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The FAQ is about as RAW as it gets. Whether you think RAW is wrong is a different issue.

The new stealth rules on PHB2 pg. 222 contradict this. You can be hidden to a single enemy, which can vary in usefulness depending on how well the monsters you're fighting cooperate with each other.

You usually know where a nearby creature is as long as it's not hidden from you. Being outside of line of sight, invisible, or otherwise totally concealed from you doesn't automatically make you hidden from everybody else. Your loud clomping around tells everyone else where you are, unless you...

The easiest way to deal with this is say "do you actually say that to him?" (say it with a slight smirk or grin, so it's playfully threatening) when he makes a ridiculous remark, and if he responds "yes" then have the NPCs act accordingly. Maybe they think he's weird, maybe he gets minuses to...

The only real egregious ambiguity in terminology is the use of the word "attack." Fortunately, our good friend NMcCoy explained the different meanings of the word in 4e in an earlier post that is well worth a read.

The only major publication I didn't really like so far was PHB3. I don't think the classes were designed as well as they were in PHB2, and the Battlemind seems like a rules trainwreck. (Hopefully the July updates will remedy that, at least.) However, I think there have been some standout...

This is why I don't think powers should be deity-limited in the first place. Players should be able to pick the feats/PPs they want and choose their deity based on fluff alone.

I dunno, if you're going 16/16 Con/Cha with 12 Int, your AC is going to be 13. That's abysmal. I think going 16/16 Con/Cha necessitates that you buy 13 Str and get Chainmail proficiency to put your AC up to 16; 3 AC is worth a lot more than +1 to some random riders.

As a DM, I'd (house)rule that you can gain the benefits of any god in the pantheon, for the reason that Mr. Teapot listed--worshiping a god doesn't give you any mechanical benefit by itself, though it opens your character up to new options. Not particularly gamebreaking. I also don't like PCs...

Be sure to keep us posted, I'm interested in how this turns out.

Sandbox games are tough to start with. To quote Gabe from Penny Arcade: You can read about his sandbox D&D game here and here.

D&D 4e has been out for 2 years. Everybody who didn't like it has pretty much stopped trolling D&D forums and moved on with their life (including a certain king-killer who will not be named). As such, the vast majority of the people you see on forums such as this one and the WotC 4e community...

Just paging through PHB3, I see quite a few pictures of psionic characters without halos. I guess it's optional.

Same with the 4e core setting, but that doesn't necessarily mean a Swordmage fights the same way a Ranger does. Let me clarify: I'm not saying you can't template Aragorn as a Bard. You can really template anything as anything if you refluff it. An attack without fluff is just a die roll, after...

"Normal Prime Shot," by definition, doesn't include Prime Punisher. Normal Prime Shot doesn't grant you a +1 attack in melee. Thus, you spend 1 feat to get +1 attack (Prime Punisher), 1 feat to get another +1 (Prime Quarry), and 1 more feat to get +5 damage (Called Shot), for a total of 3 feats...

Aragorn could be templated as a lot of things, but the 4e Bard--with its distinctly Arcane fluff--is a rather unusual candidate. He doesn't practice or fight with magic, which is at odds with the Bard's prolific use of spells and magic-assisted melee. Aragorn's combat skills are primarily...

Aragorn would make a good Warlord, as long as you yell "bring him down, Legolas!" every time you use Direct the Strike.

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Avengers were pretty lackluster in Paragon/Epic tiers until D382 came out. Now, with Painful Oath, they're probably pretty close to Rogue DPR. So no, in the hands of an Avenger it's not overpowered; it just lets Avengers catch up to other strikers where they're lagging the most, in Paragon.

It seems CB mixed up the order of the power. Here's a screenshot from D381: