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True, that would be cool, but way too versatile. Unless there's one that escapes me at the moment, no race in 4e is given any sort of choice on their racial adjustments- save the human, who only gets one boost as the tradeoff. Just because they use flails doesn't mean that they should have a...

Exactly. I think that's somewhat like a player saying to a Wizard PC, "Oh, that Light spell you have? You can blind people with that by casting it on their eyes." and then the DM saying, "You can't take Light anymore. No at-will power should be allowed to blind someone." According to the PHB...

Where exactly is your group getting this "words of power" thing from? What book is it in? What game mechanics are given to it? If it's got no game mechanics to it, it's probably just fluff.

I believe that tactic was being suggested as an alternative to using Riposte Strike (as it turned out to not work as the TC thought it did). Rather than using Riposte strike, just use any other attack while flanking with a Fighter (as you'd be flanking, and thus get Sneak Attack every turn, and...

No. Someone with Resist 10 Thunder and Resist 5 Lightning hit for 15 Thunder and Lightning damage takes 10 damage because he has resistances to both (if he had resistance to only one, he would take the full damage, and since he has resistance to both, he only uses the lesser one). If something...

Thanks, guys! As it so happens, work closed early due to the "white death from above" everyone here in Tennessee seems to be so afraid of. I'll check those out, though!

I played in a campaign where the DM did this exact thing- another player joined us after a couple adventures, and his character- a troubled young Warlock- went through a couple sessions with us. Then, one session begins and that player hasn't shown up yet, so we start without him... Turns out...

So, my group and I are playing later tonight (right after I get off work, in fact), and it just occured to me, I may not have an adventure to run! I've got lots of free time at work, but no books or any of my files at home (and once I get home I'll hardly have much time to look up and learn an...

As I said earlier, this is basically a case of Working as Intended. If there's little to no danger of repurcussion when an enemy ignores your mark, then he's going to ignore your mark, and you should probably rethink your character to be better at punishing enemies who do so. And if there IS...

Absolutely. When Guillermo applied his Divine Challenge, one of two possible scenarios happened: Either A. Gomez had been taking quite a beating, and needed someone to get the Titan off his back, so he asked Guillermo (most likely out of game) to Mark the baddie. In this case, Guillermo comes...

Great ideas all around, everyone! Yes, I plan on making the players ask a lot of ethical questions as this campaign goes on. I also plan on making it apparent that this artifact was not created with a particular agenda in mind- "ending the world" very well may be a good thing, depending on the...

I don't think there were any attack combos involved in this fight, but on a couple occasions I've teamed up a couple Ettercaps with a few Deathjump Spiders. Both times the players hated me for the rest of the adventure.

As far as I know, there's no limitations as to what items your character can and can't have depending on level. The levels given to items are just supposed to be a guide for the DM to know roughly how powerful an item is, as well as how common an item should be. Also, when starting characters...

Wow, great suggestions! Those are more or less exactly what I was looking for. Keep 'em coming!

(Accidentally X-posted in the Story Hour forum.) Hello! I'm in need of your help, Enworld. I'm starting up a campaign in a couple days, and I need a list of names. Not just any names, no- names that will someday destroy the world. Allow me to explain. The PCs will, over the course of the...

D'oh! I swear, I tried to find that forum. I must have missed it, so I posted it here. I'll re-post it there, and close this one. Unless the mods don't mind me having two, in which case I'll leave this open. I haven't quite decided. The PCs will be stumbling across the last surviving member...

Plain and simple- the game is working as intended. It's not your fault (necessarily), it's not your DM's fault (necessarily), it's not the other players' fault (necessarily). If the DM is having the monsters attack squishies and your penalties & attacks aren't enough to deter that, well, that's...

Hello! I'm in need of your help, Enworld. I'm starting up a campaign in a couple days, and I need a list of names. Not just any names, no- names that will someday destroy the world. Allow me to explain. The PCs will, over the course of the first adventure, come across an extremely powerful...

It pretty much has to consider the entire creature's space as the origin square (or origin squares). It really wouldn't make sense, mechanically or flavor-wise, to rule it any other way.

It most certainly wouldn't be the first option; to my knowledge, there are no abilities that, after an attack action has already been resolved, retroactively add more damage to the target of a previous attack.