Rules Question - Give your opinion

[Traveon Wyvernspur]

I thank everyone who has posted for doing so. Not only have you posted some very good reasons to not gank a player individually, but also given some great ideas on how to counteract player powers w/o it being abusive on the part of the DM. I have enjoyed reading everyone's posts and will definitely take a lot of this to heart with my gaming. It is true that at Epic tier the players are epic and are basically gods themselves, I guess what happened to me was that I wasn't thinking epically for them to bring down a primordial naga to being prone, but I will institute the rule from now on that they have to come up with their own cool descriptions to get more role playing into the game. After all, that is what this game is, role playing. Sometimes people forget about that from the other side of the table and are too concerned with RAW and keeping track of conditions, hit points, and effects.

 

[MrBeens]

Very good discussion here.
I have to ask the OP though - how did you manage to get to level 23 without this coming up before?

 

[Traveon Wyvernspur]

Very good discussion here.
I have to ask the OP though - how did you manage to get to level 23 without this coming up before?

Honestly we have been leveling up very very quickly. I am moving and wanted to give the group a taste of each tier as well as myself a taste of each tier at the DM helm in 4E. Basically the last few weeks we've been leveling up 1-2 levels after each session so that I could get them to 30 by next Tuesday since I move the following weekend away from the group.

So to answer your question, the reason it hasn't come up before was that I allowed some retraining gave out some magical items and enough money for the group to buy other magical items/epic tier pieces. This allowed the dwarf to retrain his warlord to do different things than he had done previously, he was a shield thrower/more tactical powers/stay back a bit kind of character prior to becoming a charging maniac so we didn't have to deal with prone that often especially against the bigger (huge +) types of creatures out there. They were fighting smaller things and it was never a question due to the factors up to last week.