Epic Tier: Breaking walls at will

[Stalker0]

This isn't a question, its just information for those who may not be aware.

One thing about 4e is that ability checks also increase with half your level. Which means a 22nd level character for example has a +11 bonus to his strength checks.

Combined with a high strength, he can have a very high strength DC.

If you note the break DCs on a lot of walls, you start getting into the ballpark where a high check can bust right through them.

So yes a high level barbarian can smash right through walls. Now that's epic!

 

[Infiniti2000]

The terrain features section of the DMG2 recommends using +1/2 encounter level for DCs and the like.

Regardless, you can always use your dagger to rip apart that steel wall.

 

[Ryujin]

At Heroic level that wall is the side of a straw hut, or an earthen wall in a tunnel.

At Paragon the wall is carefully cut stonework, so well crafted that you can barely get the tip of a knife between the blocks. The Egyptians would be proud to have made it.

At Epic the wall is a solid block of stone cast by magic or tunnelled from the mass of a mountain, with a backing of adamantine plates or lava flowing within it.

 

[Dr_Ruminahui]

What's the DC to break the 4th wall?

 

[spayne]

 

[Ryujin]

What's the DC to break the 4th wall?

How high is "up"?

 

[Dragonbait]

What's the DC to break the 4th wall?

42.

Once they can make that DC the characters are allowed to modify their own character sheets and bum money off of their players. I've seen it happen.

 

[renau1g]

They might even kill them. It was caught on film I believe...

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[AbdulAlhazred]

Yeah, Epic wall-bustin is definitely there. Very cool. I remember thinking that was cool when I first skimmed over that stuff in the DMG.

 

[the Jester]

This isn't entirely new. High-level 3e pcs could bust through walls left and right.

"I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!"