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For Encounters I almost always use Improved Defenses. Also, maybe Melee Training, depending on the class?

I use it for this as well, but for me it mainly comes up for the "recognize an effect as illusory" aspect of Insight, and occasionally for "recognize outside influence."

I would say that no, it simply drops to 0. Resistances and vulnerabilities aren't on a continuous scale, they're independent of each other.

Dragon 399 and 400 (the ones in 400 are all Shadowfell-y).

Where I am, the usual age range is about 20-30. Ish. The number of attendees, if you were wondering, is usually around 50, give or take.

Maulgoths. No seriously, mind flayers. And if we're talking Eberron, the Daelkyr are so rad.

Well, splitting DM duties like that can be fine, but you might want to ensure that you both have something to do in sections where the other DM is dominant. If you run a string of combat encounters, or a lengthy role playing session, you'll find that the DM taking the backseat will get bored and...

At an Encounters session a long time ago - before I had even heard Wizards announce Lair Assault - the guys running it at my FLGS gave a quick rundown of it and passed around a sheet to see if there was any interest. If you were interested, you wrote down what days you would prefer it to be on...

I run a pretty large group. At one point it was huge, totaling eight players besides myself, and so I had to adapt a bunch of these things to keep combat flowing. Our group does a lot of what was mentioned above, and some other stuff as well. To elaborate: - Cut monster HP to 75%, increase...

This is totally unrelated to anything, but how the heck did you get a Bard in your party?

There are plenty of ways to represent three-dimensional combat. I've seen people use "stacked" battle maps to represent different levels. Personally, we have little disks that are put under the bases of miniatures to represent how high or low they are in battle.

Yeah, but that's not a monster stat block, and PCs are not monsters. Again, if they have it (most don't, and I'm not sure anything does past MM1) it's in the stat block, as an encounter standard action.

That's true. If a monster has a second wind it's specifically mentioned in the block. Bulettes are an example, so are liches and vampires from MM1. Vontarin, as it is, does not have that ability.

Agreed. It would have been far less interesting and challenging without the trait.

Hi everyone, I'm making a hybrid sorcerer/rogue (mostly for flavor purposes) and I have a quick question. The sorcerer's "ensorcelled blade" at-will is intended to deal extra damage off-turn equal to the extra damage from the Spell Source class feature. As a hybrid, I don't have that feature...

Same here; that is how I played it when I ran it in an encounter. Since, as a solo, is intended to replace several monsters, only allowing the instinctive flyby to be used on a recharge cripples its action usage, and it becomes a lot less capable in combat.

Maybe this one with an easy conversion using a sword from something like this?

Tonight I had my first character die without hope of resurrection after almost a year without this situation coming up. A sad day for the 4e campaign. The party was faced with a portal to the Nine Hells that was to open after eight rounds of combat. They took down the enemies very effectively...

If you're ending the game in epic tier, you sort of have a "built-in" ending with epic destinies, should you choose to do that. This basically defines where your characters wind up from the end of the game and onward. Having everybody forced to sacrifice themselves, well... as a player, I...

The DM has to. World building is a distinct scenario; it implies a kind of distance between the DM and the characters s/he plays, because there, everything is transient. But a player character is sort of an extension of you when you play, and for the most part you're sort of stuck with it. I...