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Comment on New Skill Challenge Mechanics by Gaming News from Around the Net: 20-JAN-12 | Game Knight Reviews

Gaming News from Around the Net: 20-JAN-12 | Game Knight Reviews — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:01:02 +0000

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Comment on New Skill Challenge Mechanics by Jason Dawson

Jason Dawson — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:09:58 +0000

I added a simple houserule to the “everybody delays” problem– Skill Challenges are supposed to be CHALLENGING. Thus if you delay, roll a saving throw. If you make it, proceed as normal. If you fail, you still delay but the roll takes a -5 penalty.

Comment on Killer Combo – Battlecrazed and Razorclaws by steven

steven — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:15:12 +0000

Longtooth shifter ranger. You essentially become wolverine & take things to a whole different level.

Comment on Dragon Riders by benensky

benensky — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 15:29:58 +0000

Thanks for letting me know about Anne McCaffrey.

These look like some fun mounts. Thanks for doing these stats.

Comment on Dragon Riders by Glimm the Gnome

Glimm the Gnome — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:33:11 +0000

The metallic mount stats look good – a nice balance between simplicity and making each dragon type feel unique with the mount abilities.

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Helping Your DM Get His Groove Back « Temporary Hit Points — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:39:05 +0000

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Comment on A Vampire Theme…that’s right, THEME…boo! by William

William — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:06:51 +0000

I think d6+Primary is just perfect. The thing is that you want the power to remain relevant through an adventurer’s career. A d6 just isn’t as good for temporary hit points by paragon. It doesn’t have to be a perfect power, but it should be a competitive choice when you’re in the middle of combat. A d6 is just bad. Scaling it with an ability modifier seems just fine.

Comment on A Vampire Theme…that’s right, THEME…boo! by David Gibson (@DnDJester)

David Gibson (@DnDJester) — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:56:24 +0000

@William: The power was tricky as I didn’t want to just re-write the vampire power as the dhampyre power.

Theme powers are finicky as they’re essentially At-Will powers that can be used once per encounter. They’re fairly low-power. So as a designer you need to follow the design tenants of Encounters powers and At-Will powers: their both and neither. At-Wills are extremely restrictive on surgeless-healing, so that was out. And an At-Will spending a surge seemed powerful.
Regaining a surge was also out, because a character could build a character to use the theme power every fight, and as long as they averaged to one surge per fight they could adventure indefinitely.

Upping the damage die is one way to possibly tweak the power. Changing the damage to 1d6 + primary ability score would also work. I might favour the latter as an errata.