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because a minion with a vorpal (given your reading of the rules) would do infinite damage on a normal hit, not only on critical ones. minions don't roll damage, they just do fixed damage. since that's fixed damage, its the max damage they can deal, any given damage roll is max, so they keep on...

Guys you're just trying to break the game. Critical hits get weapon damage maximized, thus you calculate the highest damage you could roll with your attack, then take it as fixed damage. no roll. You can call that a damage roll or whatever you want, but the maximized damage does not include a...

Talking about flavour, yes. If one likes playing that sort of character, why not? Mechanics-wise, while I don't think it would be a lame character, he could suffer a bit from a lack of options. We know combat in 4E is heavilly about playing different tactics in different situations, so maybe a...

consider attacking with a minor action is not something you see very often. I'd like the monk to have more powers like those, with more enabling him to perform stunts and combos during his turn.

That's because of a major switch in 4E, not only in design method, but in the game's philosophy too. Basicly 4E is made to be more fun. WotC idea of fun on the player's side is "Do cool stuff, do it without effort". And you can find this throughout the game, not only in the magic items side of...

D&D economy is skrewed up period.

I'm not going into DDI. The tools (map, char visualizer and sheet, virtual table) are worthless to me. There's a bunch of freeware tools out there wich are actually better then the DDI ones. They'll catch up, eventually, and they ought to be hell good, if they want me to pay for them. I'm not...

two hit 12+12, luck on the beatles (luck was the breath hitting 4 times in a row, not just the damage roll), still the Warlock had to make the cleric stand up asap, he was a fool. For such a small party, I don't see the cleric like a good choice, a pally would bring some high AC, damage and...

Even if I don't love the new HP concept behind 4E, the healing surge mechanics are quite good. Given in a party of 4 to 6 ppl you'll have quite a bunch of powers that let you use an healing surge, plus Second Wind/potions, adventurers are able to take on more encounters before needing a long...

because WOTC sells minis for a good income while character sheets come basicly free? ;P

The Illusionist http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/drfe/20080616 Some new powers to for your Devid Copperfield wanna be wizard. Well, I was surprised quite a bit, since I thought we had to wait for the Psyonics to see more illusions at work. Well, guess this will make someone happy.

4E is exception based. All classes get the same base modifiers, while other factors are going to alter those. What's making the difference is powers/feats selection, really. If the OP was wondering about the "real" effectiveness in hitting someone while fighting, it would be something to talk...

They just ereased different babs to streamline the rules. This way you don't have to look at different tables to sort out the different bonuses a class gets at different levels. You just add your ability score modifier + 1/2 level modifier and you have the base bonus for everything And while a...

I just leaverage some amount of knowledge to every player, based on their charackters background. A literate character who studied a lot in his background story should be aware of the most notable facys and events in recent history, military chars could be more informed on the matter of wars and...

also your universal modifier (+ 1/2 lvl) actually go up by 1 every even-numbered lvl

I don't know... I found these bits on the economy not really satisfying. And residium...bah, I fought against the "DnD is going to be WoW" till now, but I'm seriously starting to change my mind. Anyway, what I do think is this. There's a whole lot of people out there who just don't want to...

I never was a big fan of easy-ressing in DnD. Anyway I don't agree on ressing is MMORPGish, at all. In 3.x (and previous editions) you had so many ways to come back to life, including the quick and easy "go pay the cleric in the nearest church", it was infact hard to believe enyone in the world...

I think (and hope) the new monk class will probably be featured in some DDI preview article, alongside the berserk, bard, druid, to be later put into PH2. In my mind the monk should definitelly be Martial. Although Ki may feel a lot like some arcane and mystic force of nature, it's mainly an...

Buffing will hardly be achieved via rituals. We allready saw a lot of powers wich grant bonus to AC, saves, attack among other effects. Be sure a lot of cleric's preyers (other classes's powers too, the bard comes to mind) will be capable of granting all sort of buffs, for a duration of 1 round...

I don't really think everyone got the point on minions. Clearly the minion idea was not about throwing a pack of powerfull 1-hit kill mobs at players. 5 Orc Warriors (9th lvl) against a 5 men 1st lvl party would be pretty lame, ie. Not even counting in the "fireball dilemma", the party could...