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swim and use rope are on my list. I know there are 'use rope' fans out there, but for me its too specific. Like having a skill for 'Staying up late at night'. Very useful, but tooooo narrow, or something. It just rankles me. Conversely, swim is obviously a somewhat general, very useful...

Food for thought (albeit the conversation has moved on) with regards to Dealy Strike with unarmed attacks for _any_ class: 'unarmed strike' is on the weapons table, it is described as a group in the weapons group section, and no where does it make any exception that i can find calling it not a...

I like this basic idea, but, I would qualify it as 20 rounds of _Combat_ spells. If this is how much combat a wizard "should" see, then he should be able to be a wizard for that much combat. Exploration and Interaction are much harder to quantify, but it seems likely that you won't need 20 for...

And he takes out said commander/mage/etc by sneak attacking them. If sneak attack doesn't have the goods, his whole 'shining' moment has a maximal potential of being 'ok'. Acceptable, but not optimal. The rogue should sneak in, jump the cannon fodder, dodge the traps and arrows, and disappear...

I concur. Options other than lazers is good, great even. They didn't give any. They locked you in. You're at-will is a package deal, take it all or leave it all. At will wise: If you want at-will combat magic, apparently you are a sun cleric. No other choices. Not an improvement...

Fix of least effort: At the very least I would think a "expertise dice spent +1d6 dmg" would be in line (probably removing the 'flanking' trigger). They've jumped through an extra hoop to use the maneuver, they get an extra die over a comparable maneuver (deadly strike). Granted, you don't...

even IF we assume one could make a mini-black hole: How is he attaching the arrows to the black hole...the arrow should normally just get sucked in, in fact there is no real way to propel these holes, anything thing you touch to them will get sucked in; arrows, string, and most likely you...

[as you said you'll play around with it, here is something to keep in mind] As a non-subscriber, I can't remove it, and as someone with a flittering attention span, I cannot read a post with such a large distraction next to it. Its big enough to insist on being seen and filled with images and...

They are perfectly compatible. I've played several mixed campaigns and never had a problem.

Simply taking alchemist OR ritual casting doesn't give you any free recipes/rituals. The Ritual Casting feature usually just say "gain the feat". Elsewhere in the class description it usually describes the rituals you know and whether you gain more, etc. If your class feature gives you free...

I would have said field testing instead of research. Anyone who has field tested (used/played next to/killed as a DM) a d4 hd class knows they don't have enough hit points.

For the record there is no problem here, the races are pretty universally balanced, any problems are unique to the race that is bad, not the book its in, and that is usually a matter of opinion.

A discussion here talks about the "can't use martial powers" implication: http://www.enworld.org/forum/d-d-4th-edition-discussion/315636-berserker-fury-heroes-feywild.html the phrase being: My belief is that its an awkward attempt to point out you that since primal powers make you rage you...

I think giving weapon damage a type is smart. In 4e, resisting weapon attacks wasn't simple, usually it became resist all, or specifically ranged/melee or calling out weapon attacks...blah. I like weapons having a type of damage. I'm less thrilled about weapons having three separate damage...

Spiritual hammer lasts a minute and I interpret it as saying for the duration of the spell that you can use its attack as "part of your action" ie not your whole action. So, I think the idea is, once you've cast it, for the duration of the spell you can lance AND hammer with one action. (this...

The treatment of electrum confused me. Not only is it off the decimal system, the description states that (along with platinum) using electrum raises 'suspicion' (whatever that means....DM's choice I guess). Why did you give us a fifty cp coin that disrupts math AND is problematic to use? Why...

From the information on the sheet, there is no explaining it. It does mention a damage bonus, but that plus stats only puts you at +5/+3. In the rules we have on weapons, no mention of a bonus to dmg for 2 handed fighting (that i saw), no reason why the great axe does the two dice version of...

The first penny-arcade/pvp adventure was "the keep on the shadow fell", a book released at the time of 4e launch, and made free on the wotc website a few years later (for a while at least, I can't find it now, but I have a pdf I know I got legally). product information here: Dungeons & Dragons...

"Maximum Damage: Rather than roll damage, determine the maximum damage you can roll with your attack. This is your critical damage. (Attacks that don’t deal damage still don’t deal damage on a critical hit.)" the wording of critical hits maxing damage. "The target takes 1[W] extra damage...

Used in my campaign: Elves/Eladrin/Fey that thrive in the elemental planes and each have a unique tie to one or more elements. This one has fey origins rather than elemental. An elemental, in the more pure sense of the word, made of purely that element (or elements) with...