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The light cantrip is cast in an unoccupied square or on an object. So it would be difficult to get it close enough to some one's eyes to blind them. Which doesn't mean it can't be done. My advise would be to not say no but make it difficult. Say you need to make a dex vs. ref with a -2...

Dude in Starwed's defense you did get on a thread about why skill challenges are broken and then complained when Kraydak explained the math. Yes his posting style is a little dense, but he's right and that makes up for a lot. The problem is this. They tried to make a sort of game within a...

I think it is a neat idea in some ways. Kind of like letting the dragonborn with fire breath never need a flint and steal. Minor flavor advantages are fun. That said dragonborn breath does not deal ongoing damage which does mean it is very unstable as an acid. Also it is a vapor or else you...

All I know is that the Kobold rogue in our party is friggin disgusting. Rogues are already the best striker in terms of shear damage output (at low levels anyway). With shifty he can back out of the fight with one enemy to go get another one that is on the ropes. He can double shift to get...

All I know is that the Kobold rogue in our party is friggin disgusting. Rogues are already the best striker in terms of shear damage output (at low levels anyway). With shifty he can back out of the fight with one enemy to go get another one that is on the ropes. He can double shift to get...

I think my biggest problem with the skill challenge system is that it's boring or a heck of a lot of work for the DM. If you treat it as a mechanical system where the goal is simply to roll well more often then you roll poorly then that sucks! BORING. I didn't like roll playing when it was...

I agree that the race is pretty close. Teiflings have a crap encounter power but fire resistance is pretty good. It is pretty much a given that the DM will hit you with fire at some point. The other up side is that you can get hit by your own party too. The dragonborn won't be doing much...

I don't have a problem with traps being hard to find. Having them go off in a non-lethal way is fun. But disarming them should be the better option to "Hulk Smash!" It isn't. It is much harder to disarm the traps for most parties then it is to simply break them. That is not cool. Right now...

Don't get me wrong the warlord is a good leader. The cleric is a better one. The warlord's very "tactical" powers are really a form of tactical inflexibility. He basically has to follow the fighter or rogue around the battlefield because the majority of his powers require the beneficiary to...

I'll be honest. Rolling, twisting, and jack-knifing from prone are not that hard. When you are fighting for your life you can move pretty fast. Your body cuts loose on the stops. People who think being prone is a big deal have not been in a lot of fights are just not being that imaginative...

Agreed. Wizards are pretty cool. They get to go after multiple defenses and while they do not do huge amounts of damage to an individual target they usually can finagle a way to hit at least two with the combined damage being respectable. They also get to choose their powers. Warlocks don't...

The argument that casters can often target a defense of their choice is true but of little utility in an actual fight. You can no longer do significant damage in a single attack and you rarely have enough at wills to go after each defense. Infernal warlocks in particular have two at wills that...

It is not quite as simple as having every one help. Especially at low levels not every one can make even the 10 reliably. Lots of people will have skill penalties due to their 8 stat. In many cases you have to be adjacent to the guy you want to help. Thievery is infamous for this. That...

I find it silly that people expecting to go into combat don't want to were something a bit sturdier then robes. Also have you ever tried to hike across the wilderness in robes? Gandolf had to be an angel for that. What I find silly is that other feats are not as good as leather armor prof...

The straight up truth: Sort of. Wizards not as much because they can attack so many targets with their at wills. Warlocks are more so. While it is true that non-AC defenses are lower they are not always lower and on the monsters you really want to hit (solos, leaders, brutes in your face)...

Striker all the way. I don't know how many minions your DMs use but the controller keeps them under... well... control. The thing is in our party the great axe wielding dwarven paladin easily out damages my warlock on encounter and dailies. The warlock is slightly more consistent in his...

Umm. Teiflings don't get a bonus to Dex. They get a bonus to Int and Cha. Which also invalidates the assumptions about one body and one mind bonus. Several of the monster races in the MM also get bonuses so the same types of attributes. It is a game people and just because half elves are...

I play a infernal warlock so here is how I do it. On the crit you get to max your curse die. So 6 from that. You get the 6 from the d6 of the power + your con modifier so around 15-17 damage total. You get to max the curse damage as it is not a result of the crit (like a magic rod would give...

It is an idea that comes up all the time. The crossbow was an inferior weapon to the longbow. It just wasn't as good. It takes longer to fire. Without modern composites it is very difficult to make a crossbow that can hold decent tension (arbalests are different story) because you have to...

4th more then many previous editions needs a bit of a paradigm shift. Cleave is not hacking into a big bad and the massive swing smacks the dude next to him. For one thing that is a newb way to fight that will get you dead. Watch master fencers. They do not take big swings. Cleave is the...