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    I don't get the dislike of alignment as a character-building concept

    As people said above, alignment the concept fine, alignments the mechanic = tasty sacred hamburger. It was downgraded from having mechanical significance to being roleplaying guidelines in 4E, which is all it ever should have been. The only way it matters in 4E is if your Divine character's...
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    Why didn't I think about this before?

    Yeah that would be the one. Sorry, I've been away from the forums for a few days :)
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    D&D 4E Tips for a new 4E DM

    So give them just Essentials (which is an option in the CB) and let them make their first round of characters there. Run the first adventure or 2 and ask them what they think of it all. If people are enjoying the classes and characters, keep going. If people would like to change things up...
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    Dragon 404 & Dungeon 195 ToC Are Up

    Most likely yes :) Good luck w/the article tho, I'm always happy to see more good material come out for classes
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    Charge question

    But the rules for Charge still do say that each step has to bring you closer to the creature. These rules trump IMO and by following RAW, Thunder Hooves Rage does NOT allow you to charge thru someone, turn around and smack them. You could use a normal move to pass thru them and attack them...
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    What's wrong with scaling (and levels, bonuses, advancement, etc)?

    Or turn on inherent bonuses, hand out whatever items you want and if they're at level it won't change anything. If they don't have a magic necklace tho, their defenses won't suffer.
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    What's stopping WOTC from going back to 3.5?

    It IS irrelevant when it can be shown that it changes significantly from week to week and that declaring PF the victor when they had a definite minority of the books on the list is statistically incorrect. The quality of the data released here is nil. We don't know how many copies we are...
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    What's stopping WOTC from going back to 3.5?

    Earlier in this thread I showed you why counting Amazon sales as data is a and idea. Yes you had the PF Core book at #1 that day, but 4E held well over half the top 20 slots. Here is the list today. Note th PF Core book is at 15 and we have more non-4E or PF products in the top 20. 4E has...
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    If I could ask WotC for a few reasonable things...

    The amusing thing about your comment as a whole is that deployed soldiers are an excellent reason for electronic versions of books. Stick them all on your laptop to save space in your packing. Only so much room and do you want to take 20 hardbacks into a combat zone? As far as the online...
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    Dragon 404 & Dungeon 195 ToC Are Up

    The question is how many more power sources are they planning to give us? Are we going to get a Heroes of X for every keyword imaginable? I don't see this as a very deep well honestly. These new books are related to the different areas they revamped things into in 4E. Feywild, Shadowfell...
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    What's wrong with scaling (and levels, bonuses, advancement, etc)?

    Right, but equivalent hit dice monsters were definitely a match for players and things like kobolds and goblins would quickly be left behind in the danger department, barring framing 8 kobolds on each target like Dragon Mountain :) The average housecat could kill a L1 Wizard in older editions...
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    Why didn't I think about this before?

    There was a thread here on ENWorld awhile ago where someone linked to a business card they had created that had all the monster math, you just had to plug in levels. Was a very nice little item
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    What's wrong with scaling (and levels, bonuses, advancement, etc)?

    If you have 30 HP at 1st level and 30 HP at 15th level, that 1st level orc will always be a threat. That's just great if I'm playing Rolemaster or WFRPG where any enemy you run into can, and should be expected to be, a threat. That isn't D&D tho. D&D has always been much more high fantasy in...
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    In the PDF age all adventures should be compatible with all editions

    B/c it's an awful tradition that should have died the death long ago. I'm not a big fan of modules anyway. Even a lot of the modules some people consider classics, they don't consider them classics b/c they were well written, it's all nostalgia speaking. It isn't about hitting a balance...
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    Dragon 404 & Dungeon 195 ToC Are Up

    I agree about the Runepriest getting more support. Sadly, given the shift toward more Essentials style classes, a lot of the later classes have gotten less support. Finishing the 2nd round of power source books would help with that.
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    Charge question

    No problem. Switching the enchantment from Vorpal to Vanguard would still serve to make his charges better and is possible at current level, altho if the players are level 6, it would only be +1. The +2 version is a L8 item. Keep him from getting any other treasure for a bit and the +2...
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    Charge question

    Badge of the Berserker will let you ignore OAs, but I'm curious what there is that lets a bugbear charge thru enemy squares. Plus that whole charging thru to the other side of a target and the one you ran thru is the one who is your charge target. That is just plain incorrect.
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    Charge question

    Average damage for 1d12 brutal 2 is 7.5. Average damage for 2d6 brutal 2 is 9. Extra 1.5 average damage for a size increase is pretty nice. High crit will add up nicely, especially when you get to Paragon tier. Add in the exploding die factor and the daily bonus damage, which I would assume...
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    What is the best Schtick you've ever...

    yeah and if his spell ever fails, I bet he turns pretty green too :)
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    Charge question

    Halfling w/the Underfoot feat and a Badge of the Berserker. He can charge thru a pair of giants and attack the 3rd one. He can't stop on the far side of one and have them be the target of a charge, but there are legal ways to do the charging thru enemies w/o OAs EDIT: Admittedly Underfoot is...
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