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You can also email the RPGA from the WotC website and request a card/number I think. At least you used to be able to.

The secret is that yes, your defenses don't keep up. However, you have a multitude of ways to recover or prevent that damage in the first place. You have Immediate Interrupts to impose penalties or remove PCs from harm's way altogether. PCs have powers that will completely undo whatever...

Each company has a different guideline. Keep in mind that some publishers (i.e. dragon magazine) specifically says that you cannot shop product around to other publishers when you send them something for consideration. Basically, you just need to get the submission guideline for each place you...

None of the bard songs or effects require extended singing to get an effect....why is endurance valued over cunning and nimbleness? You have a stronger yell to make someone heal more? No previous bard incarnation (in either D&D or literary works) valued their endurance over the above two...

Is nobody else bothered by the fact that Constitution is one of the primary attributes? My concept of bards would have them be more cunning (Wis) or nimble (Dex) than having great endurance. I understand the mechanical advantages of Con, but I'm really bothered by the flavor of it. I can see...

Just make a wizard or warlock with the ritual caster feat. Describe all spell effects as undead based. Fireburst? It's a flaming skull that appears, streaks screaming towards your enemies and explodes in a fiery doom. Flaming Sphere? You conjure a ghostly hound surrounded by fire that...

My 4e wizard has a familiar. It is composed of pure magic though and only exists as long as she has spare actions (mage hand, light, prestidigitation).

It takes DC15 to move that lever. I think Mage Hand has a Str of 2? So it would take a roll of 19 or higher. Might take a while, but you can eventually do it. As for the OP, not every skill check has to be a skill challenge and reward xp. If something is so trivial that the PCs don't really...

Me too...especially since it's a great way to warn every other creature in the dungeon that the party is headed their way =)

Our group was fighting annoying flyers at 4th level that liked to do flyby attacks, keeping out of reach. So my Warlord ran next to the fighter, jumped up 5' in the air, then used Leaf on the Wind with a spiked chain on the bat 15' up, swinging us around so we switch places, bringing it...

I always find it strange when fantasy characters have my name. One of these days I hope to run into a real Elrond or Galadriel. Cedric

Basically the party was on route to meet up with a treasure hunting gnome in an isolated seaside village. They arrive by ship through thick fog at sunset to find the village eerily deserted. The light tower north of the village is dark. The only indication of habitation is light coming from a...

Then you've identified a potential problem with the class. =) I doubt anyone envisions barbarians in full plates when they think of the class, so this is probably something that should be brought to the attention of the designers as a potential flaw (if they're not aware of it already).

This. If they have the same AC as other strikers then they would most likely have the same hit points as other strikers, otherwise they'll be overpowered. Their defense is hit points. I don't think it would sit well with anyone if the Barbarian has the same hit points as a Rogue, so we're...

WotC "Hey guys, I don't think we have enough War- names. Hows about another one?" Warlock Warlord Not to mention Warshaman, Warbard, Warbarian... ;)

I play in the RPGA and the Artificer has been legal in the LFR campaign for over a month now. I have one that is currently second level. I've seen one in a Return to the Moathouse game at 5th level and I've seen two other people play it, at 2nd and 3rd levels. So far it seems a fairly...

Thanks for the help all. I created a variant Horror effect based on the 4e disease track, and it worked fairly well. (I could post it here if anyone's interested). The thing that conveyed the proper tone however was exactly what everyone else here was saying. It is the description and...

I have a game coming up where I plan on using some form of horror rules for a variant 4e session. I'm looking for tips on horror mechanics you've used for any system, and hopefully I can adopt it somehow to 4e. What system did you like best, and why? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Concise writing where rules are divorced from flavor text as much as possible doesn't make 4e a programming manual. I can't recall how many arugments I had with my group over rules discussion in 1e, 2e and 3e because of "prose based description". "Fluff" language used to describe "crunch"...

Why not just use Ki as the power source then? According to the PHB, it's one of the planned power sources coming up (pg 54).