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I think another problem with the OP's original point is the equality of 'short rest' with 'five minutes.' While I understand the need for some sort of minimum absolute timing reference for perspective, the short rest to me feels like the opposite of an encounter. Trying to attach a...

A little too much, I think. Kill one minion every round as a minor? No. But I like the idea, and I'd do it this way... Collateral Damage - Rogue Utility 2 "Whoops. My bad." Daily. Martial, Stance Minor Action Effect: Until the end of the encounter, whenever you hit an enemy with a melee...

There are a small handful of powers that work really well outside of combat - perhaps even better! - as well as within it. Mostly utilities, of course. One that comes to me immediately is the Avenger's Oath of the Relentless Hunter that lets you determine distance and direction to a target...

I didn't see this posted anywhere, so forgive me if I'm rehashing.. Consider that the devs know what iconic class/race combinations are and wrote the bonuses to specifically play against it. Given the ferocity of min-maxing in D&D ::raises hand:: if the Dwarf was built to play a fighter, you...

Next idea: PCs have one round after defeating an enemy to administer a DC (15?) (20?) Heal check - or even more interesting, use a power! - to stabilize the fallen foe.

One of the more glaring differences between skill challenges and combat - which both primarily boil down to 'roll high a bunch of times' - is that dice rolls are not the only thing happening mechanically in combat. You have movement, HP tracking, terrain features, status conditions, etc. The...

1) Do you play online, and if you don't how interested are you? I play almost exclusively online nowadays as I draw an absolute crapton of wife aggro if I go somewhere for 3 or 4 hours without her. If I'm going to game, it's going to have to be online and fairly late into the evening. I...

Let's consider who at this point could be outshining the Bard herself at Diplomacy? It has to be someone carrying around a lot of CHA in the first place - so that's likely to be narrowed down to the Warlock or Sorcerer. Maybe a Rogue, Barbarian or Paladin, but that's a secondary stat for any...

Underpowered warlocks? Really? I have five words: Improved. Fate. of. the. Void. My party just knocked out three cursed foes with an AoE, so I get +6 to any d20 roll I like this turn? Yes, please.

You are correct in that teleportation is "instantaneous" which for game purposes has nothing to do with time and everything to do with what hinders your movement - which in this case is nothing, so long as you have line of sight. Flying is not instantaneous, so you can still run into stuff but...

I think Baberg is right about this - you don't grant your ally 'flying', you allow him or her to Fly a certain number of squares. It's kinda like Teleport. If I use a power to let an ally Teleport "x" distance, he doesn't get to keep teleporting afterward. Your ally Flies and then lands...

I wouldn't go freaking out just yet, Felon. While I don't have the book, I imagine that Dominant Winds move is probably Ranged 10 or maybe even Ranged 5. So the sorcerer would have to at least be nearby to keep his kite flying. Again, this is a guess until I get the book. Would someone like...

fba is correct by RAW from page 28 of PHBI "You can't replace a feat if it's a prerequisite for any other attribute you have (another feat or paragon path, for instance)..." That being said, if you swap out one multiclass feat for another multiclass feat, the new feat is still a prerequisite...

This thread is taking me back to my semester of Greek training at seminary. Like many ancient languages, early Greek has no spaces and little if any punctuation. Heck, you're lucky if the words don't change direction on you in the middle of a manuscript! On the other hand, this might be a...

So I'm going to crawl tentatively out onto this limb here and disagree that the sources are pointless from a purely mechanical basis. Power Sources lean toward different things; there are no monopolies, but there are distinct tendencies. Examples: Arcane - The Arcane base stats are Int and...

So the new Hybrid Class article is up, but those of us who don't subscribe to DDI of course can't see it. Would anyone be so kinda as to give the short version?

To continue this insanity: Can't Touch Dis - The PCs are sent on a mission to the infamous city of devils on an infiltration mission to recover information only. Problem is, they're slightly underlevel for the task and thus must be very careful to not be caught or noticed by anything powerful...

Dual-wielding eladrin ranger/swordmage, here I come! Yeah, I know - it's cheese

What I Think. I would like to see design for large scale dungeons and how to keep encounters within a reasonable time frame so I'm not up until 3:30am finishing a module! B-):devil:

There's a thread bout this in the general forum where I suggested that dual class characters are their own template - where multiclass trade the balance of classes for power flexibility, dual-classes have limited power selection to offset their balanced class features. However, I actually like...