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Thank-you very much! I was curious as it's perhaps the 4th ed. skill that has the most differences with 3.5...

Does anyone know what Endurance does yet? I have KOTS, but it doesn't explain the skill at all there...

In appearance, it is almost identical to the Vivisector from the MMV... a monster that I had a lot offun using... :)

Yeah, I think they're slightly inspired... :) I imagine: 'let's take all the elements of those popular films and mix them with all the elements of that popular MMO... $$$' But I think it works pretty well as the elements of both seem each to add something to the other in a D&D game...

Someone was asking about Rogues: 'extra specialization... stealthy rogues can stay hidden and deliver devastating attacks from the shadows. Mobile rogues jump and climb across the battlefield... tricky rogues use words as weapons' 'capable of delivering more damage to a target than many other...

Well, the Fighter section has a lot on weapons, and seems to suggest that a Fighter can perhaps craft their own arms and armour (I may be over inferring here though...), but that's not immeadiately useful to the party I guess... There doesn't seem to be much on these vaunted out-of-encounter...

looking up Ranger... 'precision with bow and blade' 'guerilla tactics... strike hard and move quickly' 'intuition and keen senses... you feel when danger is about to strike' 'surroundings can tell you where your foe has gone' 'agility and speed allows you to roam the battlefield' 'your body...

There isn't much on the Ranger; it's tacked on at the end... They said that the main thing they did with Rogues was to make them balanced in a fight with all other classes, whereas in 3.5 they were weaker in a fight because they could do so much out of combat. In 4e all classes are...

I think you sound spot on there, Ragnar! Muticlassing def. sounds very attractive in 4e.

The designers actually say that part of their inspiration for epic destinies was taking the stats for gods and having god grudge matches... :)

The book says 'your epic destiny describes your character's exit from the world and your campaign', which sounds more about closure than further adventure... at least for now...

Hee hee - I was just reading Races and Classes and remarking on how inspired by the sucess of the LOTR movie the designers seemed to be... there are wood elves and high elves, Wizards have staffs, they kept halfling and made them LOTR sized... They have the Boromir class - the Warlord, and the...

One thing it says in the Tiers section is that each Paragon Path appeals to two classes, such as Wizard/Ranger, Cleric/Wizard etc, so one might presume that each path brings in some abilities from each class, even if only a smattering? Intriguingly, one keeps progressing in one's base class on...

Dragonborn are very similar in build to the troglodytes in this article: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/drfe/20071205