Recent content by yesnomu

Sure... but now you can't actually reference important powers. They've left rule information out before (like how animal companions work, for example), but never the actual powers of a class before. I assume it's just an error, and would expect to see them fixed next month at the latest.

In 4e, the infected lycanthropes are gone, it's now just a true-breeding race. A universally evil race, for some reason I can't fathom.

Aside from the lack of scrolling (wow, that's irritating), my biggest problem is that it's in Silverlight, rather than the rather more universal Javascript. It means on most computers, I'd need to download something before I can use it, which kinda diminishes the value of having it online. Plus...

But isn't it in the spirit of Essentials to have your choice restricted to one leader? *rimshot* I think the Storm domain warpriest makes a perfect elemental cleric already--combine with the Elemental Priest theme and he'd fit right in.

Yikes, that is really disappointing about the at-wills. They're so vanilla, and you only get one! The beastmaster ranger isn't penalized for their animals having an MBA... which considering the lack of enhancement bonus is basically what the animal's attack is. The Sentinel looks like the...

Do sentinels really get only one at-will? Are the options at least numbered (so that they could take normal druid ones)? Does Combined Attack ever do anything else besides the druid and companion attacking? Do the animals' basic attacks gain extra effects? Do the auras improve at all? Thanks a...

Predator druids don't want to stay in beast form all the time, and they definitely don't want to use only beast powers. Beast dailies are generally awful, stick with encounter-length caster powers for those (Summon Giant Toad, Vine Serpents, Wall of Thorns, Summon Croc are all great). On the...

I'm fairly conflicted about this one. On one hand: At-wills put me to sleep. Fluff up Soul Eater as much as you want, it's never going to be exciting. Why is Eldritch "Bolt" not a free power like Magic Missile? Especially galling since you'll want to be Human for another at-will, but Hexblades...

We lost the rather excellent Phylactery of Action (arm slot, reroll a save vs. daze, stun or immobilize 1/enc) that way, too. So it goes, I guess.

I meant how this build doesn't get choices for encounter powers and at least one daily. It'd be nice to see another E-class besides the mage with as many options as a typical 4e class. And PHB1 may have been made with the idea that most pallys would be good or unaligned, but you can absolutely...

I can imagine! "Wizards et al: you may not play the game tonight. Well, you can, but only when I ok it." Sheesh, I hope your group didn't have a druid who liked to Wild Shape! Powers (and spells and maneuvers in 3.5) provide a foundation for players--they are abilities that are guaranteed to...

A little irritated that this build also has pre-chosen powers. I'd like Essentials a lot more if there were more classes that kept the full range of power choices. Not happy about the disallowing of evil paladins, either--I thought that was one of the PHB pally's more brilliant ideas. Don't...

Minifig: Check out Form of the Winter's Herald, from PHB2. It gives you an encounter-long aura 2 of enemy-only difficult terrain. In other words, enemies (except elves, I guess) can't shift away from you! The warden in my game gave my enemies hell with that power (especially with the old Salves...

I know that, of course. But it does mean there's no support for Wild shape druids in Essentials at all, and they really need it. (With the Rules Compendium changes to the way powers are labeled, BF druids can't actually make OAs anymore by the rules.) I'm not angry this exists, just sad that...

I have to say, I'm disappointed. Maybe it's just because when I played a 3.5 druid, I preferred the shapeshifting and spellcasting over the companion and healing--so I like the druid that has the former over the one with the latter. However, the thing I dislike the most is losing choice of...