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You're right. If you want to do more than hold them in place you'll need to restrain them. Have your character bring manacles or rope along, and tell the GM how you're restraining the opponent. With luck he'll check out page 42, get a damage rating and DC, then tell you to roll the dice.

Any encounter can count as a milestone if the GM wants it to, whether dice are rolled or not. And not every encounter will help reach one. Just some random peasant bashing won't work unless the PC is very low level. But you could always change it to be a -1 until the party earns their next...

They qualify. And can take more than one just like clerics can.

It makes sense within the framework of encounter design. A +5 sword is a very high level item. It's never going to be found in the hands of a 5th level NPC opponent because either the NPC is too weak to be a challenge or the sword is well above the party's treasure levels. So while there are...

You subtract the threshold from the bonus of the item, not from the NPC. Since bonuses are never negative, you can't hurt the NPC by giving him gear.

Definitely have them use it. It may not matter if it doesn't overcome their magic threshold, but it doesn't make sense for someone who owns a powerful items to leave it in their pocket so their killers can benefit. And they don't know they have an item threshold.

Doh! Sorry about that In that case, I don't remember an invoker either.

Unless they make some major changes between this version and print, the only thing they share in common with 3e's Invoker is the name. There's no possession or pacts with ancient beings.

The level 1-3 articles aren't for playtest, they're just previews. They aren't intended to be used.

The Drake Swarms are crazy. There's also the Yuan-ti with the dominate that recharges on a 3+. It's to hit bonus vs. Will is higher than other 17th level monsters have when attacking AC.

When you're tied up, hit by an effect that says it restrains you, or whenever the GM feels it appropriate (for instance, I'd probably rule that someone grabbed by one person per limb was restrained instead of immobilized).

The forced movement has to get you out of their reach, so it's a little harder to do when they're bigger than medium.

True, but how many campaigns disallow both buyingmagic items from others and crafting your own?

You were right on both counts.

They've stated publicly that they not only don't care if people share accounts, they encourage groups to do so. They may have changed their mind since then, but not that I've seen.

Looking back over the maps while composing my response to Dragon, I thought of a couple more things wrong with the orbs. - Any monster that relies on terrain can be nullified. Lurkers will be hard pressed to lurk when there's nowhere to hide that can't be reached in a single move action. -...

What's the party makeup. Monsters that are fairly close to one another in power can be vastly different depending on the PCs' builds.

Yep, it's powerful. If someone fails their first save, it's time to start the heal checks for +2. There are constant items and consumables that help against poison directly, or indirectly by giving you save bonuses against being weakened. Depending on how you interpret it, an amulet of...

Thank you, that's the point I've been making all along. The point is that you're not fighting the entire encounter. If an encounter is balanced for your party, and you split it into pieces, is it still balanced? The orbs aren't as useful against a solo, unless the GM has designed some...

Only a few of them care about your surges. The rest have other triggers. All magical tattoos react to the character's inborn abilities: surges, being bloodied, etc. Presumably it's because they're more than just an item, they're tied directly into your nervous system.