Minor Rules Questions/Thoughts

[FireLance]

There's a ritual that draws a circle that goes to some permanent circle whose ID-key you already know. So you can basically Town Portal without issue (though rituals are expensive), but less willy-nilly teleporting.

Moongates!

 

[Rystil Arden]

Dividing damage dealt by 1d0 is potentially problematic.

Except that 4e doesn't have a mechanic to divide damage by a variable number, so I don't see how that is an issue?

 

[themilkman]

Except that 4e doesn't have a mechanic to divide damage by a variable number, so I don't see how that is an issue?

True, but damaging an enemy for the square root of negative 1d4 damage can still cause trouble.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Moongates!

Something like that. I think they said there's another ritual to portal wherever you want, but it costs as much as Rezzing an epic tier character, so it will rarely be used.

 

[Colmarr]

EDIT: Never mind.

 

[Rystil Arden]

True, but damaging an enemy for the square root of negative 1d4 damage can still cause trouble.

Except that there's not a mechanic to deal negative damage or take a square root. At first I thought you were being constructive, but after this second one, are you just threadcrapping or what dude?

 

[Rystil Arden]

EDIT: Never mind.

I would think it is a necessity that it doesn't apply to the long range teleportations.

 

[Colmarr]

There's a ritual that draws a circle that goes to some permanent circle whose ID-key you already know. So you can basically Town Portal without issue (though rituals are expensive), but less willy-nilly teleporting.

I LOVE this. It was so hard to create a sense of urgency based on distance in 3e.

 

[weem]

I assume this only applies to short-range teleportation powers like the Eladrins and not to long-range teleportation rituals?

Yea, this is where the specific rules beat out the general ones. For the Teleport (movement type) description, it says line of sight. But for specific power/ability descriptions, they are more specific about where you can and cannot teleport to.

 

[Rystil Arden]

I LOVE this. It was so hard to create a sense of urgency based on distance in 3e.

I definitely like the flavour and pacing changes of some of these rituals I'm hearing about, though in other cases, I'm a bit upset that they have to be rituals with such high costs rather than a spell (example--Illusions). I think it has more to do with my personal tastes on some things differing with the 4e designers.

I'm surprised, though, considering how they said it was going to be supposedly really hard to overcome death at heroic tier and little more than a stumbling block at epic, then why can you raise a dead heroic character for a pittance (500 gp) while at epic it costs a fortune?