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Technically by the RAW? It'd work. Since Tide of Iron uses the spear for damage and to hit bonuses it's using the spear and not the shield for its effects. How you want to play it? Up to you.

The minion isn't the credible threat in those situations but rather the encounter taken as a whole. You seem to have quite a few explanations that you'd accept. Explanations that were also given earlier in this thread.

For the purposes of a warlock pact boon yes, correct. For the purposes of a ritual that you as a DM design that hopefully does more than give you a few temporary hitpoints... the village things sounds better. There's your problem. You want a perfectly simulated world in a situation that can't...

They do and they have, we're talking about that rule right now. The incentive is removed by making it not work. Instead it states that powers only work in the context of credible threats and only the DM can decide what is a credible threat. I don't see how it would be more honest since no they...

Because Warlords work by inspiration. It's inspiring to hear a Warlord shout "For Glory!" when charging a ravenous lion. Not so much as he clubs a hobbled and helpless beast over the head back home. Course if said lion was captured and let loose into a pit with the Warlord as part of say some...

Int 10 is supposed to be "average". So if you think your average medieval dirt farmer/modern day cubicle troll could formulate such a plan then someone with at least 10 int should be able to as well. Colored by personality of course. Kobolds aren't supposed to be geniuses but they are supposed...

But honey I can't go to bed, someone on the internet is wrong!

One could easily argue that the "terrain" is the air and it knocks them prone because of the ice forming on wings, weighing down floating enemies etc. I'd allow it.

I'm not sure they're typos per se. But rather the powers seem to have been written by several different people with no adherence to a central standard. Likely because there wasn't one.

Actually there are ways such as the wizards orb specialization to extend the duration of an ongoing power that end at the end of your turn so it is possible and something of an oversight.

You can move it your move distance as a move action. So basically it gives you levitation. Frelling loved that show.

Detected pressure plate traps always have and always will be trivial.

There is no rule that explicitly states that. There's also not rule that disproves it either which is the entire problem. Check Silverstep though. Clearly the push effect is meant to be applied to both targets. Each hit causes the weapon effect listed under hit. Or take a look at Armor Piercing...

Much easier said than done (though they certainly could have done a better job). I guess my feelings on the subject are that I'd rather have a wider array of more interesting powers that require a sliver of (rule based) DM adjudication than a more locked down set of powers that are closer to...

But it's not a stupid power. It just has the potential to be applied abusively by highly abusive and meta players. Taken with the intent of the credible threat rule it's neither an oversight nor a sub-par power. Now could a lot of the power descriptions use better wording and formatting...