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treat each combatant as "helpless"... auto crits and if you deal damage equal to or greater than the targets bloodied value insta kill. It may sound kinda weird, but doing this doesn't require any new rules and it keeps the combats to a few rounds (I'm guessing).

Stalker, let me say thank you. I love the skill challenge system at heart and plan to use it a lot, but in my first few demos DM'ing my players hated it and said it was too hard. I listened, but I didn't hear till I read your math (thank god my college probability models class finally paid off...

After I got the books a couple weeks ago I ran a few demos at my local store with one of my goals being to discover how hard to make encounters (I don't like multiple easy encounters between extended rests much, so I don't do this very often). Here's what I learned. Daily and Encounter powers...

Forgive me if someone already said this but, as a DM, I have to guess that using the heal skill requires two hands (tie a bandage, apply and salve or herb) so therefore it would make sense a cleric doesn't necessarily have something in each hand. If a cleric wanted to use his heal skill during...

I think the number of players is less important than how they interact together as far as stragey goes. With three strikers you should be ok. I've made several characters in the last few days (i have the books) and strikers that focus on Ranged or Melee but are still competant in the other...

I ran my first 4e demo last night and it was a little rocky, mostly the combat was slow and everyone had a hard time keeping track of everything that was going on which I knew would happen... NOTE: despite everyone saying 4e is much simpler and faster to run know this... it only is if your...

Wow dude, thank you much. I didn't know the half elf thing, I figured the first pregen had just multiclassed. I must say I love 4e and those who thought it up, but all this half-assed stuff is just crap. I won't condemn them yet, this is the first release, but if the next adventure I buy is...

Ding!

Just curious "glass" but does Count Strahd live in the Sahdowfell? But seriously I wonder about the ranged thing to, I"m guessing if your target is within the first set of numbers it's a regular attack roll, if within the second set it's -2 to attack, and after that you just can't hit them...

not to thread jack but every time I see you post, +5 Holy Flaming Lance, I'm curious (don't be offended), but you don't happen to be a gay clergymen named Lance do you? If so your handle is very clever (seriously).

Well, re-reading the fighters mark I see that it ends "at the end of your next turn", so that means a mark could be non-adjacent to you and still be marked. So that, combined with a ruling from Logan, and also the paragraph but not header change, I guess I'll stick with it only applies to...

I'm not sure what to do, I'm running my first 4e game in two days and I don't know how to interpret this, I mean Logan is a designer, but he just sounds wrong. How could they have misphrased that so badly? Looking at the fighter vs the paladin the fighter does feel a little weak if this power...

Oooooh..... duh. I just read it wrong Thanx

This power form the KotS Cleric Pregen reads Beacon of Hope A burst of divine energy harms your foes and heals your allies Daily ✦ Divine, Healing, Implement Standard Action Close burst 3 Target: each enemy in burst Attack: +3 vs. Will Hit: The target is weakened until the end of its...

What about the KotS human wizard, his will is 15. Wis of 12 Cha of 10, even if humans get +1 to all defenses, and his class gives him a +2, that equals only 14, where does the other +1 come from?

Before 4e brought us minions my group had durps. I like battlefield type campaigns so I would put my mid level PC's against a lot of low level hobgoblins or such, these were the durps, and I have always used the bag 'o zombies to represent them... they are perfect. color a couple red for guys...

At this point it looks like wizards (a to a much lesser extent the Warlord) are the only ones who benefit from intelligence. Hopefully as time passes more classes will use it. Last edition intelligence got front chair (of the mentals), this edition I think that title now goes to Charisma.

My group played the "Dragon Mountain" adventure in 2d and 3.5 so they are used to kobolds, and (with the exception of traps and poison) they definately have the mindset "ah, they're just kobolds" They know as a DM I don't like traps or poison and won't use them unless it's part of a pre made...

Honestly, what I would really like to see are some books for the default setting that help you to make you own settings. Like the d20 modern postapocalyptic book. I don't want them to make 4 mini settings in one book, frankly I don't like using any settings other than my own, I just want a big...

Well what I will be doing is giving the PC's a few magic items before the battle, cloak of resistance, light shield of resistance and belt of vigor. I also scaled down the dragon, but a little differently. -4 AC, -2 all other defenses -80hp for an even 200 I took away the cloud of darkness...