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Well, not for 30 days. Then you only need to eat once to reset the clock. But that's a different thread. :)

The FND is a Paladin who is usually divine challenging the same guy I'm hitting. Shrug. If you insist. From my perspective, any round in which I'm not doing damage is a wasted round. I can usually get flank with a single shift, so blowing an encounter power to get what I can get with a move...

Well, here's my current breakdown of powers: Twin Strike Nimble Strike Hit And Run Evasive Strike Sudden Strike Ruffling Sting I rarely WANT to move -- I'm a melee combatant, why do I want to leave melee? The party healer is usually next to me, and I have a mulitclass to Warlord for a quick...

How's this look? New Rogue Tactic: Sniper You are a master at striking from the shadows, appearing only long enough to cause your enemes pain and then vanishing once more into the darkness. You may make a Stealth check as a minor action to hide. A new Encounter Power: Distracting Strike Rogue...

Shhhhhh! (And don't forget, after your legs are in a block of ice, someone can push you 20 feet and your legs will STILL be in the block of ice. Also, if you're prone, you can stand -- but your legs are still in that ice.) This is why, frankly, we've stopped narrating 4e combat. There's just...

Neither aggro nor pally are unique to WoW. Very little is unique to WoW, actually. 95% of the lingo -- as well as 95% of the game design -- can be traced to Everquest, and from Everquest to DikuMUD. (And of course that derived heavily from D&D)

I keep trying to use them, but the opportunity rarely comes up. Usually, I want to stay in melee with one guy 'till he's DEAD, due to it sucking up a minor action to change my quarry. While Nimble Strike is good, I have a +4 attack with a hand crossbow vs. a +8 with my bastard sword, so I only...

Whereas, in 3e, the kobolds racial attributes (small size, low strength, high charisma) lead to specific combat roles that maximize their strengths and minimize their weakness. In 4e, you can begin with the idea of "I want a small, sneaky, race which focuses on ranged attacks", and then build...

What, mechanically, gives you the feeling of "kobolds as a culture" in 4e? There's no "base kobold", no set of traits ALL kobolds have. I can say "This is a kobold who breathes acid, has bat wings, and is a vegetarian", and there's nothing non-koboldy about it. In 3x, by contrast, there were...

I dunno. Given that 90% of the time I use Twin Strike anyway...I kind of have to force myself to use my encounter powers, but it always seems a risk... with Twin Strike, the odds are good I'll hit at least once and get to use my Quarry damage, but with encounter powers, if I whiff on one roll...

FWIW, I've seen a lot of people somehow lock on to this misconception. I'm not sure where it comes from or how the rules could have been any clearer.

Uhm... no. You can use EACH encounter power once per encounter. If you have four encounter powers, you can use all four in the same encounter.

Yes, but those programs tend to be generic, and ends-in-themselves... not supplements to an existing game. (You'd think WOTC could have just licensed one of said existing game table programs.... ) While I admit my experience with those programs is limited, what I've seen of them seems much less...

See, you STILL need to find a group -- while a "pickup" game of D&D might be fun now and then, the real value to the game is continuing characters and campaigns. It's why roleplaying took off as a separate game from miniature wargaming; the idea of character advancement and story was the key...

Part of it is that I *enjoy* playing the "minigame" of making things -- whether it is worlds for Traveller, vehicles for GURPS, heroes for Champions, or NPCs for D&D. "Just make some :):):):) up" isn't fun for me, precisely because there isn't a "Game" for it -- no rules==no fun! 4e is...

Oh, I'm not mad. I think 4e is perfectly playable without it. I think it was a silly idea from the start, it reeked of someone from Hasbro saying "This Dungeons whatsis, it's like Warcraft, right? But without a computer? Why don't you put it on a computer, or something?" I looked at the entire...

Well, Miconids are such FUN GUYS.... Someone had to say it. I guess I have to hand in my he-man emo-kicking boots, 'cause I like the idea of Dhampyrs as a race -- frankly, I like anything that isn't an elfdwarfling, at this point.

Shrug. All I know is this: In the two different 4e games I've been in, the wizard has been the least effective member of the party in terms of Killing Things and Taking Their Stuff. From what I can tell, the wizard needs more optimization than any other class to be really effective, and has...

Well, Thunderwave and a wisdom of 10 -- with plans to raise his Charisma instead of Wisdom as the opportunities arise -- is a big part of it. Picking Sleep as his daily for the first few games didn't help. He's used Acid Arrow twice, and missed both times, doing only half damage. He recently got...

When a die rolls badly 3 or more times in a row, it is with great ceremony that I toss it back in the bag and pluck another dice. Given time to rest, it may eventually be able to generate good numbers again. It's like sending in a relief pitcher.