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I really like how X-Wing Miniatures Game handles this: everybody moves in initiative order, worst-to-best, so the best-initiative pilots have the best view of where everyone is going and can make their decisions accordingly. Once everyone moves, attacks go in the opposite order, from best pilot...

My brain hurts and I feel sorry for you. Both parts of the sentence are true and a lack of a comma does not nullify the statement before it. What a confusing language that would be. Next time, ask them if they want to come over and play D&D. Then when they show up, ask them how they knew where...

The feat says "Whenever you make an attack roll, an ability check, or a saving throw, you can spend one luck point to roll an additional d20." How are people reading that as being able to roll an extra die any time you want and then deciding after the roll whether to use a luck point? It says...

If there are more than 6 combatants in a fight (which is likely, given a 4-5 pc party), then we are talking about split-second accuracy on your coordination, which I've always found ludicrous. You rolled an 18 and want to do something after the guy who rolled a five? great. 18 next round is...

There's an entire Rogue archetype built around using surprise as effectively as possible. Take Assassin at third level and you have no downside to being fast.

That seems good, too; it's like Divine Channeling, but for Elves. The key is to maintain the worldbuilding while allowing the player to do what he likes.

An option could be to let High Elves choose to either take a once-per-short-rest Misty Step or to take their cantrip. Maybe in the past, the Elfaivaran culture taught everyone how to teleport, but now it is a secret kept by the Vekeshi. Many modern high elves channel their innate magic in other...

Aha! Got me with that, too. Good to know. :) I just checked (because I honestly couldn't remember where we knew it from, either). It's on the first page of the race description in the PH2 Wella "the never selected" will have to suffice, then. :)

Yeah. Some players have ignored that, but Cazara's player was onto it immediately. He's the only Deva NPC in a game full of prophecies about a man who died a thousand times and being stalked by a rakshasa. Not a tough mystery. Could it be the one character we've introduced who fits the category...

I did not know that Russian family names could take on gender. I literally had a minute to come up with a Russian-sounding name and Oksana Baiul and Viktor Kozlov jumped into my head at the same time. hurm.. she's a native Risuri dwarf, but her family is from Drakr. Maybe the immigration papers...

The Enemy of My Enemy is My... Family? While the rest of her constables were staking out the lawyer Quentin Augst, or getting into mimic-related shenanigans at the docks, Assistant Chief Inspector Stoatra “IronPeak” Kalagnas was meeting with “legitimate businessman” Morgan Cippiano at a fashion...

I agree with everything he said.

I hope so, since at 1" per square, that map is over eight feet across. And since no game I know uses 10' scale, it's more like 16 feet... Guess it's time to build Torfeld Palace in my back yard.

My party also let the handmaiden escape, and they've been convinced that she was Gale ever since. Stana's is my favorite backstory. #TeamStana

"Kobolds revere dragons" are the first three words of the 4e Monster Manual entry on Kobolds. The 4e DMG sample adventure featured a band of kobolds protecting their dragon. Dragon Magazine 332, from 2005, talks in depth about kobolds and their dragon heritage.

don't get the hit points. Every official monster I've seen has a standard hit point formula of Xd[size]+X[CON bonus]. That's right, monster hit points are adjusted by their CON bonus. A 14 CON monster with 10 hit dice will have a +20 bonus. And the hit dice will correspond to the creature's...

You are seriously derailing the "4e is an MMO" storyline.

I'm running in 4e, and I feel like the requisition system is just there to keep the DM from having to manage wishlists and seed the adventures with wishlisted items. It's much easier to just give the players a budget and set them loose in Character Builder. That works great for 4e, where magic...

The First Blade of Srasama has managed exactly one crit since Summer picked it up in the Crypta Hereticarum. That crit came against the one male character in the party. The sword, which had already been dubbed the Sword of Ladies due to its woman-finding power, picked up a new nickname: The...

Fair enough. We'd moved on to AD&D by the time I was DMing, so I have no recollection of Basic's DM advice. I'm not seeing the problem with the Skill Challenge example on DMG 77, but maybe I've internalized the Skill Challenge rules too much to notice. It seems to follow the "Running a Skill...