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okay, say there's a warlock who's moved more than 3 squares during his turn, and gets concealment from shadow walk. Then he has an item that ends up granting him concealment again before his next turn. (blackshroud weapon, there are others like it) Do these abilities stack and give the warlock total concealment?

so does that give him -4 to attacks made against him or just 2?

Sep 12, 2009 -- 9:11AM, Slymeinatorr wrote:

1) What exactly is the difference between Strength vs AC, and something that reads 1d4 + Strength modifier. Does this mean the base modifier for your STR value? Say you have 14, your base is then (+2), but if you were Level 2 your Strength modifier would be STR 14(+2) + One-Half Level (+1), equaling a (+3) modifier over all? So whenever something asks for just STR, it's your base value - and if something asks for the modifier, its the base value plus any relevant integers?

Welcome to 4th editiion!

You actually have it backwards... Strength vs AC means Str mod + 1/2 level + other mods.

Str mod is just Strength -10 divided by 2 (rounded down).

Sep 12, 2009 -- 9:11AM, Slymeinatorr wrote:

2) I'm unsure of how many actions a PC/Monster can take in a single turn. This is how I think it works, please correct me if I'm wrong:

Standard(1)/Move(1)/Minor(1)

Then, if you wanted, you could do the following:

(3)Minor/No other actions, (2)Minor/(1)Move or (1)Standard

(2)Move/No other actions

I am unsure, and this is a key issue to the game, so please help correct me.

Almost exactly right... only the (2) move would also have 1 minor.

Basically a character has the three main actions on one turn, Standard, Move, and Minor.

You can use these three or trade down to use a different action... Standard>Move>Minor.

Str mod is just Strength -10 divided by 2 (rounded down).

Sep 12, 2009 -- 9:11AM, Slymeinatorr wrote:

3) How exactly do Critical Hits work? I was in an argument with a Player that a natural 20 doesn't always give you max damage, only if that attack can actually hit the relevant defense, otherwise it simply acts as an autohit? Also, how do you apply extra damage from High Crit and magic weapon properties? So far I've just been making Players roll for magic crit properties, and making them roll an extra [W] roll for their weapons? Unless I'm supposed to max out all possible damage from all modifiers?

That's right... but generally speaking players will always be fighting monsters with low enough defenses that a 20+mods will hit.

You are playing crits correctly... here is an easy way to remember what you roll and what you maximize on a crit:

Any damage dice that you would roll whether you crit or not is maximized (this includes the damage from the attack power, striker damage like Sneak Attack or Hunter's Quarry, extra dice from other sources that do not depend on a crit).

Any damage dice you get because you crit get rolled. This would be the crit dice from magic items, high crit weapons, and various other dice that trigger from a crit.