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Yeah, again, it's a fine system that I'm not knocking. It's just not RAW because you can't always delay. According to PHB pg. 288, you "can't delay if you're dazed or if you're unable to take actions."

That's not quite per RAW, because if you allow the PCs to decide who goes in what order each time around, you allow them to bypass turn loss that RAW rules could create. For example, let's say PC A is dropped and becomes dying. When you let the players decide who goes first, PC B says "hey...

Ban Consecrated Ground. Forced movement doesn't always automatically break a grab. It might give a bonus saving throw, might do nothing, etc. at the DM's discretion depending on the nature of the grab and the forced movement. Simplify daily magic item use, because the rules are annoying.

I don't think you want any one miniboss's clue/line to point to 'mountain' otherwise it undermines the objective. What I'd suggest is that the minibosses have "nonsense phrases" that only make sense when they come together. To do this, I might come up with a riddle that has the same number of...

Haha, uh, no. I posted the original question about 9 hours before that encounter. I was simply prepping myself for your eventual doom when you face invisible enemies. Muhahaha.

After looking again at the rules on pg 290 of PHB, I definitely agree with Draco and disagree with Oompa. What I missed earlier was the phrase "and you can see your enemy" at the end of the "Able to Attack" bullet.

I'm curious to know if there's rules that should inform how I adjudicate attacks vs. invisible enemies. I've read the sections of the PHB on invisible and opportunity attacks but I might have missed something, and certainly might have missed an official ruling elsewhere. Examples (assuming the...

For even more completeness, here's a link to another similar thread that vhailor started 6 days earlier: http://www.enworld.org/forum/d-d-4th-edition-rules/252321-ongoing-damage-saves.html

If you feel like you needed all those dailies in the first encounter, then who can argue? How many healing surges did you need to expend afterward? Is anyone really low? Remember you have encounter powers too; I think most players tend to open with encounter powers if they don't yet have a gauge...

Let me add something, because I don't think I made my point crystal clear. Let's say you let Bob ignore the 5 ongoing poison damage from the carrion crawler immediately when he is hit but you give him the slow part of the poison as a "save ends" condition. Now at the end of Bob's turn, Bob...

Let's say a character named Bob is struck by a Pit Fiend's tail sting's secondary attack and then by a Carrion Crawler tentacle in the same fight. Poor Bob! The Pit Fiend says that the "target takes ongoing 15 poison damage and is weakened (save ends both)." Carrion Crawler says that the...

This statement seems absurdly out of touch with reality. The spectrum of encounters doesn't touch anything between trivial and overmatched? :confused: Then you go on to presume that all parties should figure out what's behind every door, will never get ambushed, etc.? There's thinking outside...

I think I've played or DM'd these: UK3 The Gauntlet UK5 Eye of the Serpent UK6 All That Glitters... WG6 Isle of the Ape I remember All That Glitters being fairly exciting but I'm not remembering much details about it. Eye of the Serpent on the other hand is very memorable. It would be...

The Boots were better shape than the rest of the equipment on the ambush team. However, the party was in a rush to get moving to escape from a large goblin army and a demon-summoning gnoll force of significant size (don't want to say how big now that one of my players has peeked into this...

Lakoda, I'm sorry if I offended you with my response. Please read my full post if you hadn't already -- I appreciated some of your feedback but I think you just leapt to some conclusions and mischaracterized my original post, that's all. And I think we just have different DM styles, that's all...

Disagree. I don't think this is a great example where I needed to start fudging. The Boots were a minor throw-in item -- a level 3 item and the rogue was level 5. Also, he's likely going to be the biggest beneficiary of the Phantom Soldier item that the party found, as its primary purpose is...

In my last session my players defeated a group of monsters. As a DM, I like to have my intelligen monsters use magic items as it makes a lot more sense than the players finding something and thinking "wow this would have hurt us!" There were two magic items used in this particular battle. The...

1. Be patient and flexible. At level 1, you're not going to be the greatest controller in the world. 2. At level 3, take Icy Rays. 3. If anyone charges a melee opponent that you've frozen with Icy Rays, kick them out of your party. 4. Find a Casque of Tactics or create one (level 4 magic item)...

Do you have any evidence that the WotC marketing staff is to blame, or are you just basing this conclusion on your personal experiences?

Nothing in that hook would make me as a player want to collect esoteric items and go to the wedding. Particularly if I'm paragon tier and already dealing with much more important matters such as thwarting armies, uncovering plots against the king or the world, etc. In fact, I wouldn't even help...