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As someone else already mentioned, the +5 is a result of the odds of success going up from .5 to .75, which works for 4E since the target difficulty seems to be about a 50/50 chance. It's a bit of an unfortunate choice for illustrating this idea since a 50/50 chance generates the absolute best...

Yeah, okay. I thought you were referring to the sort of proximate cause that was dealt with in cases like Palsgraf. And I assume that they would stop discussion to prevent it from looking like they were providing such information, however: That's a good point, and something it makes sense...

Is it okay to backseat mod? If you think someone is breaking the rules, then trust the mods to deal with it.

Great Googling, but I have actually taken Torts, and proximate cause isn't necessary for products liability (at least not between the company and the harm). Either way, whether the lawsuit would be successful or not isn't important. The point is that it is a liability issue either way. And...

This isn't really a good analogy since Colt has legitimate concerns about products liability if someone alters one of their guns in a dangerous way. As far as I know, the Character Builder can't cause physical injury. From what everyone else has said about this CBLoader, it sounds like Wizards...

It's worth noting that to pull this off as a genasi he'd have to start with 12 str, 12 dex, and 20 int. This would leave 2 points, so he probably had a 12 con which would now be a 15. He'd have been better off ditching improved swordmage warding, grabbing Hide Armor proficiency, lowering his...

I've always ruled that the PC knows which square to target unless he is alone, since he should technically be able to choose a square to target even if he fails the perception check. Sure he shouldn't know what is in each square, but that is hard to enforce when the player can see the map...

I think the main selling point of Unseen Spearhead is how it works with your Assassin's Strike encounter power. So at 1st level with 20 dex we might be looking at 4d4+2d6+1d10+10 (average 32.5) damage for two rounds of garroting with the Assassin's Strike on the first hit as opposed to 29...

The Rust Monster! Now that you can't use residuum to create uncommon or rare items, the rust monster is probably the scariest monster in the game.

He's saying that failing the save would be the more prudent course of action. Who cares if one PC is "doing well"? High dice rolls (especially on saving throws) shouldn't guarantee a good outcome. Good decisions (like forcing down your survival instinct and allowing yourself to fall to a...

PHB p. 286, emphasis added.

A water genasi beast master ranger could actually work decently well. It's not the strongest option, but I doubt anyone will notice/care.

"It’s not necessary to have an implement in order to use a power that has the implement keyword." p. 56 PHB

Wow, that is incredibly boring.

There's also the comedy option of Avenger (multi-class Rogue)/Daggermaster. Grab things to boost damage on crits, and crit on 27.75% of attacks.

That was my first thought, but it is nice for letting you see what terrain the creature is on. That seems like a fair trade off for 1x1 to 3x3, but the empty space would probably get too large past that (i.e. over 1 square on each corner, but I'm just guessing at that measurement).

An individual combat is a small sample, but a campaign is a huge sample. Small samples are hard to predict results for in general, but that doesn't mean the 1 point difference is somehow less important. Over the course of a campaign, some combats are going to include several rolls that would...

Probabilities do not work that way. You can't be good or bad at rolling random numbers unless you are cheating.

As others have mentioned, the nerf to this feat is only cutting the damage bonus from your highest non-strength stat bonus to half of that amount. It still gives the full bonus to hit, so it will cost most characters 2 (with an 18 at first level) to 5 (with a 30 at 28th level) damage. This...

How is it that noone has called you on this? The feats you refer to add a +2 feat bonus to damage. That's all, ever, end of story. The increase to large executioner's axes are +2 damage per [W]. So even at first level this is a much more substantial increase and it just gets crazier as time...