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Let me chime in about the form's fillability. This sheet is excellent, but without the ability to save a filled-in form, it is useless. Every time your character levels up, you'd have to fill out the sheet from scratch, retyping all the powers etc. If you want anyone to actually use this awesome...

The fairest response I can give is that your own question belies the answer -- the power is "not exactly awful." Most every racial power in the game is way, WAY better than "not exactly awful." The major problem is that the power is totally useless if you play any kind of a charge build or even...

The comparison to Dragonborn is indeed apt. My one point of disagreement is that Dragonborn get an incredibly good racial power, whereas the Vryloka's power is complete junk. The thing is, +2 to attack, shift 7, and temp hp are all nice. But racial powers set a high bar. Rerolling an attack...

The race is neat, flavor-wise, but I'm pretty sure I'd never play it. The advantages basically boil down to resist necrotic and speed 7, which are nice, but not nearly nice enough to compensate for the lame racial power. It looks like the racial utilities were designed as a balance, but the two...

Player with an opening - Madison, WI! Caveats within: 1) I'm 25, so anyone older has to be willing to put up with no-good whippersnappers. 2) I'm somewhat far on the west side, so if you're way over on the east side (i.e. 60+ minutes from me), I might not be able to afford the commute. 3) I...

Guys. This thread was not started to debate the feat tax issue. It was started by a person seeking help making the game more fun in the manner he'd like to play it. If you don't have any ideas that will help the OP, please don't post. I'm only making this post in the hopes that it will curtail...

The removal of daily item limits is inextricably tied to the removal of the players' ability to acquire certain magic items at will. The only reason the limit existed in the first place was that paragon characters could otherwise buy 20 resounding throwing hammers and daze the heck out of...

In the strictest sense, a feat "tax" is one that's so essential to the way the character functions that the character cannot fulfill their fundamental role without the feat. Thus, "taxes" are build-specific, not universal. With that said, there are a few: - Melee Training (where applicable) -...

Thank you both -- that was extremely helpful. I don't have access to the RC, so I'll ask my friends to check it out. In the meantime, let's hope the next rules update comes out soon!

I'm in a game with some friends and we're having a hard time making sense of the current rules. First of all, I found this link to something called "November 2010 Update," yet it's not posted on the 4e updates page. What is this thing? http://wizards.com/dnd/files/Nov2010Update.pdf Is it...

Toughness is more than 5 hitpoints. It's 5 + 1 or 2/surge (at heroic) or 10 + 2 or 3/surge (at paragon). You'll be taking damage no matter what, but you won't be taking OA's no matter what, and if you do take OA's, DM is going to save you only time out of ten.

Hmm, it's true that the loss of prime shot is deeply felt in some builds. Still, toughness and quickdraw on their own are each better than defensive mobility, which now that battle caster defense exists I certainly would NOT "take eventually anyway." I especially like the hunter option: take the...

Nobody's mentioned yet the biggest strike against BA: It requires you to take the archer fighting style. Even straight out of the PHB, it was tempting to take two-blade fighting style just for toughness being the better feat. Now that archers can have a pet, or quickdraw plus the ability to...

Do you have to buy it from Amazon? There are over a dozen great places to buy board games online, all of which give discounts on the board game price, sometimes by as much as 35%. Without advocating one particular site over another, I'll point you to BoardGameSearch, which lets you comparison...

A friend of mine recently noticed an interesting difference in the wording of the Warlock's Curse and the Ranger's Quarry. For the curse: You decide whether to apply the extra damage after making the damage roll. By contrast, the quarry: Once per round, you deal extra damage to your quarry...