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Yeah, I adblocked them right away. I spent too much time here to be looking at them all the time...

While it's fun to create worlds, I always try to keep it useful. Whether a farm town has 60% farmers or 65% farmers is a totally useless difference to me as DM and also to my players. However, a 500 man mining town in the middle of the mountains with no fertile farm land around (my starting...

Officially, only number 2 in both cases... In fact in this situation: *O* OXO O*O Following RAW nobody here is flanking the person in the middle, but I call BS on that...

Saves are normally at teh end of the turn, so a character under an effect has this effect on him for at least his whole turn. Hobgoblins are allowed to save at the exact moment the effect is put on him, so in effect on somebody elses (the caster/power user) turn. If the hobgoblin saves right...

I think the point is that it somehow always seems like a rogue maxing out dex is expected, but a maxing out int for a wizard or wis for a rogue feels somehow like powergaming...

Out of combat characters can use encounter powers once every 5 minutes. So yes, he needs to rest 5 minutes, then he can use them again, after which he needs to rest 5 minutes again if he wants to use them in the next encounter...

Also, you can't actually block the movement of swarms because they can simply move over your square. So they could just all converge on the caster and take him down fast if you want to... I wouldn't play them that way as DM, but it does seem like they are unbalanced right now...

Well, it says in the power description that you can slide 1 square with sustain minor (save ends), so I reckon you can slide the enemy 1 square each turn if you keep up sustaining it or until the enemy saves. Since sustaining is something like concentration you have to keep doing it every turn...

No, during combat you can only use healing surges through Second Wind (once per encounter,s tandard action for all races except dwarf for whom it's a minor) or through abilities like Healing Word, Inspiring Word, etc... So in effect you can only use your healing surges once per turn, because...

Good point. I misread the power there. I thought it got a free attack against everybody that was inside its aura at the start of its turn, but that's not what it says... That makes them a lot scarier actually...

Yes, there is. The ongoing damage would be at the start of the wizard's turn, the aura attack is at the start of the swarm's turn. Big difference, I'd say because in the second case the wizard gets to move out of the aura range if he wants to...

This times 2 even... I love the tactics that are possible even at 1st level...

It might be powerful, but realize that even against a 2nd level wizard it is unlikely that the trip and the 2 attacks will hit. Also with 38 hitpoints and vulnerability to close and area attacks, these guys will go down fast when attacked by the right kind of attack... All in all I agree that...

Now all we need is for the swarm of locusts to be able to drop full plate mail as treasure and we can play some Diablo II... :) Anyway, like the swarm rules, simple and effective and it does give me a cool idea about an encounter where a whole cavern or chasm is filled with a huge swarm of...

Well, the wizard in my group used sleep once to keep Meepo in raiders of oakhurst asleep for 2 rounds, which was very useful, cause he was taking down the party fast together with his deathjump spider... Second time he used it to knock out a few orcs to gain entrance to an orc camp, also...

I was wondering that too. Maybe a regeneration that gets interupted temporarily if they get damaged by fire or acid? I believe the vampirelord template had something like that with radiant damage... As long as they get anything better than anything other than fire and acid dealing non lethal...

I actually had a 3.5 homebrew all set up and ready to go when I found out 4e was being made. Seeing the amount of houserules and added technology (it was kind of a pirates and airships and lots of magical technology setting) and such that I have created for it will be very hard to transfer to...

Seems like it has gone the way of alignment and be mostly a roleplay/suggestion aspect, rather than a mechanical rule...

Well, reading the books cover to cover helps. Not just the important parts of it, not just the interesting bits, but every single page, every power etc. It took me some time to get through the PHB 3.5 this way (reading spells is soooooo boring), but it helped a lot... Secondly, hang around on...

This is something I considered somewhat worrisome about 4e. I had all these lovely homemade classes lined up for my new campaign that I was building when I found out they were making 4e. It's going to take an awful amount of time to take all that work and make 4e classes out of them because of...