... Well, we are playing Living Forgotten Realms, so every character needs a background option. There may not be anywhere that gives you Bluff, but Waterdeep...
... At first I built my Elf Avenger (maxed Wis) from Durpar, with skill focus perception. Had a +17 at level 1, without losing much efficiency as a character. ...
... I don't know whether to laugh, cry or just shrug. If you're talking about D&D only, then that's purely because of the way the designers wrote the game and...
... Roleplaying encounters are largely unaffected by character build, except to the extent that NPCs will react to a character's appearance (which includes...
... should say something. I have a ranger. Rangers have no social class skills. Also Charisma is a >dump stat for rangers. So you are saying (pretty much) all...
... Reading the last set of posts was a little depressing. It seemed like three-quarters of the people cannot see any sort of fighter build except the big,...
Something else I have seen i the overnight posts is about the optimisation and building of characters towards skill challengs. If a party is reasonably...
... You can't do weapon damage and implement damage at the same time. You either do hammer damage or Hellish Rebuke damage, not both. +1 Throwing Hammer -...
Here's the breakdown of what he is doing (all legal): Hit an enemy with hellish rebuke: 1d6 (power) + 1d6 (curse) + 5 (con) + 1 (imp) + 2 (feat) = 2d6 + 8 Take...
D6 +5 CON + 2 DWT +1 enhancement, twice due to Hellish Rebuke triggering plus d6 curse damage = 3d6+16 Â Pickles ... From: Kevin Culli <kculli@...> ...
A person with an 18 stat at character creation who increases it at every opportunity starts with a +4, and has a total +8 stat bonus on their best stat at 21st...
I totally agree with you...Not only are most mods poorly written when it comes to skill challenges... They mostly ignore over 1/2 the skills...making certain...
Heh...I'll give you that at 21st+ level...you should be able to participate in a skill challenge... but for that 1st to 10th level character...skill challenges...
That's a fine sentiment in a home game, where the players are expected to work together to make a balanced party. In LFR, you often have little control of the...
... The DC's for 1st-3rd level Skill Challenge checks: Easy: 5 Moderate: 10 Hard 15 If you're playing up, these go up by 1. At 10th level, they go up by ~6...
... I'll bet you US$1 that the problem here was your DM, not the module writer. Many of the first mods were written with questionable Skill Challenges,...
See, I don't understand that view of skill challenges. When I run a skill challenge, I don't really care what skills the mod says should be used. The PCs have...
... Well, you aren't supposed to hide the primary skills for the skill challenge either. That's also pretty lame. You are supposed to let them know that they...
Taking a step back, a skill challenge is an encounter. Unlike combat encounters, the XP value of a skill challenge is lower than the typical combat encounter,...
Well, as far as I know, "Intimidate" (capital "I") is a skill that only applies within the game... :-) But in a way, you proved my point -- the RL body-builder...
I do skill challenges differently depending on the situation. If it's a clear 'we have to complete this obvious task' then of course the SC is overt, I make it...
Hello Chad- It is funny that you should mention it. One of the Global Administers, last night, gave everyone homework to go and read the "Skill Challenge"...
You call it "hiding the primary skills". I call it "letting the guy who trained Insight do something". But sure, if none of the characters are good at Insight,...
My thoughts on this are easy. People who design a module to break if you run out of healing surges for a final skill challenge while they make everything in...
Yes. Skill challenges are part of the game. But I did a little research last night. By my account there are 18 classes that are available for LFR. Here is...
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:21 AM, dandltaylor2002 ... It would be interesting to compare that list to a list of the "allowed" skills used for skill challenges...
... Roleplay doesn't earn the player characters any XP. If you remove skill challenges, you're either: giving the players free XP (which is cheating and isn't...
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