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Um.. How many DMs reveal in advance what attacks his monsters have?

Exactly. A bunch of the most powerful buffs only lasts for a single turn, but in its entirety (such as e.g. the Pit Fighter's Extra Damage Action). Thus, you want to squeeze in as many attacks in that single round as possible: Normal standard action attack, action point standard action attack...

=PNP Strengths= Persistent, affectable, mutable world. When you catch that mugger in the alley, He stays caught, and you don't see him repeat his mugging everytime you pass. NPC interaction that goes beyond set selections - you can actually use arguments, logic and rethoric, instead of just...

Not if you look upon it gamistically instead of simulationistically. The world is the map. A square on a map is a surface. It may represent a three-dimensional volume, but on the game board it is a two-dimensional surface. What the power enables you to do, is simply to create squares of floor...

Change only exists if your options grow; if you can do new things and different things. If you keep doing the same thing, using the same options and tactics, but just with different numbers, well, then the change amounts to something like playing croquet with the green mallet instead of the...

What's even more fun - the meaning may change in Swedish when you do or don't combine the words. A famous example in Sweden is approximately rödhårig sjuksyster (red-haired nurse) versus röd hårig sjuk syster (red hairy sick sister), or rökfritt (non-smoking) vs rök fritt (smoke freely). That...

You clearly have found the inspirational source of the recent D&D naming convention... :) :)

If I understand it correctly, the OP uses terminology from "d20 Modern", where all the things you describe is bundled together as the so-called "Fast Hero", which does not have to have anything to do with movement speed... thus the confusion.

How about "Till Eulenspiegel": A German folk hero of the 14th century, Till Eulenspiegel was a peasant trickster whose jokes and pranks became the source of many folk tales. The jests and practical jokes, which generally depend on a pun, are broadly farcical, often brutal, and sometimes...

It is that straining on the GM to design a +2 encounter instead of a +3 one? *boggle*

Sorry, sounds very much like a badwrongfun argument to me. Hate to break it to you(*), but optimization has not even the proverbial rat's behind to do with group survival, challenge or task fullfillment. Those things are entirely dependent on what the DM's decisions are when he sits down to...

To me personally the sense of magic, mystery and wonder is neither about scarcity nor about blustering descriptions. It's about connotations and associations - connections to common dreams (and fears!), personal ones as well as those embedded in the culture through stories, fairy-tales and...

You also have Ebony Fly (the Magic Item), which is available quite early. (It's level 9, so it can theoretically appear in treasure parcels by level 5) The Lyrandar Wind-Rider Paragon Path gets sustain-minor flight at level 12.

After losing a swingy game to a friend, you say "Let's make that the best two out of three!" After losing a grindy game to a friend, you say "Let's add some handicap next time to make it more interesting."

Seen this thread? http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/270503-bane-3ed-dm-monster-advancement-class-levels-prep-time.html Considering the freedoms some of those DMs take when making monsters...

Yep, that is pretty much what she does. I did work up to about mid-paragon to try to provide CA to her, but she got so good at getting those herself that it's pretty much superfluous now. (And being good at that is a source of great pride for that rogue... :) :) ) I even had a house-rule...

We took statistics for a number of combats at appx level 18, so these are the actual numbers of damage dealt and received: Combat 1 Bard: Dealt 88 (7%), Received 0 (0%) Fighter: Dealt 568 (46%), Received 115 (45%) Rogue: Dealt 348 (28%), Received 79 (31%) Swordmage: Dealt 239 (19%), Received 62...

The fighter has no problem gathering up enemies, thanks to "come and Get it", a tendency of monsters to rush into melee with anyone that marks them, and being rather good at shifting by himself (not to mention having enough AC to withstand OAs if he moves without shifting), so that he can simply...

Ooooh! Challenge of Champions! Those were great, great fun. Our DM even ported those to both other settings and other systems (E.g, the "Dragonstar" universe meets "Star Trek", "Aliens" and "WH40K", with "Feng Shui"-derived homebrew rules) because we enjoyed those so immensely!

Of course you won't get everything on the list. That's why you put four-five items that does approximately the same thing on your list, to improve the odds. Assume that you are a charisma-based character interested in Diplomacy. Then you wish for the two-three head slot items, and the neck...