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I'd say that choosing a skill power (or a theme power, likewise) takes up both "slots" for that level, since it's not a wizard power. So he shouldn't get a spell and a skill power in the first place. I'm not sure if that's RAW, though. I know a lot of the hybrid options are very clear about...

That's my thinking as well. I was just checking to see if someone else had already done it.

Has anyone (fan or official) done a set of character themes for WotBS, like the ones for Zeitgeist? I know WotBS got started before themes became a thing, but some of the character options seem as though they would fit perfectly with the theme structure. I'm working on a set myself, but if...

The older editions (0e, 1e, B/X, BECMI, and 2e) are immortal as well, thanks to the discovery that they can be "retro-cloned" legally using the d20 SRD as a base. People who didn't start with those editions have begun to use them, thanks to the online "old school" community and the retro-clones...

I would really like to be in the beta for Heroes of Nev--damn.

Actually, Eberron is designed to be teetering on the brink of any number of major changes (a new eruption of active world war being prominent among them), but the developers are intent on never pushing the setting past that point in published product, leaving the future up to individual gaming...

Remember, the complete DDI suite (including VTT with pretty 3D minis) was supposed to be out concurrent with the 4e launch, and there was quite a bit of grumbling when that did not come to pass (though people kinda got used to it over time, and the original CB helped soothe bad feelings a lot)...

Here's a Rich Baker blog entry that I dug up with some information on the Dark Sun "character themes" element. He even mentions 2e kits as a comparison. Some of the old AQ kits that could theoretically be members of most any class (such as the corsair) might benefit from being treated as...

Even a one-off book or series of Dragon articles would indeed be cool. If they haven't done it by the time you're done with your doctorate, Quickleaf, I'd suggest you polish up and send in some of your ideas as Dragon articles (the AQ equivalent of the Spellplague and the class builds in...

Anyone still working on this? I wonder if the "themes" announced for the Dark Sun book later this year would be of help in reconstructing 2e kits for Al-Qadim as well. Guess we'll have to wait to find out more about those. Meanwhile, has anything else been done? The PHB3 classes seem to be a...

I am pondering how to "fluff" a runepriest character for Eberron. (I'm the GM and one of my players wants to introduce one.) My initial thought is to equate "runes" with the various dragonmarks scattered throughout the world, but I thought I'd ask in case there are better ideas out there. I...

Oh. Well, don't I look uneducated. :o Not sure about the "&quot"s. I posted from my phone, and had to edit a few times to add spacing between paragraphs. I tried to change those codes back to quotation marks, and it looked as though it had worked in the preview, but apparently not. Thanks...

Ari or Joe, Not a nitpick, just a matter of amused curiosity: Any idea what was the nature of the search-and-replace that transformed every mention of "lava" in the nature priest's Burning Lava power into "lahar"? I've been trying to work out the sort of change that would accidentally transform...

Huh, yeah, the double sword is weird. I was thinking that the primary end counts as a heavy blade and the secondary end counts as a light blade, so that you couldn't actually use Heavy Blade Opportunist and rogue powers at the same time. Upon checking again, the book doesn't actually say...

You can interrupt after any square of movement. So if you have a melee weapon and a guy is charging at you, you interrupt between the last square of movement (the one that puts him adjacent to you) and his basic melee attack. Deadstop

Is this really a greater problem for 4e than for D&D in general, though? "D&Disms" have always made adaptation of literary or folkloric fantasy to D&D a tricky prospect. Even in the OGL era, when some companies felt free to pull and replace the "Vancian" magic system entirely, you had...

Don't forget that there's an explicit instruction to rework the flavor text on any power you like. That should go without saying, of course, but it means you might be able to get away with "look and feel" changes to some powers instead of making up new power sets wholesale. A fire-damage...

Hmm. That's a good one.I'd have to say that primary, secondary, and tertiary attacks are explicitly distinct attacks, so you'd take the challenge damage for each one not targeted at the paladin. Whereas a burst or blast attack would be a single attack that potentially includes the paladin, even...

Wouldn't this bit from the "Breaking Stealth" section of his rules take care of that problem? "If at any point you have no cover or concealment from a creature (other than the total concealment granted by being hidden), you cease being hidden to that creature." So as soon as you come out...

Well, he's got the Curse, which is his "add extra d6s" damage boost along the lines of the Rogue's Sneak Attack and the Ranger's Hunter's Quarry. He's the only one of the Strikers who can place that damage boost on multiple enemies at the same time (though I don't know how many area-effect...