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Well said, and well deserving of being quoted and repeated. Must use before the end of round doesn't imply that can break other rules to use the action point. Up to now, there's been some "Apples vs. Oranges" discussion here. The whole "Specific vs. General" rule has been invoked, but those...

I think he meant to say "If you don't have any[action points], that's great; if you do, you can save the one you already have for the next fight (or the fight after that, if you hit a milestone)." At least, that's how I read it.

(A) Yes (more below) (B) Depends on the monster. If it is smart enough to know the difference between wizards and fighters, or at least the difference between scalemail and robes, then Yes, otherwise No. As for knowing the consequences of a mark, the answer is easy if you apply simple...

I don't see D&D as a competition between the players and their DM. I see D&D as a cooperative story-telling experience. Everyone contributes. So I like asking my players what they want to see, what they want to do, and what they want to have. And especially how they want their characters to...

Every creature on the planet (real Earth, or any game world) has certain tactics they favor. This is how nature works. Consider how wolves hunt in packs, cats stalk their prey in the night, wolf spiders build trap door ambushes, angler fish have biological appendages to lure their prey, etc...

It's not necessarily the same player who is "screwed" each time. One skill challenge might be a chase, which favors athletic characters in light armor and puts heavily armored characters and characters who devoted their training to non-athletic skills at a disadvantage. Another skill challenge...

That's up to the DM, but I would be inclined to accuse a DM who does this of being a poor DM. Of course, certain mitigating circumstances may apply... In other words, I don't think most good DMs would arbitrarily kill off their players in their sleep. I also don't think that most anyone in a...

At work, no books with me, and I haven't really read much about monsters or their abilities yet, so this is just making assumptions that sound reasonable to me (a dangerous thing for me to do with 4e): Just 5 fire damage on the bite? No teeth yet? And doesn't STR factor into damage, so it...

Well said. I agree with all of this. To carry it further, I would rather have the situation define the skills to be used. And no, that doesn't mean the situation defines a list of 10 skills, very few of which actually make sense. In a diplomatic negotiation, there are only a couple skills tha...

This idea breaks down somewhat when you take published adventures into consideration. Those of us who like to buy modules, like H1, or who like to run adventures from Dungeon magazine (whatever its current incarnation may be), or who even download adventures from various websites. In those...

I am not sure I like this. If we play all skill challenges directly by RAW, we will fail about 80% of the time, more or less (see the other skill challenge threads for the math behind that assumption). Not very heroic. Not at all. Imagine if combat results went like that: OK, guys, the...

This is a great ides. It might be hard to equate a resource penalty for every roll of every skill challenge, though. What if we tweak the skill challenge system so that some failures deplete a resource, but when a resource is depleted, that failure doesn't count against the total failures...

An excellent suggestion. This bears some thought, and is worthy of a thread on its own merit. At first, however, I have to point out that not all skill challenges lend themselves readily to time pressure. And a second consideration is that, in your example, with a 5-person (default size for...

Oh, no no no, comerade. 4e is all about fun and fair. Everyone plays. All are equal. Nobody is allowed to rise above the others. Nobody is elevated. Nobody is left behind. From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

True indeed. However, the constantly moving around thing is what actually increases the cover, rather than reducing the cover. Yes, at any given instant, there might be part of your enemy exposed, just to right or left, or maybe under the arm, or betweent the legs, of your ally. However, that...

Ouch! Metagaming FTW!

There is one big glaring deadly reason why it's a bad idea to institute a penalty for sleeping in armor. First, as others have said, this only penalizes characters who wear heavy armors. The heavier the armor, the worse the penalty. Someone wearing medium or heavy armor has to weight the...

Just wait until they release bards, the CHA-based casters using wizard powers. Those guys will be uber, and they'll all have this feat.

Easy. You talk them into, or trick them into, looking the other way (Hey, what's that over there?), or ducking too soon (when you're really aiming at their knees anyway), or jumping to the left (when you were aiming to the left all along), or disbelieving the illusion (when the spell is real)...

Remove 1/4 of the PHB? And replace it with other stuff? Why even have a PHB at all? Just write your own. Besides, if you replaceall combat powers exept those of races, items, and spells, won't you just be reversing the problem? Won't all characters (especially melee characters) be defined...