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Change it to: Gains temporary hit points when the character attacks, rather than when the character is attacked. That way, it'll renew every round, but not multiple times per round. A bonus is that it's a lot easier to keep track as well. Try it for a few sessions and see if it works. If...

Yeah, the damage output is fine. It's a few points higher than other strikers at low levels, but it quickly evens out. It's not like 3-4 points difference per attack is going to matter much when foes have 40 hit points. Either way, it's still going to take two rounds of character actions to...

Yeah. Raumathor was known for their blood forges that helped them create automatons to fight the fiend binders of Narfell. Bloodforged just sounds cool to me. The Living Forgotten Realms campaign also introduced the term Gondsmen to define automatons created by Lantanan worshipers of Gond...

Most high level fights are over in 3 rounds or less (albeit 2 hours long in real time). You might want to find some way to stretch out that fight scene a bit. Perhaps by combining it with some ritual that reduces Vecna's power to something PCs can manage. You might also want to look at...

Totally agree. I just get annoyed when I see inconsistency in game design :)

If I were to houserule, I would do: * Guileful Switch (Warlord utility 6) to a Daily and keep as is. * Rain of Blows (Fighter attack 3) 2 attacks at [W]+Str with a 3rd [W] attack if meet the requirements. * Touch of the Unicorn (Swordmage utility 6) heals only when the target is bloodied. *...

I posted a short list of 4e Encounter powers that I think need fixing a while back. Familiar Ground » Archive » Top 5 Encounter Powers That Need Fixing in 4e I haven't had time to get around to class features, dailies or items though. I heard from a source that several items I had a problem...

No hard data, just anecdotal evidence, but I would say yes. Most of my D&D experience lies with the RPGA. In the SF Bay Area, we had a community of several hundred people who play together at home, game stores and local conventions. I distinctly recall losing track of several dozen people in...

Who says they aren't? Power cards, collectible figs, sponsored game store events, all these cater to a tabletop experience. With that said, people right now are playing D&D with virtual tabletop software and finding that the experience is very comparable to a traditional tabletop. It would be...

How are you going to handle an attacking PC that is blind, but with other PCs able to point out which squares to attack? Are you still going to require perception checks just to attack the square? Honestly, unless the PCs are outdoors, most fights occur in a room less than 10 squares wide...

Just to be clear, is everyone aware of the changes to stealth/perception? i.e. the rules regarding stealth/perception in the PHB1 is outdated. Errata changed a lot of things (you can download it from the wotc site or look at the back of PHB2). Basically, you're aware of where everyone is on...

The big question you have to ask yourself is: "Will I or any of my players ever participate in LFR events outside of our personal circle?" Right now you're saying yes, but is that likely to change in the future? The purpose of a living campaign is to be able to take your character and...

The format that 5e will take is already present. DDI. An online, living ruleset that can be tweaked and adjusted for balance and content, exactly like all current MMOs. Really, the only thing missing from DDI is the fluff from the core books. Except in 10 years, most people will have easy...

Well, it seems that with DDI, they're doing just that. Exploring another marketing direction that doesn't rely on collectible rule sets, but rather a sustainable online subscription.

I'm impressed. Out of hundreds of encounter powers, I could only find less than 10 that I would consider broken in terms of their relative power level. And some of those (the multi-attack ones) need several other supporting items or powers to make them really overpowered. 4e has changed the...

I sent in a couple of inquiries to Dragon around December. I got the automatic form letter email that said that they got my inquiry, and to wait 45 days to get back a decision to see if they're interested, before I actually send in any work for them to review. Never heard a word back. I...

The mounts in the Adventurer's Vault have significant costs. You might want to give him the mount as one of his treasure bundles or it might unbalance things. A nightmare, for example, costs 25,000 gold, the price of a 15th level item.

Nope. Magical darkness does exactly what it states in the description of the power. If it doesn't give a method of getting rid of it, then you can't short of some other power (like Dispel Magic). Just keep in mind that there are errated rules for darkness/invisibility/etc. that greatly impact...

That design philosophy was in 3e. It was called system mastery and is basically found in Magic the Gathering as well. The basic premise is that those with the most rules knowledge gain the most from the rules by being able to create combos that are more powerful than the average player can...

Make no mistake, I love the fact that the number of things that are unbalanced are so few that I cut off the list of encounter powers at 5 because I couldn't think of 10. I could add a couple more to that list, but not 5 more.