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Yes, they increase hit points and damage exponentially rather than linear (as done in 4th Edition). So the game feeling would be different in a bounded accuracy version of 4th Edition, vs. 5th Edition. Question is if this is bad or good? Have not really decided yet. It allows the party to...

The reason is that likelihood to hit is increased/reduced with +/-5% per level in 4th Edition, that why a 5 level difference have quite and impact. For a monster with an average 55% to hit a character of equal level in 4th Edition, if it is 5 levels lower than the character his chance to hit has...

Good point. So far I have only looked at a Striker. It is a valid point to do the same analysis on a fighter, just to see the impact on a defender role. A striker with few HS would be more affected by a rule to have to use Healing Surges to recover Encounter Powers, but on the other hand are...

You are right in the case that you are writing your own adventures. But one interesting aspect of this exercise is that I can basically provide mechanisms and guidance as to be able to play 5th Edition adventures with my 4th Edition characters. Potentially mixing fast pace simple encounters with...

So how do I build my encounter? What monster level? How many encounters between each Short Rest? Well as we saw (if we want to mimic 5th Edition adventuring day) we should have maybe 2 to 3 encounters before a short rest. We also saw that we have also increased the expected HP at the end of...

In the example I am using I have reduced the HP progression for both Monsters and PC to 75% of what is normal for 4th Edition, while keeping the initial HP at first level the same.

I agree. My thinking is as follows. If we look at 5th Edition it is not designed from a 4 encounters, 3 short rests paradigm. The 5th Edition DMG on page 84 says it is framed around 6 (hard) to 8 (medium) encounters, with 2 short rests. If we applied this to 4th Edition, what would happen? First...

So for those that are into homebrewing and changing rules to fit certain flavors of the game, or to achieve a new type of gameplay, please join in. For you who like 4th Edition exactly as it is, and find all homebrewing as an abomination, quickly leave this thread before the Far Realm consumes...

The 1 hour rest might have an impact in a dangerous zone, such as a dungeon, where there is limited available areas to find a safe haven for 1 hour. In 4th Edition this is not the case. A dungeon of 4 major encounter areas would guarantee 3 short rests between each area, with full recovery of...

I intend to, but before implementing something I was hoping to take advantage of all the other sharp DMs out there. Maybe somebody have already tried something similar and have some important learnings they can share? Maybe somebody have thought about these same ideas and done some house rules...

I think we run a little different games. Yours seems more story focused where you adjust circumstances and rules based on characters actions. In my games I try to stick with the rules and based on the players knowledge of those rules (or the game world), their actions have consecuenses. If they...

I do them as well. That is not the problem. They are free XP, that you could almost replace with the following sentence, as it has the same game impact: "There are two ogres stepping out in the road. You quickly kill them and recieve 400 XP. You are now finally on your way to the Dungeon of...

It sounds great but I think DM David summarize it quite well when you convert 3.5 or 5th edition games to 4th edition, there is a time drawback that cannot be neglected. "My fourth-edition time budget means that I have to cut locations, enemies, and material like a sailor jettisons weight as my...

Totally agree with you that I love the 4th Edition interesting battles. That's why I am not switching over to 5th Edition. The question I am asking myself is - why can't I as a DM be allowed to have both? Why can't I have one system that allows me to run the climatic battles 4th Edition gave me...

Yes it would - if you recover all you HP and encounter powers without a cost after a short rest. However, if we make this associated with a cost for these recoveries, you would like to save you high damage output powers. This means that for a low threat encounter that last for two rounds (like...

I would disagree based on my own DMing habits (might be that I am playing it wrong, and being to logical). If the party manages to kill all the sentries outside the orc kings hall. There is just a door between them and the 30 orcs inside. If this had been 4th Edition I would have asked myself...

I do not want this thread to turn into another edition war, either defening all aspects of 4th Edition and keeping everything as it is, or why you should change to 5th Edition because playing TotM is a gift from god, etc. I am intrested to see how changing some parameters of 4th Edition could...

Yes, but it might also lead to players picking a wider variety of Encounter/Daily Powers to allow them to use the one most appropriate for the situation (as you do not have to use all encounter Powers in every encounter). Today I see a more "maximizing" certain aspect choices of Powers, or?