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The encounter ends when you take a short rest. It's possible to have multiple encounters without rest, but that's not the norm.

Unless you're making up your own adventure, I recommend just using a battlemat. For some unknown reason, the vast majority of encounter areas I've seen for WotC's adventures don't match the tiles they've produced. We've used Chessex maps for years and never had a problem (that wasn't caused by...

You can use anything as an improvised weapon. Most things will suck at it. If you include "improvised weapon" in the things that let you trigger the defensive property, then you've invalidated the "must have another weapon" clause, because anything (or even nothing) in your other hand counts as...

If it's your first time playing, Keep on the Shadowfell is good. It's not a great adventure, but it's designed to introduce rules slowly.

Not as much as you might think. That's another difference between editions. Because hit points go up faster then damage, there comes a time when a coup de grace is just a free critical, and can't possibly kill something. Where exactly that point is I'm not sure, as I haven't run the numbers.

A shield is not a melee weapon in D&D. You can use it as an improvised weapon, but it doesn't count for the purposes of having a defensive weapon in the other hand.

But is it a bug of the hit rate or the stun effect?

It's just a fudge factor to make NPCs viable without loading them down with magical gear.

That's why I asked if you'd seen it. :) I haven't, so it's all guesswork on my part. Though my gut tells me that 5% less chance to hit isn't going to be noticable enough to stop the monsters from acting how they normally would unless the GM is doing some serious metagaming.

Have you seen a fighter built to be a pure PHB fighter and then had its version changed from +1 to hit to battle rager? That to me is the major hole in Battlerager design. A BR built as a full-blooded BR is (in theory) balanced with a standard fighter. But a BR built as a standard fighter gains...

You'll never learn if you don't try. And it really is incredibly easy if you've got the demo. Or, using the demo, you can click choose a race, class, type, and then click "quick character" to have it build one for you.

But not if that daily is from an item you've already used that day (i.e. you can't reuse the same item. Your "daily slots" go up by one, but your items don't refresh).

Thanks!

It's explained in the sidebar on the same page (187).

I started running Touch of Madness from Dragon magazine (10th level adventure, but they're an 11th level party). The party has a ranger and an avenger. There was also a rogue for a little while, but the combat he was in didn't have the avenger in it, and was against fliers so he had a rough time...

I didn't send it as a PM because I welcome any and all replies to my public post.

If you're replying to a single person and do not welcome input from others, perhaps a private message would be better than a public thread? Otherwise, isn't it kinda the nature of forums that posting in them assumes a willingness for group conversation?

An elite's hit points are only unrealistic if you describe them that way. Sure, if he takes 10 arrows to the forehead, it's a bit crazy. But if he barely dodges all but the last, which grazes his arm and leaves him bleeding, that's 4E. Without knowing his reason for having stats in the first...

Nail, did you read the whole thread? That's been covered. your quote is about identifying, not finding. In any case, a decision was made a page or so ago.

While some just repeat themselves. ;)