Recent content by oakbriar

Give Complete Adventurer and Complete Scoundrel from 3.5 a look if you can. They have a lot of nice mundane items that should translate to 4e easy enough.

D386 had an article on all the major items from the Drizzt books: the actual items (icingdeath, aegis fang, taulmaril, etc) and non-unique enchantments that are similar, but less powerful (chillwind, crashing, lightning strike, respectively). NPC stats for Drizzt was in Dungeon a couple issues...

That's where my problem was right there. I was calculating with a +1 weapon and the weapon expertise feat, so I was always fitting in the greatbow=better range. Thanks for the mathemagics Draco! (Ps, I dont know what kind of campaigns you guys are playing, but my party is always getting...

So every resource I've seen for ranger (and other twig tossing classes too) say the Superior Crossbow is what you want. Enchantments aside (yeah bow enchants are much more controllerish), it's still said that the +1 on attack rolls beats out the (average) +1 damage. But I've just been running...

Sorry, a Scourge is a d8 offhand weapon, so there's that too.

I believe Ishtar is talking about Twin Strike as the Dilettante power (which can be at will come paragon). The biggest [W] you could do is the Waraxe (AV) with a d12 for damage (which, and I don't have any experience with Avengers mind you, but the extra damage may be better than the +1 prof of...

Are you asking how to handle the taming process, or how to give the PC a beast companion (if that's the case I guess they are a TWF, archer, or whatever)? The problem with giving a beast companion to a Ranger who already has another fighting style is that Beastmaster's don't have Prime Shot...

Totally agree. Even if it couldn't make it in the Campaign setting, a Dragon article would have been nice. Even a nice list of changes for countries and such would have been nice too. It doesn't seem to me like the campaign settings are going to get any more support, at least until Dark Sun is...

The only mechanical difference between a Scimitar and a Khopesh is the high crit/brutal 1 (since versatile won't matter with a double weapon). I'd suggest just asking your Dm if you can take a double scim and trade the crit for brutal. I just ran a quick dpr test on MBAs with both properties...

The Sentinelspire novel gave me a soft spot for the Killoren. I'm really digging the Feywild now (thanks to all those Irish saga's I've been reading no doubt) and the Wilden (we still call them Killoren in our campaign) have become strong allies with our feylock (Warlocks were reflavoured...

I believe WOTC's intention in 4e was to avoid over complicating things with sub-races and such (by the end of 3.5 you could roll a half-dragon/half-halfling with an ogre bloodline). But they're kind of getting into that territory again anyway with some of the Winning Races articles (dusk/valenar...

True, looks like I need to spend a 3.5 skill point towards literacy! :erm:

Quarry is once per round

Back in 3.5 when I played a monk the first few levels were in a big tournament and i failed EVERY monk-themed event (though i did beat the ranger at archery and the fighter at a feat of strength). But not to totally diss the 3.5 monk. I did manage to spot a pair of bugbears in the distance...

You grant combat advantage, can't take actions, and don't count for the purpose of flanking.