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Sorry, it may seem minor, but there's a difference in how we see this. Per p188: "Stealth: Part of whatever action you are trying to perform stealthily". Right. His move action cannot be done stealthily. Per the unblocked line of sight rule, he's automatically seen moving into the cover. He...

I believe it works like this: When counting range, you start first in all adjacent squares of the origin, including diagonals whether or not they go around a wall (eg the square immediately southwest of the origin point in the diagram) - see p273. For all other squares, you count following the...

It's when Careful Attack hits on 18-20 but Twin Strike only hits on 20 that CA has a slight advantage over TS (15% vs 9.75%). In all other circumstances, They're either on-par, or TS is better.

As I recall, that response came very shortly after 4E was released, when CSRs were providing very inconsistent answers on stealth. They since appear to have reached an internal consensus on how it's supposed to work. If someone can get an updated answer from them on this question, that would be...

Since the move begins in the open, stealth isn't possible. He's seen by default. It's not until he gets to cover and attempts a stealth action that a roll is needed. Per the CSR response above, normally passive applies, unless the creatures are making active checks. DM has discretion of course...

Here's the answers I got from CSRs earlier: Answers from Evan T. (Wizard CSR) Can ranged attackers, eg. rogues and rangers, use cover (eg, walls, pillars) or concealment (eg. bushes, darkness) to make stealth attacks during combat? You can make a stealth attempt with any action that you do...

Can we sticky this?

Yes. Cover is one of the necessary conditions to use stealth. Attacking stealthily from behind cover in order to gain combat advantage is an intended use of the feature. What confuses the issue in the PHB is that they treat out-of-combat and in-combat stealth very fluidly; but the question of...

And a cube in 4E space is... a sphere.

Noticed something interesting on p105: It's like they meant to add Str/Dex modifier to Careful Attack, but forgot, or removed it and didn't reduce the Hit field to a single entry as it is with Twin Strike. If damage is 1[W] for both melee and ranged, there's no reason to list them separately...

Well put. The rules don't account for every possibility. They're a set of instructions for playing the game, much like a recipe; which is why the infinite oregano joke is so apt. The problem is that some assert that even if the intention and meaning of a rule can be easily understood from the...

O.o Have you read the section in the PHB on Double Moves, p284? Or substituting a Move Action for a Standard Action, p269? A round is "about" 6 seconds. In that you can fit a standard, move, and minor action as separate events. Action points let you extend that to do more. There's flexibility...

The "RAW" POV ultimately doesn't matter, and any discussion of it is for all practical purposes, worthless. What matters is how the game should actually be played. It doesn't make sense to use infinite oregano, to set the battle mat on fire just because rules don't say you can't, or to...

Fleeting Ghost Fleeting Ghost, p119, says you can move & make a stealth check. Does this mean that use of this power allows the rogue to ignore the normal rule that moving through open space during combat negates stealth, and allow them to make a stealth attack immediately after moving, while...

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I attempted to get a CS ruling a couple days ago, and the answer had nothing to do with what I asked. So go ahead & try; but I believe it would be inappropriate to allow players to use each other as cover for the purpose of stealth. That would mean a good thief can walk behind another player...

The problem is, he thinks he's found a loophole that allows infinite oregano. It doesn't matter how obviously wrong that is on the face of it.

Logical fallacy of shifting the burden of proof. Show us the rule that says a blast can be counted diagonally, or that you can take a square blast area and tack 4 extra squares on it and call it the same. The diagrams on 272 are part of the rules. They are instructive. The rules only provide...

I just read a post today, wish I could remember in what thread, where a DM related doing exactly that. Asked his players what sorts of quests, adventures, and encounters they were most interested in; then worked those into the campaign. People are supposed to enjoy playing D&D. If fulfilling...

Wow, very nice contribution Anax.