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Bacon of Hope Cleric Attack 1 A burst of divine grease from sizzling celestial boar meat burns your foes. The radiant, delicious smell lingers around your holy symbol and improves party morale and your healing powers for the rest of the battle. Daily * Divine, Healing, Implement Standard Action...

I like the idea immensely. Way unbalanced compared to the base classes, at least from what I've gotten through so far. It would probably be ok if your party had the fan-created Dragoon, though. They're about on the same level, as far as I can tell. But if you want to run 4E straight, here's a...

Agreed that creating a list of tasks beforehand is tedious and fails to account for player creativity. It is still a good starting point, though, in the way that current skill checks suggest primary skills. I would have no problem with a player devising a new task and counting that towards the...

I smell the sarcasm, but I'm going to assume it's all in good fun :) I'm with you about 4e placing too much emphasis on combat at times - at least we have more standardized and ennumerated XP awards for story and skill uses on this go-round. That being said, a skill challenge and a combat...

Let's also acknowledge the elephant in this room - believability. While a 2nd or 3rd ed (even 1st, for those still playing it) escape from prison was sort of a nebulous thing to DM - what are the rolls? how good do they have to be? - the completion didn't feel strange. You escaped when you...

Have a Link http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?t=231534 I thought it was a pretty fair system, myself. Used it in a campaign.

There seems to be an amazing amount of resistance to reflavoring powers that I don't quite follow. Heck, I've got an unarmed dual-wielding Fighter that actually hits with both fists each round at level 1. How, you ask? Cleave. His off-hand always does his STR mod in damage and that's fine...

Firelance and Frostmerrow had come up with an alternate system on the homebrew forums that addressed some issues that the current skill system and even Stalker0's Obsidian (which, btw is a solid system - no slight to Stalker0 for all his hard work here :D) didn't address directly. It didn't...

Speak With Dead This has a lot of room for bizzare uses as written. First, every murdered victim found in enough time could be his or her own witness in court. Second, since you're asking the corpse, not the soul of a creature, there's never a reason to take hostages or interrogate most...

Action Economy and Non-Combat Powers Agreed with many here. There are two total different situations to consider when debating which race has the best powers. One of the major additions to the design of 4E is purposeful action economy. The best combat powers improve your ability do to more...

The same question over and over Once again, we on the 4th edition boards find ourselves debating the same old question - now under the guise of "can the Paladin actually stop things from hitting squishies?" The question, of course, is this: What is good rules design? Is it a standard...

"Gawd. That hurts. My main problem with it is now, just like before, you have to see the future and wonder which will be more important that particular day, Blur or Feather Fall... sigh." is not entirely right. It's more like having to choose between Fireball and Acid Breath (from 3E). In 4e...

Something Breaks is always a good one. For physical challenges, a player twists an ankle, sprains a wrist, etc (good for an oft-unseen Heal check). If the rogue is picking a lock, one of his tools gets jammed. For more talky challenges, try Second Opinion. Some NPC comes up with a...

Grasping Shadows is certainly more powerful damage-wise than most other Wizard Encounter powers, but honestly, a single turn of slow isn't amazingly good. If all the character was going to do was shift anyway, it completely defeats the effect. If it was 'slowed, save ends,' I'd wonder about...

CON also works well for the Star Pact powers, which is perhaps what you meant to say? I have a half-elf Wizard who took Eyebite for sticky situations. It's not a true mutli-class, obviously, but it's come in really handy on more than one occasion. Depending on the splay of enemies, an...

I had 5 players, so it's really not that much. Overall, the system worked well. It had flavor, made sense and was well-structured. Unfortunately, most everyone wanted the Ranger to make all the skill checks and just blow over it, so it wasn't the biggest hit in the world. This is a new group...

Glad you all approve. :) Some design notes for my version of this challenge: 1) I have to describe how many exactly similar towns? No thanks. 2) I'm a plot guy. The idea that you could do a skill challenge this long and possibly not come away with any detail info annoys me. I'll spot you...

I like the Wild Magic and Chaotic Mind abilities. Student of Chaos seems kind of pointless - it's nice if you really want to hit with a certain ability, but you're giving up so much more potential (an extra action in a turn is HUGE) for something that may or may not happen anyway. 'Spend the...

I've read both this method and Stalker's method (actually 2) of skill challenges and find this one to be the superior version. I'm running "Heathen" from Dungeon #155; it contains a large skill challenge that I find difficult to understand RAW - the characters must navigate through a forest...

I didn't see this posted in the thread anywhere, so I'll refer everyone to Andy Collins' "Converting Your Characters" article on the main site where he builds the Monk as a variant unarmed Ranger, and yes, the Monk's fists do d8 damage and have +3 proficiency. That being said, the simplest way...