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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sadrik" data-source="post: 5095965" data-attributes="member: 14506">I don't see any powers needing to be retooled. I see some feats going away but this is not unlike your presented house rules which are a significant up tick in complexity, not because they themselves are so complex but because these house rules are so simple (or course imo). Yes you do keep situational modifiers. I didn't mean to make anyone think that these are also going away. They stay as I think modifiers for range and combat advantage etc. are important. I did note this earlier. This was just an idea to accommodate monsters with a very high defense. It may well be that another idea is better. However, looking at page 184 of the DMG. It shows that level+12 (level+14 for elites and solos) is standard for other defenses. I went through and checked the first 20 or so pages of the monster manual to look and see how often they passed that, they rarely did. So, this brings me to the conclusion that it would indeed be a rare monster ability that would actually grant a bonus to a defense. AC, I didn't check that. I think you overestimate how much this monster ability would actually be used. It does change a lot but it does fit rather nicely. The designers were looking to make a very tight game mathematically, this does just that. Albeit there are some quirks. As to the alchemical items, your right that does not seem right. I don't have the book so I could not do the research to figure out a solution. However I would hope that the low-level alchemical items are scaled in damage. Upper level characters using weak damage alchemical items as basically at-will attacks? I don't see the issue if that is case. Are there any other subsystems that are similar? Or better are there any other subsystems that will also have problems?Your suggestion really delves into the math and changes a lot of numbers around. This is a whole lot more simple and really fits in thematically with the 4e "save" system.</blockquote>

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