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I think the idea could be fine, depending on how your adventure plays out and how your players deal with this. I will say that broken weapons all over the place has the potential to shut down pretty much every melee character, which could be disastrous, depending on how it plays out. If you...

I know the power you mean (I'm playing a Skald right now in an online game). That's a good seed of an idea for how to deal with that situation.

I want to XP this post, but I've given you XP too recently. This is becoming more of a problem for me as I'm seeing less and less by way of discussion I can get behind on these boards.

Regarding rituals and their lack of use, I have found that by converting their cost to burn healing surges (like most of the martial practices do), has made them much more popular with my players. They get used fairly often. I have a system that I use for them, which I can share if this is of...

One way to approach it would be to give it regeneration at a large amount, but a Trait would indicate a hit from a silvered or blessed weapon would suppress it until the start of its next turn. The downside to that is that after one character strikes it, it becomes killable by anyone's regular...

For stuff like that, perhaps the keyword system could be used to outline situations where power use outside combat could contribute to skill challenges by substituting an auto success or bonus on a roll, or additional successes on a roll. In the above example, CaGI might substitute for an...

My local major chain is out of stock on everything, neither FLGS has any 4e stock (nor ever did), my preferred online game shop is low on stock and doesn't have everything I need, and amazon is likewise out of some items. I'll have to keep my eyes open.

Quickleaf - Thanks! I don't design all solos this way, but for the fight in question, it worked very well. The best part is, the players don't get to know about these things until after they've applied the conditions. Sometimes it took a round or two of trying before they figured out what was...

There are quite a few things I'd liked to have seen them do with a theoretical 4.5e Eliminate the Cruft - Get rid of junk feats, powers, items, etc. These things should be powerful and dramatic, IMO, especially Feats and Items. Powers should have more options for scaling, rather than...

Here is a solo that I put together for a party that was fond of proning and controlling the heck out of the battlefield. Some of its design was inspired by the final encounter in the Reavers of Harkenwold, which was really fun to run. The idea was to allow PCs to use whatever conditions and...

I have tinkered with the healing surge recovery rate and extended rest mechanics quite a bit in my games, and I am pretty happy with the results. The gist of it is that recovering Daily Attack powers from your class progression costs your character healing surges; 4 for your highest, and 3 for...

In order to pull in my campaigns, Next is going to have to cover all the bases that 4e does, and equally well or better. So far, I can't cover even a fifth of said bases, which is to be expected in a new edition, so I can't really fault it for that. YET. Also, this much-talked-about Tactical...

I guess we need to have some more in-character dialogue then; someone needs to tell her that what she said made sense in ways she didn't realize, because she's not seeing it at the moment ;)

Because of the actual sequence of events, I think the bloodied kicked in before Sabynha's attack; when I added her crit to the damage, it was at 52 damage taken, then the Wrath bloodied it, then I attacked. Is that right jbear ? If so, their HP could be as low as 120 or so. Given their defences...

I don't want to let this die out! I like this group. I like our characters. I like the DM. I like the game. I say we keep going, as long as there's interest in doing so. :) To head off DM burnout, we can even discuss rotating DMing duties if necessary.

I'm okay with taking a chance on sheathing weapons. Everyone but Rain is in pretty good shape, so as long as she's okay with it too... I had thought that sheathing weapons might be something to try, but I'm not sure Sabynha would have thought of that, so she just said what was on her mind...

"I am sorry, you seem to be right, Wat. They are only reacting to us because we are a threat. We should finish this." Sabynha was saddened that there seemed to be no other way. With a renewed sense of purpose, she deftly manoeuvred around the battlefield and charged in to flank with Rain...

I edited my post to have Daphne charge in instead. We can then use her aura to put Rain & Zuri into a flank or to get one of them out of trouble. Also, the healing from the attack still applies.

I guess that's my brain balking at the non-euclidean geometry used in 4e's grid.