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[klinktastic]

Hi, I'm picking up back up with a DnD 4E game. I'm rolling a Dragonborn Sorcerer - Dragon Magic. The GM is allowing us to use themes. I quit my subscriptions and buying books around the time themes were coming out. Any advice on good ones? I'm focused more on mechanics. I can re-skin the fluff to suit my character as needed. Thanks!

 

[wasteomana]

There are honestly several good ones. If you have some way of getting a copy of the portable compendium (can't link for blockage reasons, but google exists) then that will really help you. Its free and has all the themes. I would recommend Sensate personally or Cipher, especially if you are Draconian and starting off with flight (which you should be a draconian for the bonus to arcane spells at least if not for the flight).

 

[MwaO]

Hi, I'm picking up back up with a DnD 4E game. I'm rolling a Dragonborn Sorcerer - Dragon Magic. The GM is allowing us to use themes. I quit my subscriptions and buying books around the time themes were coming out. Any advice on good ones? I'm focused more on mechanics. I can re-skin the fluff to suit my character as needed. Thanks!

http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?468784-Variation-on-Themes(by-MwaO)

In general, I tend to like the following ones:
Ghost of the Past - extra action point at 10th
Guardian - make your Defender happy when you basic attack their mark target, they attack you, and trigger your Defender's mark
Beguiler - spend minor action, slide target. Works with Flame Spiral
Serifal Feywarden - works great with Fey races, but you're not Fey.
Infernal Slave
Halaster's Clone can be good if no Warlord in the party
If you're doing a Rebreather and I'm assuming you're not because you'd like the rest of your table to enjoy the game, Sensate is amazing.

 

[darkbard]

Is the Shadow Dancer's Shadowy Tendrils teleport effect "an effect that a save can end" (since forced teleportation enables a save to resist)?

Effect: You teleport up to 5 squares, then make a basic attack. You teleport one target hit by the attack up to 3 squares, and it is dazed until the end of your next turn.

If so, can this save be penalized with an Amulet of Elegy's daily power?

Power Daily (Free Action)
Trigger: You use a power to produce an effect that a save can end.
Effect: Each target of the power takes a penalty to its first saving throw against the effect equal to the amulet's enhancement bonus.

 

[MwaO]

Is the Shadow Dancer's Shadowy Tendrils teleport effect "an effect that a save can end" (since forced teleportation enables a save to resist)?

No. You're not under the effect unless you fail the save. And it is only forced teleportation into the air or hindering terrain.

 

[darkbard]

And it is only forced teleportation into the air or hindering terrain.

Thanks! And it was the former case I had in mind, though that wasn't clear in my post.

 

[darkbard]

I can't find any indication that a fey beast companion's skills scale with level. Is this true? Does a 30th level character's companion really have difficulty clearing a 15' jump over a chasm, for example?

 

[MwaO]

I can't find any indication that a fey beast companion's skills scale with level. Is this true? Does a 30th level character's companion really have difficulty clearing a 15' jump over a chasm, for example?

"Your fey beast companion’s level is equal to yours"

So it gets the usual +1/2 level skill bonus boost because it doesn't say otherwise unlike attack.

 

[darkbard]

Well, duh! Can't believe I overlooked that! (Do you sometimes get the feeling, by the way, that we're the only two playing 4E these days?)

 

[MwaO]

Well, duh! Can't believe I overlooked that! (Do you sometimes get the feeling, by the way, that we're the only two playing 4E these days?)

There's a bit more activity on giant in the playground's site, but yeah, kind of slow...