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I saw a suggestion (I think it was attributed to Jonathen Tweet) that extended rests be tied to milestones instead of day/night cycles, specifically to combat the issue of PCs going "nova" when there's only 1 encounter a day. Something like, players have to hit a milestone (or two) before they...

As far as being outclassed goes, I think that knowledge checks and/or DM hints should make it apparent - e.g. you find evidence that a group of trolls have passed through the area recently, and you're informed by the DM (after making a nature check or somesuch) that trolls are out of your...

...except that they started at 3rd level, automatically had psionic wild talents (whereas NPCs were supposed to follow the normal rules for determining that), and could have up to 20s (or more with racial modifiers, which were twice the normal AD&D racial bonuses/penalties) in their abilities...

The soulknife seems like a poor fit for an official WotC class. The central shtick - that you can create your primary weapon out of your thoughts - conflicts with the design conceit of being able to use the cool loot that you find. See the 4e warforged's new relationship with armor, for an...

Except the diagonal room isn't 25'x25'. Turing the actual 25'x25' room on the diagonal results in a room that is 7 squares from N to S and W to E, not 10 squares as you drew.

Amazing thread! Although it's been a bit sad reading the repeated TPKs and dwindling group size. At least the players get to try out lots of new classes. :)

Note that the feat has been errata'd to only working 1/round.

As long as I've got this thread here, a related question came up in my last game. My fighter was adjacent to an enemy caster. The caster shifted, and I took my Combat Challenge attack. But she shifted into an adjacent square and then used a ranged attack on me (still not sure what the DM was...

I don't know that it's possible to quantify the effects. Certainly having opponents come in waves has a BIG advantage for the PCs (the off-board enemies cannot contribute to focus-fire or swarm tactics), but on the other hand the players might have blown all of their encounter and/or daily...

Ah ok, I always thought that OAs were basically immediate reactions.

The Double Aegis paragon feat for swordmages (from the FRPG) allows you to mark two targets with your aegis of shielding or assault class power. It goes on to say, "If both targets attack your allies, you must choose which of the targets to respond to. (you still have only one immediate action...

I stand corrected. :) Nice ideas, Dausuul.

I think the poisonous bite would be the racial encounter power. Multi-limb fighting... probably not going to happen in an official WotC product, for various reasons.* Ditto with the not wearing armor thing (look at how warforged changed in 4e). It looks like official 4e PC races have to be...

Well, I hope it's at least as good as Asmor's monster builder, which is super-fast (unlike the WotC web tools) and allows you to consult and pull in monster stats from the compendium.

One of the (later, I think) elements of Dark Sun that I always liked was that psionics was often called "the Way" or something like that. Psionics were referred to as mindbenders, although that defines a certain focus on telepathy.

Easiest way to figure out long jump distances: if you got a running start, your total skill check result is the number of feat you jump. Divide in half if you didn't get a running start.

Which, as I said, is more than the warden can do.

Which is why it should be left to individual DMs. Then what's the point? The players know, the characters don't, and any adventure exploring the unknown past becomes a wink-nod game between the DM and the players - there is no actual mystery involved.

The warden's marking is if anything a little on the weak side. They can't mark from range - I believe that all other defenders can, although in the swordmage's case their range is limited - and the effects of the mark aside from the -2 are lackluster. Consider the situation of a defender...

What's next, flumphs?!