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OK, We've largely ignored lighting issues to this point for one reason or another, but I wanted to get them right this time around. I'm away from my books as I type this but was darn confused when I last read them. Say you have a light source that provides 5 squares of bright light (which I...

Lots of issues here IMO. When we first started it got really grindy really fast. Partly due to poor encounter planning, partly due to the elites and solos being a mess, partly due to poor character optimization, and partly due to everyone being slow. As we've learned the system it mostly goes...

Hi all, I'm planning on doing some 4e writing and was hoping someone had a nice format/template/example in MSword for such work. Things like the powers, monsters and what have you would be great!

Thanks for the feedback folks. I am looking to create a gladiator for Dark Sun and I don't think the defender role fits that class. I'm also trying to be lazy and not create a whole class from scratch (I'm needing to do that for the elemental clerics already). I don't think a rogue would...

Updated version: Remove: Combat Challenge Combat Superiority Scale Proficiency Add: You gain a bonus to the damage rolls of martial powers and basic attacks equal to your Dexterity modifier. The bonus increases to your Dexterity modifier + 2 at 11th level and your Dexterity modifier + 4 at...

Here's a quick-and-dirty variant for moving a fighter from a defender to a striker. I'd appreciate thoughts on balance and other ideas. Remove: Combat Challenge Combat Superiority Add: You gain a bonus to opportunity attacks equal to your Wisdom modifier. You gain a bonus to the damage...

Sorry if I was over the top. I do find significant faults in 4e and everyone I play with and have discussed the game with agrees with those faults. I agree they can be papered over with flavor (telekinetic lifting etc.) that are not otherwise found in the game. And I can certainly see that...

Really? The 20th level weak guy is better than the strong guy at arm wrestling, climbing and lifting weights because he saved the world? If that's as much common sense as you'd indicate, you'd think other games would have shot for it. Is it a problem that no other RPG (I know of) models this...

Short and long of it: 4e is all about balance. The wild shape of the druid is the way it is because of that. Face it, I can become a bird in 4e but continue to move _exactly_ my human speed. AC stays the same too right? I'd have preferred the game give the druid some non-combat powers in...

Good point. Still bothers me. If we're going to do it that way, a level 8 fighter with a 22 STR is stronger (both in terms of stats and Athletics) than a level 1 half-giant. Still seems off. But I agree that helps a lot.

Things like power sources not mattering much in 4e seem to be a bit off for Dark Sun. Also, I really don't like the idea that the strongest humans are as strong as the strongest half-giants. Just seems really wrong. I think I like the breakage rules though. Not sure about moving the...

So I was working on doing a dark sun conversion to 4e and finally noticed that there is a Dark Sun campaign setting coming out for 4e in August. I'd love to hear people's thoughts. In my mind, Dark Sun was always about hack-and-slash against great odds and that fits 4e fairly well. But the...

Wow, other than WotBS no one has any pre published adventures they like? That's not a very good sign for the game...

OK, So I've run some 4e stuff very early on (Keep on the Shadowfell; TPK in the 4th session or so when two encounters got combined). And I've played some (I think he's running the first adventure path in Dragon). Some of it has been truly outstanding (I greatly enjoyed the first fight in the...

Thanks! Thanks for the ideas folks. I've still no ideas on the feats, but I'd not thought about shield other. I have a magic item that can can only cure me (2d8+3 3 times/day as a free action up to once/round) and shield other is a cute way to use that to effectively heal others.

Yeah, I foresee having HBO (though the 15 Dex slows down the high Wis) And we consider a basic attack to be an at-will attack, so no biggy there in any case. But our DM doesn't have the baddies provoke very often, so it seems it will be a bit tricky to get this going. My fighter tends to use...

I do like it, but the daily pretty much sucks assuming you the power only triggers on the first hit (otherwise it's the best power in the game). You'd need one heck of a wisdom to make it work plus a good holy symbol. The special mark requires that you hit with an at-will which sometimes doesn't...

At 5th level? I can't quicken anything, and I'm not sure what I'd want to empower or extend.

Humm, good point. Problem with feats is that I can only use PHB feats and spells. Arrowmind is neither right? I just don't see any other feats worth taking...

I'm 95% sure I know the answer to this question, but I thought I'd ask anyways... When using a bow, are you considered to be using both hands and therefore can't use the deflect arrows feat? I assume not, but I've got a weird character (cleric bow user) who may end up with this feat so I...