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You mean monster, not monsters, I think. The minotaur took a huge hit, but the warforged from Dragon is a lot more powerful, and the gnoll is a bit more powerful (due to more options).

Actually, these can be very dangerous against abilities like these, because every extra failed save brings you closer to unconsciousness. A couple of Sacred Flames by your allies and you could unconscious in a single round.

Both the rules for NPCs and the rules for templates give their subjects X per level + Con score rather than X per (level +1) + Con score, but pregenerated material (in mods, etc.) reveals this to be in error. Give them level+1 like every other monster and you're good to go.

I would think party mix would be a strong reason to choose one over the other. If you have no defender (or if your defender never does their job right), Ruthless Ruffian could be a lot more effective, with CA harder to achieve.

I do happen to think Mouseferatu's/CS's interpretation is the intention. So maybe you get a free AP in a battle. If you don't have any, that's great; if you do, you can save it for the next fight (or the fight after that, if you hit a milestone). And if you end up resting before you can use...

I don't see how. Every piece of evidence referring to LOS includes corners and edges as "blocking." This is true for both the text and the diagram on pp. 273-274. Every piece of evidence referring to cover omits corners and edges as "blocking." This is true for the reference to cover on P...

So you make yourself a pair of pinhold glasses, or just hold your hands up in front if your eyes so that the only opponent you can see is the boss. Quarry them, then take the blinders off.

I prefer the vorpal falchion (w/ Gauntlets of Destruction, of course). Crit gets you +6d4+3d12, reroll 1's and explode 4's and 12's.

Simple: The rules for LOS/LOE and cover aren't quite the same. The former counts touches, the latter doesn't. This can be seen in the differential language for the two terms, if you read carefully. So in your first diagram, there is no cover (some lines touch obstacles but do not pass through...

It's basically flavored wrong. The text says stuff about dwarven/tiefling/whatever master smiths with cool forging techniques, but in reality, any ritualist with a few pounds of alchemical stuff that can be bought at any 5-and-dime can transform 50-gp steel plate armor unto godplate, or...

As much as I agree that it's a balance issue, I have to agree with the OP. "Weapon:" indented under the "Hit:" line modifies that line. Same applies to "Attack:" and "Effect:" (see Silverstep for an example of the latter). Also se Giant's Wake for a "Weapon:" effect indented under a secondary...

Yes. It says you can reroll any damage dice, for which the d12's qualify.

P. 28, Retraining: It says that you can retrain heroic-tier feats into higher-tier feats, but it doesn't say the same about paragon-tier feats. The way it's written, an optimizing player would have to hold on to as many heroic-tier feats as possible to retrain them into epic-tier feats...

Probably not. Mearls ran a DDXP session where the PCs put his black dragon to sleep, and he didn't wake it up on the first hit.

You are correct. Fighters usually can't mark more than one enemy because their mark only lasts a round, but if they hit multiple enemies during a round, they can mark all of them. Try combining Combat Challenge with Viper's Strike. Two attacks, one of which is an OA.

True, but it appears to be the only cleric power that uses Wis and a weapon. Clearly there was only a partial revision there.

Only if you decide that the lava works like that. The books don't say that it does, and it would be pretty unbalanced to make it work like that.

<shrug> It can be hand-waved. In the wizard's case, literally. I'd flavor it that he conjures up a Mage Hand to assist him.

I ran a DDGD game yesterday where the players decided that the rogue was taking too long unlocking the iron manacles (which was a reasonable decision, considering the roof was collapsing) and started hacking at them with their weapons. I blinked; the module didn't have rules for this. I made a...

I agree as well. This is a throwback to 2nd edition, where buying splatbooks allowed you to add power to your characters without mechanical cost. It's like a CCG: spend the cash, get the rares. I never really liked Dragon; the quality level was just too much lower than the books. But this...