Core Handbook Errors Discussion

[NMcCoy]

You can't make OA's on your own turn, assuming that's what you're talking about.

Ah, right, and if you're dodging an OA with it then they've already used their OA for the turn against you.

Problem: 4e's Evard's Black Tentacles is too awesome for words, and yet the book uses words in the spell's description. I propose the text be replaced with a full-page illustration of huge tentacles dishing out pure necrotic pwnage and singlehandedly deciding an encounter on the first round. I mean, if you Sleep some guys and then use an AP to followup with EBT, they're slowed guaranteed, which means that they get 1 square of movement in the difficult terrain, so even if you missed with the Tentacles the first time you've got the Sustain attack against them next round, and probably the round after that...

Serious question:
If you Orb one of the targets of the Tentacles, it saves, and you immobilize it again with the sustain attack, does it still have the penalty to its save?

 

[Belphanior]

The ability for wizards to extend spell durations with an orb... actually doesn't do anything.

It states that you could enhance a duration from "ends at the end of your turn" into "ends at the end of your next turn". This only works on at-will wizard powers and mentions both Ray of Frost and Cloud of Daggers as examples.

Problem: they're both already "ends at the end of your next turn".

 

[Imban]

Problem: they're both already "ends at the end of your next turn".

Solution: Next turn, they end at the end of your turn.

 

[NaturalZero]

Not really a typo, per se. But you can only use the minotaur's racial power "when reduced to 0 hp". Not below 0, but to 0 specifically. I cant think of a single instance in 3E when anyone was reduced specfically to zero hp so i can imagine this being one of the most highly circumstantial racial powers in the books.

 

[djdaidouji]

Not really a typo, per se. But you can only use the minotaur's racial power "when reduced to 0 hp". Not below 0, but to 0 specifically. I cant think of a single instance in 3E when anyone was reduced specfically to zero hp so i can imagine this being one of the most highly circumstantial racial powers in the books.

I think this is either a typo, or the language used for "when reduced to 0 or below." Look in the rest of the book and see if there are any similar abilities with other language. If they all say "When reduced to 0," then it would be safe to assume it triggers when you fall below it.

 

[Protagonist]

I think this is either a typo, or the language used for "when reduced to 0 or below." Look in the rest of the book and see if there are any similar abilities with other language. If they all say "When reduced to 0," then it would be safe to assume it triggers when you fall below it.

I think that monsters simply die at 0hp and you won't track negative hp for them at all. So 0 and -x would be the same for monsters.

 

[Imban]

I think that monsters simply die at 0hp and you won't track negative hp for them at all. So 0 and -x would be the same for monsters.

They do. Which is why it's that way on the writeups for monsters as PCs.

Oh wait...

 

[Rechan]

Page 159.

Cloud of Daggers:
Area 1 square within 10 squares.

I've never seen any other spell only effect 1 square. I think this is supposed to be 'Area Burst 1'.

 

[djdaidouji]

Perhaps it interrupts death to use the ability? I don't know the ability, so I can't say anything.

 

[Sashi]

They specifically say that these are for NPC's and are only guidelines for playing these races as PC's and that some powers are particularly "monstery-y"

To be more constructive: the Banshrae's writeup implies that they have no mouth, or at least that they can't produce a strong enough breath to drive wind instruments ... but the DartSwarmer uses a blowgun? Huh?