Question: Is that darkness indicating light from outside the cave, or our field of vision based on position?

The latter.

DN, the room is lit. There's torches all over the place. Throw an orb or something similarly helpful. On an entirely unrelated note, circumstances surrounding "only one computer on the wifi at a time" mean i can't use my own computer, so any chances i had to move things forward are severely damaged. I might be able to find some time, but it doesn't sound like i'll have a whole lot of down time. We'll play things by ear for now.

I see, my mistake then. Okay just to avoid another unnecessary chastising, I DO roll a 1d10 for the damage, right?

Specifically for Energy Strobe, 1d6 to determine attack type, then yes, 1d10 for damage.

Do note that you're in a surprise round. 1 action in total only. Can't use Energy Strobe and move away at the same time. You can attack kobold AA25 with a charge+melee basic attack (1d4 damage) if you wish though!

Same thing for Rychord, I can imagine.

I completely forgot about the surprise round rules. I'm redact my post right now.

Additional Spam:
Post redacted. I re-rolled in the interest of fairness, but that didn't save the kobolds.

Basic Melee attack? Gotdamm I never knew that even existed.

Man I wish there had been a primer on all of this.... umm... can someone just wipe my post completely clean? That's two dice rolls I've fudged now. Then I can just go ahead with what Zerg suggested.
This shit is too fucking complicated I swear, getting a headache from trying to not screw up the rules.

Don't sweat it, this game is the primer. It's easier to pick it up as you go, rather than having to aread a hundred-page document...

Assuming that the black gap in AD23 through AD27 is a hole in the ground and not a wall, there's no need to change your post. You can attack all but kobold AA25 with Energy Strobe from where you are.

DN, if you have a commute, or even if you spend half an hour a day on chores or cooking, I'd highly recommend listening to a podcast like Critical Hit. I picked a lot of the rules by listening to them - Critical hit, especially, has a total beginner in their group at the beginning of their podcast run, so the rules are explained.

Or you could read through the beginnings of the other DnD discussion thread. We were all pretty much novices when the thing started so there's some pretty idiot-proof rules explanation at the start of that.

I still don't really understand a lot of the rules, I just say what I want to do and Pang does all the rulesy stuff and my choice of attacks in fights has as much to do as what would look cool as what is useful.

Thing about that is you need to read the actual game thread and the discussion thread to get the proper context. You're one of the protagonists, Shin, so context may naturally occur to you. Not so for the others though.

Case in point, I've followed it all the way through, and even then, you can see how laughably naive I was when I temporarily took control of Argumentus during his final battle. (I thought you can healing surge anytime you want, even in combat. I didn't know you have to make an attack roll to determine accuracy.).

With that said, I'd propose linking to noteworthy posts that explain things. For example, Pang's treatise on the concept of cover is really really good and deserves more than the three props it got:

http://www.gamingforce.org/forums/showpost.php?p=740663

Okay, my post was finally fixed, if you were waiting on that, Hawk

Waiting is not the term, i didn't access the internet at all for the entire last week. We were a little too busy - a journal entry with pictures will come when i'm not sitting in Pearson International Airport and am actually home. I haven't checked the game thread yet, but i'll let you guys know if there's anything else amiss (though i trust Zerg to know the rules better than i do - i always miss anything that got changed since the first PHB, since that's the one i always check)

Sorry again guys, this is getting ridiculous. Just because i'm the GM doesn't mean i get immunity from the three strikes thing (well actually it does, but it doesn't mean you guys can't criticize me for holding up the game like i have been).

I noticed Thia's surprise round move was missing, so i'll give Philia until tomorrow night to put it up. Hopefully my system will stop hating me for not sleeping enough soon so that i can get back to doing homework and trying to murder you guys' alternate personalities.

No worries, Hawk!

And by the way, if Truckbus really was my alternate personality, believe me, I'd be the first one to murder myself :tpg:

Dammit I forgot all about OAs. Well guess I learned my lesson.

Nope, you got out of it on account of it wasn't your turn. In the first couple of battles i would have hinted that you might want to change your move, but i'm going to stop doing that for things you guys should have figured out already. Can't leave the training wheels on forever.

That said, Zeno should really try to stay back for this fight. He's the squishiest member of the party, so moving him into the fray is really just asking for trouble. Plus you can't heal anymore as you're out of surges. Just sayin', since as much as i act like i'm trying to kill you guys i'd really rather not have a death so early. I can't not try, though, because that would just be depressing.

Uh... Not sure how that happened but I'll redo my post then. I know this is probably an obvious question but I'm not taking ANY chances: Can I attack a creature who is a tile up and over (so diagonally) or down and over by 1?
[A][_]
[_][B] (so If I'm @ "A", can I attack "B", where [_] is an individual tile?)

If I am the squishiest then why are all my attacks except one or two melee? D:

Because you're a Monk/Sorceror, so you can't wear armor without slowing yourself down / impacting your hit chances. I'm pretty sure you can take a feat to remedy that at some point, or a feat to boost your AC another way. I've never played either a Monk or Sorceror before, so i'm not sure.

Yes - diagonals count for being adjacent. You can also move on a diagonal for one movement.

Dark Nation, you would probably rather do Fallen Needle instead of a melee basic attack at this point. It preps you for a shift later if needed, too.

Well I've already rolled the dice and everything, so I'll do that next round perhaps.

Sorry about fuckin' up on that HP count. That's what I get for forgetting to click "save". Derp.

Also how did Zeno miss if like....he critted. I curious.

Oh right. Oops. sorry, i was in a hurry. (yaaaay 4 damage)

Prime killed the kobold, so don't bother with that one any more.

What's the minimum roll for an attack to connect?

Assuming my attack did hit, For Energy Strobe do I roll 1d10 or 1d20 for the damage? The powers page is a bit confusing reading over it.