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    Monte Cooks First Legends and Lore

    I'm honestly puzzled. I mean, he's practically describing the existing system, as if it's some wonderful new idea that's just come to him now. Monte, that thing you like to call "passive perception"? It's in the rulebooks already. They called it passive perception. If your passive...
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    |Words to Live By: an Alignment thread about Codes of Conduct

    A paladin may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A paladin must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A paladin must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not...
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    Religeon - requires specific alignment ?

    Short answer: Yes. Longer answer: Yes, even when the game seems to say no. Any character of any alignment can worship any god... unless their class places restrictions on it. Divine classes have some alignment restrictions on a class by class basis. Paladins must choose the same alignment as...
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    What's stopping WOTC from going back to 3.5?

    Canadian quarters (well, the standard ones) have no tails. It's heads (the Queen) or heads (a caribou).
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    I don't want 5E, I want a definitive D&D (the Monopoly model)

    Both football and Monopoly have changed rules over the years. There's literally hundreds of variations of Monopoly on the market. On some, it's only the names of the properties that have changed, but there are versions with alternate rules. There's also plenty of house-ruled games of Monopoly...
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    Beast Masters and Dexterous Beasts

    It's unlikely to cause any great imbalance: [B] attacks rapidly fall behind [W] attacks in damage regardless. While their attacks scale decently, their damage never gets enhancement bonuses, and access to other damage boosts for them is rather limited. Will it make the Dex beasts more...
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    Monster Manual Update: Foulspawn & Grimlocks

    The free Monster Manual Update series continues (to my relief, as it didn't appear on the table of contents for this month), with updates for Foulspawn and Grimlocks. (At the time I write this, the front page link and the article's page itself mistakenly label it as last month's Kuo-Toa and...
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    WotC's hesitation on tackling the feat tax.

    My apologies, I missed that when I read your post.
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    WotC's hesitation on tackling the feat tax.

    I'm not sure that would actually fix anything. If the items become assumed, then why are they items, and not just a built in ability bonus? Why make them ability bonuses, which impact attack, defence, damage, hp, surges, skills and feat prerequisites, when the problem (if one accepts there is...
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    Resist 5 - how does it work

    They've been running a series of Monster Manual Updates through Dungeon (not behind the paywall, even!), which may eventually resolve the issue entirely, but it's slow going. They're tackling a handful of monsters a month... and they haven't listed one for September. So far they've updated...
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    (MME) Is it just me...

    Inquiring minds want to know: does it have donkeyhorses?
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    September DDI Update news

    Cnet reported "Silverlight apps, though, can be converted to Metro apps, as Microsoft took pains to explain at the Build conference."
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    Making money matter (forked from Abstracting Wealth)

    @Crazy Jerome - The approach I was planning to take in the campaign is that magic items are quite rare. As you say, you could sell them, but good luck finding someone who is able and willing to pay what they're worth. @delericho - Yes, my plan is to more frugal with treasure rewards. Or at...
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    Resist 5 - how does it work

    Not quite. Originally, when an attack specifically did two types of damage (not the "1d10+4 damage + 1d6 cold damage" sort of thing being discussed here, but stuff like "2d10+4 fire and radiant damage"), you had to arrive at the total damage, then divide it amongst the various damage types...
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    Resist 5 - how does it work

    They've changed how it works at least once, which can add to the confusion. Someone using the Player's Handbook without errata and updates is going to have a very different answer than someone with a more up-to-date source. Istar I believe you had the right of it. Weapon damage isn't a type...
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    2nd Wind - anytime ?

    I frequently made the "have to be bloodied to use Second Wind" mistake when I started playing. For me, it may have been because the system I had previously played (Star Wars Saga Edition) required you to be at "one-half your maximum hit points or less" in order to use Second Wind.
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    Magic ki focus + magic weapon?

    There isn't one. Because Ki Focuses aren't a weapon, but a kind of implement, they cannot be given weapon enchantments. The closest thing is the Forked Lightning Ki Focus, which can only convert melee damage into lightning, not ranged. Also, if I'm not misinterpreting, RangerWickett is trying...
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    Epic Resurgence question

    Yes, if that power is an encounter power, and it's the one you want to regain the use of, you may choose it. If it's a multi-attack power that only targets one foe, then getting a critical hit on any of the attacks will trigger the feat, as it's not "an attack that targets multiple foes". If...
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