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Both the Beast Master and Pathfinder paragon paths are considered relatively weak compared to Battlefield Archer and Stormwarden. They could be enhanced to offer a little more in the way of crowd control features; so the paragon paths offer a choice between being a specializing in the striker...

Ouch, I got told! :) The PHB simply presents square 3x3 areas that conform to the battle grid, which is consistent with keeping the combat system relatively simple and smooth-flowing. If you want to houserule tilting that square to allow variations, it wouldn't expand the area or significantly...

Total Concealment nicely reflects the simulated reality. If you've ever been in a thick forest or a field with head-high grass, it's easy to lose track of where someone is, even though they're just a short distance away. The -5 penalty will account for the difficulty in targetting for the most...

Caliban, you are right. It was my hope that I could appeal to rationality; but clearly once backed into a logical corner, they simply start playing games.

Z: How many squares does it affect? D: ten squares by ten squares. That's not an answer, it's evasion. It's deliberately refusing to answer because you know the answer demonstrates how faulty your reasoning is.

Please do not continue to demonstrate your evasiveness and intellectual dishonesty. What is the number? Dishonest evasion. Dishonest evasion.

What is the area of a 10x10 burst? How many squares does it affect? Does the formula one uses to calculate area differ depending on the "orientation" of the burst? If so, and one formula always covers significantly more squares than the other, why should a player ever use the lesser...

You are. An ideal figure consists of "3 squares by 3 squares". I'm not talking about DnD, battle grids, or anything in the rules. I'm talking about a simple definition. It is a thing that consists of squares, and there are 3 by 3 of them. How many squares are there in one direction? And the...

The rules provide a definition of "3 squares by 3 squares". That entails some necessary logical consequences. Your refusal to answer just demonstrates your fundamental intellectual dishonesty and the indefensibility of your position. Please stop wasting people's time and confusing simple...

Answer the questions. An ideal geometric figure consists of "3 squares by 3 squares". How many squares across (or extending on the X axis) are there? How many squares down (or extending on the Y axis) are there? The question was answered in the first few posts. It's only rules-lawyers who...

Not at all. The rules straightforwardly describe how to determine a blast area on the battle grid. The aim of course is to provide for a simple means to determine spell areas. An ideal geometric figure consists of "3 squares by 3 squares". How many squares across (or extending on the X axis)...

Yes, they have, starting from page one. The question was whether the diamond figure is consistent with the rules. It isn't. It is an invention that the rules do not suggest or depict. Furthermore, as I've shown, it plainly contradicts the defined area. The rules "allow" for anything. Set the...

Please see my post above. The diamond presented is not a 3 by 3 figure, it mathematically has properties that make it, by definition, not an area of 3 rows by 3 columns. Additionally, as I previously stated, it is not the rules' or the authors' problem to attempt to address every possible...

Head back to town & rest up at an inn? Find a safe place to camp overnight?

What do you guys do for TPKs? Start over with new characters? Divine intervention? Mulligan and do the fight over?

By all means if the players and DM want to do something that suits them or their situation, that's entirely up to them. The first rule is having fun isn't it? That doesn't mean one needs the official rules to "allow the cool"; they already do. Everything is permitted. Throw out any rules you...

There is no discussion; there's a simple and intellectually honest reading of the rules, and there's picking a fight with people in order to satisfy one's ego. The rules don't have to prevent this. They do not have to account for all possible twisting or misunderstanding or the rules. They...

The where might not make a lot of sense, but the rule does. Consider forest terrain to be light concealment; after 25 feet, someone's got total concealment.

The burden is not on the authors of the D&D books to anticipate every possible absurd misreading of the rules. It is only to make a set of consistent and easily understood rules that allow players to use them as the basis for enjoyable and entertaining game sessions. Any REASONABLE person should...

The game is complex enough for newcomers, and thankfully WotC with 4E are trying to appeal to a broader audience so that the game has a future. Pointless rules-lawyering and insisting that extreme interpretations are correct simply on the basis that they "aren't contrary to RAW", despite clear...