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In 4e I realized alot about different monsters by trying to take advantage of all of a monsters abilities, for example the Banshrae. They get advantages for moving a large amount on their turn, and the ability to shift after hitting with a melee attack as a minor. This and the words used in...

I guess it might not be exciting, but you can build a Swordmage|Avenger hybrid that has 34 AC by level 12, which is 4 more than a paladin or standard swordmage. It does require paragon hybrid, unarmed agility, improved warding, and greater armor of faith though.... But! You can zip around the...

I have all different kinds of gods in my homebrew setting. The basis of my whole setting is that the "Far Realm" is a realm simply where reality is defined by willpower, which would inherently shred a mortal mind that is used to a concrete world. So first we have an Elder God that exercised such...

The Night Angel Trilogy, a book series, also could help. It features prominently a character that always comes back to life shortly after dying and what that entails for him/her as a human being. But besides that, I think it could be an interesting concept, though my players would probably...

My recommendation for 4e would be 2d4, 2d6, 1d8, 2d10, 1d12, and 1d20 at least, that way you can at least roll the basic damage of a weapon without rerolling. If you don't like rerolling at all, having at least 6-10 of whatever you weapon is would be useful. If you want to be prepared for...

My favorite thing about this issue: it is one more area where the swordmage has many advantages over other defenders. If we assume they can sleep in light armor with no penalty while sleeping in heavy armor gives one, and if we say that a character that sleeps clutching a weapon is a paranoid...

Even outside of items, you could give them a small number of free feats, maybe a multiclass giving them the healing ability once per day. However you do it I'm sure you can make it fit with the story. I have a group of only 3 and on my groups insistence sometimes run a DMPC but that is taxing...

I have my personal set of dice and a pound of dice I bought when I first started dming. I used to have another set, the official 4e set, but they disappeared almost a year ago now so I don't think they are turning back up, and I think a pocket might have preformed that disappearing trick, but I...

My favorite campaign as a player started with us traveling with a caravan as simple travelers going between the two largest cities of the land. We entered a small town as weird things started happening, and then had to investigate why undead were all of the sudden threatening this town while its...

There is a hack-and-slash but with DA:O I was showing that you can still customize and have fun, but have very defined powers.

I hate DMs that say my Return from Death's Door power doesn't count my mentor as an ally. I hate players that stop me in the middle of combat to tell me the D20 modern rules for burst fire don't make sense and demand that I houserule it to their liking then and there. I love DMs that...

Though by no means do I think the discussion should have to stop, I think I have come to my conclusions. The inclusion of social skills as a gameplay mechanic is necessary, because even if the player sitting across the table from me can give excellent reasons of why the dark lord should let the...

Yes, it is Dragon Age: Origins (Actually Awakening the expansion) with the hotbar extended....not sure how to do it though.

Pre- 2e 2e 3.x 4e

In my homebrew world I handled this by changing the crunch on how fast races mature. Elves reach adulthood by 30, though they do live for almost a millennium. The balance is that elves are much less fertile. Elves don't have children often, over their entire life they might have only 2-3...

Thanks for the feed-back! I think the general consensus is that for a general purpose tabletop some social skills are necessary. Follow up, how to blend a character's performance in social situations with their skills to handle a eloquent speech by a non-charismatic character or a social faux...

The only reason I was thinking about was making social encounters come down to actual roleplaying instead of dice rolls, but I know that also could negatively affect some players.

I'm just wondering if people think it is necessary or not for a good tabletop rpg to feature social stats and skills i.e. Charisma, Diplomacy, Intimidate. I'm currently trying to make my own game as a challenge to myself and was wondering what the ENworld Community's opinion was.

I just got into the game a little over a year ago, and 4e was the first table top experience I had, and after playing for a while I decided to get a subscription to DDI for the character builder and then also discovered the adventure tools. After a bit our dm quit on us, and after borrowing his...

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