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The other option, for those who managed to pick up a copy of the Free RPG Day DnD adventure, is to use the Pack Zombie Minions in there. Nastier than the Rotters and level 2.

I ran my 2 player party through a combat with 2 fire beetles as a combat test last weeked, and they pretty much strolled it. Without a defender. Admittedly they managed to position themselves so that the beetles coudn't get them both with the fire spray, but I don't think it would have made much...

What level were they? I only ask because my pair of players (Cleric and Rogue) got ripped apart by it in 2 rounds, having not hit it once. The encounter was with it, a Kruthik Hatchling (which went down first round without doing anything) and a Spiretop Drake. 256XP, should have been well within...

Does the Needlefang Drake Swarm qualify as something requiring errata? Cos the way it is at the moment, it far outstrips any other level 2 monsters. There's no way that thing's an appropriate challenge for anyone lower than about 7th level! It's not even Elite or Solo!

So what we've learned here is that Shadow Wasp Strike as written is a pretty worthless power, and that you should be extra careful when typing shift because otherwise you might get censored!

Yes it does. Assuming a 50% hit rate across the board, Rain of blows has a 75% chance of getting a third attack, which means its true average damage is (22*50%)+(22*50%)+(22*75%*50%) = 30.25 damage assuming the secondary attack is a single secondary attack and not potentially 2. That would...

It's brilliant. I hadn't even begun to think about house rules for 4e, but I might try that one out on my players, see what they think...

Thanks for that. I am clearly blind or not looking in the right places. It's not mentioned in the Action Points section, which is a shame. Anyway, thanks again for pointing me in the right direction.

With this feat, a Warlord grants an immediate Save with a bonus to any ally who can see him (I believe) who spends an action point to gain an extra standard action Is it? I looked before I posted the question, but couldn't find anywhere a statement of spending an action point taking any sort...

With a basic attack, at a net -2 (-5 for running, +2 because you grant combat advantage, +1 for charging).

I have something that's puzzling me about Action Points, and specifically their interactions with the Warlord feat Inspired Recovery and Conditions. If a condition (such as stunned) prevents you from using actions, can you spend an action point to gain an extra action you can't use? Normally...

I'm not 100% sure this is an error, but I'm pretty sure. Page 88 of the DMG, the Doomspore obstacle, says it is a lvl 3 obstacle, but that it's worth 350XP (and can be upgraded to Elite at 700XP). I'm not sure whether it's supposed to be 150XP (and 300 for Elite) and stay at level 3, or moved to...

I'm at work, so can't use Flikr, but I was tickled by the casual racism involved in the combination of Band name and Album title, so thought I'd post anyway: FK Borac Ostružnica Idiots Understand Their Language Apparently, that's a Serbian football (soccer) club, by the way.

Technically, a heroic tier character could get a hold of a ring. The parcels of rewards for the progress from 10 to 11 would include a lvl 11, a lvl 12, a lvl 13 and a lvl 14 magical item. So a level 10 character could have a ring shortly before he hits Paragon.

I suspect the Cleave with a dagger was probably related to the OP, and so was talking about cleaving with a thrown dagger, which I'm pretty sure shouldn't be possible.

That's not even possible, outside of deliberately reading the sentence wrong. The its refers to the enemy, no 2 ways about it. Of course that makes this creature (and all swarms, really) a real sod, and very difficult to avoid damage from. Gotta hope you have a very healy leader if you come...

No, I think it means that the PCs make a stealth check with a plus 5 bonus (for the door) and you use that for the DC of any monsters' perception checks (passive or active). Pretty much what it says. I'm with others that it's probably supposed to be DC 15 without trying. 10 as a default, +5 for...

While I agree that that's a neat idea, and one I'd love to see in practice, the problem I see is that while the Warlock can have one of three pacts, there are (presumably) up to a dozen or more viable religions for a cleric to choose from. If each of them had a different effect on encounter...

It's also very handy for keeping an opponent flanked, as the Paladin player in my group discovered, as he tried his hardest to get out of a flank between the Dragon Shield and a Skirmisher while at the same time maintaining his mark on the Dragon Shield. He just couldn't get away, what with this...

Bizarrely, that's the exact same section of the adventure I ran my group through! I was ready to throw them at the kobold lair but they showed no interest in investigating them, so it didn't happen. There are only 3 of us in our group. Me, who's the big driving force behind 4e for us. I'm...