I already imagine a city captain of the guard thumbing his dog eared copy of ‘Dealing with Fey Criminals’ …

..Cuz the printing press will exist in my version of D&D I’ll even have a Rituals Best Sellers list up in the weekly newspaper!

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There are no disarm rules because monsters more often than not don’t have secondary attacks.

I’d play disarm as a Str/Dex vs the best of Reflex or Fortitude attack if the disarm was made with weapons or by grabbing.

Since Mage Hand can only handle 20 lbs… that basically makes it as strong as a 6-7 year old so I’d say that it can’t rip something from someone’s hands unless that someone is surprised/distracted.

@Michael: Agreed on all accounts.

@Heather: How did you hit yourself? D&D 4e has no fumble or shoot your friends rules whatsoever… apart from getting caught in an area effect. A DM over at my store used Fumbles and but I disagree about those… monsters are challenging enough not to add fumbling!

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eh, it wouldn’t be too hard to design an anti-eladrin jail cell. an old west cell with a tiny window and bars on the door wouldn’t work, but an underground cell with a slot on the door that locks from the outside with at least 30 feet of corridor between it and the door as well as a posted guard or two would do just fine.

Depending on how much you dislike your prisoner, there’s always a hot iron brand to the eyes. If they are blind, they won’t be able to use line of sight powers. (Bind their hands and cover their eyes for the same effect but a little less reliable. Keep them in total darkness.)

This particular movement power doesn’t make encounter and trap design any harder than it was for 3-7th level characters previously (depending on the specific trap that covers levitation through dimension door)

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Even though I read through the adventure before-hand, I still found myself missing a lot of the creature’s abilities. For example, I missed the “Kick him when he’s down” ability of the Statues until a few opportunities had passed. The players had a pretty decent amount of success, but still each fight at least bloodied (though the human fighter was a major thorn and hardly ever got hit).

Probably my biggest annoyance was presence of FanBoy. Not just because he was there, but because I think he annoyed everyone else, and wasn’t a very effective 4e spokesperson. I had one player who started out relatively open-minded, but still anti-4e. At the end, he was “on the fence”. I really think 4e could have nabbed him if we’d removed some of the less desirable influences that day.

All told, everyone I’ve spoken to from our run of it had a good time. How many converts there’ll be, I couldn’t say.

On a side note: Are there disarm rules, and I’m missing them? Or did they migrate to a power? I didn’t notice until later in the session when the wizard was going to try to use Mage Hand to grab the book from the end guy (I told him that it wouldn’t work because Mage Hand wasn’t really strong enough, and didn’t have the precision, to actually pull something out of someone’s hands (as much as I hate telling players “no”, it seemed a reasonable conclusion)).

@Daniel: Welcome on the Blog. I refrained from following up attacks on KOed characters to give players a chance to experiment with the various healing/dying rules.

Also, for the ‘keep down’ attack, I applied the DMG’s suggestion to never spring “Gotcha!” attacks without warning PCs so I told them that the statues seemed ready to spring something unpleasant if the PC got up… that forced players to play it safe and crawl away or play dead…

I still managed to kill 4 out of 5 PCs, but that’s the next post.

@Brian: I really am more of the type to embrace the challenge of the crunch and the fluff of Eladrin TP. This basically means that the Fey can’t be imprisoned for long except in dimensional anchor prisons and plays in my perception of Fey petty thieves.

As for adventure design, you may be right, but I would actually make puzzles where teleportation is needed/helps a lot instead of making some that get completely destroyed by it…

Since a lot of people on the net have their panties in a bunch about this I’m sure it will be at the forefront of concerns when we write future adventures…

I expect those implications to be ignored.

I also expect WotC to release at least one module with a puzzle or the like which is rendered less than a speed bump by having an eladrin in the party.

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