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In general, yes, until almost every mage end-game whips out blood magic. Then it's really easy to justify siding with the Templars. Of course, that could just be poor writing/battles.

I like the layers idea. Anything that makes the product less cluttered, easier to read, and less wasteful to print is a big thumbs up in my book. I had no problems with the PDF contrast. I get the "bright" comment - there's a lot of relatively bright and warm colors in the sidebars (tans and...

This pretty much sums up my feelings exactly. I was hoping it would knock my socks off, and I left myself open to the possibility that it would. At this point now, I'm not angry, I'm not insulted... I'm just meh. I certainly didn't delete the offline MB and had no intention of doing so...

Subscribers Content -> WotBS on the left hand side. Linky.

I'm not so worried about features; I don't feel there's as much to cover as with the CB. Also, the old Monster Builder leaks memory like a sieve. What I am concerned about is any potential limits on the number of monsters. Aside from old math to new math conversions, I do a fair bit of...

By that metric, the best class to play hands-down is a S&S Warrior, unless you don't use a tank. Hawke is better equipped for it than Aveline due to the companion armors. The worst is probably Archer Rogue; Sebastian and Varric both get pretty good specialty trees. Spirit Healer might be a...

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I like the faster combat; I got very sick of DA:O's slugfests. However, all of the problems Bioware has with encounter design are still there; numerous trash battles, enemies appearing out of nowhere every battle, tedious boss battles, and so forth. Saying this is unique to DA2 isn't fair...

Nielsen does measure commercial viewing in DVR viewings with a rating commonly termed C+3. The overwhelming trend based on these numbers is that people don't view commercials in stuff watched after the fact. If you're not watching it live, you're probably not watching commercials, and thus...

Not Piratecat, but I've had trouble adjusting to the whole Pursuing Avenger myself. In my mind, I try to use it as an excuse for the monster to harry the ranged players without feeling too guilty for ganging up on them.

I'm not upset to see it go either; the show stumbled badly in the first season and recovered far too late. Despite the fact that there were some truly terrible episodes, I never actively wished it to be canceled, and if numbers didn't matter I'd prefer keeping it on the air. Alas, that is not...

At this point, I'm not convinced power source means anything other than a convenient way to lump together classes. So the Elemental keyword really doesn't evoke any sort of feeling. It's not like we had a dearth of "elemental" effects before. That aside, I liked that it was epic-level...

I typically don't run full-on NPCs, just companion characters. They only have a couple of powers, so they're not complex, and they don't tend to overshadow the PCs. Honestly though, I like them mostly because I simply don't have time, nor the desire, to go and re-balance every encounter...

I on the other hand appreciate having them; with only three players, balancing becomes a real chore. NPCs allow me to focus more on the prepping the game than on prepping the combats. It's probably way to much work for relatively little payoff, but I think it would be neat if each adventure...

Actually, based on the Compendium, the only one of those with a level/tier requisite for the Regain was the Staff of the Magi. EDIT: And I also confirmed them all in the books (aside from Salve of Power, which was from the errata).

You'd be correct in assuming they're all Daily powers. Salve of Power (AV, after errata) allows you to regain an encounter power at the expense of a healing surge as a minor action. 10th level. Staff of the Magi (DMK), restores an encounter power of staff's level or below as a free action...

Double the efficacy of your Majestic Word rider? That's a no-brainer; I can't imagine a Bard not taking that. The extra damage is just icing on the cake. Wild Virtue isn't too bad with Virtue of Prescience (once/encounter) or Valor (won't necessarily happen every round). However, with Virtue...

The difficulty in that is in anticipating that functionality. It would be nice if they could work with a system that could easily be expanded, but I don't think D&D (in any iteration) is such a system. Regardless of the strategy involved, this is the major problem. I end up saying it in...

It's not based on a show, per the thread RangerWickett pointed out. To quote:

While I expect this to be Spelljammer, or a TV show setting, I'm going to hold out hope that it's Star*Drive. Not to mention that the encounter design for 3.5/Pathfinder and 4E is pretty different. I'd rather see one thing done very well than two things done well. Especially in this case...