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If any skill can work in any given situation then the game is broken and makes no sense what so ever. You should not be able to intimidate everyone in order to get what you want in every situation. If the above is not true, then the game makes no sense. Al you would ever have to do is use...

The problem with your post is that you are attempting to use a template illsutable for your scenario. The template given is for a senarion in which the duke will not go through with the goal of the party if he is intimidated. For example, a scenario in which the PCs are level 3 and the duke...

In any given social encounter there will be more factors then whats in your post. If a PC has a really high intimidate skill and rolls really high, and still fails, then obviously choosing intimidate is is the wrong thing to do. That is how he calculates risk, by his own ability. If his...

Its not that you can intimidate the duke, its that intimidating him wont get you to your goal. Whether he calls the guard and has you locked up, or he is such a whim that if you intimidate him he will flee and lock himself in his mansion. In the end its not that you didnt succede in...

Even though I have really enjoyed the non combat side of D&D in 3.5, a lot of times it really came down on the DM to just sort of wing it. There werent any base rules for dealing with getting chased in a city, or having to convince a mob not to listen to the opposition. At best you had the...

I dont see how this is any different from the current system. I dont know about you , but I have always added and never have subtracted damage. I always just kept adding damage until I hit my max HP and then dropped/died. As you stated addition is more intuitive then subtraction which is why...

Now you are turning into the bard issue. A character that does multiple things must not do them any one of those things as well as a character who is specialising in one of those specific things, otherwise the multi character is broken (and which is why multiclassing in 3.5 is broken). As an...

Which is exactly what Wizard wants. Multiclassing in 3.x is overpowered, even as per the article: Multiclassing in 4ed is supposed to be a lot more centered around keeping the overall game balanced but still being able to take elements of other classes and adding them to yours. So if in 3.x...

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4ed=D&D the card game j/k

You know they do have product info on the Wizards website. In 2008 there will be 3 Forgoten Relmes campaign books. The Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=products/dndacc/218287200 This product includes everything a Dungeon Master needs to run a D&D campaign...

Well there will probably be a Fire->FRICKIN' FIRE combo, a Force->FRICKIN' FORCE combo, and a Lightning->FRICKIN' LIGHTNING come as well.

Well the FR adventure for 2008 is listed as "FR1 Scepter Tower of Spellgard" on the D&D product page, so its probably safe to assume there will be FR2, FR3, etc. (that is, more adventures down the line). http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=products/dndacc/217647400

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/drdd/20071024a

Given that healing surges heal 1/4 of a characters HP ~6+Con modifier times per day, healing surges are definitely a big deal. A level 20 fighter will actually have 512 total HP in a day (including all healing surges, and assuming a total amount of 6+con modifier healing surges just like the...

What are you talking about? A first level fighter with a 10 con will have 25HP and a first level wizard with a 10 con will have 20HP. But at 10th level the fighter will have 79HP and the wizard will have 56HP.

Just want to put a few things in perspective: A 9th level rouge (keeping it Heroic incase something changes between tiers) with a 13 con will have 65 HP and (as per the Sneak Attack article) 7 healing surges (assuming you dont gain healing surges when you level). If 1 healing surge heals you...

Isnt that just gather information? Granted GI is a lot less academic, but its the same fundamental action. I guess sort of comes down to the difference between socialising and using a library.

I like how they had it in 3.5 because it all came out very simple: If you were two handed you got a bonus to attack and damage but gave up an AC bonus. If you used a shield then you got an AC bonus but gave up an attack and damage bonus. If you duel wielded then you gave up both the AC bonus...