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One of the things I like about skillpoints is the feeling of developing, growing from barely competent and dependent on luck into being able to trust your competency more and more. Any ideas on how to simulate competency growth with your system?

The 4E hard cap is healing surges. Once you run out of these, and continue to take damage, its goodbye time.

To be frank, you should not have thrown the group into such a series of encounters when using the 4E rules. Even though WoTC abolished spell memorization, the healing surge mechanic even more firmly reinforces the X minute adventuring day than the previous editions. With those editions, you...

Tried it, but after wanting to reply "none of the above" after the first four, I gave up in it...

Last time in our Rise of the Runelords campaign, we spent 40 minutes or so arguing whether or not to cast a ritual. We were going into a haunted house where we knew there were undead. My bard wanted to put a homebrewed ritual on the main defender, which would give him resistance to necrotic. We...

I take it neither Weem nor Echohawk have any heavy ritual purchasers/users in their campaign... :) My experience is that if you have one or more of those, the 4E economics goes to a hot place in the proverbial handbasket. Basically, for this reason and others we went back to the full 3.5...

How do you plan to do that for e.g Meliorating Armor?

What is the "Fey Beguiler" paragon path?

Roughly what kind of things does the Bard-specific rituals do? Are they party-buffers, or problem-solvers?

You are supposed to follow a certain, very narrow, power curve in 4E. This power curve is designed to keep things as close as possible to a status quo, while giving an illusion of progress. Not giving your players the appropriate amount of level-appropriate loot, makes them fall behind on the...

Going from Simulationism to Gameism made Meta-gameism a necessity, or something? ;) The problem is that things like Marks requires this kind of meta-gaming necessary, thus the infamous "Whenever you affect a creature with a power, that creature knows exactly what you’ve done to it and what...

The full Table of Contents for PH2 is available here: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/files/excerpts/excerpt_ph2_toc.pdf

It's hard enough as a player to write the darn wish list and keep it updated... ;)

DMG p. 125: 4E magic items are specialized enough, that you really need to do this in order to get a fair item distribution, unless you reintroduce an 3.5E buy/sell item economy.

A can only assume he was modeled on Borat? Not the best of role models, even for a parody...

Hm, why is the SRD updated with the new classes but not the new races of the PH2? Oversight or intentional?

A skill challenge is an encounter, if I recall correctly. You cannot take 10 in an encounter (PH, p. 179). So, that's one way of finding out if a skill roll your DM suddenly asks you to roll is part of an hidden Skill Challenge. ;)

Yes and yes. It's the die roll that counts, not how the player describes his action - just as it doesn't matter to a fighter's to hit roll how he describes his sword swing. Skill Challenges are, after all, made to make non-combat stuff look like combat rounds. You, as DM, may of course add...

I'm feeling very pessimistic about the possibility that tweaking is going to help it... it's in the very base mechanics...

If you want to play "Bob the fearless" you invest in whatever fear protection the system can provide. Just as: "Bob the strong" invests in strength, "Bob the leader" invests in charisma, "Bob the acrobat" invests in dexterity, and "Bob the Builder" invests in a trowel... TANSTAAFL...