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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bagpuss" data-source="post: 5601011" data-attributes="member: 3987">If that is the case I might allow it. But to routinely carry around a bunch of pebbles, rather than say several daggers, just to get a Mark at range seems a little daft. Further more I know it would in time annoy the hell out of most the players at my table. First because it would be a stupidly sub-optimal action and thus could lead to the party getting killed, and second, because really in a fight are you going to be more bothered by a pebble thrown by some fool across the battlefield or the rogue trying to stick a knife in your ribs from right in front of you.I might allow pebble chucking as a daily or even and encounter at a push (IE: The conditions were just right for something as benign as a tap from a pebble to distract an enemy in mortal danger). But more frequently than that it would suspend my disbelief and spoil the game.Fine if you use your pebble for one of those attacks, because they normally describe in what why you are marking without dealing damage, and normally they are encounters or daily powers. Right but I think most people have a limit to what they will accept, for example it might seem a great idea for you to play a character that is a court jester that only ever wacks people with a pig's bladder on a stick, doing no damage but claiming to do the fighter's mark because the rules allow him.But I think the rest of the players would pretty quickly get annoyed with this character, and as a DM I wouldn't allow it for that reason, even if it was within the rules.Just to be clear the odd pebble being chucked, to get a mark I don't have a problem with, carrying round bags of pebbles I would. For lots of reasons even if it is technically possible in the rules.</blockquote>

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