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It is the GM's job to create fun and challenging encounters. If he sets it up in advance so that it must end in TPK or devolve into him fudging then he's a poor excuse for a GM and needs to read more threads and blogs about how to do things well.

Do you do the same thing day in and day out, or do you mix it up because you're bored? Now tack 1,000 years onto your life and answer the boredom part again. Low end green dragons slide the target 2 squares, which is not always going to be enough to throw someone over a ledge. Even when they...

Anything useful to add besides "look at how great I am"? It's likely having the opposite effect you think it is (assuming you think it'll make people respect your knowledge and manhood). Force Orb is a) not something you prep since it's an encounter power, b) a good option for a low level...

Challenging terrain + Dragon != gotta TPK Challenging Terrain + Dragon = hard fight that will be remembered A GM who doesn't have a dragon encounter where the dragon's surroundings play to its strengths needs to work on his encounter design and read a few more books with dragon lairs in them...

Either you're assumiong that Force Orb prevents coordination, or your claim snark about people not coordinating is meaningless. I take that back, either way it's meaningless. Yep. There are definitely times when it will be a better idea. There are also times when it won't. Excellent job...

Unless you miss. Then the crocodile swallows you, the ghoul immobilizes you, the phantom stuns you, etc. Thunderwave is great, but wizards who see it as their primary strategy are often going to find themselves in severe pain. Also, Thunderwave targets everyone. Force Orb won't kill the...

DMG p 176, though it's specifically talking about gaining vulnerabilities and resistances through tremplates. If a monster has vulnerability to a given damage type and then receives a template that grants resistance or immunity to the same damage type, it retains its vulnerability. For example...

Not all wizards have Scorching Burst or can/want to get close enough to Thunder Wave, plus Force Orb is more damage, harder to resist, and does extra damage versus incorporeal creatures with the right feat. So yes, it's not always a great tactic, but when it's their best bet why add to the pain...

Why is the DM making the player roll to flip over a peasant? Rolling is for when something is a challenge. Jumping a peasant with an epic acrobat is a simple matter of narration unless there's some sort of epic opposition involved. Cool. Thanks.

For me it would depend on the terrain. On flat ground I'd count the ground at their feet as being the square under them, and let the secondary effect target them. If the ground is uneven, it must poke up into their square, and so wouldn't count. But I'd usually rule in favor of the PC. IF...

In programming and other sciences perhaps, but in common terminology a bottleneck is frequently used (and defined by some dictionaries) to mean any point in a process where progress is impeded. Just saying.

Ah, that explains it. You think I'm saying things I'm not, and disagreeing with them. I've never said a single square of the ground is an object. I'd just have them target "the ground" and hit creatures around that area. I'd know what they meant when they tried it, and they wouldn't expect...

There is no target expansion happening. Force Orb specifically states that it can target objects. No fiat, no controlling authority. Just reading the rules of the power under discussion.

He's trying to miss because they didn't see the limit on daily item usage. If you can use 300 magic items to increase the duration to a guaranteed 300 rounds, that's far and away better than a simple save ends.

He's treating it as a creature, and letting effects which would target a creature (such as the dragon's breath) target it. It's certainly within the DM's perogative to do so, but is unrelated to spells which specifically target objects. One asks the question "is the ground an object" the other...

Player: I want to play _____, what skill do I use? Me: What skill do you want to use, and how are you applying it to the game? Assuming they're wanting level appropriate rewards, I'll check pg. 42 and decide whether it's easy, moderate, or hard based on their skill choice and description.

I can see situations where higher ground might result in combat advantage or a +1 - +2 bonus, but would never make it a general rule. Nobody ever climbed any terrain in our KotS games. There was no point. Granted, the defender usually did his job and our ranged attackers were either not...

How did Orb of Imposition come into this? It has nothing to do with the situation in the OP, which has already been debunked several times over.

I don't have my books with me. Where is this rule at?

LOL Like I said, we're on different wavelengths. I'll do as the DMG says and give my players the benefit of the doubt without feeling the need to extend it to illogical and unfair absurdities. Feel free to clamp your viking hat on tight instead. As long as everyone is having fun, our differing...