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I did ask custserv yesterday; Here is their reply. Interestingly enough, I was of the opposite opinion...

Woot! The racial paragon paths!

My guess? Longbows are 5-6 feet tall, and have up to a 200 pound draw. It is simply too unwieldy to draw, aim, and release at a sneak attack level precision in the middle of combat. It makes sense that you can't sneak attack with a longbow to me...

I think you took the wrong idea from the MM. The MM is NOT a whole bunch of base races that you can apply templates to. Monsters now simply do whatever you want them to do that fits their theme and role. You want the PCs to face Drow early on? Simply look through some other low level...

Alright, did some rooting around at level 1. Note that I could have made some mistakes. Doing later levels would take a lot more time as you start to have to factor in minor actions. Also note that these numbers can easily fool you: They are against individual targets, and don't include any...

The monsters are different from the PCs.

I am not sure what you want from us; You can't criticize fact, and you are balking at us criticizing your opinion. If we can't address the simple realities because doing so would be moot, and you refuse to accept us addressing your opinions... What do you want?

It's a conspiracy against you Hong ;)

Remember that against a solo, you have 5 people all blowing their most damaging dailies followed by using an AP to shoot off their second most powerful daily. We are talking about even classes like the Wizard, who aren't designed to do single target damage dealing can do almost 100 damage in a...

You are. NORMALLY you gain nothing from having 2 weapons, only the option to use either of them. If you purchase 2 Weapon Fighting as a feat, you get bonus damage when holding 2 weapons. Rangers have the ability to weild one handed weapons as if they were off-handed weapons and nothing else...

I prefer it short and terse. I've always subscribed to the literary school of "More description does not make better prose. The readers have a perfectly functioning imagination, they don't need simple stuff forced on them like some sort of 5 year old". Hemingway > FaulkBore

Alright, that wasn't the best example, but hell, there are otherones within Dragonlance. The Blue Crystal Staff was a staff that could heal the wounds of anyone it touched. A barbarian found it, and it ended up protecting him and his beloved by teleporting them thousands of miles from their...

Did you take into consideration actually hitting? For the most part, all ranger attacks target AC, which will almost always be quite a bit higher than every other defense. Speaking of other defenses, your warlock can target all 3 of them, giving him not only a better chance to hit with all of...

I think what the issue is is that we just define "Artifact" as two different things. To me, the sentience of the object, the transient nature of it is exactly what MAKES it an artifact. Anything less and it is just a magic item. A very powerful magic item perhaps. Named even, that's fine...

This, I believe, is where we depart. I am a player too, so I can understand some of your views. But there is no way in hell I see Artifacts as "Super items". They AREN'T designed to be the super cool item to cap off your character and make them uber. If they were, I could understand where...