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This rules change would also vastly overpower ways to get additional attacks without taking actions. For example, the Ranger power Fox's Cunning, and other minor action/immediate action attack powers, along with Warlord abilities that grant free attacks. It would generally improve the value of...

I've got my take on how to change Orcus, taking into account the MM2's new solo design guidelines, here. That article's suggestion seems insufficient. On the approximation that Orcus spends half his time bloodied, this amounts to +25% damage, which could compensate for -20% HP (on the further...

Here’s my take on modifying Orcus (MM, pg 206), taking into account MM2’s changes to solo design guidelines. With a little work, Orcus can become a more interesting and dangerous opponent, while staying true to the basics and the theme of his MM version. Thoughts appreciated. 1) Reduce HP from...

Just noticed these in combination. Consecrated Ground only heals bloodied allies. If you're running it as any ally, it's significantly more overpowered than the actual, and overpowered, version. If you had been playing this correctly, the Balor's Aura would have bloodied most of the...

Actually, the Paladin would have done more damage, as True Nemesis does half damage on a miss, which he would get instead of Hammer Rhythm. It seems like your characters have rather higher stats than what 22 point buy would give. So that's another reason the fight would have been a bit easier...

Stormwarden at level 11 gets to deal Dex damage to an adjacent enemy at the end of his turn. Then Twin Strike + Scimitar Dance lets him deal at least Dex damage two more times. At level 15, I don't see how you'd get to 35 for a ranger. That implies a very high +7 Dex bonus, the above, and two...

Certain Justice is way too strong for an Encounter power (it's from the Paladin Champion of Order Paragon path in the PH). However, Paladins are a pretty weak class and need their awesome Paragon paths to stay competitive. The trouble is that Certain Justice is much too strong and completely...

I'm just going to quote lordduskblade's post from the WotC forums that I linked earlier. You may want to take a look at that wizard build; you'd really hate to give him up at Paragon/Epic levels.

The monster roles are clearly meant to be roughly equal. However, that doesn't mean the solution to "soldiers are the best role" is "make all other monsters as powerful as soldiers." One should probably try to adjust roles using the current median strength role as a baseline. Looking at the...

I'd rather that this thread not end up as a discussion of WotC errata policy in general, particularly errata policy as it relates to things like the Expertise feats (which is very far afield from the topic of monster design), as there are plenty of other threads where Expertise is being...

Point buy as communism? As far as unrealistic things in D&D goes, I'd put hit points being a fixed amount per level pretty far down on the list.

To quote myself from earlier in this thread: There's an interesting thread on the WotC optimization forums about "party optimization", here. The suggestions tend to be striker-heavy (especially Rangers), but aren't in the vein of "5 strikers." For what it's worth, lordduskblade on the...

The fighter's attack from Combat Challenge is an immediate interrupt, and you can only take one immediate action per round (see pg 268).

Soldiers may be the closest role concept-wise, but they're probably the strongest role, on average, because of their great AC/attack bonus. So I don't think Brutes need to make it all the way to a Soldier's level of power. For MM1 Paragon/Epic solos, returning Brutes to the 10 HP base but...

In M&M, hero points can be used to reroll a roll (and if you roll a 10 or below on the reroll, you add 10 to the result, meaning that you can't get below an 11). This is probably the strongest hero point function and prevents quick knockouts. In a pbp game, you may want players to specify when...

To add to this a bit: Not being able to hurt the Battlerager Fighter speaks more to the power of the Battlerager Fighter than to the default challenge of the game, or the encounters you're creating. Even a non-Con bonus race can take 16 Con/Improved Vigor for 4 temp HP at level 5 and the...

Right. I'd go with: Hydra Fury is an attack that includes Bite attacks, and the mark applies to everything called an attack, so treat the Bite attacks as individual attacks for this purpose.

Divine Mettle allows the target to attempt a saving throw, rolling at +[Cha bonus], against one effect that a save can end. It's not written like this because the PH wasn't edited well. Yes, unless you use it to mark a different monster or fail to engage the one you have challenged. Yes...

This runs into some tough cases as well. Consider the Marilith; its Weapon Dance power gives it six scimitar attacks and it shifts 1 square on each hit. That means that the Marilith might be able to attack a different target on the second attack depending on whether the first attack hits. You...

This exact same discussion came up in http://www.enworld.org/forum/d-d-4th-edition-rules/254329-mm2-excerpt-adamantine-dragon-question.html. It's very strange to resolve the bite attacks sequentially but trigger the mark only if the monster doesn't include the fighter with any of the attacks...