D&D Experience: Questions YOU Want Answered?

[JVisgaitis]

I'm on my way and the blog is up. This should be easy to remember: http://www.dnd4e.com I'll try and make my first post before my game at 7:00 EST. Hopefully by around 6:00 EST or so. See ya soon...

 

[JVisgaitis]

Just made my first post to the blog. I don't see Le Rouse or any other big names here, but I am here pretty late (I did spy Ed Greenwood doing an interview with someone). Hopefully I can bug the R&D guys tomorrow and see what's up with the GSL. I stood in on a demo of the D&D Insider. You can export character sheets, images of your character from the character visualizer, and your own images to use as tokens. I have a bit more info on my blog at: http://www.dnd4e.com More soon....

 

[waytoomuchcoffee2]

How many body slots are there now? I noticed that cloaks go into the "Neck" slot for example.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

By exporting a full character sheet do you mean as in printing out? Cause if so, HUZZAH!

 

[JVisgaitis]

By exporting a full character sheet do you mean as in printing out? Cause if so, HUZZAH!

Yep. It sounds really cool.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

Awesome, that is exactly what I wanted to here, thank you

I hope you get to ask some more questions soon

 

[JVisgaitis]

How do the death and dying rules actually work in 4e? Do you continue to lose hit points if you fail a stabilization roll? If you roll a 20, do you get free hit points or do you have to use one of your healing surges?

Basically, you die if one of two things happen. If you reach negative in bloody hit points your dead. You don't take damage every round, but you need to roll a natural 20 to stabilize. If you miss your saving throw 3 times (i.e. 3 strikes) your dead so you keep stabilizing every turn. If you do stabilize, you go to 0 and you are unconscious. If someone passes a healing check when they try and heal you and you haven't used your second wind, that can invoke that in you and you get the points back from the surge. When you get hit points back, you start from 0 and add them in. So if I'm -10 and I surge from a Heal check that gives me 5 hit points my new hit point total is 5. Hope I explained that clearly.

 

[JVisgaitis]

Do saving throws need an action?

No, and you take them at the end of your turn. If your taking 5 damage from fire every round, you take the damage at the beginning of your turn then you do your actions. Before your turn ends, you save again. So technically if you miss that save, you know that you are getting at least 5 more fire damage on your next turn. There are powers that the Paladin and Cleric have that allow you to save when they act which can basically give you more chances per round to save and avoid taking that damage again.

 

[JVisgaitis]

I'm curious about what will be in the rules database as it pertains to a setting book. Can we assume that the database contains:races, classes, feats, monsters, equipment, spells, etc, but no setting details?

(i.e. - In the Players Guide to Faerun, the database will get updated with the SwordMage and whatever Realms-specific magic is included, but none of the flavor text or maps or anything like that.)

The rules database is strictly just the rules. They did have all of the art from the Monster Manual in there when they were demoing the Game Table. How that will work when its released, I'm not sure.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I wanna talk conditions:

Anyone know what Blindness does?

Cover? Total Cover? And what exactly do these do?

Anyone who played know the DDM rules? How similar are they to 4E?

Fitz