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Having healing in 4E require a standard action instead of a minor would be... unpleasant. Combats are higher levels are already painfully slow; requiring the leaders to give up their offensive action whenever someone required healing would make it even worse. I don't think making the word...

A magus is impressive, especially if he doesn't have to care about resource conservation. He DOES need to be performing the spell combat full attack action to get his extra weapon swing. He doesn't get that during rounds where he has to move. The simple solution to just tell him that his...

What classes will work and won't work will depend greatly on your group. Do people coordinate? Can they perform tactics? Are they willing to support each other? If the answers to those are yes, then you can pretty much do anything and be fine. A lot of classes don't function well in a...

In addition to the hit die requirement, also keep in mind that Detect Evil can't differentiate degrees of evil. The person may just be a selfish jerk. The person may be bitterly racist. The person may accept bribes and look the other way. The person may look forward to beating his wife. The...

My current current 4E group tends to do Isolate and Kill, for the simple reason that my character as a Pacifist/Shielding Cleric build has powers that tend to simultaneously cripple the offense AND the defense of the target (like it gets dazed and -5 to attacks/defenses, or dazed and damage...

I found Planes Above to be a rather nifty book, with the various ideas and plot hooks and threw out there. I find the Outsider issue interesting, for it helps establish the Astral Sea as a living place with a steadily growing population. Also note that Lolth, Torag, and the Raven Queen, who...

"Even if the target dies and comes back with epic level shenanigans, it remains under Lolth’s control" is gold. I could picture my own players trying a "let's see if dying fixes it" solution. Edit: Though after some thought, it occurs to me that while touching the heart of the statue probably...

I currently DM a 4E game and play in a Pathfinder game. 4E is so much easier to DM than 3.5 was. While I think I could DM a Pathfinder game, I'd probably do an adventure path over trying to run something that's completely from scratch. Essentials hasn't really grabbed me; its just some of the...

I currently run a 4E game (that just reached L18) and play in a Pathfinder game (that's at L10, in book 4 of Kingmaker). How quickly a fight runs depends in part on your players. Do they pay attention? Are they planning their next move before their turn comes up? Are they "that guy", the one...

Monsters don't really have high attack bonuses. The issue feels more that PCs just have terrible defenses if they don't blow 4 or more of their feats on shoring up their defenses.

Responding a little late, but hey. Don't forget to add Beacon of Hope to the things that work with Astral Seal. It's definitely a respectable little heal. The -2 to all defenses is definitely better than Lance of Faith's "give 1 person +2 to hit that target." Hell, compare Lance of Gaze of...

The aspect of the argument that I'm finding interesting is the presumption that the adventuring party is nothing more than a group of bandits with powers. Though I guess if that's how the story works in your game, then that's how it works. I've had groups that were like that, and a pacifist...

I play a pacifist healer elf cleric in one of my games; the character is pretty ridiculous, even if she obviously can't do much damage at all. (I have Sacred Flame and use it to pop minions occasionally.) The elven accuracy power is really nice, especially since there's another feat you can...

It's interesting that the thread is largely people who've never had a warforged in their game vs. people who have. Much of what KM's concerned about become non-issues once one is actually at the table and playing.

If he's taken the feats, then there's no reason why he can't dual-wield bastard swords. It really isn't going to matter, since the -4 to all attack rolls will cause him to miss all the time at low levels, and the extra two points that a bastard sword can pull over a long sword means nothing at...

A L16 PC. L20 psionic warrior + Form of Doom + Lion's Charge + Power Attack = splat.

I'd go with max damage, doubled. Someone critting with a maximised disintegrate should be a thing of horror.

You forgot that the attackers get a +2 to hit Blind #1 because he is blind, which is every bit as good as the flanking bonus that they would have gotten against him if he had Blindsight. It'd make sense for a believed illusion to be able to flank; the fact that an illusion can't even do that...

Nice. Alright. Well, then: what made the world go kablooie? My advice would actually be to go along the Lavos/Cthulhuesque route -- something Other entered the world, and Reality simply broke under the burder of trying to support Its presence. Now, It doesn't have to be a god or anything...

What I'm after is simple enough -- a java dice roller program that can somehow be viewed by multiple people at the same time. I guess a java chatroom that had a roll function would work. Something similar to that, anyways. If anyone knew of such a thing, it'd be someone around here. So...