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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5573939" data-attributes="member: 42582">Makes sense.Your descriptions make me think back to the conflict between Jett the sorcerer and Twitch the imp:Jett the drow chaos sorcerer, finding himself surrounded by bugbear assassins, summons the winds of change, pushing the bugbears away and flying to the top of a nearby building [the fly and push are part of the spell; the fact that it is a wind spell is colour that didn't affect resolution]. Landing on the roof, he sees that the building is on fire. He focuses on the chaotic energy coursing through him to repel the heat and flame [uses a paragon path feature to change his resistance from acid to fire] and makes his way along the beams beneath the thatch so that he can aid his comrades in the battle raging on the other side of the house [Acrobatics check to avoid falling off the roof or through the thatch]. As Jett blasts the hobgoblins below with psychic energy [using Chaos Bolt] he is shocked to see his old nemesis, the imp Twitch, appear from nowhere next to him. "Have you mastered the chaos yet, Jett?" taunts Twitch as his stinging tail pierces Jett's side [I place a token to represent the imp, and his attack from combat advantage beats Jett's AC]. At the same moment, Tillen - Jett's paladin ally fighting hobgoblins down below - calls out words of support to Jett (I can't remember exactly what, but something like "I can help if you want") and a beam of light strikes Twitch - his stinger does not go all the way in, though the poison still starts coursing through Jett's veins [Ray of Reprisal meaning half damage, though full ongoing poison damage - the fact that I had described Twitch's attack as a stinger in the side makes no difference to the resolution of Ray of Reprisal]. etc, etc  - Twitch turns invisible again, flies off, comes back and tries again but Jett thwarts him by using some sort of defensive interrupt. Twitch then escapes invisible with 5 hp lef.I've tried to indicate in square brackets where the colour mattered to resoultion, and where not. There are obvious limitations on 4e's richness, and some of the colour in my account is mere colour, but by no means all of it. At the time it didn't feel like a boardgame, and writing it up has not made me feel differently.</blockquote>

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