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I feel this is a case of "Specific Beats General" from the PHB page 11. "If a specific rule beats a general rule, the specific rule wins." The general rule is that "any damage destroys a minion, misses never damage a minion." The specific rule is that "temporary hit points add another pool...

Also, Chris Sims, a WoTC designer, stopped by in this thread: http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=226755 to confirm that minions do benefit from temporary hit points.

Here are the relevant rules: Temporary Hit Points pg 293 PHB: "A variety of sources can grant you temporary hit points - small reservoirs of stamina that insulate you from losing actual hit points. Not Real Hit points: Temporary hit points aren't real hit points. They're a layer of...

Not going to happen unfortunately, due to scheduling conflicts, but of course that would be ideal.

The feat specifies one, and says nothing about exceptions for wizards.

The problem with that is that a few bad rolls is still a TPK. Even with 3 PC's I'll have to scale down encounters in published adventures quite a bit.

I'd rather not go the henchman route, because one players is new to the game and I don't want them controlling too much. I may give them control of the character I run after a few sessions. I plan to make this character fairly stupid and very much a follower...I doubt I'll be tempted to...

I'm fortunate enough to be running two 4e campaigns. One is a large game with six or seven players, the other and the other will just be two players. The large one won't be a problem, but I'm considering running a character to help out the 2 player group. They are running a human ranger and...

Ah. I don't see any feats, magic items, or even powers that do that.

Nope, sorry. "You can still make opportunity attacks against adjacent opponents only." from the description of reach in the PHB, p217.

Yet this is exactly what some players do. I can understand where some players would min/max to use this as a tactic in all fights, causing the game to slow down and perhaps some interaction the DM doesn't care for. For instance, I'd rather the PC's simply kill some monsters than to capture...

Many rituals don't require a successful skill check for the ritual to function. Some use the skill check to determine the degree of success (like Animal Messenger) and some don't have a check at all (Gentle Repose, Make Whole), and some do require a skill check for it to work (Detect Secret...

There are no "trained only" skills, but there are some functions of specific skills that you must be trained to try...for instance you can try to detect magic if you are trained in the Arcana skill. I noticed in Theivery that "The DM might decide that some uses of this skill are so specialized...

This. "You must meet two requirements to master a ritual. You must have the Ritual Caster feat, and your level must equal or exceed the ritual's level." p298 I chose Animal Messenger for my cleric's free ritual at level 1...I'm not trained in nature skill, but my high Wisdom should help. The...

People rationalize it by saying "I've got the hard copies on pre-order" or "I wasn't going to buy it anyway so they haven't lost a customer". I believe that it's still wrong to download illegal PDFs for two reasons: 1. It's against the law. 2. I don't agree that the "ends justify the...

It won't take long. Once you get used to the idea of using powers all the time and wizards rolling to hit with their spells, and the advantages that fighters have in melee, you'll be thinking more about movement and combinations of powers, etc, rather than who has the best BAB. 4e combat is...

If you don't like the teleport (and I think I can understand that), give them a free wizard utility power (some are encounter, some are dailies): Expeditious Retreat, Feather Fall, Jump, or Shield. I kind of like the flavor of these for an eladrin...but I don't happen to have a problem with...

The human's extra at will power is "from your class". "A character with a multiclass feat counts as a member of that class for the purpose of meeting prerequisites for taking other feats and qualifying for paragon paths." So it seems to me that a human fighter could take the Sneak of Shadows...

Thanks, this is the piece of the puzzle I was missing. I just didn't realize how much income the default was.

No I haven't, but that's an eye-opener.