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You grant combat advantage to anybody who attacks you until your next turn. whether that's missile, magic or melee. The main place I can see it for is an archer ranger. With boots of speed, the feat with +1 speed and rapid runner (+2 to speed while running iirc) that gives you 7 + 1 + 2 + 2 +...

Twin strike is (as has been shown multiple times) more likely to hit a monster unless you need an unmodified 19-21 to hit. So the ranger ability to hit at +2 is still less useful than it to make sure of finishing off a monster. _Maybe_ it'd make sense for the fighter in that particular case...

Neither twin strike or careful strike add the stat bonus to damage.

Based on my quick calcs in excell it's extremely rare Working off a base roll to hit needed of x (ingoring 1 or less) unadjusted chance of missing with an attack is chance of rolling less than the needed number or 1 - (20 - needed + 1)/20 check 2 needed -> 1 - (20-2+1)/20 = 1-19/20 = 0.05 11...

I think that was a special ability of one of the Iron Heroes classes. The Harrier iirc.

I don't think there's ever been anything in the books saying that non-masterwork armour can't be enchanted up to +6, it's just that it's not really worth doing when you can get the masterwork version. I'd call it a fix rather than a kludge but I agree with you that it is one of the main drivers.

Humh, I know I've got some very small d20s somewhere (smaller than some of my d6s...)

Um, no. They don't ensure a hit. In a standard battle you have about 50% chance to hit. Careful strike gives you a 60% chance to hit at a large cost in damage. As a fighter you mark whether you hit or not and you get enough bonus to opportunity attacks from wisdom that the +2 to hit isn't a big...

Gee, I've done scans through for my elven Archer Ranger all the way and I'm having huge problems cutting the list down. I'd love an additional feat or two (admittedly not enough to drop dex and wis, lose the shifting over difficult terrain and the reroll on missed attacks)...

Let's put it mildly. Regicide is a large humanoid with unusually long arms, green, warty skin and should be dissolved in acid.

The evil gods had all sorts of servents. Have a look through the Monster Manual. Not to mention various Prestige Classes that were pretty much evil only (various Necromancer builds were published as I recall). They didn't (in core) have a base PC class that was evil only but D&D has always been...

I don't really see few couple of points of initiative being a big thing for a melee combatant. For a start a twf Ranger has toughness for free, so that's going to give them better hit points than an archer ranger He can probably do with hide armour for a few levels which gives him a couple of...

True, but with Int adding to AC for light armour a wizard in leather or cloth isn't that much easier to hit than the fighter in plate (especially without a shield)

Not really IMO. Firstly you'll be dealing twice the damage to the party initially and having it more spread around because the defender can't control as high a proportion of the enemy. You need to do the same amount of damage through the fight to take all the enemy down. Secondly you're...

If Shimmering was allowed on Hide then Archer Rangers would completely displace two weapon rangers.

I suspect that the closest thing you'll see to that is an archer ranger who is close to being a damage only striker and doesn't have a lot that benefits the rest of the party. Even there you are hugely helped if the tank is doing his job well and a controller who locks enemies down. (and buffs...

It depends a lot on the build. Generally it might not be a big thing but I can certainly see problems on individual builds e.g. an elven archer ranger takes a rogue at will and gets +5 to hit and damage with a shortsword or rapier, possibly attacking reflex a rogue takes twin strike and...

Nothing I can think of. But just let him get the Repeating Crossbow from Adventurer's vault which has a clip of 10 bolts.

How often would it actually restrict you? Shifts don't have to be in a straight line after all...

I think it's going to be a problem for some combinations of classes, especially if you include at-wills. Imagine a dex 20, low str ranger who picks up the rogue multi-class and gains the ability to make hth attacks with dex. Keep twin-strike and drop the one that lets you shift a square and...