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The gimping is way more putting points into intelligence and wisdom than buying the skills. Without a decent stat bonus the difference between trained and untrained skills is basically "Well, I suck a little less". I wasn't playing the vampire so I didn't know about the utility. That does help...

The exact opposite, actually. We were going through gyrations trying to figure out WHY we weren't killing the Vampire. In character (I'm playing a Good aligned druid) of COURSE I'd kill a vampire. They're evil bloodsucking abominations against nature. Why the heck would I ever go adventuring...

Replying to several posts at once : I disagree with this. Yes, the player could have gimped his character and bought up wisdom and intelligence a little and bought skills that don't actually synergize with the mechanics of a striker very well. And if he'd done that he'd STILL be worse at...

I'd have thought that the most appropriate and merciful thing to do would be just to kill the cursed friend so that his soul could go to whatever reward awaits it.

Somebody brought a Vampire character to yesterdays LFR game, and man is it awful in that context. I'm not at all talking about the mechanics. I'm talking about the flavour. First, we had the massive problem of "And why are we adventuring with a vampire and not just killing it on sight?" Its...

The feat does give you "You gain the wizard’s Ritual Casting class feature" To me that always implied that you got what was described under Ritual Casting. If they meant "you get the Ritual Casting feat" why wouldn't they say exactly that? I'd say that the intent is ambiguous at best.

Although, ironically, it is something other classes DO get access to via multiclassing into wizard. Its a fairly minor issue but it bothers me that some fighter can be a better ritual caster than can my hybrid wizard. There are doubtless some edge cases where it wouldn't work but it seems to...

Its definitely very powerful and I certainly wouldn't want to see it used against us. But there are LOTS of PC powers that would be too deadly in the hands of monsters so I'm not sure that is a fair metric. There are limitations to it. We are currently fighting lots of undead and it is of only...

I admit that my basic view of vampires now mostly comes from Buffy, which is hardly canonical. But I think some of the tropes from there are fairly common. Vampires drinking human blood tends to be bad. It makes them harder to control, more feral, etc. And they develop a taste for the person...

Am I the only one who finds the flavour wonky? A lot of people are praising the flavour of the vampire class. But it seems very, very off to me that the expectation is that the other party members will ALLOW THE VAMPIRE TO DRAIN THEIR BLOOD. Sure, from a game mechanical view point you're...

As I said, in my experience it can be VERY difficult to determine how difficult a riddle can be. 10 year olds are a LOT better at solving some riddles than intelligent adults. But its really not intelligence per se. Its more a very nebluous similarity in the way at looking at problems.

On the specific subject of riddles, this sounds poor. Not so bad as to be horrible but poor. One of my main problems with riddles is that it is incredibly difficult to gauge how hard they are. And different riddles can be very different for different people. Or very different for the same...

Nothing particularly specific to recommend but I'd definitely try and tailor the quests to the individual characters/players. So, for example, if there is a lecherous male character have the quest involve the nubile daughter of one of the slaves. Depending on taste that daughter may turn out to...

From your original description it sounds to me that a straight up assassin with a MC into Warlock may also fit your character very well. Ie, just drop rogue completely.

Nothing that elaborate but in the current campaign several of the players are keeping a journal of their adventures. They're all written from the Character point of view. The ones that I write are a combination of writing down the events that I found of interest and personal character...

Have you considered encouraging them to take characters who are at the least multiclassed and perhaps even hybrids? Essentials means that they can't be hybrids by the rules but it would be fairly easy to kludge something. With only 2 specific characters you don't have to worry too much about...

While I mostly liked the article I found it ironic that he is talking only about D&D and not about roleplaying games in general. Just about everything that he says applies to ALL roleplaying games. So, in an article calling for us to embrace our similarities he starts by carving the industry...

There are a couple of advantages 1) You can bribe players for roleplaying, campaign journals, helping with the dishes, attendance, whatever 2) It lets you start new characters slightly lower than current characters if you want. They'll eventually catch up a little due to the experience being...

I don't like it very much. As is pretty much always the case in D&D, the numbers are completely absurd. For example, it costs 2400 gp to have an an armoury. This armoury is 24 squares (600 sq feet) and holds 50 weapons and suits of armour. Assuming that all 50 items are plate mail the cost...

Ah. Missed that. Thank you very much. I'm REALLY not liking the new interface. Way, way too many time that one has to tell it (again and again) that one wants to see all options please.