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This is a homebrew 4e D&D campaign (though I did swipe the general concept of the Empire of Nerath from the 4e DMG). It’s played in old-fashioned real life around a table. Hope you enjoy it! ... Letter of Resignation from Malis Kristolm, Former High Priest of the Temple to the Raven Queen...

Definitely take the 2nd level utility bless weapon. At low levels it completely replicates a striker's class feature for one encounter - +1 to hit and +1d6 for the whole fight. Not so impressive at high levels, but at low levels your party's strikers will be very jealous (unless you run 6 or 7...

I don't mean to derail the post into the fine details of what does and does not consist of a simulationist vs. narrativist game... My point was just that that distinction should really drive the answer to the OP's original question. I see the treasure question as just one of many things that...

I agree most people will have some narrativist tendencies, rpg's are usually about telling stories. Nonetheless, the idea behind a simulationist game is that even though the players don't see the background of how something came to be, the dm plans it out and sticks to it as though it were...

There's definitely no right answer... but your opinion depends a lot on whether you're a simulationist (keeping the behind-the-scenes world logical and consistent is more important than telling an engaging story) or narrativist (story trumps world). A simulationist will want to 'punish' the...

Either way, any essentials monsters likely won't be updated in the current adventure tools program. The monster builder is being redone as an online only application, thats where you'll find the monster vault monsters eventually. The old program will probably never be updated again. If this...

This is mostly true, but there are some other unobvious things they could be a lot more explicit about. #1 on that list by far: Does attacking through a summons provoke Opportunity Attacks on the caster? You're using the summoning power which is listed as a 'Ranged' power, but it's the...

Ah, well then, I consider my familiar logic officially owned in the face... I think the argument still comes down to whether you see a difference in "an effect preventing OA's" and "not having OA's". I can see how you might read those as being two different things, but I think they're...

This still doesn't explain why familiars in their active state can't flank. They are creatures capable of taking actions and even capable of attacking if you choose the right one. Yet, even when not subjected to an OA-preventing effect they can't flank. I would say familiars can't flank...

Agreed, ignore all parts of my argument referencing RAI. I think summons without opportunity attacks don’t grant flanking b/c of RAW: 1. Per Wednesday Boy’s quote from the rules, you don’t get flanking if you can’t take opportunity actions. 2. Per Aulirophile’s posting of the summoning rules...

It's just in the standard summoning rules: Any bonus that goes away after some time (end of next turn, end of encounter, etc...) would be a temporary bonus, so wouldn't help your attacks with the summons. However the summons is a creature so it can be subject to effects on its own - temporary...

Plus, note the summoning rules posted above- a summoned creature has no actions of its own by default and the default commands include no opportunity actions. It only gains an opportunity action if a special command for an opportunity attack is given in the spell's description.

This seems like a very strict RAW interpretation. Besides summons don't have any opportunity actions other than opp attacks (possibly). RAI clearly suggest that flanking is tied to opportunity attacks, so no opp attacks=no flanking. Plus, that rule is from the player's handbook- it's written...

No math will ever be exactly right for every party out there. Its always going to be a balancing act of trial and error. If your party is dying, reduce the damage some for all the monsters you throw at them or just use MM1 monsters. Or stick with lower level encounters. If they're wiping the...

The one thing you don't get to add is temporary bonuses. So if a warlord uses some power that gives allies next to him +2 to hit until end of next turn and you are next to the warlord and your summons is on the other side of the battlefield, you get +2 to hit if you cast burning hands, but not...

If the DM is going to gimp your class for completely arbitrary reasons you should switch to a different class. Plus, I think you can do this without changing any of the fluff/flavor of your character. Just reskin another class - i.e. a two-weapon ranger looks very similar to a rogue in...

Yeah, if everyone is all on the same power level, that's all that counts. I wouldn't sweat comparing the math of 'standard charactes' to your party. There's always gonna be differences between your party's performance in battle and the 'expected' performance, and you'll just have to get a feel...

Yeah, I can't overemphasize how broken (negatively) this character is to have a 13 in his primary starting stat. Nothing wrong with that if that's how you want to play, the character clearly seems to be built purely for the sake of roleplaying a certain type of character rather than being...

Reading the articles, I thought the author was headed exactly where ExploderWizard went. If the issue is action economy and solos able to be locked down, a very simple and elegant solution is to just give the solo more turns. I think PCs - 1 is a little much, though, since solos have a variety...

I'm with the OP on this one 100%. WOTC has waaaayyyy too many options for 4e. But I would argue it's NOT because there's too many options and it's too overwhelming (I agree with many other posters - the more options the better, why not have more things to do with your character?). There's too...