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Not to speak for him, but it sounds more like he is saying you could remove your cloak, or switch your rings, but benefiting from the magic contained in them might take more than just a minor action. Usually when someone asks a general question like this, it is because they have a specific...

That's true. You could take a free action first though, right? And it was more a thought excercise for me anyways, I don't know of any DM that strictly enforces loading bows. That free action isn't too strictly tracked. Jay

Traveler’s Harlequin (Dragon 382) My DM is already on board, so this is not an approval seeking post, just an. . .evaluation seeking one. I would like my currently 6th level Kobold Assassin to take this PP. I'm not really too fond of the Assassin paths already presented, there is no Kobold...

The problem with these sorts of threads is the *opinion* that either side throws out as *fact*. It is not a fact that 4e or 3.5 has long combats. That kind of judgement is totally subjective. It is not a fact that 4e or 3.5 is more or less fun. Those judgements are opinion. The 20+ page...

Could this be the issue? How much is being dedicated to to-hit/defense/other math 'issues' that are only perceived, but never actually realized? In other words, are these complaints about feat taxes in order to be effective coming from players or DMs? It certainly makes a difference. Jay

Unloading=shooting someone right? Jay

I can just see the magic power plants springing up to harness the reaction between antimagic corn and magic beans. Limitless clean magic power! Jay

Ahahahahaha! What a maroon! If I actually *read* your post, I might have caught that! Carry on then. . .great idea, I'm obvioiusly asleep at the wheel. . . Jay

Ugh. I realize I replied *after* the main flame war had ignited (no naming names. . .that always starts trouble) but I had hoped that if everyone ignored it we could still have an interesting discussion *around* the fighting. Now it seems this thread will either die due to apathy or devolve...

. . .and now that I know Free actions can be taken anytime, even *not* on your turn, things like this have even more narrative flavor. I now picture our ranger prowling the battlefield, taking his time drawing two arrows at a time. . .and then firing them both in succession when he sees his...

Magic items were one of the things 4e was supposed to fix. In 3.5, a magic user or properly skilled Rogue amassed a small fortune in scrolls and wands. Situational magic or supplemental. It might be a Comprehend Languages scroll, just in case, or a brace of CLW wands for between encounter...

It *seems* like 6, but it is actually twice that, probably more. Factor in class abilities (Quarry, mark, implement, CD), Racial powers, feats that alter powers, and magic items. Suddenly it is a little more than a newbie should be expected to hold in their head at once. Work with them to...

That might have been a unique feature of Eberron when it was unvieled (the varied alilgnments of traditional adversaries), but 4e in general has seen a shift of creatures from the 'always evil' and 'usually evil' columns into the ambiguous 'unaligned' column. To be sure, this allows DM's a...

Good strategy, but it can lead to headaches. . . Mounts don't have triggers to spend their own surges. They also only have 1 surge per tier. Mounts can't take the punishment that a character can. If you have a player who has made his mount a central part of his playstyle (mounted combat...

I like FRW better personally...

Were I to build a Pacifist Cleric, I'd make sure a majority of my Encounter/Dailies did no damage *anyways*, so that I could use them when I wanted. Altering a second at-will to be available to such a character and extending the stunning to always is a good idea if the feat bothers you that...

Judging a gaming system based on a gaming group is as silly as judging a gaming group based on a gaming system. For example: "I joined my friends for a game of Shadowrun the other day, and couldn't stand the system! All those d6's and their cubeness! I'm never doing anything with those...

I agree with Stalker0 on the autohit. Sure, at higher levels you could throw out a bunch of missiles, but the main benefit was that you could ignore making an iffy ranged touch attack. Maybe nerf the range, to keep your ray of frost as prime there, but add a +2 to hit. Shocking Grasp needs...

This is a house rule I can get behind. Have you thought about extending this to all divine classes, not just Clerics? Jay

So I have not been playing D&D long. Maybe 5 years. I didn't play a spellcaster for awhile, because I wanted to get a better feel for the game before I jumped into a more complicated class. My first spellcaster (in 3.5) was a Specialist Wizard. Transmutation with Evocation and Necromancy...