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    PCs entering a room question

    1. The characters would see the enemies in the E squares as soon as they enter square A (or the square to the left of it) Line of effect/sight is determined by drawing a line from any space in the starting square to any space in the target square. This does not include corners. See...
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    Just how good is rolling twice?

    I was actually responding to Aloïsius's quote and somehow missed/skipped your post (boy do I feel dumb!) :) If I had known the math for it I would have used that, but from my perspective spending 5 minutes of coding time and a second of cpu time was easier than finding the appropriate math for...
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    Just how good is rolling twice?

    I just wrote a quick script to see what the average actually is for this. Running a million iterations a couple different times comes out to an average result of 13.825, which is effectively (on average) slightly better than a +3 bonus over the 10.5 average of one d20. So over your character's...
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    Swordmage Feats

    In my opinion it seems well worth getting at least a 15 into dexterity by level 11 so a Swordmage can take the Arcane Reach feat, which lets you move the origin square of any close attack powers anywhere within 2 squares of you. This makes sword burst a pretty potent at-will power! At that...
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    Should Arcing Smite do more damage?

    Since you can hit two creatures with the attack and mark both of them, it seems to be in line with the other level 3 encounter powers that all do 2[W] to one target.
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    Familiar Replacement

    PHB2 gives the Metamagic Specialist option, which replaces the familiar with the ability to apply metamagic feats to spells without increasing the casting time. This would allow you to actually use quickened spells.
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