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You know, there's a campaign hook in here somewhere too. "Where have all the elves gone? Why are their cities intact but their people missing? And how did this town get razed overnight?"

Best. Thread. Ever. One point I feel should be added about the Happy/Sad Warlock earlier: The description stated that minions were in the Sad Warlock category. I couldn't possibly disagree more. Spending your first round doing nothing but cursing two or three minions is a favorite tactic of...

If you don't want to go crazy exotic, try the 'Auld Lang Syne' recording by The Cast. It's on YouTube, of course and also the Sex and the City soundtrack. The melody is familiar, but the accent gives it a foreign sound that I think would play well here.

Bingo. You can tell when grind is approaching because the players start trying to get clever in an attempt to make up for the lack of punch due to use of encounters and dailies. Everyone knows how the PCs' tactics are going to play out from that point forward and its an exercise in the...

it's back up, so never mind. Admins, you can kill this thread.

Mr. Chris Dane Owens may not be a terrific actor or singer (depending on your taste), but he sure as heck can channel page 38 of the PHB! He's probably as close to a real-life Eladrin as you're going to get. Creepy, really.

So I'm looking for the email address of a DM to who I am to send my token for Saturday's MapTool LFR game and the whole site is down. Anyone know something?

probably. I tend to shoot high and then lower rather than low and have to hike later. Stitch in Time is similar to other 'spend an action point, get a move action' so I think that's fair. The rogue doesn't even use minor actions that much. The Boots of Striding are level 9 and give you +1...

I like the concept! However, I'm not sure there's enough powers with the Charm keyword to justify making that a class feature. I might make it a class-only feat. Might be fun to have a 'psychic rebound' class power - once per encounter, upon taking psychic damage, the PC deals psychic damage...

Here, for your entertainment and enjoyment, is a translation of the 3.5E Swiftblade prestige class to the 4E paragon path format. Comments? Swiftblade Paragon Path You have learned to tap into small amounts of arcane energy for one purpose and one purpose only – raw, unadulterated speed...

I would probably write it such that you can switch out one of your current at-wills to make the Dilletante power at-will. That puts it more in line with Paragon multiclassing. Admittedly, this gives the half-elf a significant flexibility advantage as he could Paragon multi-class AND take this...

I think I'd use the CON score for HP and then everything else is Stamina. The amount of real hits you can take shouldn't go up much. It also gives the dragonborn and tiefling a little scare to use their abilities as 'bloodied' now happens much closer to zero.

So who's going to host the 'Druid Inspiration Party'? We need a boatload of animal crackers and the full collection of "Teen Titans" on DVD. Anyone? :P

::closes eyes... winces.. turns head.. but opens the can of worms anyway:: As a DM, if a PC using this rule was struck by a power that disarmed them, I would still have to mechanically consider them 'disarmed' - i.e. use a minor action to retrieve the 'weapon'. Maybe their gauntlet got...

A lot to read through here, but it seems viable enough. I do wonder if you're going to to totally ignore the clever 'cannon'/'canon' pun for the Brimstone Preacher ;)

Now who said I did it every encounter? ;) I don't do it every time and I don't tell the players when I do it. But if it's a large group of baddies, I want to only have to track a few sets of HP and so given the roughly 50/50 chance for a minion to hit a PC at appropriate levels, I find that...

That'll Leave a Mark is okay, but not spectacular. Useful, but nothing to write home about. Clinch Attack, OTOH, is very yummy. :) I might change the Weapon line for flail, whip, nunchaku, etc - these may not all be in the books yet, so apply as able. I'd take it anyway. Very nice...

This doesn't help much with the Solo or Elites, obviously, but something I've done to speed up battles: Assume all normal monsters are minions unless they successfully hit a PC and thus 'earn' staying time. If the PCs get initiative, the first few monsters they hit are all minions. It...

Agreed. In 4E, narrative description does not equal mechanics on a 1:1 basis. It's sort of the 'all chickens are birds but not all birds are chickens' idea. The narrative description of laying on the ground is part of the condition 'prone,' but the condition 'prone' in totality is a...

The question I ask myself upon seeing this is "what are my players' payoffs?" That is, what is it that makes them like playing the game? If my players are in it to spam powers and roll dice, then it is well within the spirit of the edition to simply have the thing land and fight them in...