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Oct 15	comment	Does Sage of Ages roll replacement happen before or after the roll? This is how I have always interpreted it.
Oct 15	comment	Does Sage of Ages roll replacement happen before or after the roll? I disagree. It says "You can use the result...in place of any one d20 roll you make...". The d20 roll must have actually taken place for the Prescience roll to replace it.
Sep 12	comment	Does Augmenting Whetstone work on a magical item? @adamjford: A good point, which makes it clearer how bonuses on magic items actually function.
Sep 12	comment	Does Augmenting Whetstone work on a magical item? There's no difference, actually. If you had a separate enhancement bonus, it still wouldn't stack with the whetstone or +3 axe.
Sep 11	comment	How can I convert monsters from D&D 3, 3.5 or 4 ed to 2ed monsters? I would also reiterate the importance of voting, and accepting answers that helped you. If you like an answer, upvote it. If it's the best answer that has come in for the question, accept it.
Sep 7	comment	Combining D&D 4th ed. Player's Handbook 1, 2 and 3 This seems more like a comment than an answer.
Aug 30	comment	How many sessions is enough to judge a game fairly? +1. Life's too short to have to dig for the fun.
Aug 30	comment	Is there a penalty for holding a two handed weapon in offhand while throwing a weapon? @Erik: I view that as ignoring the catch, since it returns no matter what.
Aug 29	comment	Spell school specialization dnd 4e I think it's possible to choose one school at 1st level and a different school at 5th level, and your 11th-level feature is based on what you picked at 5th. This is based on the character builder, though, not a direct reference to the Essentials books.
Aug 26	comment	Is there a penalty for holding a two handed weapon in offhand while throwing a weapon? @Snowbody: I have no idea. Purely by RAW, the throw and catch are the same action, so the weapon would be thrown caught before you had the opportunity to put your hand back on the Mordenkrad. I have no idea if the catch is optional, but I assume you could free-action drop the Dwarven Thrower first. I will edit to reflect this.
Aug 26	comment	Clarification of Raise Dead @Chad: The Vorpal property now means that, any time you are rolling damage dice in connection with an attack, if it comes up as its maximum value, add in that maximum value and then roll it again (repeating as many times as you keep getting maximum value). It does not automatically kill by severing a creature's head, so it is not applicable here.
Aug 26	comment	Clarification of Raise Dead @Chad: That is a very 3.5e view of the world, but 4e does not work that way. There isn't a Regeneration spell or ritual any more (Remove Affliction seems like a similar equivalent), and the Resurrection spell is recast as a level 8 Essentials Cleric power which works almost exactly like the Raise Dead ritual but only for creatures who died in the last 24 hours. All of the old spells to which you refer require a very simulationist game, which 4e is decidedly not. Even something like the Rogue's Leg-Breaker power doesn't include any affliction beyond HP damage.
Aug 21	comment	Can Swiftpad boots be used in a vertical jump? Something else of note: this means you can jump diagonally in the air as well. So if the OP's secret ambition is to leap tall buildings in a single bound, all he really needs is these boots and about a 30 STR.
Aug 19	comment	Does movement continue after an Opportunity Attack? Here's a question for clarification. Do you treat each square of movement as though it were were a separate miniature action? So you move X squares, get interrupted, and then move the remainder of your movement from wherever you landed, if possible?
Aug 18	comment	Can a free action be taken in the middle of another action? Just for the specific case you cite, couldn't you Quick-Draw the weapon as part of the action of using its daily power?
Aug 9	comment	Is the extra damage from Assassin's Strike maximized on a critical? @Simon: This answer seems the more likely of the two. In that case, you could tag the bonus damage from Quickhit Bracers onto the offhand attack, since it is done second and that is the only hit they can attach to, and maximize the extra dice if the second hit crits.
Aug 8	comment	Is the extra damage from Assassin's Strike maximized on a critical? So it seems like the procedure here is something like the following: figure out what the damage roll would be without a critical hit, considering all effects; maximize that; and then go ahead and add bonus effects that only trigger on a crit, without maximizing them.
Jul 28	comment	How to implement a stealth based instant-kill system @Brian: Thanks!
Jul 28	comment	How to implement a stealth based instant-kill system @Brian...can you provide a little more description of how Break & Enter's rules work so that it's less necessary to click through to the PDF?
Jul 23	comment	What's the impact of a monster being immune to Unconscious? @YogoZuno: That's a reasonable interpretation, and certainly matches designer intent better, but it isn't actually RAW. If you choose to make it unconscious - forgoing the opportunity to kill it - and unconsciousness has no effect on the creature, that doesn't magically make it dead. This is why DMs are needed, and why Rule-As-Intended is important. When you write "I would say..." that's a table ruling, not RAW.