There are actually very productive dice notations (MM3 changed damage expressions and averages, and the whole system is supposed to use that now), but the builder seems out of the loop.
Monsters get soldier, skirmisher, artillery, lurker, and brute. There's the subtype (leader), and then there are indicators of power or challenge: minion, standard, elite, solo.
PCs get defender, leader, controller, and striker.
So if you take your number of PCs and multiply that by the XP value of a Standard monster of their level, you get the XP budget for an encounter of their level.
"Facebook recently made headlines for going after teachers' networking site Teachbook for trademark infringement, claiming that anything "--book" and social networking infringes its mark. If it didn't enforce, said Facebook, then "--book" would become generic for social networking."
it doesn't get undone. And everything takes physical ability score penalties. I think it had something to do with a dragon, and it made it to where the creature gained none of the benefits
Im nor sure it one exists but it stands to reason that a spell with a stun effect that is a ranged touch attack exists and if it doesnt needs to be made.
It's because whenever you add a new subsystem, especially when it's a system that can allow repeat uses of higher-power features, it is likely to mesh with the existing system in unprecedented and breakable ways.
4e really doesn't have... any subsystems or overlays except psionics, which is one reason psionics is balanced: it has less to intermesh with.
And psionics replaces the encounter-power system rather than appending to it.
@KRyan Wizards are a headache in 4e but not nearly as much as they were in 3.5.
oh yeah, in response to your now-starred comment about gentle information, I would comment that that is the approach I take with people who express an interest in ToB, even a skeptical one. most of my aggression is for the hostile opponents of it that haven't even read/understood it
like with @LitheOhm, we had a pretty calm discussion of ToB IIRC
When I went to South Carolina some people thought I was English, some claimed I had "no accent," which is impossible, and one told me she couldn't understand a word I said because my accent was too thick.
"Son, you seem like a mighty nice boy, but I can't understand a word you say."
Both American and UK English have massive pronunciation and grammar shifts across divides of location and class, but the UK's is a lot more noticeable because it's all crammed up together.
(Case in point, "mighty nice" is perfectly proper in some places, and a sign of poor education in others.)
Unfortunately my Latinate pronunciation knowledge is limited to a little Spanish class and some Renaissance art study.
@Zachiel This chat... ranges. So long as we calm down if someone else wants to talk RPG, and we aren't talking anything too controversial, the Topic Police usually look the other way.
Besides, as you just pointed out, pronunciation can be relevant!
Italian has a quite flat pronounciation and since Latin is spoken no more (and Rome is in Italy) latin locutions are usually pronuonced "the Italian way". With differences between ecclesiastic latin (vicissim is pronounced vee-chees-sim and accademic latin, which has harsher sounds (vicissim is pronounced we-kiss-him)
You type English very well, by the way. I don't mean to sound patronizing; my mother teaches composition to students for whom English is not their mother tongue.
You handle yourself more confidently in English than many for whom it is the only language they know.