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Granting a saving throw with the heal skill I believe that it takes a standard action to use it in this way. It's a great things for minions to do to help out their boss who has been dazed, immobilized, or afflicted with some other nasty thing. I don't know the page number, but this is from...

Ooh, and it wasn't even my birthday! :devil:

I think the approach you need to take is decide what you want your character to be good at. What's his modus operandi? Does he shoot arrows, swing swords, fling spells, or dart around here and there in the fight, popping up to help his allies when they are in a tough spot? As a fast hero...

These sound like they would be a lot of fun in play. I don't reward xp as such in my group, so we'd need a different reward for using them to cause more trouble for the party. I'll give it some thought. I like a lot of your ideas, and the names are great. Thanks!

I agree that the trap as described would target each enemy once. You could easily create a trap that shoots multiple darts at each enemy in its area of effect. Revised Poisoned Dart Wall Trap Level 6 Blaster, XP 250 Darts fire from the wall, filling the chamber with danger. Trap: Each...

I feel it has definitely been worth it, despite some issues. The Character Builder, Monster Builder, and Compendium see regular use. The content in Dungeon and Dragon is nice, although I don't keep up with all of it. It's great being able to look it up when I like. These tools are invaluable...

Nice work on the fonts. As a calligrapher who has done a great deal of research on medieval scripts, I'd recommend not using modern punctuation marks if you want a more authentic look. I find the modern punctuation marks rather jarring in the sample scripts, although it's good of you to...

You would not be sued without first receiving a cease and desist order. That's my understanding of how these things work. No one wants to go to the expense involved in a full lawsuit, because there's no money in it for WotC. You aren't selling this for profit. If you were, it might be a...

Allowing multiple action point use per encounter seems like it would *drastically* increase the nova potential of a group, especially if you reward an action point per encounter. Have you found this to be a problem in play? Do your big fights go too easily for the players, or have you adjusted...

I generally only allow surprise if the attack was unexpected. Recently the entire group got a surprise round against some slavers because they pretended to be interested in buying the slave rather than fighting. The slavers were suspicious, but some bluff checks, negotiation of a price, and...

I think I'm the only one in my group with an actual user name, but I know one of the players came here looking for power cards for use with the Magic set editor. Other than that, I don't think any of them read ENWorld or the WotC forums. I am free to talk about my campaign without their...

I came for the 4E rumors, and hung around for all the great discussion of D&D and other RPG's. There's an active and generally polite community with plenty of interesting stuff to talk about. The moderators due a great job keeping it that way. Unlike say the WoW forums, where the signal:noise...

It is true that for a striker, or pretty much any melee character, there are no more generally useful arm items than the Iron Armbands of Power. It is for that reason that I am disallowing them. They are flat out better than any comparable, or even higher level, option for that slot. They are...

I house-ruled to allow reach weapons to provide flank at their reach. However, to prevent the scenario of an enemy never being able to close with a reach weapon user without provoking an opportunity attack, I do not allow OA's at reach. Realistically you should be able to make an OA against...

Ah, to be accused of fantasy game racism by Flipguarder after receiving the great distinction of appearing on his sig list, it is a blow from which I'll never* recover. ;) I cannot deny the cool factor of magically animated wooden and metal robots - who could? The existence of sentient arcanely...

I allow genasi, but not drow. I like the genasi as elemental based people. They are cool. Their inclusion also adds another strength bonus race into the mix. I dislike Forgotten Realms drow, and have no place in my world for them as written. I replaced them with a third branch of the elven...

I read your blog post, and I agree with much of what you propose. That is similar to the way I chose to handle it prior to the publication of AV2, which has its own rules for magical tattoos in it. The AV2 tats are counted as another item slot. There are some interesting ones, especially if...

And of course every time I post my opinion on the internet, naturally everyone is overwhelmed by my brilliant logic and impeccable references, and immediately comes around to my point of view. That's how the internet works, isn't it? ;)

Those yes, as well as minotaurs, which I believe received a writeup in Dragon. I don't want people playing kobolds, orcs, hobgoblins, bugbears, lizardmen, etc. etc. I don't see the MM character stat writeups on all of those as necessarily being solely for NPC's. They seem to be options that...

Thank you for all your work on D&D over the years, for being available to the community, and for making us feel we had an advocate at WotC. You have made gaming a better place Mr. The Rouse. Good luck to you, and don't be a stranger around here.