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Repost from the CharOp boards: Thought I'd post it here as well, like to hear your opinions!

NOTE! NO SPOILERS IN THIS THREAD, PLEASE! Thanks in advance! ----------------------------------------------------- Hi all, I'm currently playing a character in HS1: The Slaying Stone, as opposed to my usual role as resident DM (I own 90% of the books and minis we use, and we mostly play at...

Sometime last year during the Era of the Nerfbat, I was caught up in the speculations on how and if they would nerf the Ranger, and especially how they would deal with that infamous at-will power of theirs - Twin Strike. I pondered long and hard, and after a couple of unsuccessful atempts at a...

I had an idea in another thread, thought I'd take it up here as its a sort of a house rule. Basically, I want to change the naming and effects of some conditions so that they are more easily concievable from a laymans point of view, and make it evenly consistent and mechanically sound...

I just realized I won't have that much time to prepare for the game I'm running this Saturday and since it's supposedly the final fight/encounter of the adventure, I thought I'd give a shout out here on the forum for some assistance in building a truly magnificent finale for my players! The...

I'm finding this feat rather lackluster; therefore, I'd like to change it to this: and make the following rules changes: - Mounts only grant their special ability to a rider of its level or higher (regardless if the rider has the Mounted Combat feat). - Mounts take a -2 penalty to attack rolls...

Ok, the title says it all really: I'm planning a one-shot adventure this saturday (17.7.2010) for a couple of old friends who actually taught me D&D 3E in the first place. None of them have any experience of 4E play whatsoever, and only one of them is vaguely familiar with the rules (although...

Ok, long version: My group is restarting a campaign after a 7 month long pause. A lot of things have happened since then (new material, rules updates etc.) and I feel it's more tha fair of me to allow them a free rebuild of their PC's based on their concepts. A couple of the player's were...

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Can be found here. Who would've guessed revenants FINALLY getting some feat support for playing assassins? :p

It's up. Nothing that really sticks out, although WR: Revenants seems interesting (new options for PHB3 races perhaps?). CA: Artificers might be fun, hopefully someform of Alchemist build. WR: Tieflings, AGAIN?? What's up with that? Oddly, there's also 2 Design & Development articles on the...

Well, originally inspired by 77IM back in the day (among others), I recently started thinking about mechanics for long-time injuries and suddenly I had come up with a fresh wound system, which I think holds true to the style of 4th Edition. NOTE: I deliberately posted this in a new thread so...

Level instead of ½ level to attacks and defenses Yes, another one of these. As most regulars on these forums know, there's a generally accepted flaw in the math of 4E, namely in the attack bonuses and defenses of PCs in comparison to monsters. I won't go in to detail, but the jist is that PC...

Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (New Year, New Experiences) Did some spelunking at the WotC-website, and found January's Ampersand up already. Not that many tidbits... ...except the fact that they're releasing a friggin' limited edition gargantuan Orcus...

Ok, the premise for my argument is that Small races are given no real non-conditional mechanical benefit to weigh out the penalties when comparing them to Medium races. Small characters have a distinct disadvantage when it comes to weapon selection and weapon themed classes in general - come...

A new player in our group decided that he wants to play a bullywug - basically, just because they're frogs. ;) I want to encourage him to play whatever he wants, but bullywugs really pose a problem. Their racial writeup isn't really PC-friendly in any way, and they lack feat support. So I'm...

I have a confession: I'm not too keen on resistances and vulnerabilities. Especially not vulnerabilities and the way it unbalances damage types - in particular radiant and necrotic. I did a quick check on the compendium to see how many creatures I could find containing the words "vulnerable"...

After I had read the many warlock threads as of late, an idea came to me while I was standing in the rain waiting for the bus from work. I let the idea grow in my mind for a couple of days, working out some of the kinks. Finally, I have come up with what I think is a viable "fix" for warlocks...

Hi guys, I'm the regular DM for my group, but I might actually get to play in our next adventure (!). Therefore I've been tinkering on a character, and actually introduced a potential future PC as an NPC in the current campaign (that I'm DMing). The group consists of 4 players (originally 6, a...

The flyby attack in question is the one of the copper dragon (MM2). It states that the dragon can make a (now this is the good part) melee basic attack at any point during the movement. The dragon has in fact two different melee basic attacks - a bite and a claw. Now the claw is nothing special...