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Remember that these aren't saves in the 3E sense of saves. The initial determination of "does this power affect your character" is made by comparing the bad guy's attack roll versus your defense. Both of those will alter from leveling and various effects. 4E "saves" are much more analogous to...

Invisibility with an indefinite duration strikes me as having a lot of non-combat applications. Likewise, 5 minutes of flight is long enough for some useful tricks.

Another way to look at it is that this system trains DMs to think quickly on their feet. Derren isn't wrong that you could do the same thing in 3E. The difference is, in 3E absolutely no guidance or support is provided by the system. 4E holds the DM's hand and teaches him how to think on his...

You know, there are other qualifications for a residence than, "Is this a good place for me to fight to the death in?" Things like: A handy tribe of kobold slaves. Convenient to caravan routes and cattle herds for snacking and raiding. Pre-built and ready to be moved into immediately. Not...

Or if you're trying to use Stealth to sneak past a group of orcs, you roll against their passive Perception scores. Rolling on each side introduces too much variability. It was always a problem when one character would try to hide or bluff from a group. Somebody in the opposition was bound to...

I like the bit at the very end, that player skill comes in choosing the right tactics at the table rather than coming up with a great 'build'. The most interesting part of the game should not be creating a character by drawing from fifty splatbooks.

A CE guy is less likely to be self-righteous about it. He probably knows he's a bad dude on some level and has made his peace with it. He might even admire the LG guy, even though it's a set of standards he could never live up to himself.

Jdrakeh, I told you I read the entire thread. Don't tell me "confirmed by the several examples provided by Slaygrim" when it is in fact not. His game sounded pretty cool to me. Obviously one of us is the abnormal outlier whose opinions are not shared by the vast majority of gamers, and I...

I've read this entire thread. For me, the crucial point is that nobody likes a whiner. It doesn't matter whether the complaints are justified or not. If there's a complaint, make it short, to the point, and state it calmly. Do not whine. When you whine, everybody just wishes that you would...

Whenever the bad guys drink a potion in a game I'm in, all the players immediately shout, "Noooo! Stop drinking our treasure!"

In-character it's a choice of: A. Attempt a crazy action to cause the cart to jump the gap in the rails. This will either leave you safely undamaged on the other side or get you very badly hurt when the cart crashes. B. Jump out of a speeding cart onto the track, guaranteeing that you will be...

I assure you, I use a spreadsheet to keep weight calculated. Not that my DM has ever shown any interest in seeing it. But if he did, I would be ready.

Huh. I suppose I don't think of it as a "horse" so much as a celestial cohort in the shape of a horse. It starts off with an intelligence of 6 and only gets smarter from there, so it's not like you're dragging a non-sapient animal around indoors. Funny, last session we were in some big...

I will never understand those who say the mount isn't powerful. I'm playing Age of Worms with a paladin, and I got a hippogriff mount (option straight out of the DMG). While the party fighter is clunking around with his pathetic 20 ft movement rate, my paladin zips around the battlefield on...

I agree that the Tiefling origin needs more work. Part of the trouble is that the Dragonborn killed the tiefling's 4E origins and took its stuff. Dragons instead of infernal powers, but the same general idea. Hmmm. What I think is missing is that tieflings should reek of power. Dark power...

I agree. Fighters are going to be dangerous in 4E, with sweet powers like that "The die roll says I missed you, but why don't y'all take some damage anyway." I predict an encounter against multiple fighters will be truly worrisome rather than the laugh-and-a-half it was in 3E.

My group is currently playing through the third adventure, Hook Mountain Massacre. We have: Human Beguiler Half-Orc Barbarian/Ranger Gnome Jester (bard variant from Dragon Compendium) Human Cleric Human Factotum I'll echo that the adventure is really designed around having a melee fighter, a...

Most DMs will allow the two of them to move simultaneously, as long as the one with the higher initiative delays to the one with the lower initiative. Though impossible strictly speaking by the turn-based way D&D combat operates, it strains credibility to believe that it's impossible for two...

I know it's already been said, but don't worry about doing damage. That's what the rest of your party is for. A beguiler is the ultimate set-up man. You trick your enemies and impose status effects on them. You enhance your friends and help them better beat down foes. Don't think about...

Why does the fact that it is not a result on your d6 mean it is not possible? I honestly can't understand that. What definition of "well-defined" are you using that must include all possible results rather than a probable subset of possible results? Are you using "well-defined" as a term of...