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You ready the action for when a charging enemy enters your square not for when the charge completes. The game even makes specific mention of how readied actions interrupt this type of movement even though they are reactions. In short, you can react to a move without waiting for the entire move...

Consider ignoring all fluff and names. Look at the powers and classes entirely mechanically and then justify the powers with whatever background you want from there. For the most part, power names and fluff serves to anchor the mechanics to an idea in your head. The reason this is done is...

a line emanating from any one of the corners of your square does not cross any line of sight blocking terrain. When you determine what you can see you use any one point when you determine what can see you you use all of them. Its just like looking at someone from inside a bush. You have...

It also cancels Combat advantage, so its effectively a +4

The utility of both your orb and your staff mastery bonuses are increased exponentially as your bonus increases. If you take second mastery and spread your secondary points between con and wis then neither of them will be very valuable. Your staff mastery is essentially a "turn a hit into a...

My opinions not having played a fighter yet, but having played a wizard and DMing for a Paladin. 1. Create opening: Giving the enemies free attacks against you in exchange for anything other than free attacks against them is pretty bad. It can be useful against minions and enemies with weak...

Pushing 2 instead of 3 isn't crippling but the wisdom push only works for orb wizards (who have an, imo sub-optimal choice and yes, i know about all the "omg stun orcus indefinitely" junk. You can only use the power sometimes, its only really strong when used against elites or solos, and the...

I had acquired a +2 staff of ruin so my max damage for that was actually 47(+2 for each damage roll from the staffs item bonus, 17 int). I did still roll very well on my damages, but it wasn't quite that good ;) as well 45 might have been an exaggeration, it was a while ago. It was just what i...

Wizards are frankly fantastic. Especially when coupled with a strong leader that can grant saves. Their weakness are 1: MAD Wizards need very high to hit to be effective(they need to ensure that their status effects land). But at the same time, many of their at wills and feats rely heavily on...

The test group was also played by a single player and not a group of players. Any single player vastly for the party increases the ability of the group to coordinate. You're not using the "proper" encounter mesh. IIRC. What do your players do when they run up against the L+4 encounter that ends...

These two quotes do not mesh. You took a fresh group and threw them into a hard encounter. You should still have 3-4 encounters left in the day, at least one of them as hard as the one you just went through. Except the next time they won't have all those dailies, item dailies, and possibly...

After the first couple sessions we haven't had many problems with the software. Currently we are playing through the Scales of War adventure path, and since WotC provides all the maps(or PDF's which you can easily rip the map from) i've been able to make the maps all pretty easily. In fact...

A lot of it had to do with the mistaken notion that a wand wizard must apply their bonus to the roll before they knew whether or not it hit. (In fact that they had to apply their bonus to the roll before they rolled) This greatly diminished the utility of the bonus when it was otherwise very...

The ones that OK'ed the expertise feats. There is no other reason to O.K. these feats. If they're not meant to be stealth errata then they're blatantly overpowered. If 45% is supposed to be your base hit rate at Epic then a single feat giving you a 60% hit rate is overpowered. Its that simple...

Using Maptools and provided that i don't have to cross check much stuff it goes from 20 minutes to an hour or two depending on the combat. Most of the time is eaten up by the problems of the personal attention rather than doing stuff. If everyone is present and paying attention i would be...

You can get 1/day encounter long threatening reach from the Polearm master Paragon path in Martial Power

That being said, i don't think anyone will slight you for ruling that stances do not apply when unconscious[in the case of something that would normally work when unconscious]

How the house does from day to day business should probably be a direct correlation to how the players handle the challenges for the business. If they do well, the business does well. If they do poorly the business does poorly. How hard is that rather than making a character make a check and...

No its not unless you don't do any roleplaying and just handwave how well you do because of a profession role. That is lame Bluff, intimidate, diplomacy, history, insight, streetwise, religion, arcana. Skill challenges based on the challenges that you come across. These are skills that define...

So you created a situation that the players could not possibly succeed at unless they had chosen the right perform skill to put points into? Why would you ever do that if it was something for your players to participate in if they didn't have that skill? If it was something for them to watch...