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What if you took 4E, and made a simple change? Daily powers are now encounter powers. Encounter powers are now at-will powers. At will powers now only require a minor action (alhough you could still only use one attack power per round). Cut down the grind. Eveyone gets to use all of their toys. No r...

It was a long time ago, but when I was running GURPS fantasy, the problem I ran into (in a largely humanoid game) was all combat being aimed shots at the leg. Not many HP in the leg. Can't stand up. Can't run away. Without good ranged weapon skills get hosed at a distance by the enemies. It was real...

Plus if you think about it, any human is really just a swarm of connected cells that are individually not capable of much, but collectively yield the emergent property of intelligence. I like the idea of playing a swarm with a spokesperson. Plus, healing may work to completely revive members of your...

Some providers (typically larger institutions, like a university hospital owned clinic) will take "Medicaid pending" as long as you have applied. This happens more frequently when you've been hospitalized and the hospital knows that they'll get nothing unless they can get your medicaid thr...

Sorry to hear you're having such a hard time. I don't know the details of where you live or what obstacles you may have to working, but it clearly looks like you need a different (or another job). While 4K may seem like a lot, really it isn't that insurmountable of an obstacle. You can probably make...

So let's say you're 29th (or 26th) and not 30th. How does that change the equation?

OK, so if you were going to play in a several session high level (possibly 30th level) game, what would you do? I don't have the time (or patience) to wade through multiple books with large numbers of powers that all seem to do variations on the same thing. Yet, I don't want weaksauce (compared to t...

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Cloud of Daggers, even with the least effective possible reading is still one of the most potent offensive weapons in the game as far as damage dealing goes. Can you explain this? I don't see how: At-Will ✦ Arcane, Force, Implement Standard Action Area 1 square within 10 squares Target: ...

The coffee case may not be as frivolous as you think. . .

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Big Kucinich fan as well. Other than his being short, I'm not really sure why he never really caught on more with the liberal base of the Democratic Party.

Not all pacemakers are unresponsive to your bodies needs. These are often placed into older people who aren't exerting themselves very much and don't have much of a need for a more advanced pacemaker. If your device contains a pacemaker (and the link you provided was to an ICD and not a combo ICD/pa...

Close Quarters Fighting helps with this problem, even with Improved Grab, but yes, melee fighters need more abilities.

In some sense, the 4E people had the right idea - each class should have attack powers, movement powers, condition generating powers, etc. . .

They just shouldn't all suck.

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This speaks for itself.

I realize that going with a +1 armor of lots o' stuff which becomes +5 is better than just plain +5 armor. Kind of like Magic Vestment. I'm just wondering if my shield would get the benefit as well. Since, this is really the same as a Magic Vestment. Or more $. Either way, it seems like the class ab...

In the text of the Dragon Knight ability, it says that armor worn becomes +5. Does this apply to shields as well? It seems like +5 sense motive and +5 to armor (which was probably at least +3 by this level anyway) isn't nearly as good as some of the other orders (fly with perfect maneuverability, pl...

So, I've gotten my DM to agree to allow the F&K knight, although not using the new, scalable feats. For those who've played one, how have you done it? Maximize AC so your chosen opponent misses you, allowing you to hit for big damage? Challenge people from far away to make them draw AOOs to reac...

Just curious, what happens when the summoned into the circle creature drops an anti-magic field? does the magic of the circle function even in the anti-magic field? Or does the AMF not emanate past the circle, given the wording of the special diagram section: "A creature cannot use its spell re...

So I'm currently playing in a relatively high powered game (lots of treasure, 2 feats every 3 levels instead of 1). I've been trying to play a beguiler with very high save DCs (ie ~25 for 4th level spells at 9th level). Despite these very high DCs, I very rarely am able to affect opponents. My GM se...

Why not just let sorcerers swap out their whole spell list every level? This prevents people from loading up on spells for just one encounter that they know they're going to have, but allows the character to grow and change with time. Take sleep now, and when you hit some level where it is no longer...

Thanks for the good advice on the pseudodragon. Talked to the GM and we're going to go with a modified version that doesn't have dragon HD, and gets SR 5+CL rather than 19. With these changes, he's also bumping the ECL down to +1, which I can buy off. So, I have pseudodragon beguiler that should be ...

I kind of like the pseudodragon idea. I might try to go with that.

One other possibility was to go make a Tiny version of a warforged. You know, that doesn't suck.

Any thoughts on what the stats for a Tiny warforged would look like?

Anyone have any good ideas for a non-LA-nerfed Tiny creature? I'm getting back into a fairly high powered game (but not completely broken with the usual tricks discussed around here) and am making a beguiler. I was interested in playing it more like a spy, and it seems like something Tiny could be a...

While I don't buy the whole "mind control ray" argument, there are many real life examples of people using almost exactly that.[br][br]There are people who are convinced to drink the poison kool-aid. There are people who are convinced to hate their children because of their sexual orientat...