Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition: Looks like we're the grognards, now.

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Chaltab: Feb 16, 2011; So shocked someone got me an avatar!

I've generally handled it by having pay-as-you-go rituals. Like, the player notes 'ritual components' on their sheet but the actual value is unstated unless and until rituals are performed.

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Chaltab: Feb 16, 2011; So shocked someone got me an avatar!

So does anyone know of an Owlbear race for 4E, 3PP or homebrew?

# ¿ Jun 26, 2014 22:43

Chaltab: Feb 16, 2011; So shocked someone got me an avatar!

Gort posted:

But how do you prevent players using the same daily power every fight?

If you're the DM then you should know what daily powers your players have (generally, not necessarily being able to name every one of them and remember their exact mechanics). If you have a caster repeatedly spamming a fire spell, throw in some creatures with Resist or Immune to Fire. If a character is getting a lot of mileage out of a forced movement power then send some monsters with forced movement mitigation at them. Mix it up, though. Don't suddenly have all enemies immune to what they can do, but make them choose more carefully.

# ¿ Jun 27, 2014 22:07

Chaltab: Feb 16, 2011; So shocked someone got me an avatar!

gradenko_2000 posted:

I just bought the Rules Compendium from DnDClassics and downloaded the Quickstart guide as well, but can you really not buy any PDFs of the PHBs or even the Essentials books? Are there any digital products besides DDI for character creation?

DnDClassics focuses on books that are harder to find/out of print. The core 4E books are in a weird place because they're 1) readily available for relatively cheap and 2) woefully out of date as far as errata and math-fixes go. There's really no good reason for WOTC to start selling pdfs cheaply as long as Insider exists to continuously draw in 4E player money.

Chaltab fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Dec 16, 2014

# ¿ Dec 16, 2014 23:15

Chaltab: Feb 16, 2011; So shocked someone got me an avatar!

LightWarden posted:

It would function just fine as a Warlord at-will: Standard Action, make an athletics check to jump, but an ally within reach jumps that distance instead of you and makes a basic attack. If the ally weighs less than your ability to lift, the jump counts as having a running start.

Nobody tosses a dwarf, but tossing that halfling Barbarian is a time honored tradition.

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