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I seem to remember this combo being hailed as a great way to slap a -2 attack penalty on everything you hit. But reading over the Pyschic Lock phrasing in the CB, it specifies that it only affects powers with the Psychic keyword. GSW doesn't add the Psychic keyword; it just turns all the damage...

Concerns I have and things I need help with: 1) Balance. I don't want these themes to be crazy over-powered, but I'm okay with them being just a little bit better than 'normal' themes. This is for two reasons. First, because I frankly want to encourage my players to take them, since they're the...

I'm considering starting an urban Dark Sun campaign, set specifically in the Warrens of Tyr. Kind of a wacky idea for a campaign setting that focuses on harsh desert wilderness survival, but I think it will be fun. PCs will start out as part of a criminal organization, living in absolute poverty...

My concern (and the thing that would likely irritate me as a player) is that this would make Encounter powers more or less worthless. Well, not 'worthless', but it would effectively turn them into really, really weak Daily powers. And, as somebody else mentioned, this would give Essentials...

I'm not a huge fan of Essentials-style characters. I might've been on board if they existed once 4e began, but when I started playing 4e, I was won over by the powers system. Fighters are no longer "beginner" characters (in fact, I think they're probably the most complex class in the original...

Players seem happy, with their crazy made-up powers and mid-level feat swaps. The DM doesn't care. The only person who seems to have a problem with it is you. Since you're not the DM, just a player burdened with rules knowledge, you've only got two options open to you. 1. Cope with it as best...

I've just joined a new group of really awesome players halfway through the SoW path. This gave me a chance to try out Paragon Tier for the first time, and I've loved it. Now my character is about to hit level 17, and I'm trying hard not to squeal with girlish glee as we approach Epic. My...

I Need A Really Awesome Fear or Necrotic Power Oops.

It's good old-fashioned power creep. They're planning to bring it to vanilla D&D, too. I say just sit back and enjoy the ride.

My point is that you can use the mechanics for drow virtually unchanged, and simply describe them to your players differently.

Well, #4 seems easy enough. Just run the drow as written. Honestly, those "dark elves" sound pretty much like "drow" to me. If you want to bar them as a player race, that's fine, too. You can probably run goblins and hobgoblins as-is, too. Refluffing is free and easy. The truly enterprising DM...

I for one welcome our new basic-attacking overlords.

That's what they tell me, but I don't think they were ever a core race... were they? (Somebody who's familiar with 2e Dark Sun, please help. If their fluff was significantly different from the 4e incarnation, I'd be very interested to know what it was). Either way, I found their fluff rather...

And since I know it's going to come up... PC dray wouldn't have to undergo their Dimming unless they wanted to. Maybe not every dray undergoes a Dimming. Or maybe they do, but the PCs don't have to worry about it until after they have long, fruitful adventuring careers. Or maybe the dray PC can...

I love Dark Sun, but like some other people out there, I wasn't crazy about how the races were introduced. When I start my Dark Sun campaign, I'm thinking I'm going to tweak all the standard races. For the most part, this will involve restoring applicable races to their "classical" Dark Sun...

1. They kinda don't. They're just there, in Athas, pretty much being tieflings. They're described as a race of raiders that kill all their victims. They made some sort of pact with dark forces in the past (like all tieflings), and some believe that killing others is the only way out of this...

Like Camelot said, this information was given in sidebars in Divine Power. Basically, Nerull used to enslave every soul that came into his dominion, and since he was God of Death, this presumably meant almost everybody. But when the mortal that was to become the Raven Queen showed up, he was...

Thanks, Keterys. That's some cool synergy, and I like the fire theme. One problem with making brutally effective encounters is that, sometimes, the monsters that really compliment each other mechanically don't make a lot of sense together story-wise. But it's easy to imagine a bunch of...

Recent discussion about the new 4e Tomb of Horrors rekindled my interest in this idea. For a long time, 4e has had kind of a reputation of the PCs being virtually indestrucible, or at least much, much harder to kill than in previous editions. I personally don't think this is entirely unfounded...

I'm currently playing around with a hybrid Swordmage/Artificer concept. Can anyone think of a reason why Aegis of Shielding and Static Shock wouldn't stack? It seems to me that with a decent Constitution, I can pretty much neuter any enemy I mark with the Aegis. With a Con score of 16, I can...