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The only way it would be life threatening would be if the disease itself is life threatening. You know what the level is right when you start the ritual. The only reason why a character would continue with the actual ritual knowing that there is a chance of death for the character would be if...

I think he was being sarcastic for the first part of his post. As for the end of his post, I think he means take the powers from two monsters and give them all to one monster.

Then dont use every ability in the first 3 rounds of combat. The dragon has 8 attacks (only 6 really matter). Unless you are spamming action points you are never going to use all of them within 3 rounds. Also, a good way to surprise PCs is to use a power that only "activates" when the...

LOL, yeah I was kind of surprised by that too. I guess you better make sure you have a really good cleric if you want to get cured reliably.

So you want to spend 4 hours creating just one monster? Beyond that I dont get your post. On what basis are any of the attacks mediocre?

I was going to quote a bunch of monster stats but in the end it comes out to about 55 damage per round on average. With the dragons HP that would take about 25 rounds. Given that its two monsters not meant to go up against each other (damage and HP are off) and the fact that its only two...

FYI, the Dragons breath weapon has a secondary attack that, if it hits, the targets fire resistance is negated until the end of the encounter. /end thread

That analogy doesnt fit because the two rogue still are combat based "strikers" that do the same things. That has nothing to do with my previous post. Again, statistically they all use the same base, on that I agree they are all mechanically the same, but on the implementation of the...

Have you seen Orcus' Touch of Death? Its just a simple ATK against FORT and the creature is reduced to 0 HP (damage equal to the creatures bloodied value on a miss). Now thats a death attack.

Even thats takes 1/10th of the time it took in 3.x. The base system for creating NPCs and Monsters just works faster. Its that simple.

So a goad is magic? Look at the fighter attacks that are more then burst 1. They are all essentially goads where the only way for him to attack the creature is to get it adjacent to him. How is that magical? As for the rogue, he does get a few area attacks, but the only ones that arent...

The thing that doesnt click for me is that every review/preview always starts of with "it feels like D&D" and seem to emphasis that point in their reviews/previews heavily.

Except that thats not totally true. Yes they use the same mechanics to calculate their stats, but it pretty much stops there. Wizards attack non AC defenses and generally attack more opponents from far away. Fighters attack only AC and are melee based fighters. Wizards are pretty weak only...

Ok, so now that Dragonbewbs are back, do dragonborns birth live young or lay eggs? In other words to Dragonbewbs do anything?

I really think that we need to stop saying stuff like that. Its just confusing. Was Whirlwind Attack in 3.x a spell? Its about as ridiculous as what we have seen from the martial characters, so why isnt it a spell too? Seriously, can we please just stick to "attack" for describing exploits...

Correct. The only actions that provoke an OA are when you move out of an adjacent square, or use a power with either the Ranged or Area keywords.

How many healing surges do monsters have?

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4ex/20080430a

30/4=7 +1 at 11 +1 at 21 so its 18+7+1+1=27 In addition to ratial.

Thats how I read it.