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Are you freaking kidding me? Can not one good discussion go a page without someone coming along and dumping their threadcrapping edition-warring hate all over it? Okay, so you don't like 4e? FINE. Don't post in a thread about it's mechanics and how you hate them! For the love of GOD! I usually...

If you read the fluff, it is the Ardent Psychically projecting his emotions onto the battlefield. So, the ardent is using his inner calm to project healing onto you, or his rage at being bloodied to give you a boost. It is more than just using words, that is how a Warlord does it. The Ardent...

That is kind of a situational Utility. But one of those that when you use it, and it is effective, you rock. And if you loose it, and get into a situation where it would be useful, you feel frustrated. I feel your pain with that power, if it was a class power it would totally be one to skip...

I am no optimizer, so I looked at this class and liked it almost immediately because of a few small things. I really think the other build will end up as the flashier, more exciting one. It's stats work well with Dragonborn, as Con is kind of a Tertiary for them (with their Surge bonus and...

Might be easier to relax the restrictions on the other Bard at-wills. Let him choose another one he likes and use it as a ranged power with his bow. Sure, it is a little powerful, but you make it sound as if he is kind of in a rut with Jinx Shot, and this might help him have a little more fun...

Finally, something on this thread I want to comment about! Jeez! That kind of reskinning I don't like. You want to use a fullblade's stats, but carry a dagger? Part of the Fullblade is its size and weight. You can't just handwave that. I love the idea of the Assassin, but hate that they...

Nice. Other systems I have played, like Shadowrun or White Wolf, allow you to spend some of your character creation budget to 'specialize'. So for a relatively tiny price you can get a nice bonus to a niche skill. So you may have a 5 in Firearms, but your specialty in Shotguns gives you a 7...

Some fluff would be nice (like what is threefold mind? why is this character built like it is? what do they look like?) I'm not 100% sure, but most races that get a defense bonus get it because they have stat boosts that only effect one defense. Adding another +1 to Will is effectively...

As far as the NPC rules go, I think they work pretty well. Unfortunately, the ease of the Monster Builder has made them a lot less attractive to use, since you have to do it all by hand, but an option in the Character Builder to make your character NPC style would be awesome. It might be...

Yeah. . .I'm not 100% on my take with it either. It is like a multiattack power, but one that virtually guarantees your Shroud damage is triggered. I think the only ground to stand on with my interpretation is how other multiattacks work, but since this one is obviously kind of different. . .who...

Vulnerable All != Vulnerable Radiant, Cold, etc. Vulnerable represents a particular creature's weakness. A Cold based creature, for example, might be Vulnerable 5 Fire because Fire damage is extra damaging to his Cold based anatomy. An Undead creature might have Vulnerable 5 Radiant because...

I'd not make the whole thing crit, just the one that actually did. The reason this power is nice is it's ability to increase the chance of crit while invoking your shroud. If you crit with one hit, I'd allow the shroud damage to be maxed, and the crit die rolled, but you still have to roll for...

Exactly! The OP's question is getting lost in the discussion, but he wanted to use fully built PC's as adversaries. Running such an encounter would be a nightmare. You would have 5 stacks of power cards, 5 character sheets, marking on both sides, healing quarries, shrouds, whatever, not to...

It was certainly thread crapping. While most of the posts have at least aimed to help the OP, that one was just a big blank space where something useful should be. Kind of like this one. Jay

Even PC's built by the DMG guidelines are tough. Building one to full PC specs would give you trouble, especially at higher level. consider a high level PC as an adversary: - No incentive to save dailies/enounters/AP's, so combat goes daily, AP: daily, daily, daily, encounter, enocounter, etc...

Exactly. Many DM's do not like to stop the game for rules disputes. I can't see why one would want to stop one when your issue is with encounter composition. What is he going to do, rewind and set you against something else? It breaks versimilitude, and it takes up what could be rare and...

These posts could also be called "Vote for the most flavorful race, and leave the oatmeal behind!" Not a lot of flavor left, and it looks like the best of it is getting the boot (gnomes ooze flavor, half orcs ooze. . .something else). Jay PS - I voted elves. Spur of the moment, and I...

"They" didn't take out or remove anything, 4e was a clean slate that they have added to. Focus so far has seemed to be things that need stats to encounter in a fight. If you are not going to fight it, you need no stat block, and pre-4e fluff works just fine in most cases. This is why I *like*...

Oooh, rolling damage *first* would really save the DM some time! Rather than remembering which ones were hit and tallying it all at the same time, you could do it as the to-hit rolls fly. Super! Jay

So being rude to this DM is probably not the way to go. I read the emails, and I saw him as being defensive more than anything else. The encounter presented had only 2 problems: - 9 PC's - level+7 soldiers Granted, both of those are firmly in the DM's hands to fix, but I have been a DM...