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I'd compare it to MM only when there's a single target, in which case it's just the +4 average damage (+8 max). For multiple targets, we need to make some further assumptions. Say the wizard has a 60% chance to hit Ref/Will, there are N adjacent targets, and the wizard's static damage bonus is...

Now that Winged Horde is out, a lot of the wizard level-1 encounter spells don't look so good. I'm playing a staff wizard with Winged Horde, Magic Missile, and Enlarge Spell, and I'm comparing the possible encounter spells to the at-wills: Astral Wasp: Less likely to hit than MM (vs. Fort)...

I've seen this come up in discussions about domination, and clearly it's pretty disruptive -- the DM has to work out a ranged basic attack with an improvised weapon, then decide what the creature's attacks will be like without a weapon. The way I'd probably go with this is: Creatures don't...

This seems pretty ridiculous... I'm trying to see if there's actually anything wrong with the interpretation. Charm of Misplaced Wrath (wizard encounter 1) has the effect: The target is dazed until the end of your next turn. You slide the target 3 squares. The target then attacks a creature of...

Line of Effect: You can target a creature or a square if there’s an unblocked path between it and you—that is, if you have line of effect to it. If every imaginary line you trace to a target passes through or touches a solid obstacle, you don’t have line of effect to the target. When you make...

1) The close burst 1 hits blue and red, but not yellow. Neither blue nor red has cover. #2 depends on #3, but if you assume that D&D uses a 3D grid of cubes instead of a purely 2D map (never explicitly stated, but how else can you have elevation and flight?), then the answers are: 2) Yes...

Yes, all the premades were level 1. Definitely weapon dependent. The character was wielding a carrikal (battleaxe made out of a jawbone) and had a heavy shield.

A little more info on the Battlemind, from the DDXP Dark Sun premade character. The two at-wills that the premade character had were: Bull's Strength Melee, Con vs. AC, 1[W] + Con damage, and you push the target 1 square. Augment 1: +1 reach for this attack. Augment 2: Instead of melee, it's...

I just played the Dark Sun intro adventure at DDXP; here's what I learned about the Dark Sun rules (which may change before the setting is published): There are at least two new races, Thri-kreen and Mul (no surprise there). Thri-kreen are +Dex/+Wis, speed 7, and they have a couple racial...

Compared to combat challenge... it actually sounds pretty similar. Battlemind: If you ignore my mark while adjacent, you suffer the consequences of your own attack. Fighter: If you ignore my mark while adjacent, you suffer the consequences of my attack. Battlemind: If you try to shift away...

I was also building a 1st-level wizard and looking at feats. For some reason, I don't like Improved Initiative. It's a solid feat, and a wizard probably gets the most use out of it, so I put together some numbers to see if I could justify not taking it. For my example, I'm looking at a...

It's not a throwing hammer, but the Crossbow Caster feat in Dragon 381 allows you to use a crossbow as an Artificer implement.

Now that becomes some impressive damage (if the DM doesn't rule that vorpal requires actually rolling the maximum value rather than changing your roll to the maximum value). The expression for each die of damage would be: x = 1/4 * 2 + 3/4 * (4 + x) x = 14 So the average damage for each [W]...

Dual-wielding glaives with reach 3 sounds pretty fun, but the expected damage for this isn't as crazy as you might think. We can describe the damage of a d4 with brutal 1 and vorpal as x = 1/3 * 2 + 1/3 * 3 + 1/3 * (4 + x) where x is the expected damage of each die. Solving for x, we get x...

It's an RPGA rule; it's not actually in the PHB.

I agree that the statement about not preparing the same spell twice in the PHB is redundant, but that doesn't make me think that the FAQ should be interpreted differently. Most places where you can choose a power (gaining a new power, retraining, etc.), you also have the option of choosing a...

It's described poorly in the PHB; the FAQ (question 8) does a better job. It describes a wizard choosing one spell "from the list of 1st level daily spells in her spellbook", another spell "from her list of 5th-level daily spells in her spellbook", etc., and that you can't choose a spell from a...

Yeah, that would work. At level 9, retrain 5B -> 5C for: Level 1: 1A, 1B Level 5: 5A, 5C Level 9: 9A, 5B Then at level 10, take expanded spellbook and retrain 1A -> 1C for: Level 1: 1B, 1C, 1D Level 5: 5A, 5C, 1A Level 9: 9A, 5B, 9B At level 11, drop expanded spellbook and get to the...

Sure. The text from the PHB is "You can replace a power with another power of the same type (at-will attack power, encounter attack power, daily attack power, or utility power), of the same level or lower, and from the same class". As far as I can tell, though, if you retrain a 5th-level power...

Interesting... can you use that without actually changing a class feature, just to retrain more powers and/or feats? I could see it going either way, so it would come down to how this has been ruled in the past.