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I concede if the monsters are too powerful for the party, and too fast, the party is screwed...I'm not sure that's any different than most other games, though. I still believe you're massively overlooking the party's abilities. Here's what a fight looks like against the level 15 party in my campaign...

RandomCasualty2 wrote:
There just aren't powers that beat other powers. 4E is like playing M:tG with no summons, no counters, no artifacts... all you really have is lightning bolts and healing salves.

Freakin' QFT.

Buttload of teleports? Are you crazy? What, you mean those weakass 5-square teleports? That not everyone gets? Puh-leeze. Auras are a very important part of the monster lockdown. Well, I really wasn't talking dealing with monsters far outside of level appropriateness...in that case, you're absolute...

To be fair to your paranoid PCs, at paragon level and beyond escaping becomes increasingly impossible what with monsters and their reach, auras, increased speed, and the fewer amount of emergency escape options PCs have. Fewer amount of escape options, what? At Paragon level, a party has a buttload...

I've been running a group through a conversion of Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, and it really is amazing how very, very, different DnD4.0 is from what used to be called "Dungeons and Dragons". I'm not quite at the point of writing up my thoughts after a mere 12 hours of play, but I'll p...

A sad consequence to the "opposite of 4.0" design philosophy is that you're actually sketching a game where "under no circumstances can Strength be used to solve crossword puzzles" is one of the fundamental paradigms.

I as well, though I imagine everyone who ever had an account there did. For all the immaturity, they're still above RPG.net for actual threads worth looking it.

But who said anything about combats being bunched up in the middle?

I'll be darned...although the opinion was based on the monsters seen so far in the game, and haven't quite played at level 28. Still, it's interesting that feat bonuses against Opportunity Attacks only work against AC, though. Go check that one, now. ;) As far as daggers go, I'd have to move with it...

Oh, just for fun, I'll play a little. I play a dagger rogue in one game. The virtue of daggers is you can throw them. I use magical Distance Daggers for extra range. The "all magical throwing weapons are returning" mechanic really increases a rogue's versatility after the opening levels. I...

That's a pretty huge non sequitor there...or do you not even know that it's impossible for a DnD4.0 character to have a 10 in all attributes? I'm thinking it's the latter, since you also clearly don't know that a 10 in all attributes precludes wearing the armor you specifically listed. Perhaps you s...

HackMaster has pixie fairies, which I think stand around 1' high? It's been a LONG while since I played (new edition just out recently, too), but I seem to remember them being somewhat viable warriors (archer specialists, of course).

They made a huge mistake when they made the Warden and the Invoker - they made classes that no one gives a fuck about. That's not somethng the game can well withstand when you still can't play a small spearman or a necromancer because the classes to do that shit haven't been written yet. -Username1...

You haven't mentioned the whole "Yeah, this game really is the same Dungeons and Dragons it always has been" fraud. Most of the criticisms put up are in terms of "but 3.5 (i.e., D&D) did it better", which wouldn't be quite as relevant if the game were called "Magic Sword...

Can I play my War-metawarrior? I've been kicking around an idea for a good satire class, with abilities that go beyond what we have now (eg, class abilities that interfere with monster abilities recharging, or fundamentally negate monster powers with the 'encounter' keyword). Other class abilities w...

Is there a combined list somewhere listing all the ways skill challenges, as written, are crap? I've been playing "Dungeons and Dragons" 4.0 for a year now, and I still haven't managed to houserule anything that makes skill challenges make any sort of real sense, but let's see if I can get...

I don't see where you're getting that 4e is a financial failure from Hasbro's perspective because it isn't selling as well as 3e was at its peak in 2001. They spent more money on marketing and made a new edition. If it is not selling as well as the previous edition, something horrible has happened....

Well, it rather depends on what kind of campaign is being run....how likely are you to make level 30 in your D&D campaign? Whatever odds you give probably won't apply to the next table. However, in my personal experience, deeply unlikely. The game really breaks at 'high' levels. I'm not sure usi...

Well, the old G-Series and D-Series ran right into one another and went all the way up to murdering a goddess in her demon web pits. The GDQ series was voted "The greatest adventure of all time" back in 2004. I mean heck, that series got a 9/10 from White Dwarf . Kind of dungeon crawly, b...

How likely are you to survive to get one of the "ultimate good guy" careers? And yes, it is a problem that the forces of evil are just better than the forces of not-so-evil for no good reason. It's sort of a premise for the game, as the world is doomed to be overrun by chaos eventually. S...

The Enemy Within Campaign, in my opinion, seems to be something of a rarity in RPGs, since it covers the players' heroes from "womb to the tomb", you can roll up a party, adventure through the half dozen or so 'adventure collections', and retire at the end. I'm curious, how many other RPGs...

<r><QUOTE author="Absentminded_Wizard"><s>[quote="Absentminded_Wizard"]</s>I have to agree with Kaelik. Doom hasn't said anything at all about the adventure content of the modules. Everything is about the packaging or the descriptions of the setting. In a sourcebook, the maps and gazetteers would be...

Oy, why with the one-upmanship? I worked in a game store. We actually carried WHFR, and you know what? It stunk. And sat in the back of the store the entire time I was there, no one ever bought the damn thing. -Crissa Heck if I know, but some folks having little better to do than go ape over hyperb...

Just out of curiosity, what does any of that crap have to do with the actual module. I'm pretty sure you just told us it's a better module because the cover is pretty, it's got more pages, and it has handouts, absolutely zero of which factors into my account of what makes a good module. Eh, conside...

Umm...yeah, ok. Let's see here...refusing to back up your own accusation because by your own admission it's a stupid accusation, saying a campaign you're not familiar with--by your own admission--is bad, and no EvilWizardington and you have to go to a single adventure where the names were a THEME to...