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Or you can just train yourself to think in Chebyshev distances. In which case, you realize that a Euclidean square is a Chebyshev circle, so you're still casting a fireball. This is a little easier to do with Manhattan distance, as a diamond is closer to a gridified Euclidean circle, and has...

Has anybody tried substituting D&DXP pregens into Keep on the Shadowfell? I know the wizard has a few different powers that could easily be swapped around, and I imagine a few changes could be made with other class duplicates... But what I'm most interested in is, has anybody who got a peek at...

Nah, he just participled a freshly verbed noun. It's the logical extension, really.

Like you've never verbed a noun before. Pshaw!

I kind of like hong's OP idea on the merits of associating these with the primal power source. I could certainly live with it if it were pitched that way, at least. In which case, I definitely think your addendum, Burr, is excellent. It allows such spirits and beings to be fueled by primal, but...

By goading their opponents, providing a distraction. Or by being such a threatening presence at their flank, that the opponent can't afford to turn his attention elsewhere (or else he gets smacked in the side of the head, which is a further distraction and screws up his attack). For paladins...

That's why they're ninjas. So the question boils down to, can you ready more than a basic attack, and is this ability triggered by a basic attack, or is it a power that grants the bonus based on adjacent allies? Personally, I wouldn't be surprised if you could *only* ready a basic attack...

Quick question: Has anybody figured out who "New DM" is? One of the things that I enjoy about these columns (and some of the playtest excerpts) is getting the chance to attach some personality to the WotC staff. And no, AllisterH, you're not -- in fact, as a perennial 3e player who used to DM...

Fie! That show is hilarious. It would be infiinitely more quality if they lost the laugh track, though. Your audience are already geeks, guys, they know when to laugh and it feels vaguely condescending to have the laugh track going "that was a joke, did you get it? Huh? Laugh, now!..." Not to...

My fighter is more deadly with his un-bent paperclip than your wizard is with a greatsword!

The first rule of Club Fighter is you do not talk about Club Fighter. The second rule of Club Fighter is you do not talk about Club Fighter.

Well, when half the classes released are martial power sourced, I don't think it's upsetting that a physical stat is more widely useful than a mental one (dex vs. int). As more arcane classes come out, not to mention the psionics power source, int will see its day. As things stand, it looks...

And I (and others, I think) are just pointing out that the vibe you're giving out in this thread is that you're just the opposite: A DM that feels like the players are his minions, only there to perform to with whatever rules the DM wants regardless of how the players have fun playing. I mean...

To follow up on my musings over exponential growth vs. pseudo-exponential growth, I went and calculated an appropriate progression for a true exponential system, then rounded to the nearest 25 for less cumbersome values (in the first tier, this rounding never amounted to more than 6gp, though...

The more I think on it, the more I lean towards this, yeah. On the one hand, I don't think 3 items would be ridiculous to amass. On the other, I don't think a 3:1 exchange ratio is ultimately profitable (or at least, not exploitable) to the players, unless you're just intentionally giving them...

... All of the economics I've seen have specifically stated that this is a *base* market value, and that conditions can be less favorable to the player due to things like proximity to trade centers, etc. etc. 20% is a balancing guideline, above which things begin to unravel. In that regard, 20%...

.. Please. Flaming weapons (and it appears, many others) do something neat and very visible on a crit. My fighter, in his 2 minutes of short rest, walks over to the nearest tree stump, and swings the well balanced sword at the stump 20 times (essentially taking 20). One of those times, it crits...

My inner math geek is vaguely disappointed that the sale value 1/5 = buy value of (level -5) stuff didn't lead to a true exponential progression chart. I was looking forward to my 276gp level 1 items and 1,380 level 6 items. The way they did it, by staking out the level 5, 10, 15, etc. level...

keterys, why do you keep mentioning $10? Has the "longer subscription discount" been confirmed to work out to that rate, or are you just extrapolating some other MMO's discounts? In any event, I plan on checking it out. My hope is that it will be useful and handy as a tabletop supplement, and I...

Huge dittoes here. I had to take back my first Saga book because the pages with the weapon tables was literally painful to read. The print alternated between too heavy and too light in waves down the page, and was blurry, to boot. It was physically headache inducing, and on a frequently...