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Just to play devil's advocate, this sentence by itself doesn't prove that you can make ranged attacks against an adjacent enemy, just that you can make a ranged attack while an enemy is adjacent to you. This rule means that you can, for example, attack an ogre 5 squares away while a goblin is...

PHB p. 216 seems pretty clear: Unarmed attacks can include kicks, knees, and headbutts. You don't need a free hand to headbutt someone.

Erm--what's sloppy exactly? So, normally you have a reach of 1 square. With this feat, if you use tide of iron with a spear, it extends your reach by 1 square, making it 2 squares. If somehow you already have a reach of 2 squares and use tide of iron with a spear, the feat extends it to 3...

The feat extends your reach by one square, exactly as it says. Right now, that means it extends your reach from adjacent to 2 squares away, because no PC races have reach and no reach weapons can be used with shields. If WotC later publishes a PC race with reach or a superior one-handed spear...

Unless the weapon's property specifically says otherwise, it only applies to the weapon it's attached to (that was clarified on p. 56 of Adventurer's Vault). So no, you can't pull this trick. If you had a weapon whose property was, for example, "gain +2 to all saving throws while you wield this...

Really, the geography of the Realms is big and vague enough that you can drop Fallcrest and the Keep just about anywhere in there with no problems. The only reason to start fresh with brand new characters is if you want to. Worst-case senario, you might want to re-spec any divine characters to...

No, I'm talking about immediate actions--that's why I said "immediate actions" and not "opportunity attacks." It doesn't matter if Good King Draxall's entire VII Legion lines up and does the can-can past the marked troll in question, provoking 5,000 opportunity attacks in a single round. The...

Erm--in order for "specific beats general" to apply, you have to have a more specific rule than the fighter's combat challenge attack. What rule are you seeing that you think could override Combat Challenge? If it didn't, the fighter would be a bad defender. Yes, that's the entire point of...

No, for two reasons. One, the first line of divine challenge's Effect entry explicitly says the target is marked until you use this power against another target, or until you fail to engage the target. Two, the last line of the Effect entry tells you you can only use divine challenge once per turn.

Your pact boon is not a power, so you don't get the extra square of teleportation any more than you get to shift two squares by taking the Shift move action.

Skills and initiative are keyed off of the monster's level, just like PCs. If you drop its level, those numbers drop, too.

Err--no, that's exactly what interrupts do. In other words, when you're hit by an attack, shield jumps in before the attack is resolved and boosts your defenses by 4. In other other words, to resolve the attack, you must now compare the attack roll to your defense + 4 because of the shield power.

The "mount" keyword just means that a creature has one or more powers that can be used when it has a rider. It isn't a prerequisite for the creature being ridable.

Correct--and, of course, it's the fighter's prerogative when to take that immediate reaction--he can wait until the third target does something to trigger the challenge if he wants to.

Correct. That depends entirely on what was granting you combat advantage in the first place. Bear in mind that riposte strike is a standard action at-will attack which allows you to make an additional attack against the same target if it attacks you before your next turn--so unless you're...