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[DnD+GW 4E Discussion] Distinctly lacks anything to Jenga
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Two things spring to mind: Use monsters from the Monster Vault and later. They are much better designed and just a bit meaner than some of the lack luster early monsters.
Second: Make sure your grasp of the situation matches your players. It's easy for the DM to see that nobody has ever gone down and think he screwed up but if everybody is at a handful of hit points with all the healing powers expended at the end of the fight...you're on just the right side of the catastrophe curve. When you find that bend in the curve it may be too late to fix things.
Edit: Oh, and longer "days". Make them decide if it's worth going on when you only have a surge or two left. You need to structure adventures such that there is a perception of reward for doing this.
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Yes.
If they're spending 1-3 surges per person per encounter, you're in a good place difficulty-wise for the majority of encounter (more major, important fights might have a higher surge budget). The actual challenge at that point is to keep them from resting after two fights every day.
There are a number of ways to do this, from time limits to rest costs to just 'you can't rest here', but ultimately this is one of the bigger challenges when DMing.
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That and it makes the Mul racial trait of only needing to sleep once every two days completely pointless.
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Yea, if surges aren't a problem from not sleeping something is very very wrong aside from the not sleeping thing.
Though this really sounds like "Bob, stop being a dick." situation.
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I'd just start draining healing surges after a certain point.
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Yeah, pretty much.
Although I guess you could theoretically build a party composed entirely of Warforged using Essentials classes and just truck on as long as possible, with healing surges as your only daily resource, which could be entertaining
Also re: sleep deprivation, if the intent is to abuse the system I'd probably start calling for either Endurance checks against having your max surges lowered until you rest or Endurance checks against just falling asleep.
It made nightwatches a little easy.
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The reason that I posted about liking 4E so much is that I've never nothing good about the system, and I haven't been actively gaming for years. So when I actually started playing 4E, I was expecting something truly horrible.
Just gonna leave that there.
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Only way an avenger would be able to take advantage would be to have a half-elf with dilletante eldritch strike and a sunblade.Wait, nope, you need star pact.Or just roll a star pact hexblade.
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What does star pack do? when you choose the warlock multiclass using pact initiate you take star pact.
Not optimal, unless you want to be spamming an at-will all day.
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I long for a stable 4e. I hope their final months on the edition focus less on milking the last bit of money via books and more on correcting little stuff like that.
Yeah, this build doesn't work anymore, as has been noted.
The reason you see builds using all over the place is that they're old builds - the fact that Caiphon's Guidance only works with warlock powers is an errata, it used to work on any radiant power, which resulted in silly bullshit like those exact builds.
Same thing happened with Daggermaster, the rogue PP.
Honestly, I've ignored the item rarity rules for so long, I don't even know what they are.
The important part is that items tagged as Rare can't be bought or crafted, only handed out by the DM. I think the rule of thumb is supposed to be one rare item per player per tier, but I've yet to play with a DM who followed it.
The upshot is that anything tagged as Rare is something you can basically assume doesn't exist because you will never get it.
The charop people are gonna be maaaad when they see Dancing Weapon is Rare now.
Edit: And I'm mad that Dice of Auspicious Fortune are now, too.
More specifically, I'm wondering whether the Hellfire Master wizard feat (enemy that saves against effect of your fire attack takes damage) would work with the Slashing Kama Style feat (deal ongoing damage instead of flurry damage to one target) and Desert Wind flurry of blows.
On the other hand, if it's not an attack, would that mean that using it against a target subject to the Unseen Scrutiny power (invisible to target until you attack it or end of enc) mean that you would stay invisible to it?
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