Shops...

I don't have the books yet but I am firmly behind the idea of 'less fluff and more critters'. Less fluff makes it easier to port the critter of choice for the session into whatever world I'm playing in. Why should space be wasted on saying the Orcs and Goblins are traditional blood enemies (to...

I know there's a older thread on this somewhere, but I don't have the search feature... There are quite a few real life examples of this. My recent one is with used video games. I recently traded in a bunch of old games for store credit and one of the games netted me $2. It was an older Xbox...

Order Date: November 5, 2007 Items shipping soon: Delivery estimate: June 10, 2008 1 of: Dungeon Master's Guide: A 4th Edition Core Rulebook (D&D Core Rulebook) 1 of: Monster Manual: A 4th Edition Core Rulebook (D&D Core Rulebook) 1 of: Player's Handbook: A 4th Edition Core Rulebook (D&D Core...

It's hand waved to avoid bookkeeping of the hit points. What happens when a minion has... say... 30 hp and the player rolls poor on damage and gets a 29? Then you need to keep track of which member of the mob of minions has 1 hp remaining which defeats the entire purpose of the minion.

Assuming that the werewolf everyone is talking about is the actual final version, I like the sound of one statblock. I like the human being stronger, faster and healthier than your normal human. All sorts of werewolf movies have the newly infected human find new powers/abilities before...

Congrats, WotC! I hope this level of success continues.

<sigh> Snakes... Why'd it have to be snakes? </sigh>

Just want to add this to my last statement. It is a group story. Everyone should have fun - even the DM. Everyone should get some say as to what is going on - even the players. If the DM says the players can not play elves: no elf PCs. If the Players say they want PrCs, they should be able...

And the DM does. Period. And this is coming from a player. Heck, most of what I'm seen on the forums say 4e is to restrictive. "Only 20% resell value? That's stupid." And then there was the 'rings at 11th level' issue (which seems to no longer be there). Since when is a DM saying what...

As far as identification goes, this is how it worked in our group: Player A: [Casts detect magic.] Player B: How many magic items? Player A: Seven. Player B: [Removes 700 gp from treasure haul.] DM: Okay, this is what you have... Leaving item unidentified just made more work for our DM. He...

While I can't be sure about "equal time" the previews have stated out right - multiple times I believe - that low magic should be easy this time around. We have also had this confirmed by a WotC employee (I don't have search capability so I can't track it down): build in the expected pluses to...

I liked what I saw here. There is no way I would want to have a three tier setup for the rules. Then you need to have all three tiers listed for (practically) everything in the game. HP: Always Max, Average, Roll It Magic: High, Medium, Low Item Use: All At Will, Average, All 1/day Item Id...

Sure, the king MAY be interested in purchasing the +5 Sword of UberKewlness but there is no way strangers would be allowed to see the king with a weapon (which is kind of required in this situation). In a world with high magic (as evidenced by the fact the +5 Sword of UberKewlness exists) it is...

So let the PCs find that Barbarian who can afford to pay full price. That's an adventure in and of itself. If I had found the person who would have been willing to pay $10 for that used game that I got $2 for I would have done so. I have no idea where I could have found said individual (he...

Very quickly. But then the merchants will very quickly band together and stay away from the PC Bandits and hire a bunch more mercenaries to act as body guards (using the merchant's best gear) so everything will quickly balance out anyway.

First two that come to mind: Trading in Used Collage Textbooks Trading in Used Video Games Even a couple of days later, if you don't have the receipt the price drops by an amazing amount (and let's face it, adventurers won't have the receipt). I just traded in a bunch of video games a few...

Just to add my 2cp... I like the minion rules. I don't think I want to go into a fight against nothing but 50 minions, but I do like the idea and how it would work when the big bad sends his final wave of grunts against the PCs in hopes of getting a couple of spells off before entering the...

Okay. Since I haven't been to a demo yet or anything similar... And just to be sure I have all of the (currently available) relevant information... How does the math on that example break down to get those damage amounts?

So, to make sure I am up-to-date on the conversation, the two (presumably) strong heavily armored guys take a turn to block the advance of a critter and uses a per-encounter ability in the process (I think I read somewhere above that the paladin ability was per-encounter - I could be wrong on...