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Okay, with this in mind, we shall put the attempt to Assuage Gae'al's Burden on hold for a time, returning to this: CHANVATI considers Naaphid's words and carefully considers his own before responding. In times past, the Dragonborn Inquisitors were steadfast in their unquestioned loyalty to...

PA'AVU steels her will against her mentor's in a struggle for control. There is something here that Gae'al does not wish her to see. Perhaps it is that black figure? Perhaps, in her desperate desire to best her foe, Gae'al sought not only Stoneroot's primal blessing but struck a bargain with...

[darkbard here: soliloquizer on behalf of Chanvati and Ibhea by day, scrivener in service to @Nephis by night!] PA'AVU pauses as Gae'al places a hand on her shoulder. Something is off here. The Goliaths are a stoic and proud people, and surely having control of "her" arena countermanded in this...

The Psion has been through such incidents many times in recent weeks, ever since the Legion of Ruth took occupation in Bantouk: the Bladelings, creatures of war as much by nature as culture, their hearts kicking and bucking in their chests like wild horses roped by elven horsebreakers, penned up...

True. I was unfairly grouping it with the spammable classes because it doesn't get the choice of powers; they are predetermined by Domain. But that hardly matters to in-play tactics, as you note.

I'm curious about what I bolded above: have you ever found the (largely) missing AEDU structure from Essentials classes in favor of "spammed" At-Will attacks for (most) Essentials classes leads to boring, repetitive play? One of the things I find exciting/engaging about the combat portion of 4E...

PA'AVU may be large, but she is deceptively quick for a being so massive. With reflexes honed in games of stoneball with other Goliath youths before her captivity (and innumerable duels and battles with blade in hand since), she launches herself over the railing and intercedes her body between...

The structural integrity of the enormous ooze gives way as Nemo's barrage of daggers disrupt its membranous surface. It explodes like a water balloon dropped from a high vantage, resulting in a puddle of sizzling blue liquid running in rills to gather in the channel, only to be swept away and...

All right, continuing here in my role as keyboardist for both of us, this is how we would like to proceed: From Chanvati's perspective, what is imperative is keeping bloodshed from spilling past the walls of the arena into Bantouk. To this end, he will seek to parley with "the steward" Gae'al...

Okay, so as we discussed on Discord, while we (as players) relish the opportunity for combat, Chanvati had just moved public displays of violence into the private sphere in recognition that any public violence could easily ignite the charged situation in Bantouk into full conflagration. We wish...

Having two fully operational arms that can work a keyboard with ease, I again assume the position of amanuensis for @Nephis here, as well as record my own thoughts. There is much, much that we wish to build on in the previous post(s) towards our stated goals. However, I think this is where we...

I have neither read nor played Zeitgeist, so take what I say with a healthy dose of salt, but my wider 4E community has reported many, many balance issues with some of the setting-specific technology and so on. Also, contra what you say above, it's reportedly a linear railroad, despite any...

I haven't examined your project, but I will note what I see as a design inconsistency here. The first statement is made from the perspective of gamist concerns, ie, this is a game and no one enjoys when a game drags and is no longer fun. Yet the second smuggles in a simulationist...

CHANVATI strides forth into the center of the vaulted chamber. He scans the faces of the young ones, looking expectantly at him. Curiosity. Awe. Some fear. Then he returns his gaze to the old man, cross-legged, eyes closed. He studies Tectuktitlay's emotionless features, recalls each word of his...

CHANVATI observes silently the students for a moment, their faltering attempts to stack stone upon stone recalls his days as a youth (so much younger than his current 26 years!) working similarly with Tectuktitlay, Mirage Moonstar, and the other professors of Xerxes's school. Ah, if he had but...

Skill Challenge, Prisonbreak, L4 C2 (2 Successes/0 Failures; 1 Secondary Skill available; 1 Hard DC available). Okay, as we discussed elsewhere, I'm offering you the possibility of a combat encounter for success vs the 1 Hard DC of the Skill Challenge. Below is the set up for that encounter...