SeraphSlaughter posted:

Is it a terrible idea to mix in Monster Manual 1 monsters with Essentials (I have the Threats to the Nentir Vale book)? I'm running my first 4e campaign starting this Sunday, and my possible party of 6(!) is going to wake up in a kobold prison; when they get outside, they'll run into a few more kobolds arguing with some other group of humanoids about how much to pay for the prisoners. I'd be using some lvl 1-2 enemies from the Nentir Vale for the negotiating party, and the kobolds from MM1. I can re-do the kobolds with MM3 math probably, but at first glance, having the kobolds be a little harder to bring down, even though they do less damage, seems like an interesting encounter mashup?

fatherdog posted:

What's that from? It doesn't show up in compendium.

killstealing posted:

I haven't hybrided in 4e yet but this sounds very interesting. Would I start with a Pixie Warlord and then multi into Artificer?

P.d0t posted:

Couple questions:

Would you rather play in a game that is limited (including feats & equipment) to:
a) PHB1
b) HoFL & HoFK

Secondly, how did 4e Encounters work? Was it pregens only, or were there criteria/limitations for building your own? If so, what were they?

Poison Mushroom posted:

Replace D20s with 3d6. Same average roll (10.5), much less swing. Critical hit if you get at least 2 6s, automiss if you get 2 1s.

Unknown Quantity posted:

The only major problem part of controllers I feel are the ones that crap out numerical to-hit penalties and multi-target hard control. Which...is mostly limited to Wizard and Psion. Invoker I think has a burst Stun as a L1 daily but it dazes them, and while you can mitigate that, they tend to have to take a negative to stun something.

thespaceinvader posted:

Why the scare quotes?

OneThousandMonkeys posted:

You can do it in the builder. Basically, all this hub-bub about "hybriding cleric is great!" comes from the fact that the designers forgot to take away this option in hybriding, allowing you to stack on this really good feature to any Strength- or Wisdom-based character.

Mustache Ride posted:

slydingdoor posted:

The classes that benefited the most from the massive system bloat are the strongest and most interesting.

I'd assume a good Rebreather build is the same as a good sorcerer build with Lightning Soul, The Society of Sensation theme, the two rebreather feats, and ones that buff the breath. In Paragon, put arcane admixture on it for thunder, take the thunder feats and buy some thunder resistance, and take Lightning Soul. I saw on reddit some guy used the Revenant race too for the immortality.

Eopia posted:

So how much information should players have both in and out of combat? Should they know AC and NACs for their enemies, HP? Should they know the DCs for things they want to use skills for before they decide to roll? etc.

Mostly asking because in the previous 4e campaign I played in our GM denied us all of this information, and at the every least not knowing our enemies defense numbers really slowed down combat until we managed to piece together what the target numbers were on our own in every fight.

Pharmaskittle posted:

I'd say give them skill check DCs if they have time to examine it, but only a rough estimate if they, say, want to break down a door during combat, and never any enemy stats. Maybe a rough estimate for one enemy defense score if they have a pertinent knowledge skill and want to spend a move action to roll for it

My Lovely Horse posted:

Gotta slightly disagree there as when you're granted a move action instead of just movement, you can shift, crawl, run, use a power that's a move action... but yeah I couldn't really find anything that would prevent downgrading either.

He's playing a Bravura Warlord (as you may have guessed) and tries to focus on granting additional actions, but I'd actually say by now he's slightly reoriented himself towards movement, using Join The Crowd and Reorient The Axis to great effect. His most useful leader feature in my mind is actually Enlarged & Inspiring Dragon Breath, I guess if I do end up playing a Warlord I can already make a completely different one by not playing a Dragonborn.

Dick Burglar posted:

Shields take up the Arm slot, right? I've never really messed around with shield builds but that's kinda discouraging, especially since I'm not seeing a lot of shield enchantments that are really very impressive. Fighters get enough shield-specific material that it's probably worth it, but it seems like you're better off taking a rhythm blade dagger in your off-hand (and a separate Arm slot item) or just going two-handed for a lot of other builds. I'm specifically looking at fighters and paladins at the moment.

Edit: also, any neat paladin builds/tricks? I like the double-punishment from champion of order, but other than that I don't know of many tricks. I tend to like baladins because that affords you greater power selection but I can be convinced to go in another direction. Also trying to decide whether to go sword and shield or two-hander.

Covok posted:

Now, I just want to play a Dragonborn Warlord who does Shouts by smoke signal.

Also, what make the best warlords?

Free Triangle posted:

Aren't spear and two handed expertise both feat typed bonuses, making them not stack?

Sampatrick posted:

The Seeker is probably the worst class in 4e. It's the only class that can't actually do it's job.

Moriatti posted:

Is there any real issue to letting a player character be a large creature? I can't think of any off the top of my head but there's enough stuff that floats around in 4e I could be mistaken.

Synnr posted:

Additionally, I wanted to skim the charop stuff I used to before, just to refresh my brain on any obvious traps or great choices for classes but I guess the wotc forum got deleted, did they get archived anywhere?

Lord Of Texas posted:

Anyone know of a good source for interesting tactical combats, either for inspiration or to lift verbatim? I'm running my new-to-4e friends through a campaign which is explicitly "light story, light role-play, heavy on tactical combat", so I'm not worried about adapting backstory or anything, just combats that are fun and dynamic.

Devorum posted:

Thanks. We're finally getting ready to start the 4E game my group asked for. Thankfully, I found the offline tools so that'll be a huge help.

dwarf74 posted:

Expertise will be the big difference.

Let me know how it goes - I would be reluctant to cut them, no matter how much I hate them, because so many pseudo-class-features are wrapped up in them, and they can elevate some subclasses (like Str clerics) to par.

But I sympathize, and would love to hear how it works out.

Commander Keene posted:

Here's Everything. Literally everything.

girl dick energy posted:

I'm working on a 4e hack (aren't we all?) and I wanna reskin six Defenders, six Strikers, and six Leaders. Each can have some Controller mixed in, but I don't want any dedicated Controllers. Going purely by mechanics, what would y'all say are some of the best/your favorite classes? Bonus points if they're ones that have a reasonable power-level without needing to go too deep into CharOp (or if the needed CharOp can be baked straight into the class)? Specificity of flavor isn't a big deal, everything's getting reskinned anyways.