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:uhoh: This is scary...if we all start agreeing with each other here, will the 4E forum slowy turn to stone? :lol:

I like the idea of the effect stopping when the bodak is killed. I also like the idea of a "Master Bodak", an undead creature (or more to the original bodak, a demonic being, Orcus sends his greetings ;) ) so terrible it indeed kills with one glance, creating "bodak spawn" from its victims. All...

Hit Points: The amount of physical damage and resulting pain a character can sustain before dropping dead. More Hit Points mean more damage-dealing capacities. :) If an action from an ally causes an adrenaline shot in yourself, it could have the effect of raising your pain threshold...

The old Basic D&D Weapon Mastery rules had a component where a weapon master could do a demoralizing attack, causing all opponents watching his prowess at causing damage to make a Morale check, I think even at a penalty. So if your impressive fighting skills can make opponents give up earlier...

Ah...no wonder I changed Toughness to "add +1 hit point to your die roll to determine hit points every level" at some point..it was designed to be useless as written over long-term character development. :lol:

Re: JohnSnow That's why I like the description of the Djinn (for example) from the 1E MM more than that from the 3E MM. The former gives a lot more in terms of what the djinn will actually be able to do as services, the latter gives mostly combat advice, and a small paragraph about spell-like...

One thing to keep in mind is that with a growing amount of options and the "dilution" of what a class title actually means, it's pretty helpful to include secondary role descriptions in the class make-up. In earlier edition, a Fighter was a Fighter, a Magic-User was a Magic-User, a Thief was a...

As an interesting tidbit, to see how another version of D20 Fantasy handles something like the Bodak's Death Gaze, I just checked Castles & Crusades (and please NO C&C edition war now, okay?). A victim meeting the Bodak's gaze must make a successful Constitution save against 21/27...

See, and this is the reason why I keep staying in the 4E forum...for discussions that make me check up on rules material again that I haven't read in detail for a few years by now. You're completely correct with how Gaze attacks work as per RAW. Looked them up in detail in the MM and from there...

While I agree that it is beneficial if a "Role of the Class" chapter in every class description makes it very clear to the player what the underlying concept of it is (in order to avoid things like "What do you mean, my Wizard is not good in toe-to-toe melee?? :lol: ), I'm a 100% certain that...

So we're actually talking about 5 Bodaks getting the jump on 4 20th level characters, and each character meeting the gaze of 5 Bodaks at the same time, or am I misunderstanding you again? :uhoh: Because as far as I understood the Death Gaze of the Bodak, it only works when the character meets...

Heh, I'm glad I'm not the only one who immediately had to think of Green Arrow/Hawkeye when reading the thread title. ;) Boxing Glove arrow anybody? :lol:

Well, Elan and Thog already made a handsome pair, apparently he has a way with green-skinned folk. :lol: And that leader seems to be of the same power level as our Lich Lord...and blessed with similarly interesting henchmen. Personally, I think Kubota is just a pawn in whoever that...

I'd say CR...replace it with something that works better with ALL abilities that appear in D&D, instead of having to chop off those it doesn't work well with. :)

Yep, and yet encounters with that difficulty should make up roughly 15% of the encounters a group should have should be of that level, which means of 7 encounters, one should be of EL +1-4. So, to turn the question back at you, is an encounter with a very high probability of death for at least...

By now I really find myself wondering why they actually bother with putting in the 3-18 spread, if the modifiers don't have anything at all with the probability of a certain result on 3d6 anymore. Ramping up bonuses for abilities aside, with this +1/2 points spread, they could simply build in a...

Right...I see. Heh, my bad. But I'm not sure it's not backfiring right now. Anyway, what I wanted to ask...what you call "Monster Level" system, where can I take a look at that? I know that monster XP are calculated from a HD baseline, with XP/Hit Point, for special and for extraordinary...

No Raven...he's attributing Hussar's "quote" you forgot to put into

Out of curiosity alone already, yeah. :)

You want to know why you confuse me with your line of arguing? CR works as advertised...as long as you keep to the (pretty narrowly) defined baseline. Otherwise, it works less and less the more you deviate from standard. But as long as the baseline is in effect, CR works. Except that they...