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My DM made it person Lady sending us on the quest was a close personal friend of one of the other characters (which also explains why I never bothered to remember her name). Then he added another "feature" to the stone: at the time of creation, the individual it can kill is set. In stone, if...

How about a question to answer the question...if the cleric continues taking the damage until they fall unconscious, would you allow them to continue SoL until they died at negative bloodied? RAW, I would argue that the power has the character making the choice and they must make the choice not...

I'm unfamiliar with silverlight, so I'm not sure how this could be implemented, but instead of a 20 character limit, if they're afraid of attacks, limit it to a certain number per day. If I can only upload/create 5 per day, it may take me over two months to upload all of my characters (and...

I play in one in-person game, one play-by-email game, and close to 10 active play-by-post games (probably another 10 on "temporary" hiatus that I don't expect to come back). I've already cancel my auto-renew (good news is I am payed up through next May for a product I wouldn't have signed up...

To answer: I dunno. But maybe this is a chance for you to figure that out and report back with empirical data. If you're open to the idea, I would suggest some sort of arena scenario. The party takes on challenges of various strength for audience amusement. "Dead" characters are removed from...

I don't like this at all. I travel alot and use CB as a standalone app where I don't have internet access (building characters is a great way to kill time on airplanes). I would really have liked some way of being able to use CB while not being connected to the internet. I know this would...

battlemind To go in a completely different direction, have you looked at a battlemind? They have an at-will that gives damage resistance (it's an effect of Iron Fist, so it works hit or miss) to help you absorb hits all day long. For your mark, if they shift, you can shift 1 (usually enough...

Stop saying you're half-orc and recognize that you're half-whatever-else. Orc is not the same as half-orc just like druegar is not the same as dwarf. In my opinion, this is the mindset that is limiting you. It would be like hating Tiger Woods because you disagree with China's monetary policy...

Ya. The -5 is strictly from having total concealment/superior cover. This only applies to melee and ranged attacks. Area and burst attacks ignore concealment, and cover is determined from the attack origin square (not necessarily the square of the attacker, especially if it's a ranged area...

Monks are fun if you like moving around in battle (as I do). Their at-wills do lots of damage plus something extra (push/prone), they get good defenses, and they can do close bursts. I have a level 2 human stone fist monk with 18 dex/16 str, defenses at 20/16/17/15. Implement is a +1 Ki...

If I remember correctly (and I have nothing to back this up), landing in water from about 80 feet up (16 squares) is around the deadly point. I think (again nothing to back this up) about 1/2 of people falling off of 4 story buildings (8 squares) die. So as a real rough estimate, solely for...

Anyone care to speculate on the reasoning behind the once-per-round change to once-per-turn for sneak attack? I find it odd that the rogue was updated in this way but not other strikers (though I guess sorcerers already had it built in). I wasn't under the impression that rogues were behind...

I like the general idea but I think it would work best when combined with other ideas for getting some of the mechanics out of the way. For example, getting daily powers back after a 6 hour rest almost forces a DM to put a bunch of encounters in one day. Wandering monsters while traveling are...

ANY does not equal ALL "Any" is singular, it refers to one. It can be used in a generic sense to be one picked at random ("anyone would know", which implies "everyone knows") but it still refers to a single instance. Otherwise it would have said "...or all dazed, slowed, stunned, and...

Think of it differently. A low level magic item is low level because it's magic is poorly contained in the item. To magical senses, it's a sputtering bonfire of wasted potential - not going to be very powerful with the energy being wasted, but easy to locate. A high level item has had it's...

Seems like a one-trick pony (boar?). Assuming you can get CA before you charge, what do you do the next round? How many rounds of gimped "DPR" do you suffer from before you can set up your trick again?

The acrobat boots have an at-will that let you stand from prone as a minor (easily one of the "best-value" magic items, imho), so he doesn't need a utility for that.

The real benefit is the "free" opportunity attack. The combat advantage is just gravy (especially for BS Rogues if they missed out on Sneak Attack this round). The question would be, is this a condition that the monster is aware of (that a) you are vulnerable and b) attacking you provokes an...

I would argue that if there is any danger to climbing the rope (like falling damage once you're more than 10' above the ground) then you can no longer take 10. I'm surprised that no one mentioned the opening phrase under Cooperation: "In some situations..." As DM, you decide what those...

For the Portal Drake, they get a savings throw to grab hold of the edge. But it also says that even if the drake *can* teleport them to a square without an edge within reach, "...it might be better to pick a square that does, thus creating the possibility for a literal cliffhanger!"