Dungeons & Dragons Fourth Edition from 2008 (includes Essentials)
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What happened to SVDPress?
I used to read SVDPress's blog about fourthcore and in general enjoy their updates. The last time I went to their site it simply had a download page for the three fourthcore modules available. I've ...
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How do I deal with these crazy PCs?
I got some of my friends to play a very small game of D&D, with my being DM to see if they will like to play more often. Our quest consisted of PvP, hiding, going to the tavern to get drunk, and ...
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How do I start DMing a new game after the Red Box?
I finished playing the D&D beginners Red Box with my friends. Now how do I start DMing another game? Where do I go from here?
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Hybrid Psion Class Feature Lost?
In D&D 4E Player's Handbook 3 pages 139-155 are the recipes for merging two hybrid classes together. Hybrid psions on pg 147 does not mention Ritual Casting. Does the hybrid class lose this ...
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I'm fairly new to D&D but want to GM; where do I go from here?
I'm a 16-year-old male, and I have been interested in tabletop RPGs for a long time, especially D&D. I sorta dove into D&D really fast and hard by buying the Red box, Dungeon Master Kit, ...
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How much damage do these types inflict? [duplicate]
On power cards when it says lightning, thunder, radiant and fire damage, how can I tell how much damage those are?
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How does multi-type damage work?
The attack "Storm Hammer" says hit:1d8+_(wisdom modifier)lighting and thunder damage... how do I tell how much damage to inflict?
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Can you take 10 on Aid Another?
I've only seen the "take 10" specifically disabled for ritual checks (PH1, p. 300).
Are they allowed for Aid Another?
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Is automatic success guaranteed when Aiding Another with a high skill?
In my campaign, we've used the old mechanics for Aid Another up until now: roll 10 or more to assist with a +2, if you roll under you simple fail to assist.
I recently became aware of the errataed Aid ...
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My players almost die in my encounters every time. Does this mean my encounters are too hard?
I'm running my first campaign with three friends. This is the first time any of us have done any table-top role-playing. I'm working the party through the H1: Keep on the Shadowfell campaign using ...
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Will a Rogue (Scoundrel) with Sharpshooter Talent and Moonbow Stalker applying the crossbow bonus to her shortbow cause problems?
Inspired by Brian’s question here, which seems to have been answered with a pretty solid No, my follow-up question is whether or not allowing this to happen even though the rules do not would ...
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Do shield and armor check modifiers stack?
If I wear Hide armor (Check -1) and use a Heavy Shield (Check -2) is my check -2 or -3?
In other words, do the checks stack or do I use the highest negative?
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What happens to aquatic creatures when they're pulled onto land?
A dire piranha swarm, for obvious reasons, has only a swim speed and no other available movement modes.
The warden in our party, while standing next to a lake, used Warden's Lure, which pulled all ...
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Does a creature have to make a saving throw after being knocked prone?
We know that you -can- willingly go prone as a minor action, but we're unsure as to the mechanics of recovering from it. Does it matter if you are knocked prone or willingly make yourself prone? And ...
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What affects the Druid beast form attack bonus?
I have a Lv1 Razorclaw Shifter, Predator Druid with +5 WIS mod.
If I'm in beast form and I attack with Grasping Claws, is it really just +5 vs Reflex?
I don't have a bonus from any implements and ...
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Opportunity Knocks and opportunity attacks
This is a question about timing. If a rogue character has the Opportunity Knocks feat:
Whenever you hit with an opportunity attack ... the enemy you hit ... grants combat advantage to you until ...
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How far can I throw a small object?
How far can a character throw an object? Looking at the PHB a long ranged basic attack can be made 10 squares away (with a -2 to the attack roll) with a random object weighing about 1 pound.
But what ...
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How Long does Unnerving Shove cause the target to grant Combat Advantage?
The level 3 Ardent power Unnerving Shove's Augment 2 states the following:
Hit: 2[W] + Charisma modifier damage, and you push the target a number of squares equal to 1 + your Constitution ...
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Damage roll with a psion character [closed]
My character is a shardmind psion and he has an arcane orb as a weapon. I am level 1 and his Intelligence score is 18. (I don´t have any items or feats that give me bonuses.)
I´m new to the game, so ...
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In D&D 4e, are 1/2 level defense bonuses compound with the raised ability modifier?
I've recently started playing D&D with some friends, and the one thing on the character sheet that bothers me is the defense section.
In the defenses section, it has both the sections 10 + 1/2 ...
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Creating NPCs from Real-Life People
I have some friends that would like to be part of my future D&D campaign as NPCs. What I need help with is creating stats for a NPC based on a person.
I am a player in this campaign. Our DM will ...
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Should I pay attention to the defenses targeted when choosing my powers?
I'm building a 1st level human wizard for my first 4e campaign. As of now, my at-wills are Winged Horde (targets Will), Unraveling Dart (targets Fortitude) and Arc Lightning (targets Reflex).
I was ...
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Can you buy and use an accurate weapon without having the superior weapon feat for it?
I would like to buy a level 3 accurate Rhythm Blade dagger, right now. At level 4 I plan to take the feat, Superior Implement (accurate dagger). The D&D Insider character builder is allowing me ...
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Can a Combat Challenge/Divine Challenge/Warden's Fury interrupt an opportunity attack?
Can a Defender's interrupt ability stop an opportunity attack? If so, can I get a page reference?
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How to play a Dwarven Gutbuster?
I haven't been able to find a way to create a classic dwarven battlerager that is official. I want to build a dwarf that wears spiked armor, spiked gauntlets, spiked everything, that charges enemies, ...
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Flying straight from prone
I had a dragon that was knocked prone, but the handbooks are very vague about the rules regarding flight. If the dragon has move 10 fly(hover) 10 could a dragon simply fly from prone position, or must ...
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3 enchanted items to cast ritual - D&D
In planing my D&D campaign, I have an section where the group will have to find three enchanted copper pots to seal away a powerful daemon. I have an idea on how I want it to work, but not sure if ...
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Awarding XP for combat encounters in Dnd 4e
I am a very inexperienced DM. I have here what must be an obvious question, but I can't seem to find any solid clarification.
How is XP rewarded after a combat encounter? Is the total monsters' XP ...
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Do burst/close burst attacks “splash” around corners?
I know that blasts require LoS in 4e and I feel like bursts require line of effect between the target square and the creature but one my players asked if a burst would hit diagonally around a hard ...
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Where can I find D&D Penny Arcade Podcast season 2 scenario?
In the last episode of the D&D podcast season 2: (http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4pod/20090408), Chris Perkins writes:
for those wishing to follow in the footsteps of ...
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Can psychic damage affect mindless creatures? Can radiant damage sterilise water?
The game presents 10 damage types: acid, cold, fire, force, lightning, necrotic, poison, psychic, radiant, thunder.
And my players asked a few things about using spells that deal typed damage in and ...
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Dragonborn Item Interaction
I have a question in regards to resistances...
If I had the Wyrmtouched Amulet from the Adventurers Vault and my character was a dragonborn using the Scion of Arkhosia Paragon Path what would my ...
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Are there female minotaurs?
I wonder... Do the minotaurs in 4e have females of the species? Or do they just use humans to reproduce themselves? Or are they born in the void and come out of nowhere?
I've never seen any female ...
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Animal Companion Healing and Dying
I was looking at the Fey Beast Tamer theme and realized I don't understand how the health of a beast companion works. Unless I have a specific power, it can't be healed during combat, right? What ...
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Does a Double Weapon work with Two-weapon feats?
Would the benefits from the feats: Two-weapon Fighting, Two-weapon Opening, Two-weapon Defense, etc... apply to a character that uses a Double Axe, Double Sword or Double Scimitar?
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Summoned creature outside of combat, how long does it last?
Specifically the wizard daily spell, summon fire warrior: if I use this spell in combat, he will last until the end of the combat (assuming I don't dismiss it early or it drops to zero hit points).
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Evolving a region from war torn to merchant hub
Currently in my planning for my campaign I have a desert region that would make for a great way to travel, except tribes of Monkeys are at war. One side quest I have planned out has the players end ...
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Pelor's Blackguard (4e)
We're just starting a campaign, and a player wants to create a very distinct character... a Pelor's Blackguard. Yes, a PELOR Blackguard.
Is that possible to create Blackguard that follows Pelor in 4e? ...
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Does a close burst attack that only targets 1 creature in the burst trigger burst vulnerability?
In a recent encounter there were creatures with vulnerability to burst attacks.
One character used an attack that had the range 'Close Burst 10', and target 'One Creature'.
The DM defined this as a ...
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What to buy to start out 4e D&D (DM and PC) (Complete Noob, no previous experience) [duplicate]
So we're a completely new group of people, none of us have experience, and I've been assigned DM, which I think is a good idea. But we don't know where to start, or what to buy to get started on our ...
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Is there anything (feats/powers/items) that allows a sorcerer to teleport as a move action in Heroic Tier? [closed]
I am building a wild sorcerer "glass cannon" and I want to be able to teleport around the board. Is it possible?
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Can you knock a Player Characters unconscious via damage without giving them the dying condition? [duplicate]
Can you knock a Player Characters unconscious via damage without giving them the dying condition?
For example, a level 5 human fighter has 3 feats: Unfailing Vigor, Disciple of Death and Stubborn ...
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Do you have to hit for effects to occur or do they occur whether you hit or miss?
An example of what I am trying to understand is the power Brash Assault. The effect states "Effect: The target can make a melee basic attack against you as a free action and has combat advantage for ...
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How can a Warlord gain an at-will power that pushes?
I know you can multiclass, but that gives you another class's at-will power as an encounter power. I'm looking for an at-will attack that also pushes, but I'm playing a Warlord and they don't have ...
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Feat which allows a PC to use a Ranged weapon in 'Melee Range' without provoking Opportunity Attacks?
Is there a Feat of some sort which allows the use of a Ranged weapon in 'Melee Range' without provoking an Opportunity attack?
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4th DND Essentials — How do you determine powers selection for level 1 characters? How do you read the descriptions and classes?
I'm having trouble interpreting the 4th Edition Essentials books. How do I determine how many powers a level 1 paladin/cavalier gets? The book never comes out and says it. With skills and feats, it's ...
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What are supported 4e campaign settings?
By "supported" I mean there is at least one book (or similar-level online resource) detailing the setting. Campaign settings I already know about for 4e: Nentir Vale (not well supported), Forgotten ...
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How can a Sentinel Druid get the Air Spirit Primal Attunement?
In a comment on Can a pixie levitate on bootlaces carried by a spirit of salzacas?, Simon Withers said
The (at will) Air Spirit Primal Attunement for the Sentinal Druid is a nice replacement for ...
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Can you use Mindlink to go through walls?
I have a telepathic Psion with the Mindlink ability which states: "When you use your Send Thoughts, your psion attacks against the target ignore concealment and cover until the end of the encounter, ...
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Initiative check abilities 4th edition D&D [duplicate]
So a creature's initiative roll for a combat is 30 we'll say for example.
How is this handled then?
Instinctive Relocation (teleportation)
On an Initiative of 10+ her initiative check, the ...
