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    What Alignment is Rorschach?

    I don't know where people get the idea that Rorschach is supposed to be a hero. He's an insane extremist. I don't think insane people can really be put on the alignment axis.
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    I killed my first PC

    :devil: My level 2 party of seven characters was up against a group of eleven kobolds and a bugbear with a chokepoint on their side. The rogue started a distance off from the rest of the party and decided to loop around and get the kobold's attention in order to draw some off. It worked. I...
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    So, about Expertise...

    PHB pg. 287 Basic Attacks are at-wills
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    Player's Handbook 2: I haz it

    Describe the single coolest power in the book.
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    Detecting Magic Items

    I use a reduced DC for noticing (but not identifying) magic on items already in sight.
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    Insider and Sharing

    So, having no ability to wade through complicated legal speak, I figured I'd ask here if this is alright. I have insider while my players do not. Some of them are of the opinion that the five updates are meant to help groups run the software off one account. So I figured I'd ask here whether...
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    Is "Shield" too powerful?

    "You managed to prove in your shield calculations that when shield is useful it's useful. What you didn't calculate was how likely it was to be useful. When you went from 2c to 2d you changed the last number from the chance that the number is within the range to the chance that the PCs correctly...
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    Is "Shield" too powerful?

    You managed to prove in your shield calculations that when shield is useful it's useful. What you didn't calculate was how likely it was to be useful. When you went from 2c to 2d you changed the last number from the chance that the number is within the range to the chance that the PCs...
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    DM'ing is a skill, not an art.

    Couldn't one of the adventurers tied off the rope to a point outside the tube while the other end was around the one inside the tube. One inside breaks stone cap (if he can, damages cap so it starts to break then jump out of tube), water pressure pushes him out, rope makes him pivot, he exits...
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    DM'ing is a skill, not an art.

    Whether it's a sandbox is fully dependent on whether the drain had that plug before the PCs even knew it existed. If Varis had to decide the details of the pipe when the PCs became interested in it then it's narrative control. The impression I got from reading his post was that the pipe was...
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    Alternating DM's?

    I picked Mark as a joke. So just to throw this out there, how about you rotate the DMing job among everyone who wants to DM. Create a format that allows for easy episodic gaming. Every DM gets say two sessions for their adventure and you guys switch out, maybe you lay some threads in there...
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    DM'ing is a skill, not an art.

    While in most cases XP should be distributed even to absent members, in this case given the circumstances under which they parted I would be disinclined to award them the XP. But you should also take into account how they'd handle this. People can have very different perspective's on things...
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    [DM clarification] Scrolls--uses other than rituals

    Because the laws of magic make it impossible. Rituals and powers aren't anywhere near the same sort of thing.
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    The monster 'crit' problem

    1d6 = 0.175 average damage ... 6d6 = 1.05 average damage Even 6d12 is a little under two points of average damage increase per round. This is an option that will add more swing to your combats. Should that be what you desire then go for it.
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    Is 4e bringing new players to the game?

    It's almost always easier to bring new people in near the beginning of the edition. Early on there's few books and there's still lots of new people. Later on with more splatbooks and fewer and fewer new players it gets more intimidating.
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    Organic Mythology

    I'd say both systems have plenty of potential. Who knows, maybe some gods are thoughtforms created by worship and some are beings with independent existence. That could make for some interesting stories.
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    Organic Mythology

    Who mourns for Adonais?
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    Status of D&D Game Table?

    Good companies push back releases if there's problems. Bad companies go ahead and release software with problems because they don't want to push back the release date.
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    Piracy

    I think the idea that the effort put into something determines the morality of the action is something that needs explanatory support.
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