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If the spell were range 2 (melee touch), then large creatures could buff allies 2 squares away. If it's Close Burst 1 they can only buff allies 1 square away. the circumstances necessary to make it an issue (a large cleric wishing to buff another ally when they can't get closer to one another)...

In theepic game I'm running the PCs have between 45 and 55 point buy dependong on the PC, though they did have to earn a lot of those points through play.

Close Burst 1 would have done the exact same thing and been much more in line with the other powers in the game. It would have slightly penalized Large and larger casters, but that's unlikely to ever be an issue.

There are skills that allow retries with no negative effects. If you don't allow taking 20, do you make the player roll over and over again until he manages to roll a 20?

Then you'll probably want to use the first option. :) I personally prefer to read the rules as an organic entity born from the minds of humans who were looking to have a fun and balanced game, not an excercise in language parsing. There's nothing wrong with the other way, I just don't find it...

It depends on your level of rules lawyering. If all you care about is literal interpretation, the weapon could be held by anyone or anything. If you want to follow the rules as the designers intended them, the flavor text ("Your weapon glows with divine radiance, enhancing your attacks") seems...

The DMG suggests to assume the players roll a 20 on search checks if they have time to be thorough. That's how I do it.

If you have any of the Legend of the five Rings main books, they handle mass combats fairly well in that system. A rough translation to 4E would be to make the entire battle a skill challenge (possibly also rolling for the NPC general. Successes and failures trigger random events ranging from...

Have a single prepped encounter or a string of easier ones for the PCs, and use the battle raging around them as mobile terrain, "traps," and hazards.

My misunderstanding. Looks like we were on the same page all along. Ah well, at least it killed some time. :)

True, but unless you're wanting to extend the range, it's easier to just do a lookup table (in excel), or an array / enum (when programming).

Right, like I said. The semblance of a pattern is there, but no pattern (currently) exists. Whether they messed up, consciously changed it (my assumption), or lucked into something pattern-like doesn't change the fact that there are irregularities which destroy any chance of it being usable for...

Weight is also a factor, but yes, you can test. If you have the time and inclination. Most of us don't, and prefer the psychological boost of simply changing out the die. Whether it has a real world effect or not is meaningless, since it has a mental one. Either it a) has no effect but to make...

Here ya go folks. I'm not as mysterious as Dracorat. If the mods don't like it, they're free to delete it. I'm not seeing what he's seeing, especially in regards to delta 2, which has the illusion of regularity but jumps all over the place (levels 12, 13, 22, and 23 destroy any chance of a...

It only has 0 effect in a world where dice are perfectly shaped and weighted. Whether due to production errors or being rolled and banged around in a dice bag for a while, it is possible for some dice to lean towards a set of numbers because of irregularities. Changing at that point would...

Looks like it. I can think of more troubling things they've done.

It would depend on how the condition came about. Grapples, nets, and ghoul claws have the same end result but different ways of getting there.

As has been discussed before, the AV armors, while technically power creep, are really just a smoothing of the curve. Without them there are major leaps in AC as you level. With them, the transition is more linear.

Hyp answered the question. He was only using wands as an example. In short: which implements you can use is a function of your class, path, etc.; not your list of available powers. Merely having access to a power (through an item, racial ability, or whatever) does not grant you the ability to...

To clarify, I'm not saying that all GMs will railroad. Just that if the GM wants to, it's not going to matter what out of combat rules exist for the BBEG in your campaign. A GM has infinite resources at his disposal. if he's determined that your character is going to (for example) turn left, he...