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Our ranger archer uses a Force Greatbow. Not particulary overpowered but the immobilizing daily effect saved our asses a couple of times.

Yes, stupidity and free will. the way HP are described (and the way I see them) if a PC simpli jumps out of a cliff or let someone stab him, or do something intentionally to hurt himself, to hell with HP, he is either dying or dead. To exemplify: one of the best sceenes I DMed so far was...

Hehehehe Diablo started that for shure. ^^ Actually I think its a great idea, and usualy Diablo and other online games balanced that very well. Usually the set where not "the best" itens for their slots, but usually they were the best for people with mid budget. Transfering to DnD I think...

In adition with what many ideas posted above I would like to add: some travel campaigns give you the opportunity for nice skill challenges, specially involving navigation (usually nature and perception), resilience tests (endurance) and etc. You can add: simple diseases like common cold, and...

Yes, I use attack roll as a reference as well. Actually if a fighter gets to attack roll everyone with rain of steel he should be able to mark them as well (obviously not the writers intention). The way I see is is - like dito above -its like an aura power. Remmember that aura is just a game...

Agree here. Game design for shure. Has advantages and disvantages. What I do as a house rule is giving Solo and Elite monsters a high critical proprety. Keeps things balanced and add some flavor as well. Otherwise I leave things as they are. In my heroic style campaigns usually PCs have many...

You have to ask yourself, why he havent used lightining bolts on the hundreds of orc/goblins/uruks he found later? I am happy to imagine that Tolkien had reconsidered it. Dont expect someone who is able to toss bolts of lightining at will to use a sword... again just my oppinion.

Well, the OP asked for rule lawyers, and he certaily got them! :lol: this must be some kind of world record right here. ****** Silly momment on *********** We have a joke over here, something like this: "what are 2000 lawyers in the botton of the ocean?" "Its a good start".:D *******...

Well, in my oppinion when we make a book/movie based build we must observe the context. In the LotR movies Gandalf and other spell casters spells were more like rituals casters tham actual casters.Considering this (believe or not) its a low magic campaign (at least visually). I see 2 paths...

I agree. I would give this fellow the same good advice someone gave me, when I was building my fighter: "your 2nd (an 3th) at-will need not be that usefull at all times." So I would go with knockdown Assault for when you really wants that flyer down, or when someone is running away etc. Or...

I agree. I tend to build extra hard encounters, but not many in a row. I think it depends on the campaign. I think most modules lack a sense of urgency. In many action movies the problem is not the heroes dying... they are not all afraid of that. There is aways something bigger for what...

IMHO the fighter against town thing has little to do with the rules, its a problem with the campaign. There are a number of ways of dealing with this, and the most likely would be: does the fighter wants to become the campaign main bad guy? Will adventurers try to stop him? Will the player have...

My friend.. please take a good look at the books and talk to more experinced players. Stats does not start at 10. Player characters - the heroes by the way - have most stats from 10 above, mostly becuse its the human average for any stat. If every point above 10 gave you bonuses, we woul be...

In my experience classeless is a pain to balance, at least in medieval fantasy games. Shadowrun for example is an excelent game, technicaly classless, but in the end you tend to use the archetypes (funcion very much like classes). I have DMed HARP for almost 3 years, excelent game, almost...

Good advice. I would never ever trown rules in the face of my DM friends... but if there is a paid competition... makes sense to bring powerplayer friends as well. :devil:

I dont have my books here, but I will try to give you the picture. First he can replace Turn Undead with Healers Mercy, a good close burst healing power. There are numerous powers that do no damage (remmember beacon of hope?), but apply various effects on enemies. There is also a paragon...

Hehehehe true. But our DM is evil.:devil: Our encounters are very hard and our rogue is usually afraid of flanking (that chicken!). Our DM effectively counter this not by powerplaying, but just by making really tough encounters with few minions and many elites and standard creatures.

I think most fellows missed what an Avenger is about: most other strikers do some more damage but they depend on the defender to not get surrouded and smashed. The rogue in my gamming group is afraid of flank most of the time. I think that happens becuse our encounters are tough, and he could...

I agree. We are still lv 6, but the minions are real challenge to us. Thheir defenses in special. Just an example: last fight involved hobgoblin minions, and their effective AC was 24. My Ac as the dwarf fighter is 21.... Our ranger had trouble hitting them even with spitting cobra stance.

I am glad to realise I am not mad (yet) ;). Most of the dragons cant do much, unless they completely disengage. Ugly sceene to say the least, powerfull monster have to run away for some time ... not very "flavorfull". And this with solos alone. As you guys realised: javelings, ranged powers...