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In that an enemy needs to be helpless, not just prone, to end your movement in his square, clearly he has the opportunity to roll away because you were so surprised that an unconscious enemy just started moving again :)

Even with an automatic hit you cannot crit without rolling high enough to hit.

You can picture that as either the other person in the square giving cover so the prone person doesn't need to be as careful getting up or the other person helping the prone person up. It's a 5x5 square, someone standing in the same square isn't literally standing ON a prone character.

Expertise is the math fix. Draconic Spellcaster is an additional +1-3 bonus that STACKS with expertise, meaning at 25th level dragonborn sorcerers, bards, and warlocks can have +3 to hit more than others in their class- and dragonborn in an int-based arcane class will have +2 to hit more than...

I think we can safely assume the minimum charge rule is intended, at the least, to prevent someone from shifting back a square and then charging for +1 to hit whenever they would be using a melee attack anyway. Whether the way it interacts with a daze or knock prone power was also intended...

You might want to consider whether it's even an issue outside of one-on-one duels; once it's a many-on-many fight, you have many options- charging another opponent and letting an ally engage, having an ally grant you movement or force move the enemy, and so on- that the tactic can be countered...

Elves were seen as the best race pre-AV because at that time hitting -11 to save (locking down one normal monster) required 28 wisdom, meaning a +wis race and demigod. Elves encounter reroll was seen as making up for the lower accuracy of a race without an int bonus. Post AV, no one made elf...

Actually, if you're two squares back from an opponent with reach (just outside of their reach), they can't charge you; charges don't end adjacent, they end in the nearest square you can attack from. If the nearest square they can attack from is only one square away, they can't attack since...

It's worth noting that the FAQ doesn't say that, but some people interpret it that way since power's aren't mentioned specifically as being available to someone using a weapon as an implement. It's still pretty divided whenever it comes up on the WotC boards.

Heck, there was a build on the Wizards boards that could do that with a starting 12 wis. Once the secondary stat starts becoming unimportant, humans start looking better and better. I also like humans for Action Surge; being able to get +3 on large AoE powers is a huge boost.

If you're looking at a level 30 build, there are several epic destinies that make it impossible to die. Of particular note is a revenant beastlord; at level 30, as long as your companion has at least 1 hit point, you can't die, even from going below negative bloodied. With revenant you can...

You can take it on Hybrid builds, giving some interesting options to warlocks that hybrid with melee classes. Likewise, half elves in melee classes can pick up an interesting basic attack.

Reagents are consumable items from AV that are used to enhance a spell as it's being cast. Nothing to do with rituals.

It's a problem to just let the character wait to use the feat, but I have no problem with allowing someone to take a feat they don't have the prerequisits for so long as they don't use it until they do qualify for it- though I think the Weapon Finesse example is the only one I've seen actually...

I need some ideas/advice on where to go with the character I'm currently running; he's a shapeshifter with a diplomatic focus; he's a human with 5 levels of druid and this weekend just achieved his 10th level of shifter. He has a feat (from the Swashbuckling Adventures setting) giving him bluff...