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Another option would be to adapt some of the rituals, such as animal messenger, making arcane versions of them. You could also adapt the flavor of other rituals, such as Alarm, so that it is your "familiar" that is watching over something. That way, the familiar is there for useful non-combat...

Even though they should be well within or on the verge of Paragon tier (7th level is 35% of a max 20th level campaign; 35% of 30 is 10.5) I would seriously consider making them lower than seventh level. First, because as it has been suggested above, this gives them time to get used to the...

I don't know... for some, assuming the default array, it could be a wash. (Your wizard with Arcana +Int is getting Arcana +3, just as they do now.) For others, it might bring about more stat-related hardships, as people are already complaining about the stat requirements on feats. If rogues...

I suggest keeping the implement part of it, and making any mundane or magical bow that the archer uses an arcane implement for which the archer gets a per encounter implement mastery power: you can cast a spell through the arcane bow with the bow's range rather than the spell's range once per...

Easy enough to do that for your own campaigns. I could see someone house ruling that you can target a prepared item for the effect of a ritual, making it so that you can turn the ritual's effects on and off for the effect duration (or suspend the effect for instantaneous) for maybe 10% - 20%...

Interesting. I think that after 30+ years of "someone's got to play the cleric" we're seeing some backlash. Regardless of how well they're built in 4e, "healers" and people wrangled into playing healers have a new option (and notice that's now the most popular choice.) Or it could simply be...

Oops! Wrong thread. Strange about the elves, though. It seems most people were into elves for the arcane element, and scampered off to find the Eladrin.

Funny you should ask. In the world I'd like to run, Dragonborn and Tieflings are the natives. I'll be taking the name Gendrak from a poster here for the Dragonborn, and the Tieflings... I don't know what their name will be, but it will translate in common to "Forsaken." These two races are...

The biggest stretch for me would be race rather than class. I've always played either casters or rogues, human, dwarf, or pure elf. But if I get to play I'm looking at Half-Elf Warlock. I used to roll my eyes when people would choose half-elves in the past, but mechanically and story-wise I...

:bmelee: Push two chainmail bikini-clad warrior women into your Mordenkanen's Portable Mud Pool, compel them to wrestle.

When I decided on that, I was reading the Tide of Iron ability as one continuous and fluid motion, but I can see your argument for it based on the timing as the orcs attack when reduced to 0HP, and they are reduced to 0HP at the moment the attack is made. But I liked the visual of this little...

I haven't gone back to read the last 18 pages yet, but I just tried out the orcs scaled down to level one, against some PCs I had made up based on what info is available: a half-elf Warlock, an Elf Warlord, a Dragonborn Rogue, and a Halfling Fighter. I decided that it would be very boring to...

Isn't Poison a damage type for the Dragonborn's breath? I'm sure there will be powers that cause poison damage. As such, poison damage should be handled in the PHB. Presumably, there will also be poison traps. So, poison will also be handled in the DMG. And then, some monsters will have...

Specifically on the subject of RPGs disappearing completely into MMOs, I'm quoting myself for emphasis, as I vomited a lot of text onto the screen up there: As I hinted at just a few moments earlier, I think anyone making predictions about the future does well to look at how people in the past...

Since power lists are the vast majority of content for classes, I can't see them just saying "replace the Fighter power list with this Gladiator list." That's 80-90% of the way toward making a new class. What else do you need? The skill list, the hit points and healing surges, the defense...

I think that it would be a shorter jump to try to figure out what a 4.5 D&D would look like... or, even if they avoid calling it "4.5", what 4e looks like after a few Player's Handbooks are under its belt. We can also extrapolate some things from the questions and issues people are having now...

I rarely buy modules. Usually, I'll buy a third party module if I decide that I liked the publisher's style in some other book, and the hook sounds interesting / unique / old school enough. I bought a Necromancer module after liking Relics and Rituals, because they were offering that...

DDI tools are one of those things that I would definitely have to try before I would buy (or rather buy monthly.) My concern right now is that Wizards will try to kick in their subscription model before anyone gets to really use the creators, generators, and game table in full for at least a...

Ultimately, the game effect of stats are the bonuses they provide, so I've started to focus on them instead of the stats, especially in d20 games. Generation methods aside, I've found in recent years that I've just been adding up the stat bonuses and if they don't fall into a certain range that...

Al-Qadim: Sha'ir Possibly an arcane leader whose gen (tiny genie familiar) delivers buffing and debuffing effects around the battlefield, and who can occasionally summon help from the Jann or even the Djinn for short periods at higher levels.