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Actually you don't need Iron Armbands as you can simply make or buy Bracers of Mighty Striking, which are a common item that does the exact same thing for you. Only cheaper and you don't need to rely on your DM giving you it, as Iron Armbands are a uncommon item. This also means you can leave...

It's not just you, but I personally felt that was a response to the ridiculous "armies" of stuff that you could build in previous editions. I'll never forget the only time I actually was playing DnD in an actual real ongoing campaign (not just one shot playtests or similar) back in 2nd edition...

Not really. It brings them above OAssassin levels, but not much else as they only can do this limited times (encounter powers and some dailies allow it). Slayers have nowhere near the problems that vampires do and pull ridiculous DPR with trivial amounts of optimization. For one thing, Slayers...

Back when I was actually excited for these, I was REALLY hoping for a theme that boosted the immensely lackluster beastmaster ranger and may have had power swap options for combined attack for the sentinel druid (as combined attack loses its luster at higher levels). I was hoping the theme would...

I think if the animal companion had a passive and active mode like a familiar it would work very well. Then you are deliberately exposing it to danger by choice, not just watching with despair as you miss a bloodfire harpy arriving and the aura 20 auto whacks it for the entire adventure. Given...

Of course they do, I had completely forgot that. Could always carry a hand crossbow or something to make the odd ranged attack. Sure you'll be useless with it, but at least it is doing something. Alternatively: Start getting used to the joy of readied actions!

What stops you taking a ranged at-will like sacred flame? Albeit at ranged 10 they could stay out of your range, but that would be fairly difficult.

Actually this isn't right, trap feats can have flavor but be immensely mechanically inferior to lots of other things (see most of the new feat cruft occupying up the CB from HoS for multiple examples. The flavor is there, the mechanics are simply not). The animal master isn't a trap yet because...

If I allowed monsters to take OAs against dominated PCs, I would have so many dead PCs by now it wouldn't be funny. Actually I have never allowed anyone (PCs or monsters) to take OAs against dominated creatures. I'm not sure if I misinterpreted how dominated worked originally (back in 2008!) or...

Looks good and I am definitely in the mood for some DnD themed risk.

Mithreinmaethor, I've already been playing the vampire to test various things and seen it in play now. I wonder what tier you've seen these at? Because by paragon tier a 2 surge vampire isn't getting very far. Even in my own games, without durable vampires haven't done very well whatsoever at...

Oh man, I saw the last one there and just cracked up. Sheer genius.

I would buy this logic if the next MV book had epic monsters - but it doesn't. Also returning to a previous point, I think you need to look up the number of creatures in each book that has been released. Epic monsters have never ever had equal support to heroic and paragon. MM3 has 303ish...

Rule of Three is often a mixed bag, but I appreciate its existence none the less! Especially when it has some very interesting insights/answers (like last week). This week made me especially happy for a change. #1 Personally I wouldn't mind a psionic based classed that used PP augmented stances...

With durable and multiple uses of blood drinker, it shouldn't be very often that the vampire should need to do that (because they can have extra surges to spare and remember that they lose extra surges anyway). Vampires are really only worried about surge draining skill challenges (wilderness...

Oh of course. Halflings were described as being kinda like human children in earlier editions IIRC. So yeah, that's a distinct possibility. Doesn't make it any less creepy, which on thinking about it actually makes it a very successful piece of art.

:eek: Um, that's not really that normal. A solid solo fight should be 3-5 rounds. I am quite curious now though, could you describe some of these battles and what the creature was (and what the party composition was)?

Well, that does explain why you think the vampire is a viable striker and you must really not care about mechanics! Because the BMR pet is best as basically a flanking buddy for a bow ranger. No, you should read my point again. My point is that it should support all three tiers. Other books did...

What? We got no DMG3 on epic tier, we finally got fixed maths after 2 years that adjusted epic tier from a brutal to design EL+5 or worse average encounter level grind fest, into something that resembled the rest of the system and was fun to actually play/design. Dark Sun Campaign Setting added...

A working monster builder and actual support for epic in the form of more monsters seems hardly unreasonable - especially as they were succeeding at both just last year (before breaking the monster builder and well, forgetting epic tier existed when publishing MV and subsequent products). I...