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Well, you could mark an ally to kill a monster's mark as a minor, then burn a move action to mark a nearby monster (removing your mark from your ally), and you still have your standard action left to make an attack.

It seems plausible, at least. Although the flavor is beyond inane.

If the divine agents actually had some power to convince people, then I might buy it. But, they don't. A Rogue can out-talk an angel... Provably false. A CR 14 Astral Deva has a +22 diplomacy and +20 intimidate. I agree with Frank that an Int Rogue is more important for skills, and that you would d...

White Raven Tactics has a range of like ten feet, though. The party Wizard can throw down Confusion and the BBEG is in serious trouble. Plenty of other spells are also crazy good against a tightly packed group of enemies like that, but Confusion is probably the most hilarious.

Isn't it usually a minor action to Mark someone?

It looks like they just took some standard attacks and added "with the power of ILLUSION!" to the flavor text. Although there are a few almost decent effects in there, which is nice to see. Well, mostly just Illusory Wall. Now your allies can explicitly see through it, which is nice, and t...

Here's a cool system I've never had a chance to try (because I'd have to un-Champions it): 2) The "Luck" system was also mostly useless, so Neil initiated the "Chit" system of luck. Instead of "luck" showing up whenever the DM remembers it, now at the beginning of every...

Apparently, all that Vorpal does now is make your dice "explode" (reroll max values and add the new rolls to the total). Weak. You're just saying that because it is a larger absolute bonus for d6 weapons (.7 damage per [W]) than it is for d8 weapons (.64 damage per [W]) or d10 weapons (.6...

Apparently, all that Vorpal does now is make your dice "explode" (reroll max values and add the new rolls to the total). Weak.

Well, people won't always be trying to remember all of their attacks at once. It'll be more like "hmm, what are my ranged attack options here? Oh, A, B, C, or D" or "What do have that's accurate, even if the damage is low? Well, A, D, F, and G." Since they don't have to list off ...

You can still give a success or two from getting the Hydra to Bloodied, so that the Fighter types can contribute, and not just watch the Rogue and Wizard make Thievery and Arcana checks to disable the thing.

Nah; D&D is never going to throw negative connotations on being smart, just on being popular. Don't forget who their target market is.

No, it was a hideously unreadable shade of yellow for a little while, though it looks like they've fixed whatever the problem was now.

It was really bad, though.

Remember, at certain levels you replace an old power with a new one of any level up to your current level. So a 15th level character could have a mix of daily power levels, such as: 9/5/1 (no replacement), 15/5/1, 15/9/1, 15/9/5, etc. You can also take lower level powers instead of a power of your l...

Right, it's not worth much on the dailies, but Utility powers do improve significantly with level, so you can have like 22/22/16/16/10 the minute you hit level 22, which is a lot better than everyone else's 22/16/10/6/2 Especially since I just noticed that you CANNOT REPLACE Utility powers. Wow, wha...

Oh, another odd quirk. Wizards get two daily and utility powers each time they would normally get one, and then at the beginning of the day they choose which ones to prepare. Seems normal so far, but your power slots are not limited by level, just by the total number you can prepare. So where a norm...

I don't think the monster can afford to just sit around. If it lets you retreat and catch your breath for 5 minutes, your encounter powers are back on line, and you can charge back in, unleash those, and run away again. The monster can't just sit there. Note also that while Wizards hand out irreleva...

Well, probably more like 25-26 rounds, since one or more of them will get a Crit.

But double that to 50 rounds, because you'll miss about half the time against a level-appropriate enemy.

Frank: don't forget that if you cast Ray of Frost all the time, you can take a couple of "I'm an Ice Wizard" feats to give your enemies Cold Vulnerability (+5 damage with Ray of Frost) and Combat Advantage against anyone Vulnerable to Cold. Two feats for +2 to hit and +5 to damage is unrea...

(From Wikipedia) Utilitarianism is very straightforward: Utilitarianism is the idea that the moral worth of an action is solely determined by its contribution to overall utility[clarify] in maximizing happiness or pleasure as summed among all persons. It is thus a form of consequentialism, meaning t...

You could apply the same to Shields: attacks let you give a +2 Aid Another to your own AC, on top of whatever the fixed shield AC bonus is.

Yeah, there's just no way to fix those /Quote tags in my first post, short of editing them out or editing some Quote tags into the posts above it.

Yeah, if you open with a Quote tag, someone can close it, but if you throw in a /Quote tag, there's nothing anyone can do in later posts to fix it. Someone who posted earlier in the thread would have to edit a Quote tag into their post.

Whoa, not even close.

I think we're back to normal now, let's see.

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