Simple Q&A D&D 4e Thread II: Electric Boogaloo

[Badgerish]

I don't have a D&DInsider subscription.
I'm saving up for a better PC, so I'm not buying unecessary stuff just about everywhere.

I've been saving the Dungeon/Dragon PDFs whenever I can, and my DDI has now lapsed. You may be able to locate the file somewhere on the wilder and darker parts of the internet.

Don't worry about the feat, 99% of it's functionality is covered by Staff Expertise anyway.

[Tanuki Tales]

Q412: What's the Epic Destiny where your character can live on as a minion ascending to pretend to be you reborn?

[Dimers]

A412

Hordemaster, printed in the Dark Sun Campaign Setting.

[Elkreeal]

Q 413 If I'm invisible to a creature and teleport while invisible does it know my exact location at the end of my movement?

[Kurald Galain]

Q 413 If I'm invisible to a creature and teleport while invisible does it know my exact location at the end of my movement?

Yes, but you may make a stealth check, and if it beats his passive perception, then no.

[rusty2667]

Q 414

Where can I find rules to handle naval combat in 4e?

[Kurald Galain]

Q 414

Where can I find rules to handle naval combat in 4e?

To my best knowledge there aren't any.

[Joval]

Q415

In 3.5, there was percentile dice charts, usually with three columns to represent different difficulties. These charts were used to decide what encounters, or items, people may run into.

Is there a similar percentile chart in the 4e books for rewards? If so, where?

[GPuzzle]

A415 Well, uh, for starters, the DMG and the DMG2 have. You know, the "DM's Toolbox" area in those books is just that. Well, that, and "how to customize monsters/create monsters".

[Joval]

So no percentile chart. Okay, thanks.

[GPuzzle]

So no percentile chart. Okay, thanks.

What do you mean by percentile chart? The first DMG has a way to make a full dungeon by literally rolling dice. That is quite amazing.

[Joval]

What do you mean by percentile chart? The first DMG has a way to make a full dungeon by literally rolling dice. That is quite amazing.

I am aware, and I agree with everything you are saying, but I wasn't asking how to build a campaign by rolling D20s. I was asking for a random generator that has diverse, yet specific, results concerning treasures which use a percentile dice. In 3.5, there was one for everything. Wondrous Items, Potions, Scrolls, Rings, Rods, Staffs, etc. I guess I ought to have been more specific.

Thanks though.

[Mandrake]

A 415 cont.

Javal, I got a suggestion as to how you can get some random enemies and treasures, but it takes a bit more work than before.

1) Start the compendium.
2) Make adjustments to what you want it to display (e.g. level and type of item).
3) Check the number of items (monsters, terrains etc.) that fit your desires.
4) Go to random.org/ and roll to pick the random one.

Hope it helps, cheers!

[Gavran]

A 415 cont the most

There are a few web utilities that do this, specifically this site which lets you theme the encounters and provides their loot as well, and this one which lets you control the types of monster roles, allowing you to generate random Solos among other things.

Each site has both an encounter and a treasure generator. I would probably use donjon's encounter generator and asmor's treasure generator.

And no, there are not any percentile die based charts printed by WotC.

[Joval]

Awesome! Thanks for the suggestions. I'll give em a shot.

[Tvtyrant]

Q416

The theme Masked Lord allows you to summon a suit of armor that you are proficient with onto your body. If a Druid had this theme and were wildshaped what would happen to the armor?

[Dimers]

Well, that's an amusing poser, but what difference would it make in practice? In any reasonable situation the druid would already be benefitting from armor with an equivalent enhancement bonus, whether wildshaped or not.

For that matter, unless the druid were unarmored before, she wouldn't be able to use the theme power at all. Wild shape states "You continue to gain the benefits of the equipment you wear," not "wore", meaning any humanoid-form armor is still in place.

[Tvtyrant]

Q417 Can a Druid with one of the lycanthropic themes use both beast and implement Druid powers once they get the hybrid form feature?

ReQ416 Oddly enough if you can do that you can legally wear two sets of armor at once. I don't think the AC stacks, but the armor's abilities should both function.

[Gavran]

A417

I wonder if you're asking this because I brought it up. :P

It's a RAW thing, can't say for sure that it was intended by the designers or if it was a mistake because they mostly copied the wording of Wildshape and the druid beast powers, but they share the keyword "Beast Form" and those powers are the only ones you can use when Wildshaped or Theme-shifted. The Hybrid form explicitly removes the restriction on implement and weapon powers from your Theme-form. I think it was likely intentional myself, but that's just an opinion. Dragon #410 might actually state one way or another. Note that this is only for the Dragon #410 themes and not the Pack Outcast theme or any others that might turn you into a different thing.

[GPuzzle]

Q418
Where, exactly, are the rules for Hybridizing an Essentials class?
I need it for a build concept I had.

[Kurald Galain]

Q418
Where, exactly, are the rules for Hybridizing an Essentials class?
I need it for a build concept I had.

A418 Dragon #400. This doesn't include all classes; for the other ones you're out of luck.

[GPuzzle]

A418 Dragon #400. This doesn't include all classes; for the other ones you're out of luck.

Does it include the Scout?

[Tegu8788]

A 418

No, it does not. BA based classed don't get hybrids. In my signature, I have a chart with every possible hybrid combination. Including which ones are good.

[GPuzzle]

Well, I'll have to change some stuff on my ideas, but I'll see how many times I can recharge the Swordmage Aegis and Fey Step in an encounter if I optimize towards it.

[Nightgaun7]

Q 419

I was reading the Paladin Handbook and saw the following comment on Rain of Steel: "Great battlefield control with this stance. Even a Chaladin will do well with this. Easy choice for Adept Power at this point."

How does this give Paladins great battlefield control? I've always heard that it's not technically an attack, so it doesn't help you maintain DC for free, or work with a bunch of other stuff that might help lock things down if that's true.

[GPuzzle]

Q 419

I was reading the Paladin Handbook and saw the following comment on Rain of Steel: "Great battlefield control with this stance. Even a Chaladin will do well with this. Easy choice for Adept Power at this point."

How does this give Paladins great battlefield control? I've always heard that it's not technically an attack, so it doesn't help you maintain DC for free, or work with a bunch of other stuff that might help lock things down if that's true.

A419
Easy. The enemy either eats 1d8 (average, might go to 1d10 if you want to go with axes or hammers) damage every round he is adjacent to you, no matter if he's marked or not, which means he has the following options if he's melee and he's marked:

a) Attack the Paladin and suffer 1d8/1d10 from that attack
b) Attack the Paladin and suffer an OA running away from him
c) Attack someone who isn't the Paladin and suffer the Divine Challenge/Sanction

All in all, it's more about giving them only bad options so that they'll only take damage then anything else, really.
Still, pretty powerful.

[Elkreeal]

Q 420 Am I right to assume that Devout Protector Expertise triggers Devil's Due (Infernal Prince Utility 2) technically all day err'day ?

Also on a side note, does Devout Protector Expertise still say: "while you use a shield, your allies gain a +1 shield bonus to AC", or was it ever changed?

Edit: to clarify: Does it count as something that would trigger Devil's Due?

[Kurald Galain]

A 420 Devil's Due triggers off a power bonus and DPE is a shield bonus, so no. And yes, that is the current version of the feat.

[Nightgaun7]

Q 421

How do crits and area powers interact? Where should I look for more info?
IRL group was arguing about this the other day and when I looked up Critical in the Compendium it didn't say anything about it.

[NecroRebel]

A 421

They don't interact in any special manner. More information about what the argument was about might help clarify things.

Anyway, as I said, no special interactions. The target against which a crit was rolled takes maximum damage from the attack, and may take additional damage from high crit weapons or enchanted weapons and/or implements as normal. If there are other targets that were not critically hit, you'll still need to roll the attack's damage to see how much those other targets take. Other targets are not automatically hit, nor do they automatically take maximized or bonus damage due to one of their fellows being critically hit.