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I used to play with a group like this, really one guy in the group, but still the same problem. I changed 2 things to help combat it. First, I haven't given out a bag of holding in 20 years. Second, I've established that dragon's are about hordes. If the dragon is killed away from the lair...

So when the Warden changes the hit point total on his character sheet from 12 to -4 he has finished dropping to zero or fewer hit points? Nothing else happens to his character as part of resolving taking the damage that dropped him below zero? Hint for those playing along at home, he still...

Now reread the rule for Immediate Interrupts. They act when the trigger arises and before the trigger finishes. The rule does not say they act before the trigger arises.

Must spread XP, etc. Exactly right, while condition has a specific game definition, effect does not and event does not. An attack is an event, being hit is an event, being force moved is an event anything that happens in game is an event. The trigger rule doesn't say condition it says...

In practice, this largely true, but 4e is an exception based design game so special cases are expected to change the normal rules. This is not argument for or against your overall interpretation, just pointing out that arguing that a special case has to be treated like the general is...

Well dropping is a verb, so simply english language parsing would tend to consider it something that actively happens, which is a fair generic definition for an event. Even if you don't like that condition and effect are clearly synonomous in the 4e rules, so dropping to zero can still be a...

And that's all good, the player is still making the decisions for his character. I could actually see one of the guys I regularly DM for asking for the roll to help him make up his mind on how to react to a situation.

The words on the power be damned, eh? Well I guess I have to admire your self-confidence if nothing else.

In almost every case of 1. I do not allow skills rolls. That comes too close to 1 player taking control of another player's character, even if just briefly. One of the few exceptions I make is for Bluff used for a disguise but I then narrate the disguised PC's actions (with his input of what he...

Dude, even Draco and KD never tried to claim that the hit statement was the trigger to Bear's Endurance. Maybe you want to edit this?

Yeah, I still don't agree with the order of the healing, but either it happens before the hit, with all that implies, or it doesn't happen before the hit. You can't go back to the hit for the heal and then not affect the hit determination when the situation has changed. NOTE: This shouldn't be...

The charge is slightly better when the drake is bloodied because both attacks get a +2 to damage where the at-will gets a single +2 to damage. But, yeah, even with the reprint in DM's Kit it suffers from some of the monster design problems of MM1. I would probably take it to 2 attacks at 1d+6...

Then how in the world would the heal be before the hit but you wouldn't check if a conditional bonus was changed for the hit. You know, since you just pushed the interrupt action to before the hit even though the hit isn't the trigger. Your last paragraph doesn't make sense when compared to the...

Uhm, Charge page 240 RC A creature uses the charge action when it wants to dash forward and launch an attack with a single action. Such an attack is sometimes referred to as a charge attack. Charge a Target Action: Standard Action. When a creature takes this action, it chooses a target. Figure...

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The only reference I could find to an exception for Immediate actions and movement was on page 196 of the RC: "Likewise, an immediate reaction can interrupt movement. Here's how: If a creature triggers am immediate reaction while moving (by coming into range, for instance), the reaction can...

I think you could design a really good d20 game this way. You would spoil the design if you tried to shoehorn it into a set of classes. This could be an excellent approach for classless D&D (if that's not an oxymoron) with character features, powers, feats, power sources and skills all largely...

And where are the Goblin and PC in relation to each other and to their starting positions?

I have a follow up adjudication question. A PC has a Cape of the Mountebank with the following Daily Power Immediate Interrupt: Use this power when you are hit by an attack. Teleport 5 squares and gain combat advantage against the attacker until the end of your next turn. Battle...

Actually, I think if you were going to expand the use of power sources, I would treat more class concepts as hybrid power source classes. Ranger makes more sense to me as a Martial/Primal class (and gets a better flavor seperation from damage built fighters). Paladin, to me, feels better as a...