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Beastmaster Rangers are an odd breed, more towards a Defender, with the extra body and the huge pool of "free" HP, than a Striker. Your damage is likely to be lower if you try to rely on your beast for damage at all, at least once you start leveling up. The lack of any magical item bonuses, or...

So would that mean you'd let a beast use up an enemy's only OA for the turn so that the master could move about/shoot him in the face with impunity? Trying to confirm, because it seems to me as if it is one case or the other ... I think a fair bit of the confusion I am having is that WotC seems...

Thanks for the answers! I thought of another one since Wednesday and hope you guys will be willing to weigh in on this one as well. 3) When does a beast "act"? By the rules, the beast acts at the same time as its master, but does this mean exactly at the same time? Could a beast run by an...

Hello everyone. I'm back with another Beastmaster related question that I'm curious about (here is my last one). For the most part, a Beastmaster Ranger has to spend an action to get his beast to take an equivalent action. To make a basic attack, the master has to Standard Action. To move, a...

Very true, but there is a way to say "hey, this compiler runs much slower than that one!" and have it be demonstrably true. What are the odds at getting people to agree at which system runs the fastest?

mlund is basically mirroring my thoughts here. I know how open source software works; I dispute that model would work for a role-playing game (or a movie, a song, a book, or any other piece of art that can only be judged subjectively). :)

The problem with comparing creating a gaming system and writing software is that a gaming system is much more a subjective work of art than a piece of software can ever be. Look at open source projects out there; they all DO something specific. If someone can contribute a bit of code that makes...

The line about "being fired from WotC" smacked of edition war to me, but hey, if I misinterpreted your meaning I apologize. :) Edit: Vyvyan Basterd gives a good approximation of why I complained about edition warring though, if you want to know the thought process that lead me to initially post.

I don't think the claim that "WOTC fired me as a customer" equates to "4E was meant to bring in new players". Agree with that or not, I thought we were trying to avoid edition warring here? :hmm:

Further hypothesizing from Charles's speculation, do we have any idea who the people being sued are? The pirate copies of the 4E core books were print proofs, suggesting a leak in the production line somewhere. Perhaps they're going after people who are involved in situations analogous to that...

Two questions regarding just how much control a Wild Sorcerer can actually exercise. 1) The Wild variant Sorcerer receives an ability that reads: "When you roll a natural 1 on an attack roll for an arcane power, you must push each creature within 5 squares of you 1 square." I am almost...

Alright, awesome. XP to both for the quick help. I'll learn to get used to it (and exploit it to my advantage! :D) I'm sure.

I DMed my second session of 4E last night (and killed my first PC!) and everything went pretty well. Except, the Rogue had an interesting strategy in mind that I'm not 100% sure works the way he thinks it does. Essentially, at the start of combat he moves around a corner so that no enemy has...

Thanks for your thoughts/opinions everyone. You've given me a bit to chew on. It does seem that the format of powers like this is somewhat haphazard. I'll have to come to some agreement with my DM.

As a related question, would a Fighter get the bonuses from his magic weapon when using the Pit Fighter 20 attack, Lion of Battle? After dropping a foe he makes a fearsome yell in a Close burst 5 that is Str vs Will. What about the Pit Fighter 11 All Bets Are Off, which involves an attack and a...

Same here, actually. It was the CB that first brought this to my attention. When thinking about it, however, I realized there is some measure of precedent. The Fighter and Warlord, for example, get attacks that have a Secondary Attack which represents a victorious shout or a punch to the face...

In way of explaining my question, I'll use an example from the Compendium: Ranger Attack 1 Synchronized Strike You command your beast companion to tear into your opponent, opening a gap for you to exploit. Encounter Beast, Martial, Weapon Standard Action Melee weapon (beast 1)...

+1, +2, and +10! I love the Compendium and CB, heart and soul. I sure wish I could file some bug reports so they could be made even better though. :.-(

I don't have my books with me, so can you confirm this? Are OAs really restricted to creatures? Or do Flaming Spheres/Mage Hands not draw OAs not because they are conjurations, but because they simply can't be targeted by attacks in the first place (again, because they're conjurations)? Unless...

I'm definitely with you there Klaus. I'd love to be able to adjust not only the width of each panel but also its vertical height ... especially at low levels TONS of space is wasted with useless blank lines. That said, if you go to the layout option in the menu, you can save your custom layout...