D&D Experience: Questions YOU Want Answered?

[bgardner]

Are fireballs round or cubic?

Burst effects are square and are centered on a square, not the corner of a square. A power with "Burst 1" covers 9 squares, the targeted square plus all surrounding squares.

 

[bgardner]

What can you tell us about Utility Powers?

Wizards have seven "buckets" of powers

One bucket is rituals.

Wizards also have "attack" and "utility" powers. These are completely separate from each other and you gain them separately. These powers are divide by the usage: at-will, encounter, and daily. So the other six "buckets" are attack/at-will, attack/encounter, attack/daily, utility/at-will, utility/encounter, and finally utility/daily.

Since attack and utility powers are aquired and gained separately, you'll never have a wizard which only has attack powers or only utility powers. They'll always have both.

Spells go from 1st to 30th level just like character levels. Certain levels may be dedicated to a particular power type. For example, 3rd level may only consist of utility spells.

A 30th level wizard will have no more that 4-5 powers per bucket to choose from. As you gain levels you can trade up to a higher level of power.

"Detect Magic" is now an Arcana skill check. DC 20 minimum. I never made my skill check so I do not know what kind of information you get with a successful role.

 

[jelmore]

But seriously, how do the static perception and insight skill mechanics work in play? does the DM just say, 'you see a kobold behind a bush' with no roll? that seems so strange to me!

--Z

If it's anything like some of the 3.5 house rules I've seen, the kobold behind the bush would roll a Stealth check with the PCs' Passive Perception value (which I assume is your normal "take 10/walking about" level of awareness) as the target to beat. If the kobold wins, you don't see him and the DM doesn't mention it. If a player is actively looking for something, then you would use opposed checks -- the kobold's Stealth vs. the PC's Perception.

It's a great tool for maintaining versimilitude: I'm reminded of johnrog1's .sig file quote...

 

[Dfranco83]

Dragonborn/Warlord Character Sheets

Were there any Dragonborn characters? Warlord Characters?

 

[Rugger]

Were there any Dragonborn characters? Warlord Characters?

Nope. No rogues either. We didn't miss them in our group, as we felt like we had a lot to digest with what we were given

- Matt

 

[The_Baldman]

I'll be happy to answer all 4th edition questions but with the time I took off work I'm pretty backed up right now so it'll take you about 95 days to get your answers.

 

[Filcher]

When the #$%^^&%!@$R%$#%^&$%& will they release the GSL?!

That's the question I want answered.