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Exactly... The passive perception check should be telling the players when it is appropriate to start worrying.

I find it curious... A lot of people complain about Magic Missile as an At-Will attack power with no attack or damage roll, but no one complains about the oodles of auras that effectively do the same thing -- deal fixed damage with no attack roll and no real limitation on how often per...

I'd tend to disagree, here... If you don't know the trap is there (ie, you haven't searched for them yet, or you searched and found nothing), there's really no tension at all. For traps, the tension comes during the period when you know the trap is there, but you haven't disabled or bypassed...

I've found that one of the best ways to look at it, especially with regards to Perception, is this: A passive check gives the players a clue that something should be paid attention to ("You hear faint mumbling as you approach the door."). An active check gives further detail, should the player...

Free actions have always been explicitly limited by the common sense of the DM, to wit... In certain circumstances, the DM might decide to limit the use of free actions further. For instance, if an adventurer has already used free actions during a particular turn to talk, drop things, and use a...

Right... Technically, it doesn't hit, it simply has an effect that deals damage.

Everything you didn't want to know about holocrons at the Wookieepedia. A long story made short, and ignoring RPG rules for a moment... An alien race known as the Rakatans first taught early Sith how to build holocrons, and the Jedi picked up the secret about three thousand years after. The...

Like most all others, that bonus only applies to damage rolls. A Wizard modestly decked out for Magic Missile at mid epic levels might look like: +8 Int +5 Power +12 Staff of Missile Mastery 25 damage per magic missile.

If it's a roleplaying-character-background-flavor sort of thing, that's cool. Here's a few other bits to look at: If you want to be really good at Aberrant creature knowledge, also look at the feat Foreign Memories from Dragon 389: "Benefit: You gain a +5 feat bonus to Arcana, Insight...

Is it important that you are trained in Dungeoneering? Or only that you are good at it? Jack of All Trades (feat) + Ioun's Revelation (Level 3 Divine Boon) together will give you a +2 to all trained skills and +4 to all untrained.

What core rules did they have to rewrite? They reworded a handful of magic items and feats to read "bonus to damage roll" (something they should have done anyway for consistency), but they never changed any core rules for the benefit or detriment of the new Magic Missile.

I was recently in the middle of building a Human Wizard, and had a tough time deciding on his bonus At-Will... I finally decided on Magic Missile for the same reasons you suggest here. Occasionally, we run into a BBEG who is very difficult to hit. MM guarantees at least a little bit of damage...

Up until now, I've had very, very few technical issues with the new Character Builder... Only one or two crashes, minimal lag, and I've been able to access it easily from several different computers. Earlier this morning, however, when I try to log into the online Character Builder to print...

Forgive me for a minor digression... One house rule our group will be trying out soon is to remove the scaling damage from Magic Missile -- it would always stay at Int + 2. Instead, at Paragon levels it changes to a Move action to cast, and at Epic levels it is changes to a Minor action. It...

If the power specifies "damage roll", then yes, you are correct. Force Wands, for example state "Gain a +2 item bonus to damage rolls when you use this wand to attack with a power that has the force keyword." That bonus would not apply to Magic Missile, since you do not roll for damage.

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I've tried skill challenges a lot of different ways, and have thoroughly mixed results all around. I'm beginning to come to the conclusion that the problem is not any specific method of running them, but rather trying to apply the same method to every skill challenge. I'm finding that certain...

The last time I checked, it wasn't working for me, either.

Also note that you can type in a negative number for the quantity when buying or adding items, which will subtract that amount from your inventory.

Sure it did. Consider this... You fire off a blast that targets "Each creature in blast". Per the rules, you roll a single attack against each target. Now, remember that the staff's power can be used, "when an attack made with this implement hits"... Did you hit the first target in the...