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    D&D General New Interview with Rob Heinsoo About 4E

    You might want to get find sources that are not contradicting easily verifiable facts.
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    D&D General New Interview with Rob Heinsoo About 4E

    Even if that were true, that's comparing apples and oranges. Total revenue is what counts and DDI was a very large amount of total revenue.
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    D&D General New Interview with Rob Heinsoo About 4E

    According to multiple designers who worked at WotC, it outsold 3e. The issue wasn't that it did poorly. The issue was that it was expected to be a $50 million/year revenue game by Hasbro, they thought they were going to have a working virtual game table, and therefore would be able to charge...
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    D&D General New Interview with Rob Heinsoo About 4E

    That kind of scene is described as a bad skill challenge in DMG too. Point being, if you have a bad skill challenge to deal with due to an adventure or DM, the point isn't to punish the players, the point is to let the players figure out a way to deal with it. If you have a good skill challenge...
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    D&D General New Interview with Rob Heinsoo About 4E

    Yeah, a big problem with skill challenges, which even in DMG are designed to be fast and loose and reward creativity, was that a significant chunk of the adventures didn't understand that in year one. As an easy example, in a skill challenge, you can use any skill you want — roll hard DC and...
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    D&D General New Interview with Rob Heinsoo About 4E

    Yeah that's my group too. I DM'd 4e a lot when it was in person, but feel distinctly uncomfortable doing it online for reasons. But we have 3 DMs in our group and they switch off.
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    D&D General New Interview with Rob Heinsoo About 4E

    There are two different things that monsters/enemies/etc...are expected to do: Fulfill a combat role Do things in non-combat that are interesting and make sense. A simple example of this is the enemy wizard. Is an enemy wizard going to last 20 rounds? No. So don't give the Wizard 20 possible...
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    D&D General New Interview with Rob Heinsoo About 4E

    The 4e discord usually, if someone offers to DM a campaign, fills within a small number of hours.
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    D&D 4E 4e Poachable Powers List: A list of good powers to poach from other classes

    You've seen this list? All the 4e CharOp handbooks and I generally update my own handbooks over time, though much more rarely now
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    D&D 4E 4e Poachable Powers List: A list of good powers to poach from other classes

    Put Giant's Grasp onto the list — Monk 7 power — the impact isn't in the attack power, it is in what the move power does — it isn't forced movement, so you grab someone, run them past your allies with melee basic attacks
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    D&D 4E The Book of Five Traditions: A 4e Monk Handbook

    Updated the Encounter 7 Giant's Grasp to Sky Blue with hints of Gold — the movement action is "You move up to your speed. If you are grabbing a creature, the creature moves with you." i.e. the creature is not force moving, they're just moving, so they provoke...
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    D&D 4E 4e Essentials as a new edition and 4e's longevity

    I think Witch is slightly superior to the other Wizard classes if the goal is to play a fun, generalist Wizard. You get probably the best E1, you lose a cantrip, ritual casting(which is marginal — scrolls are expensive in theory until they're not) and a usually marginal class feature, you gain a...
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    D&D General Explain Bounded Accuracy to Me (As if I Was Five)

    Or you could have played the adventures or looked at Rogue's Gallery that made it quite clear that Gygax was an extremely Monty Haul DM with PCs with crazy high stats who railed against those who were even more Monty Haul and pcs with higher stats than his table's PCs. There's a Ring of Air...
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    D&D General Explain Bounded Accuracy to Me (As if I Was Five)

    Bounded Accuracy as described in the Next playtest doesn't really exist in 5e — it requires that there's no expectation for bonuses based on level or magic items. It requires very large damage bonuses per level to happen and the player base freaked out when they started showing big numbers for...
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    D&D General D&D is a Team Sport. What are the positions?

    4e D&D, football/soccer terms: Defender. Defender. Striker. Striker. Controller. Midfielder Leader. Keeper.
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    D&D 4E 4E Character Optimization WOTC rescue Handbook Guide

    The Binder Warlock powers do not have a level. And just in general, <you are unaware of me options> tend to be of limited value in a party who cannot do that well in something that's about to go to combat. And you're probably triggering that dominate as fast as you can in combat, which also...
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    D&D 4E 4E Character Optimization WOTC rescue Handbook Guide

    Just in general, best to start your own thread, don't force people to download files, and keep it a lot more simple as to what you're doing. A lot of the build revolves around illegal elements or elements that don't work that way(Sword of the White Well is from a deleted feat, Hex Expertise is...
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