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My answer is almost always no. A situation-specific freeform stunt can always be attempted, regardless of whether something similar is covered elsewhere in the rules. When you're playing in a rules-heavy system, everything's going to be covered somewhere eventually.
Now, if a player wants to...
I'm interested in third party modules and variants, but I'll still buy the game even if Wizards doesn't license them. I'm mostly going to be making up my own adventures, as I did with 3rd Edition.
That makes sense. Based simply on the action description, I'd make it a +(Dex Modifier) vs. (Reflex Defense) roll, inflicting the Blinded condition if it succeeds. I had a fairly similar situation come up when I tried out the rules, and it worked.
I'm running a 4e demo tonight for a couple friends, and I'm sort of throwing together things on a short deadline. One of the players wants to play the classic thief, so I was wondering if anyone's generated a halfling rogue from the preview material. If so, could you point me to where it's been...