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Somebody asked for it, so here it is: Darkfire A flickering halo of purple light surrounds the target, making it easier to hit. Encounter Minor Action Ranged 10 Target: One creature Attack: Intelligence +4 vs. Reflex, Wisdom +4 vs. Reflex, or Charisma +4 vs. Reflex Increase to +6 bonus at...

The monk, I suppose. I was always curious about the idea of psionics, having never really experienced them in any other edition. But I just really don't like the power point system of modifying at-wills, for some reason. Just strikes me as something I wouldn't like to play. I'm also iffy on...

So you can make ruthenium out of your modus operandi for real-time strategy? Interesting...

It's been a long time since I played a Shaman, but I remember barely using Wrath of Winter. I picked it for the same reason you're considering it; to re-position your spirit quickly. But remember you have to hit with it in order to re-position. It sucks to miss with it when you really need your...

Rechan... I will so totally play in your campaign. Online games are tough. They certainly have benefits; they're convenient for those with a busy schedule or little money and can't deal with travel time each with week. They allow you to do some creative things with maps, artwork, music, etc...

Not a huge fan, flavor-wise. Read the design article; it's pretty funny. "I had this great idea for a guy called the ironjack, and he was supposed to be this awesome Feywild trickster-warrior... but, then that didn't work out. So here's a Psionic Defender, I guess." They really just seem like...

Man, I'd love my DM forever if he fed me. Also... have any actor friends? Community theater? Used to do theater in high school? Invite them over for the evening, and have them provide some of the 'local color' using their wackiest accents and character quirks.

For the same reason I don't like aliens in Indiana Jones. Oh, wait...

It depends on whether you want to encourage this behavior a bit. Are the players angry at each other? Or just the characters? If it's just the characters, then heck yeah, load on the Roleplaying XP. As long as the party has the option of booting out the evilish cleric/avenger and getting the...

Alright, good points, all. I've decided not to do this. I'll have to find another way to make undead threatening.

1) Powers, especially At-Will powers. One thing that always bugged me about playing D&D was the patheticness of playing a level 1 wizard. Cast your two spells today, and well, guess it's crossbow time. Screw that! Merlin didn't use no crossbow! At-Will powers actually let a mage be a mage. For...

So... how terrible an idea is this? I'm planning a campaign world that is focused around the undead. I decided it might be a good idea to give the PCs races vulnerabilities. I've figured PCs with the 'natural' origin would get a vulnerability of 5/per tier to poison, while PCs with the 'fey'...

I can't believe I have to say this, but I feel like it needs to be said. The thread title was a joke, people. I do not believe this person's character sucks (or sucked, as our game has since fallen apart). I don't believe the player sucks, his intelligence sucks, or even that his build sucks. If...

He's an assault swordmage, as I've said a few times in this thread before. 18 Str, 16 Con, 14 Int. It's all a moot point, however. The DM just emailed us all, informing us there would be no more games because his schedule changed unexpectedly. I'll probably never play with these people again...

"New house rule, guys. No rogues. It's just weird to have you all backstabbing each other, when I know you're just going to go off and backstab each other in real life later."

I'm a video game fanatic, and believe in video games as an art form. Therefore, I often borrow heavily from them. Bioware's Dragon Age was a great game, though probably not the best ever. It had three aspects I really admired: 1) A close-open-close campaign design, a standard for their...

To provide more information: we used the standard point buy, as per the Character Builder, so 'bad rolls' can't be blamed for his stats. Also, the reason I see the issue as pressing is because stats are the one thing you can't 'fix' in 4e along the way. I fear that the longer it goes unsaid, the...

Heh, I just had my first game with him last night, and this was precisely the problem I had. I call it "Twin Strike Syndrome," where your at-will power is decidedly better than pretty much everything else I can do. I made some poor choices, too... Aggravating Force and Flaming Weapons, which...

Thanks for all the advice so far. A few things: 1) I examined my motives after I wrote that first post. While I don't think I was consciously jealous, it did occur to me that when I initially joined this group, I wanted to make a swordmage. When I was informed that the group already had a...

I played the first game of a campaign with a new group online today. Some of the people were new to 4e, possibly new to D&D in general. And that's fine, that's cool. But when the Swordmage told us he had a 14 Intelligence... I got worried. How can you tactfully bring this up? I'd like to offer...