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Finally! Thri-Kreen love! Been waiting a year for this article. However I'm starting to loathe those "Eyes on . . ." articles in Dragon. They don't do anything for me as a DM or a player.

So at Gen-Con they said the next campaign would be "something with a twist", If this FR book is that, I have to say I am sorely disappointed. I honestly would want it to be ANYTHING but Forgotten Realms.

I'm not cool with 5th Edition at all.

Armor of Sudden Recovery (cloth/leather) Daily that turns ongoing damage into regeneration of the same number. Spiked Chain (with Spiked Chain Training feat). A flail/light blade with reach? Favorite weapon in the game. Ki Focus. My favorite implement. Notable enhancements: Abduction and Iron...

Well to some degree there will be variations for better or worse, but there should be a target. It would be sloppy game design if there wasn't at least some system in place or you'd end up with 5% or 95% hit rates. Also, while it might mathematically make sense to use percentile. This is D&D...

Actually quite wrong on what those stances are. Essentials stances are a way of camouflaging Dailies

Man . . . I'm waiting for the backlash from Dragon content being mostly what we'd find in DUNGEON. "Eyes on . . ." articles, which I don't usually care for even in Dungeon are now in Dragon? Also, themes separated into single articles? I hope this is just because it is December. Dungeon on the...

The Staggering property: "When you use a power with the weapon keyword that slides a target, you can add this weapon's enhancement bonus to the number of squares the target slide." and Lashing Flail: "Whenever you use a flail to hit an enemy with a melee basic attack, you can slide than enemy...

Assassin- The only thing they really have is spike damage. They have no consistency. They have 1d6 per round (similar to Warlocks) but with no way to Shroud multiple target, or gain bonuses if that shroud target dies. They also have no real control like Warlocks or off-turn attacks like Rangers...

At no point does Lashing Flail have to be a power for this to work, and no one suggested that. It's a feat that augments the way a preexisting power (Basic Attack) works. Your MBA with a flail now a power that slides 1. It's a power, with an slide effect. The Staggering enhancement works on...

I find it odd that this is the same year we got the Shade race, the Binder and vampire classes and dearth of DDI support, and then amazing things like Gardmore Abbey, the NWCG and some solid support for the weaker classes. I think WotC is really building up some momentum now. I hope they keep...

I don't know much about MTG, but I assume balance is an important feature as it is in most competitive games and WotC is working on bringing back the miniature skirmish game (the play test rules are out), so that could be a good thing.

Here's what I think this pretty much comes down to: consistency. The older Feral Might builds deal high damage in spikes, but can go long droughts without a real good punch. A lot of their damage mechanics rely on Rages, which they'll at best get 3 a day (and that's not so for much of Heroic)...

It needs some sort of more severe punishment. Dragging someone adjacent to you is cool in a thematic sense, but the worst thing that happens is they grant CA. As much as people don't love band-aid fix feats (due to feat taxes already being high) but they could release some that would help the...

Yeah. Pretty much all of that. Ensnarement Swordmages do need a fix of some kind, but it didn't look like you were trying to force that. You added some cool powers to a class/build that needs to love. Kudos.